Mariya Stoilova
I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of Media and Communications. I work on an international research project Global Kids Online with PI Prof Sonia Livingstone.
I am also an Associate Lecturer at the Birkbeck, Department of Psychosocial Studies, teaching on the MA Psychosocial Studies and an Honorary research fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR).
My research interests include: multi-method analyses; psychosocial research approaches; policy and practice development; digital technologies, well-being, and family support; social change and transformations of intimate life; and citizenship and social inequalities.
Some of the research projects that I have recently been involved in include:
An Evaluation of Separated Parenting Information Programme (SPIP Plus) (2013-14, CAFCASS)
Living Apart Together: a Multi-Method Analysis (2011-13, ESRC)
Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe (FEMCIT) (2007-11, EU)
Gender and Generation: Women’s Experiences of the Transition from Socialism in Bulgaria (2004-08, ORSAS and Open Society, Doctoral Research)
Feel free to contact me about any of my publications.
@Mariya_Stoilova
Address: 1 Benjamin Street
London
EC1M 5QG
I am also an Associate Lecturer at the Birkbeck, Department of Psychosocial Studies, teaching on the MA Psychosocial Studies and an Honorary research fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR).
My research interests include: multi-method analyses; psychosocial research approaches; policy and practice development; digital technologies, well-being, and family support; social change and transformations of intimate life; and citizenship and social inequalities.
Some of the research projects that I have recently been involved in include:
An Evaluation of Separated Parenting Information Programme (SPIP Plus) (2013-14, CAFCASS)
Living Apart Together: a Multi-Method Analysis (2011-13, ESRC)
Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe (FEMCIT) (2007-11, EU)
Gender and Generation: Women’s Experiences of the Transition from Socialism in Bulgaria (2004-08, ORSAS and Open Society, Doctoral Research)
Feel free to contact me about any of my publications.
@Mariya_Stoilova
Address: 1 Benjamin Street
London
EC1M 5QG
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The book brings together citizenship scholars from across Europe, the Americas, and Australia to develop feminist and queer analyses of the relationship between citizenship and reproduction, and to explore the ways in which citizenship is reproduced. Extending the foundational work of feminist political theorists and sociologists who have interrogated the public/private dichotomy on which traditional civic republican and liberal understandings of citizenship rest, the contributors examine the biological, sexual, and technological realities of natality, and the social realities of the intimate intergenerational material and affective labour that are generative of citizens, and that serve to reproduce membership of, and belonging to, states, nations, societies, and thus of "citizenship" itself.
This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
living apart relationships. We explore the five main ways in which interviewees spoke about and understood their current living apart relationships (as: chosen; temporary; transitional; undecided; and unrecognisable), which we argue shows the need for a broader conceptualisation of this form of
intimate relationship than is suggested by the established notion of ‘living apart together’. The article points to interviewees’ varying experiences of receiving or being denied recognition and acceptance by others as belonging to a couple, as well as to their differing degrees of desire for, or rebellion
against, expectations that living apart relationships should ‘progress’ towards cohabitation.
‘continuist’ perspectives. Recent surveys, however, construct LAT as a heterogeneous category
that supports a ‘qualified continuist’ position – most people live apart as a response to practical
circumstances or as a modern version of ‘boy/girlfriend’, although a minority represents something
new in preferring to live apart more permanently. This article interrogates this conclusion by
examining in depth why people live apart together, using a nationally representative survey from
Britain and interview accounts from 2011. Our analysis shows that LAT as a category contains
different sorts of relationship, with different needs and desires. While overall coupledom remains
pivotal and cohabitation remains the goal for most, LAT allows people flexibility and room to
manoeuvre in adapting couple intimacy to the demands of contemporary life. Hence, we suggest,
LAT is both ‘new’ and a ‘continuation’.
This briefing paper presents the findings of the most comprehensive study of living apart together in Britain to date.
The book brings together citizenship scholars from across Europe, the Americas, and Australia to develop feminist and queer analyses of the relationship between citizenship and reproduction, and to explore the ways in which citizenship is reproduced. Extending the foundational work of feminist political theorists and sociologists who have interrogated the public/private dichotomy on which traditional civic republican and liberal understandings of citizenship rest, the contributors examine the biological, sexual, and technological realities of natality, and the social realities of the intimate intergenerational material and affective labour that are generative of citizens, and that serve to reproduce membership of, and belonging to, states, nations, societies, and thus of "citizenship" itself.
This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
living apart relationships. We explore the five main ways in which interviewees spoke about and understood their current living apart relationships (as: chosen; temporary; transitional; undecided; and unrecognisable), which we argue shows the need for a broader conceptualisation of this form of
intimate relationship than is suggested by the established notion of ‘living apart together’. The article points to interviewees’ varying experiences of receiving or being denied recognition and acceptance by others as belonging to a couple, as well as to their differing degrees of desire for, or rebellion
against, expectations that living apart relationships should ‘progress’ towards cohabitation.
‘continuist’ perspectives. Recent surveys, however, construct LAT as a heterogeneous category
that supports a ‘qualified continuist’ position – most people live apart as a response to practical
circumstances or as a modern version of ‘boy/girlfriend’, although a minority represents something
new in preferring to live apart more permanently. This article interrogates this conclusion by
examining in depth why people live apart together, using a nationally representative survey from
Britain and interview accounts from 2011. Our analysis shows that LAT as a category contains
different sorts of relationship, with different needs and desires. While overall coupledom remains
pivotal and cohabitation remains the goal for most, LAT allows people flexibility and room to
manoeuvre in adapting couple intimacy to the demands of contemporary life. Hence, we suggest,
LAT is both ‘new’ and a ‘continuation’.
This briefing paper presents the findings of the most comprehensive study of living apart together in Britain to date.