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Andziukevičiūtė Rugilė,
Arlauskaitė Asta,
Barcevičius Egidijus,
Brožaitis Haroldas,
Brožaitytė Edita,
Budginaitė Irma,
Budraitis Mantas,
Caturianas Dovydas,
Černiūtė Ramunė,
Dolgova Virgilija,
Dumčius Rimantas,
Dumčiūtė Lina,
Ivanauskaitė Renata,
Jurkuvėnienė Laura,
Kraučiūnienė Lina,
Mackonytė Greta,
Makarevičienė Alina,
Nakrošis Vitalis,
Pocius Donatas,
Repečkaitė Daiva,
Siarova Hanna,
Stančiauskas Vilius,
Šarūnas Tadas,
Trinkūnaitė Austėja,
Trumpaitė - Mykhnenko Aistė,
Unguvaitienė Aurelija,
Užpelkienė Laima,
Žvalionytė Dovilė,

 

Irma Budginaitė, Researcher

 

 

Irma specialises in education and social policies. She also acquired the knowledge about the equal opportunity policies during her internships at the European Commission and the Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsmen. Irma is also interested in citizenship education.

 

 

 

Key areas of expertise

  • Policy areas: education, equal opportunities, social inclusion, migration.
  • Methods: in-depth and semi-structured interviews, discourse analysis, statistical analysis. 

October 2010 – July 2011 Irma undertook an internship at DG Education and Culture, European Commission; July 2007 – September 2008 she had work experience at the Association of the Lithuanian universities rectors; she also did an internship at the Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsmen (2007).

Education

  • MA, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (Hungary), 2010 (with distinction). Awarded Open Society Foundation scholarship.
  • MA, Political Sociology, SciencesPo Paris (France), 2009. Awarded French Government scholarship.
  • BA, Political Science, Vilnius University (Lithuania), 2008.

Additional training abroad: in 2009 Irma was selected to participate in the study programme Comparative European Political Sociology (SPEC), in Lisbon (Portugal); in 2007 she was studying at SciecesPo Grenoble (France)