Vida Česnuitytė

Vida Česnuitytė is associated professor at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius (Lithuania). Her academic interests include family conceptualization, formation, and practices, sociology of life-quality, social policy, and social research methods. Individually or in co-authoring has published three textbooks, four collective monographs, three edited books (at Palgrave Macmillan, and Emerald Publishing), over fifteen book chapters, and more than twenty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is a co-author of the collective monographs ‘Family in Lithuania: The Perspective of Social Ties’ (2014), and ‘Lithuanian Family in the Context of Europe’ (2015), both in co-authoring with V. Kanopienė, and S. Mikulionienė. Recent publications include edited books: ‘Families in Economically Hard Times: Experiences and Coping Strategies in Europe’ (2019; in co-editing with G. Meil); ‘Families and Personal Networks. An International Comparative Perspective’ (2018; in co-editing with K. Wall, E. D. Widmer, J.-A. Gauthier, and R. Gouveia), ‘Family continuity and change. Contemporary European Perspectives’ (2017; in co-editing with D. Lück, and E. D. Widmer). Since 2017, serves as a Vice-coordinator of the Research Network ‘Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives’ of the European Sociological Association (ESA RN13).