Barbara Jabłońska - university professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include issues related to the theory of culture and art, theories of communication and qualitative research methods. In particular, she works on the sociology of music, media communication and the public sphere, as well as discourse analysis.
She is the author of works in the field of critical discourse analysis - including a book entitled On Political Discourse on European Issues (2009) and a scholarly monograph entitled Sociology of Music (2014). She has also translated into Polish a collection of essays by Alfred Schütz entitled On the Multiplicity of Worlds. Sketches from Phenomenological Sociology (2008).
She is a member of the Polish Sociological Society (PTS) and the International Sociological Association (ISA). In 2016-2019 she served as a member of the board of directors of the Sociology of Art Section of the Polish Sociological Association.