Zofia Szarota

PhD Assoc. Prof. Zofia Szarota – Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, where she is Head of the Department of Continuing Education and Andragogy at the Faculty of Education. Her scientific interests include issues of adulthood in educational contexts as well as problems accompanying old age and aging. Her research interests focus on problems of adult learning, social integration and equality, as well as social gerontology and geragogy. She is the author of over 140 publications. Professor Szarota is on the editorial committees of several international and domestic scientific journals. She is a member of the Academic Andragogical Association and the Association of Social Gerontologists and an educator at the Universities of the Third Age, where she lectures on non-formal adult education. She was vice president of the Social Pedagogy Team of the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences (2016–2020), and is currently secretary of the Geronotology Section of the academy’s Committee of Pedagogical Sciences (2020–2023). She has been a board member of the Academic Andragogical Association since 2008, and is a member of the Expert Team for Senior Citizens at the Ombudsman.