Dr Ewa Majczak is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

Ewa’s research focuses on how new media technologies influence gender inequalities within society. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Oxford where she examined the influence of digital visual technologies on young women’s livelihoods in Yaoundé, Cameroon, dealing in particular with their economic and intimate prospects. Ewa is currently transforming this research into a book manuscript which will contribute to feminist and decolonial critiques of digital capitalism.

Prior to this, Ewa spent over 10 years working with civil society, development cooperation organisations and international institutions in Europe and West Africa, specializing in policies related with youth, arts and culture, development and foreign policy. Ewa has experience in providing political advice and strategy development around female productive and reproductive labour; political and economic participation of women; trade and media liberalisation; Africa-China relations; youth, education and employment; and digital technologies and innovation in Africa.

Ewa’s current research concerns gender inequalities at the intersections of new media technologies and reproductive work. It examines how the reproductive health apps made by and for women in Cameroon reconfigure gendered and inter-generational networks of care.