Krystyna Szafraniec is a professor at the Institute of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). She leads a team of multigenerational researchers who analyse modern Polish society in terms of socialisation, educational and generational processes. Besides, she manages interdisciplinary research projects about the youth and young adults. The co-authors Jarosław Domalewski, Krzysztof Wasielewski, Paweł Szymborski and Marcin Wernerowicz are associated with the same institute at Nicolaus Copernicus University.