Michaela Šedovič

Dr. Michaela Šedovič is a sociologist and social demographer, currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Comenius University in Bratislava. She earned her PhD in Population Studies/Demography from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2024.

Her research focuses on migration and integration, particularly intergroup relations between immigrants and destination populations, the dynamics of hostile environments, and public attitudes toward immigration in Europe. She currently leads the UkraIntegration project, which examines the integration of Ukrainians in Slovakia and the broader Central and Eastern European region.

Her broader research interests include (migrant) family demography, migrant health, identity research, critical demography, and survey methodology. Trained primarily as a quantitative researcher, she also has extensive experience with qualitative methods and original data collection.

Dr. Šedovič collaborates internationally with research teams at the Stockholm University Demography Unit, the Vienna Institute of Demography, and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. She has also worked with governments and international institutions on policy-oriented research, particularly during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022 Ukrainian displacement to Central and Eastern Europe.

At Comenius University, she teaches Advanced Academic Writing for Master’s students and collaborates on two major APVV research projects — MIMEDIS (The impact of media discourse on attitudes towards migration, migrants and migration policy in Slovakia, conducted by KInIT and Comenius University; link) and NORCIS (The interplay of social norms, intergroup contact, and social identities in shaping solidarity on behalf of disadvantaged groups, conducted by the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University).

She holds an MA in Sociology from Masaryk University in Brno (2016), an MSc in Social Research Methods from LSE (2018), and completed the European Doctoral School of Demography pre-doctoral program (2017).