Ludmila Dobrovolná Wladyniak is a cultural sociologist who has been affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University since 2018, where she heads the interdisciplinary degree program Liberal Arts and Humanities. Her long-term research interests include the transformation of cultural capital, social inequality, and peripheral regions of Central Europe, most recently explored within the international research project Weave: Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe (2023–2025). In her research, she employs visual methods of data collection and analysis, and in her teaching practice, she regularly uses documentary film as a medium for studying sociology and social issues. She is also the co-author of the book Rules of Taste (Host, 2024).