Anna Bilon works at University of Lower Silesia in WrocÅ‚aw (Poland) as a researcher and academic teacher. She graduated in pedagogy and philosophy from University of Zielona Góra (Poland). Her research interests concern issues related to career counselling, career counselling policy, cultural and organizational aspects of career counselling, comparative analyses of career counselling, social policy and social work. In her own research projects she uses mainly the qualitative paradigm as well she is looking for the possibilities for overcoming the theoretical dilemmas related to the “agency problem” in career counselling. Therefore, she is often making use of sociological and philosophical theories to interpret career counselling as a social process and socio-cultural phenomenon. She is an editorial assistant for Journal of Counsellogy and a member of Counsellogical Association. In 2011 she was the Laureate of contest “Knowledge with Passion. Promotion of young scientists” (PITWIN Project – Portal of Innovative Knowledge Transfer in Science) for her research on career counselling.