[4] In 1983, she began working conducting historical and sociological research at the Center for Cultural Studies at Sofia University.
[3][5] The aim of her research was to assist in compiling the българската възрожденска интелигенция (Bulgarian Revival Intelligentsia) an encyclopedia published in 1988.
[3] The following year, Daskalova began her PhD studies[4] and successfully defended her thesis, Учителите в Българското възраждане (Teachers in the Bulgarian Revival) in 1992.
[3][6] A polyglot, Daskalova speaks and has published in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Serbian.
[7][8] She has completed post-graduate research on scholarships and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Human Sciences, the Japanese Association of University Women, the Körber Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.
The interviews were centered on the family and sought to gather information on the changing state of women in the twentieth century.