Teams

Dorota Bazuń – is a sociologist and an experienced teacher. She likes to learn new things and share her experience and knowledge with the students. Research interests of Dorota are as follows: sociology of social movements (which resulted in the dissertation concerning Polish anti-drug movement – MONAR); social space – cultural and social processes of adapting new space (processes of adapting new cultural and physical space among inhabitants of recovered territories); social economy; social dimension of transborder cooperation. She loves dogs also because you need to be active and walk a lot to make them happy. She loves cats, too, due to their impressive independence.

Mariusz Kwiatkowski – as a social researcher, he strives to combine research activity with public engagement harmoniously. For many years he has been involved in implementing projects aimed at learning about the mechanisms of social change and implementing the expected changes. Social theories that shape his imagination and inspire research are new institutionalism, the concept of social capital, concepts of social cohesion and solidarity, and sociological theories of space. These theories support his research in the social economy, revitalization, and recently social housing with the most excluded people in mind.

Zbigniew Adaszyński – graduated in English philology and had the opportunity to practice the language in many very different professional activities. He is distinguished by the fact that he likes to teach others and shares his knowledge with great pleasure. He is known for his keen sense of humour and love of sarcasm. But his students know that he is so dedicated to the work that he can write dozens of letters to students. It is also famous for its extremely innovative approach to classes. He focuses on the autonomy of students and usually turns out to be right in trusting them.

Anna Bazan-Krzywoszańska is a town planner, researcher, and lecturer at the University of Zielona Góra. She specializes in supporting decision-making processes in spatial planning using artificial intelligence. She is also interested in sustainable development, including energy efficiency and urban spatial policy.

Joanna Frątczak-Mueller – a sociologist, she is particularly interested in social policy, active citizenship and cooperation networks. She researches quality of life and strategic programming and supports local governments in implementing their strategic planning tasks. She likes water sports, growing plants and meeting people. Travelling is her greatest passion.

Artur Kinal – Works as an assistant professor at The University of Zielona Góra. Research areas of interest: urban sociology, visual sociology, sound as a data source in social sciences.

Tomasz Kołodziej, (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Zielona Góra. He obtained a PhD in social sciences in sociology in 2018. Research interests: eSport, sociology of politics, the role of the police in society, methodology and statistical methods in social sciences. As part of SoMovED, he takes up the subject of m-learning and gamification. Privately, a fan of Rock, Guy Ritchie, new technologies and classical (paper) books.

Anna Mielczarek-Żejmo deals with social dialogue and participation and the importance of intersectoral cooperation and social networks for the life of local communities. In cooperation with students, her most important thing is to discover how to introduce positive changes in her environment. Cooperation with non-governmental organizations is a source of inspiration for her.

Justyna Nyćkowiak is a sociologist and political scientist. She searches for answers to questions about the reasons for human behaviour and choices in the data. It works well in sentences where social life is to be told with the help of numbers and pictures. She found a way to connect these two worlds by addressing gamification and the social dimensions of esports activity.

Magdalena Pokrzyńska – is an ethnologist and sociologist. Her scientific interests are associated with the issues of borderland, identity, social memory, heritage and traditionalism, and broadly understood folk culture. She is the author of over 60 scientific and popular science publications. Magdalena loves nature and traditional agriculture she runs an apiary, she is passionate about early music and Central European folklore and handcraft.

Marta Skiba – architect and landscape architect, author and co-author of over 120 scientific publications. Scope of research interests: communication and its variants, participatory mapping – methods and techniques combining cartography with social research methods, data-based modeling. As an academic teacher with many years of experience, he encourages architecture students to combine social data with their knowledge of architecture.

Jarosław Wagner is fascinated by new media and computers. Jarosław specializes in pedagogy and media education. His scientific interests focus on the issues and the impact of information technologies on the education process, its pedagogical impact and distance learning issues. Jarek’s fields of interest are pedagogue, computer science and economy. Yes, yes, he is also an economist by education. He is a technical school computer science teacher. He is a distance learning methodologist and administrator of the university’s educational platform Moodle.