dr hab. Kamil Łuczaj
Project Manager
ORCID: 0000-0002-1603-3259
Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Sociology at the University of Lodz. Member of the Committee for Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in qualitative research, with particular emphasis on the sociology of higher education and migration studies. In recent years, he has mainly been involved in the analysis of different varieties of minority status in Polish universities and research institutions (including ethnic and class issues). In the past, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, the University of New Mexico and the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has published in, among others, Research in Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Globalisation, Societies and Education, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Advances in Life Course Research.
dr Monika Jania-Szczechowiak
Post-doc
ORCID: 0009-0009-3549-1384
Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Sociology at the University of Lodz specializing in history. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her dissertation received distinction in the 15th edition of the Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski Competition for the Best Historical Debut of the Year (2022) in the field of contemporary history, organized by the Institute of National Remembrance and the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her research interests include forced and voluntary migration, individual and collective memory, and biographical narratives, particularly memoir literature.
mgr Katarzyna Krakowska
Scholarship holder
ORCID: 0000-0003-2558-202X
Katarzyna Krakowska is a sociologist, a graduate of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences of the University of Lodz. In 2024, she received the Zygmunt Bauman Award granted by the Polish Sociological Association for her book A Flammable Society: Practices of Helping War Refugees from Ukraine in Poland in 2022, written together with Katarzyna Kalinowska, Izabella Bukraba-Rylska, Paweł Kuczyński and Marta Sałkowska.
Her research interests include the experiences of women in migration movements, the social herstory of Central and Eastern Europe and the social consequences of the war in Ukraine. She is preparing a doctoral dissertation devoted to the issues of identity and language in the biographical narratives of Ukrainian refugee women over 60 years of age in Poland.
Piotr Budzyński
Scholarship holder
ORCID: 0000-0002-0195-7651
Piotr Budzyński is a historian in the final stages of his doctoral studies and a sociology student at the University of Łódź. He is a recipient of the Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement. As part of the Diamond Grant programme, he is pursuing a research project entitled “The Stalinist Vision of the University in Poland and Attempts at Its Implementation”. Actively involved in both the Polish and international student research communities, he previously served as Chair of the University of Łódź History Students’ Association and as a member of the Council of the International Students of History Association. His research interests focus on the history of student academic associations and the history of the university, with particular emphasis on the Stalinist period.