Collegium Civitas
Collegium Civitas is a modern non-state university located in the heart of Warsaw. Established in 1997, have earned a reputation as one of the best places to study international relations, sociology and political science in Polish and English. Collegium Civitas conducts research in a broad social and political science field and introduces new and rewarding inventions in higher education.
Our university is open to the exchange of ideas, to public debate and discourse, and has a broad-minded outlook in a complex world. We follow the principles of social responsibility of education and science and respect the dignity of each individual who becomes part of our community.
Polish researchers
Dr Monika Nowicka
doctor of Sociology, assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology, deputy head of the Department of Sociology at Collegium Civitas. Assistant Editor-in-chief at Zoon Politikon journal. UNRF project manager.
She specializes in the study of migration, focusing in particular on the integration of immigrants, the sociology of the city, and the sociology of small social groups. She conducted research commissioned by state institutions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, COPE of the Ministry of Interior and Administration), and cooperated with non-governmental organizations and local authorities. In 2018-2020, she was the President of the Council for the Immigrant Integration Model in Mazovia.
Dr Magda(lena) Szarota
is a sociologist and Disability Studies scholar (PhD, Lancaster University), specializing in disability, intersectionality, human rights, public policy, cross-sectional advocacy. She is also a (co)author of books, reports, toolkits, and media articles on those topics. Her work has been published in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, Disability Studies Quarterly, Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, among others. She is a member of the Society for Disability Studies and a network member of the Disability Studies in Eastern Europe – Reconfigurations research platform at Jagiellonian University.
Dr. Szarota is also an award-winning NGO executive and civil society expert with over 15 years of experience collaborating with leading disability human rights think-tanks, watchdogs, and grassroots organizations in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. She is recognized as a grassroots leader and considered one of the pioneers of the disabled women's movement in post-socialist Poland. As an academic-activist, Dr. Szarota has been involved in effective disability human rights policy-related advocacy, shadow-reporting, and expert interventions at the EU and the UN levels. Dr. Szarota has also co-led the establishment of the Ukraine Emergency Humanitarian Fund, operated by Humanity in Action Poland, and has collaborated with a wide range of Ukrainian stakeholders.
ICCV
The Research Institute for Quality of Life is one of the research institutes in the Romanian Academy. It was established 1990, and is the largest research entity in Romania dedicated to studying quality of life and social policies. Through its team, the institute has expertise in topics closely related to quality of life, such as working and living conditions, income, poverty and inequalities, social values, marginalized groups, migration and mobility.
In addition to its knowledge production objective, the Research Institute for Quality of Life is also dedicated to societal improvements, pleading for the importance of academic knowledge as the basis for development.
Romanian researchers
Prof. dr hab. Bogdan Voicu
is research professor with Romanian Academy (Research Institute for Quality of Life and The Doctoral School of social sciences), professor of sociology (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), professor of research methods (Polytechnical University of Bucharest, Dept. of Educational Science), professor of quantitative methods (University of Bucharest, Doctoral School of Journalism and Communication Science). Bogdan is president of Romanian Quantitative Studies Association, program director for World Values Survey (Romania), former program director of European Values Study (Romania), vice-president of Romanian Sociologist Society, representative of civic society in the Romanian National Committee of Open Government Partnership.
His interests in international migration are reflected in many of his activities. Bogdan is founding member of the Romanian Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, he is publishing papers in international journals such as Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies or International Migration Review, presenting research in IMISCOE meetings, running various projects on immigration, emigration, and return migration. More details are available on his website (www.BogdanVoicu.ro).
Dr Alexandra Deilu
finished her PhD in Sociology in 2015 at the University of Bucharest, with a thesis on migration as discursive resource for identity construction. Her research interests follow closely what was started during her PhD, being centered on issues such as migration/mobility experiences, identity and the relations between the two.
Since 2014 she is part of the research team at the Research Institute for Quality of Life, and has worked on both academic and consultancy projects (for UNICEF, The World Bank, UNHCR) focused on vulnerable groups (Roma, youth in institutional care, migrants, refugees, etc.).
