Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
Center for Social Research (CSR)
Established in 1957 as a continuity of the former PTS founded in 1931 by Prof. Florian Znaniecki the Polish Sociological Association is the professional organization of Polish sociologists. It gathers about 1000 members in 13 regional branches. It encompasses nine research committees on different disciplines of sociology. The main professional undertakings of PTS are national congresses, convened every four years and providing the opportunity to sum up and synthesize the sociological knowledge on the changing society and stimulating new trends in social research.
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Slawomir Nowotny will be the principal investigator for the Polish team. He is a sociologist, a social researcher and a specialist in methodology of social research. He is member of the Board of the PSA Center for Scientific Research, Lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw (an academic high school, affiliated collective member of ISA) and research director of the Polish Readership Survey (PBC Ltd.). He run and provided consultancy for a large number of research projects, domestic and international, developing and implementing social indexes (Polish edition of the Index of Consumer Confidence -measured in Poland continuously since 1991- and Index of Consumer Security). Since 2004, he is the chairman of the Research Council in the national Office of Competition and Consumer Protection. In the 1980s, he was senior assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the Warsaw University then co-founder and president (1989 – 2001) of the first Polish social and marketing research company Demoskop.
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Maria Theiss is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Social Policy, Warsaw University. In 2001 she graduated from the Warsaw University with the dissertation on flexible employment in Germany and Poland. In 2006 she received her PhD diploma in political science at Warsaw University (thesis: “Social capital as a category of social policy. Theoretical and empirical study”). She was the coordinator of the evaluation research project „The influence of the local grant-funding organizations at the social capital of local communities in Poland” (Polish-American Liberty Fund), researcher in the project „The conditions of social economy development in Poland” by (European Social Fund) and other research projects on local social policy, social capital and social inequalities in Poland. Her interests focus on local social policy and local politics of social inclusion.
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska is PhD student in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw and in the CERI/Sciences Po de Paris. Her main research interests concern: labour market and social policies and their transformation related to the European integration process, social exclusion, vulnerability on the labour market. She has participated in several international research projects, including: CAPRIGHT Resources, Rights And Capabilities: In Search Of Social Foundations For Europe (FP6 Priority7); Rescaling Social Welfare Policies. A comparative study on the path towards multi-level governance in Europe; The Evolving World of Work – Progress and Uncertainties in Working and Employment Conditions in Europe. Recently she published: 1) “Poland: Vulnerability under Pressure from Unemployment” with Stéphane Portet in: F. Eyraud, D. Vaughan-Whitehead (ed.), Evolving World of Work in the Enlarged EU. Progress and Vulnerability, Geneva, 2007; 2) “Powiatowy urząd pracy jako animator i partner w zakresie polityki rynku pracy na szczeblu lokalnym i regionalnym” (Local employment office as labour market policies actor at the local and regional level) with B. Piotrowski, M. Zieleńska and 3) “Klienci powiatowych urzędów pracy” (Local employment offices’ clients) with I. Wóycicka, M. Zieleńska in: Analiza funkcjonowania publicznych służb zatrudnienia po ich włączeniu do administracji samorządowej, Warsaw, 2008.
Ewa Bacia is researcher in the Polish Sociological Association and PhD student in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University in Berlin. She graduated 2005 in Sociology (dissertation: Social Capital in Local Communities in Poland and Germany) and in 2006 in Political Sciences (dissertation: The Conditions of University Career of Women in Germany). For her PhD thesis she was comparing social capital and views on democracy in the Eastern Poland and Eastern Germany. She was also researcher in the project titled „The Conditions of Social Economy Development in Poland” (European Social Fund) and other research projects concerning Polish and European policy, social capital and gender issues. Her interests focus on the development of the local social capital and democracy.