Research team

The research team conducting the project “Migrants from Poland in Germany – Cultural Aspects” was assembled with a view to finding the best match for the project’s needs. Its members represent a wide range of academic institutions and disciplines and share a personal interest in Polish migration in Europe.

 

Michał Nowosielski –  Project manager
E-mail: michal.nowosielski@uw.edu.pl

Dr hab (second degree doctor), sociologist, researcher at the Center for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the State University of Applied Sciences in Płock, former director of the Poznań Institute for Western Affairs, member of the Migration Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Center for Migration Research at the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań. Coordinator and participant of numerous research projects. He has an interest in migration and, in particular, migrant organizations, Poles in Germany and policies towards the diaspora. In addition, he has conducted research on social activities, civil society and inequality.
 

 

 

Witold Nowak –  Research coordinator
E-mail: witold.nowak@uw.edu.pl

Sociologist (M.A., Ph.D.) employed in the Centre of Migration Research (University of Warsaw) and graduated from the Institute of Sociology of Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland. Mr. Nowak has participated in numerous research projects in the field of social sciences. He specializes in sociological analyses of migration phenomena, the functioning of social minorities and the sociology of organization and management. Member of the European Sociological Association and Project Management Associate certified by the International Project Management Association.
 

 

 

Peter Olivier Loew – Project coordinator on the part of DPI
E-mail: loew@dpi-da.de

Dr hab. (second degree doctor), born 1967. After studying history, Slavic studies and economics in Nuremberg, Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin, he wrote his PhD thesis on historical culture in Gdańsk between 1793 and 1997. Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs at the Deutsches Polen-Institut in Darmstadt; lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the Technical University of Dresden. His main fields of interest are Polish-German relations in the past and present, cultural history of Gdańsk and Pomerania, history of ideas, history of Poland from the 19th to the 21st century, and history of Poles in Germany.

 

 

Agnieszka Jeran – Member of the research team
E-mail: jeran@amu.edu.pl

Sociologist and commodity specialist, adjunct at the Institute of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań. Leader and participant of research projects, including those devoted to culture, the information and civil society, volunteering and employment. She has an interest in the methodology of social research.

 

 

Marcin Poprawski – Member of the research team
E-mail: marcin.poprawski@amu.edu.pl

Employee of the Institute of Cultural Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, co-founder and coordinator of the research center of the Regional Observatory of Culture at AMU, lecturer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) since 2006, Vice President of the European academic network ENCATC in 2013 – 2017. Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at AMU, expert of the Association of Polish Cities. His research deals with the management of cultural and heritage institutions, cultural and creative organizations, cultural policies, audience development, organizational aesthetics, and the urban cultural public sphere.

 

 

Łukasz Kumięga – Member of the research team
E-mail: l.s.kumiega@gmail.com

A German Studies scholar , linguist, discourse researcher, former scholarship holder in the project “Migrants from Poland in Germany – Cultural Aspects”, adjunct in the College of Social Sciences and Foreign Languages of the Silesian University of Technology. His research interests include critical discourse analysis, dispositive analysis, intercultural communication and, current educational discourse in the context of migration.

 

 

Martyna Plucińska-Nowak –  Research team member
E-mail: martyna_plucinska@op.pl

martyna plucinska

Sociologist and graduate of the Institute of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań. Her research interests focus on social integration, social policy, negotiation of the social order, and particularly non-spontaneous ways of resolving conflicts and disputes. She has gained her professional experience cooperating with the Poznań branch of the Polish Mediation Center, the Wielkopolska Observatory of Social Integration, the Poznań Institute for Western Affairs, non-governmental organizations and research agencies. She is actively involved in promoting and professionalizing mediation in Poland, and conducts in-depth social research in this area.