Katarzyna Kopycka

Katarzyna Kopycka is a sociologist working at the Educational Research Institute National Research Institute in Warsaw and as associate professor at the University of Lodz. She collaborates with the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where she got her Ph.D. She is part of the Polish national team of the European Social Survey. Her research interests involve social mobility, early employment careers, educational inequality, social stratification, precarious employment and subjective well-being. She approaches these topics in an internationally comparative framework. She has completed several research projects using individual longitudinal data from large survey programs from Poland, Germany, United Kingdom and United States. She also works with Polish administrative data.

Research interests: social mobility, early employment careers, educational inequality, social stratification, precarious employment and subjective well-being, organization of education

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7242-7028

Twitter: @kakopycka

Selected publications:

Kopycka, Katarzyna/ Kiersztyn, Anna/ Sawiński, Zbigniew / Bieńkowski, Stefan/ Sovpenchuk, Viktoriia (2023): Use of panel surveys to measure employment precarity in a cross-national framework: An integrated approach to harmonize research concepts and longitudinal data. In: Survey Research Methods 17(3), 353-393

Kopycka, Katarzyna (2023): Escaping uncertainty through downward mobility? Occupational mobility upon transition to permanent employment in Germany and in Poland. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 83,

Kopycka, Katarzyna (2023): Growing Happier? Trends in Subjective Well-Being in Poland in the Context of Socio-Structural Change. In Slomczynski, Kazimierz M./ Kotnarowski, Michal/ Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina/ Dubrow, Joshua K. (Eds.): Poland. Thirty Years of Radical Social Change. Leiden: Brill. Ch. 2. Pp. 41-71

Kopycka, Katarzyna (2021): Higher education expansion, system transformation, and social inequality. Social origin effects on tertiary education attainment in Poland for birth cohorts 1960 to 1988. Higher Education, 81(3), 643–664

Anna Kiersztyn

Anna Kiersztyn is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, where she is the head of the Department of Economic Sociology and Public Issues. She is a long-standing member of the POLPAN survey team at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is the author of several research articles analysing labour market inequality, job instability and employment precarity, as well as overeducation. Her current research is focused on the social consequences of labour market change, especially with regard to the increase in non-standard employment. She has used longitudinal data to study the dynamics of underemployment and employment precarity, in particular among young workers.

Research interests: labour market inequality, precarious work, socioeconomic consequences of non-standard employment, youth labour market trajectories

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8112-6059

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin:

https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=X963eWsAAAAJ&hl=pl

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Kiersztyn

Selected publications:

Kiersztyn, A. (Accepted/In press). From No Job to Bad Job: Research on Employment Precarity in Poland, In: Handbook on unemployment, edited by Sharone, O., Pultz, S., & Chen, V. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Kiersztyn, A. 2023. Precarious Labor Market Trajectories and Social Inequality, In: Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change, edited by Joshua K. Dubrow et al., International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology vol. 141, Leiden, Brill, pp. 104-141.

Kopycka, K., Kiersztyn, A., Sawiński, Z., Bieńkowski, S., & Sovpenchuk, V. 2023. Use of Panel Surveys to Measure Employment Precarity in a Cross-National Framework: An Integrated Approach to Harmonize Research Concepts and Longitudinal Data. Survey Research Methods, 17(3): 353–393.

Tomescu-Dubrow, I., Slomczynski, K.M., Sawiński, Z., Kiersztyn, A., Janicka, K., Życzyńska-Ciołek, D., Wysmułek, I., Kotnarowski, M. 2021. The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN. European Sociological Review 37(5): 849-864.

Kiersztyn, A. 2021. Who moves from fixed-term to open-ended contracts? Early careers on a segmented labour market. Acta Sociologica 64(2): 198-214.

Tomescu-Dubrow, I., Kjerulf Dubrow, J., Kiersztyn, A., Andrejuk, K., Kołczyńska, M., Slomczynski, K.M. 2019. The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland. Springer.

Kiersztyn, A. 2018. Labour market precarity and political alienation. Przegląd Socjologiczny / Sociological Review 67(3): 35-61.

Kiersztyn, A., Życzyńska-Ciołek, D., Slomczynski, K.M. (eds.). 2017. Rozwarstwienie społeczne: zasoby, szanse i bariery. Polskie badanie Panelowe POLPAN 1998–2013, Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Kiersztyn, A. 2017. Non-standard employment and subjective insecurity. How can we capture job precarity using survey data? In Precarious Work, Research in the Sociology of Work Series, edited by Arne Kalleberg and Steven Vallas, Emerald Publishing, Pp. 91-122.

Kiersztyn, A. 2017. Voice and Insecurity. Political Participation Among Members of the Precariat. In: Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland, edited by Kerstin Jacobsson and Elżbieta Korolczuk, Berghahn books.

Kiersztyn, A. 2016. Fixed-Term Employment and Occupational Position in Poland: The Heterogeneity of Temporary Jobs, European Sociological Review 32(6): 881-894.

Kiersztyn, A. 2016. Which Clouds have Silver Linings: Fixed-term Employment, Psychological Distress, and Occupational Position in Poland, International Journal of Sociology 46(4): 264-287.

Kiersztyn, A. 2015. Solidarity Lost? Low Pay Persistence During the Post-Communist Transition in Poland, Polish Sociological Review 4(192), 493-509.

Kiersztyn, A. 2013, „Stuck in a mismatch? The Persistence of Overeducation During Twenty Years of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland”, Economics of Education Review 32(1), 78-91.

Anna Turner

Anna Turner is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on understanding the impact of new technologies on society from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her research centers on public interest in surveillance, privacy, and digital disconnect, while critically exploring the factors contributing to varying levels of digital engagement. She also addresses methodological challenges with Big Data, such as studying social problems using new data sources (e.g., Google searches), harmonizing internet data with survey research, and employing a mixed-methods approach. She is the Advisory Expert for the International Social Survey Programme 2024 module on Digital Societies (ISSP); Vice-President of the Digital Sociology Group at the Polish Sociological Association (PTS) and Regional Editor for the Polish editions of ISA Global Dialogue. She collaborates with scholars from the University of Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and Minnesota. She was also involved in the POLPAN project, the Data Harmonization project, and served as Principal Investigator for her own research grant.

Research interests: digital sociology, digital society, surveillance, privacy, digital disconnect, comparative analysis

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2963-7462

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JfSLE-MAAAAJ&hl=pl

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-turner/

CV: https://ifispan.pl/members/aturnerifispan-edu-pl/

Selected publications:

Segijn, C. M., Strycharz, J., Turner, A., & Opree, S. J. 2024. Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping: Mapping Perceptions of Phones Listening for Advertising in the United States, the Netherlands, and Poland. Social Media + Society, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241288448

Turner, Anna. 2024 ChatGPT, BARD, ERNIE – czy algorytmy sztucznej inteligencji to autorytety cyfrowego jutra? (ChatGPT, BARD, ERNIE – are the algorithms of artificial intelligence the authorities of the digital future?) w: Sztuczna inteligencja. Szanse i zagrożenia, Red. Artur Wysocki. Wyd. UKSW.

Turner, Anna and Zieliński, Marcin W. 2023. Public Interest in Surveillance, Privacy and Data Protection. Google Big Data in Comparative Sociology. SSRN. Elsevier.  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4520223

Turner, A., Marcin W. Zieliński, Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. 2018. Google Big Data: Characteristics and Use in Social Sciences. Studia Socjologiczne (Sociological Studies). https://doi.org/10.24425/122482