Hyungsoo Woo received his PhD from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and also trained at Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics (LSE). He held positions at Sciences Po Paris, the OECD, the ECPR Summer and Winter Methods Schools, and recently joined the POLPAN 1988–2023 project. Hyung’s research interests include political and social trust, inequality, democratic socialisation, and issues related to migration. Methodologically, he focuses on the analysis of panel and cross-national survey data, causal inference, and network analysis.

Research interests: Social and political trust, multilevel economic governance, migration, cross-national survey methodology, and causal inference using observational data

Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1762-9473

Alan Żukowski is a PhD student in Legal Science at the University of Wrocław, and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences on the grant.

Research interests: socio-legal studies, grassroots mobilization, legal theory, strategic climate litigation

Email: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/000-0002-4724-2942

Selected publications:

Radiukiewicz, A., Dubrow, J. & Żukowski, A. (forthcoming 2025). Multimodal Reconstructions of Protest Events: Issues and Ethics, International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

Dubrow, J., Radiukiewicz, A., & Żukowski, A. (2024). Government Justification of Police Actions against Protesters: Biopolitics in Poland during the Covid-19 Pandemic. International Review of Sociology 34(4). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UKTHNN5BHIUZ7ZK3M9C5/full?target=10.1080/03906701.2024.2399573

Radiukiewicz, A., Żukowski, A., & Dubrow, J. (2024). The Polish Government’s Response to COVID-19 Protests: Restrictions and Contradictions in a Moment of Madness. Partecipazione e Conflitto. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v17i2p541 (http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/29514)

Żukowski, A. (2024). Where are we now?: The epidemic as politics: by Giorgio Agamben, Translated by Valeria Dani, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, 104 pp., $25.00 (Paperback), ISBN 9781538157602. Political Theology, pp. 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2024.2414158

Żukowski, A. (2023). Strategic climate litigation in Poland: In search of a proper socio-legal communication before courts [in] I. Alogna, C. Billiet, M. Fermeglia, & A. Holzhausen (eds.). Climate Change Litigation in Europe —  Regional, Comparative and Sectoral Perspectives. Intersentia, pp. 215-234.

Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Principal Investigator of the “Made in Iraq” project. She  is a social anthropologist and specializes in migration, urban studies and social change with geographical focus on the Middle East. Dorota holds degrees in Arabic studies (BA) and sociology (MA) from the University of Warsaw and a PhD in social sciences from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Birzeit University and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. Her PhD thesis focused on the relation between identity and place in the context of protracted exile, based on ethnographic study of a Palestinian refugee camp. Dorota’s post-doctoral project explored knowledge relations in the field of architecture and urban planning between the Polish People’s Republic and Iraq through a case study of the Department of Architecture, University of Mosul.

Research interests: migration, urban studies, contemporary urban landscapes of the Middle East, knowledge production

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9755-9254

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dorota-Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska

Selected publications:

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2022. Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank. The International journal of the history of sport 38:16:1647-1669.

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2021. Multilocality and the Politics of Space in Protracted Exile: The Case of a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank. Transfers 11:1:92-107.

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2021. Participation in Spaces of Exile: The Making of Change in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank. In Spaces of Participation: Dynamics of Social and Political Change in the Arab World, R. Aboubakr, S. Jurkiewicz, H. Ait-Mansour, U. Freitag, eds. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, p. 83-104.

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2019. The Politics of Governance and Urban Marginality: A Camp Studies Perspective. Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology 29:1:30-46.

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2019. State, sport and resistance: A case of Palestinian sports clubs in the West Bank. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 55:7:915-932.

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2017. The right to the camp: Spatial politics of protracted encampment in the West Bank. Political Geography 61:160-169.

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota and Nika Palaguta. 2017. Internally Displaced Persons and Elections under Military Conflict in Ukraine. Journal of Refugee Studies 30:1:27-46.

Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2016. Refugee Camp as Mediating Locality: Memory and Place in Protracted Exile. In: Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past. M. Palmberger and J. Tosic, eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 47-74.

Aleksandra Wojtaszek is a PhD student at the Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology,  Polish Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral research focuses on the urban situation and resilience of urban actors in Baghdad during and after the period of international sanctions, with a particular emphasis on how the city’s social and spatial structures evolved amidst changing conditions. Before joining the doctoral school, Aleksandra worked in the NGO sector, implementing humanitarian and development projects in Poland and the Middle East, including Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq. Among these, she worked on the EU-funded MASAR project that emphasized municipal strategic planning, the enhancement of public services, and local economic development in Ninawa and Dohuk governorates, Iraq. This work provided her with invaluable hands-on experience in addressing urban challenges in conflict-affected areas. She holds a Master of Science in Arabic Studies from the University of Warsaw and a Bachelor’s degree in Oriental Philology from the Jagiellonian University. Her MSc thesis explored the urbanization processes in Jordan’s largest refugee camp for Syrian refugees, shedding light on the intersections of displacement and urban situation of the camp.

Research interests: urban studies, spatial planning, and marginalized settlements in the Middle East.

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5059-0569

Anna Radiukiewicz is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and a postdoctoral researcher in “The Construction of Post-Pandemic Society: Covid-19 Street Protest in Poland” project funded by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland (2021/43/B/HS6/01155). She is a sociologist who specializes in civil society studies. Anna is a member of the “Culture & Society” editorial team. She is on the board of the Social Communication Research Section of the Polish Sociological Association.

Research interests: civic and political activism, public administration, discursive exclusion

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-6768

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Radiukiewicz

Twitter or any other relevant social media: https://www.facebook.com/anna.radiukiewicz

Selected publications:

Radiukiewicz, A., Dubrow, J. & Żukowski, A. (forthcoming 2025). Multimodal Reconstructions of Protest Events: Issues and Ethics, International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Radiukiewicz, A., Civic Engagement, in: Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Ed.) (forthcoming 2025). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Dubrow, J., Radiukiewicz, A., & Żukowski, A. (2024). Government Justification of Police Actions against Protesters: Biopolitics in Poland during the Covid-19 Pandemic. International Review of Sociology https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UKTHNN5BHIUZ7ZK3M9C5/full?target=10.1080/03906701.2024.2399573

Radiukiewicz, A., Żukowski, A., & Dubrow, J. (2024). The Polish Government’s Response to COVID-19 Protests: Restrictions and Contradictions in a Moment of Madness. Partecipazione e Conflitto. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v17i2p541 (http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/29514)

Betkiewicz, W., & Radiukiewicz, A. (2024). The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland. East European Politics and Societies, https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254241229732

Leśniewicz, K., & Radiukiewicz, A. (2023). Społeczeństwo obywatelskie w klasowym zwierciadle. Przegląd Socjologiczny, https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2023/72.4/5

Radiukiewicz, A. (2021). Obrońcy demokracji. Tożsamość kolektywna ruchu społecznego, Kraków: Nomos,: 2021. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352225932_Obroncy_Demokracji_Tozsamosc_ruchu_spolecznego_i_jej_zrodla

Michał Nawrocki is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Warsaw, and a Graduate Research Assistant in the project “The Construction of Post-Pandemic Society”, funded by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland (2021/43/B/HS6/01155). He is also PI in the project “Political Epistemology of Populism in Poland”, funded by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland (2024/53/N/HS6/04349).

Research interests: populism, political epistemology, sociology of knowledge, social psychology, social theory

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7107-9591

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michal-Nawrocki-2

Selected publications:

Nawrocki M (2024) Who are the ‘real’ people? The concept of relational popular identity and the self-identification of populist voters in Poland. International Sociology 39(6): 672–697.

Nawrocki M (2024) After the epistemological turn: A framework for studying populism as a knowledge phenomenon. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 26(2): 444–465.

Nawrocki M (2021) Drapieżcze tożsamości i populistyczna „communitas”: Immunitarne konstruowanie wspólnoty w prawicowych dyskursach populistycznych. Stan Rzeczy (1(20)): 19–45.

Melis Laebens received her PhD in Political Science from Yale University in 2020. Before that, she obtained BA degrees in Economics and in Political Science and International Relations from Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She was a Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College (University of Oxford) between 2020-2023. Since 2023, Melis is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Central European University in Vienna (full time) and has a part-time position as Assistant Professor in IFiS PAN.

Her research centers on democratic backsliding, political parties and electoral behavior, and spans several regions. Much of her research focuses on the role of ruling parties in enabling or hampering executive aggrandizement, particularly in Turkey, Poland and Ecuador. She is also leading an NCN SONATA project – entitled “Electoral Dynamics During Democratic Backsliding: Parties, Voters and Changing Lines of Conflict” – which investigates how parties’ policy positions and voters’ preferences on salient issues are transformed over the course of regime contestation in Poland and Turkey. In addition, she has several ongoing projects investigating political attitudes and voting behavior in Turkey.

Research interests: Comparative politics, political parties, democratic backsliding

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-9177

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin: https://ceu.academia.edu/MelisLaebens

Selected publications:

Laebens, M. G., & Öztürk, A. (2022). The Erdogan government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Performance and actuality in an authoritarian context. Government and Opposition. DOI: 10.1017/gov.2022.16

Laebens, M. G., & Lührmann A. (2021). What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability. Democratization 28(5): 908-928. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1897109.

Laebens, M. G., & Öztürk, A. (2021). Partisanship and autocratization: Polarization, power asymmetry, and partisan social identities in Turkey. Comparative Political Studies 54(2): 245-279. DOI: 10.1177/0010414020926199.

Kamil Gacek is a PhD candidate in Economics and Finance who holds a Master’s in Applied Mathematics and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Finance. His research centers on the application of input-output models to analyze the impacts of natural disasters, particularly droughts, on the Polish economy. As a research assistant in the POLPAN grant project, his responsibilities include, among others, reviewing consistency in variables and labels, updating documentation for POLPAN 2018–2023, and co-authoring articles. He has been awarded University Mini-Grants for Research Projects Conducted by PhD Students (2023/2024) and two scholarships for the best PhD students (2024/25). Kamil is also a member of the International Input-Output Association and the Polish Economic Society, and he serves on the discipline council for Economics and Finance at AGH University of Krakow.

Research interests: environmental economics, mathematical modeling, and simulations, with a particular emphasis on analyzing the consequences of natural disasters — especially drought — on the Polish economy and developing data – driven strategies for effective drought risk management.

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0235-3232

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamil-gacek

Selected publications:

Gacek, K. (2024). Tracing the drivers of waste generation in Poland (2010–2018): a structural decomposition and input–output approach. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, (63), 75–85. https://doi.org/10.12775/bgss-2024-0006