Everyday life in the time of coronavirus
The aim of this project is to capture how the lives of Poles have changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. For this purpose, a competition was organized in which participants document their experiences related to the situation at work, in the family and in the immediate environment, starting from the moment when the pandemic reached Poland.
We have analysed every form of memoirs - diary, blog or report - supplemented with graphic materials. They are a source of information about the professional, family and social life of the study participants. They also provide knowledge about the main problems of people and how to deal with crisis situations caused by the pandemic. It is also planned to publish the most interesting works.
The project also includes in-depth structured interviews with selected competition participants and representatives of institutions involved in mitigating the effects of the pandemic, the purpose of which is to assess the long-term consequences of the pandemic for households.
The competition was organized by the Institute of Social Economy of the Warsaw School of Economics and the Department of Quality of Life Research and Applied Sociology of the Institute of Sociology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
The research is financed by the National Science Center as part of a research project led by Prof. dr hab. Piotr Błędowski “Households in times of coronavirus. Professional work, education and support in conditions of uncertainty - Gospodarstwa domowe w czasach koronawirusa. Praca zawodowa, edukacja i wsparcie w warunkach niepewności” (2020/39/B/HS5/03121).
“INFLATION IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF POLES - A COMPETITION FOR JOURNALS AND DIARIES”
After many years of break, double-digit inflation appeared in Poland. Using the biographical method research aims to illustrate how Poles deal with this situation, what strategies they use and how their everyday life changes. For this purpose, a competition for diaries and journals from November 2022 - April 2023 was organized. The analysis of the submitted works makes it possible to capture the image of the society of this turbulent period.
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Warsaw School of Economics
- dr Joanna Felczak - (head of the competition) economist and graduate of social rehabilitation specializing in issues related to social exclusion and crime.
- prof. dr hab. Piotr Błędowski - social politician and gerontologist, professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, author of about 200 publications in the field of social policy and gerontology.
- dr hab. Pawel Kubicki, prof. Warsaw School of Economics - qualitative and quantitative researcher specializing in public policy analyses, (co)author of publications devoted to the issues of social exclusion, the labor market and disability. He is the one who answers the project call.
Max Planck Partner Group IFiS PAN- dr hab. Marta Olcoń-Kubicka, prof. IFiS PAN - qualitative researcher. In her scientific work, she deals with economic sociology, in particular with the cultural meanings of money. She specializes in ethnographic studies of monetary practices in households.
- dr Marcin Serafin - Economic sociologist, assistant professor at IFiS PAN. In his work, he deals with political and cultural aspects of economic processes, in particular digital platforms.
DIARIES OF THE UNEMPLOYED
Experience of unemployment and trajectories of exclusion from the perspective of social policy and sociology
The main element of the project is a nationwide competition for the diaries of the unemployed. On their basis, the scientists will conduct research aimed at analyzing the trajectory of unemployment in Poland in 2016-2017. The situation of the unemployed will be analyzed in four contexts:
(1) family,
(2) social,
(3) institutional and
(4) political.
The selection of these contexts will allow to obtain a full picture of unemployment thanks to the use of both the instruments of public policy science, especially social policy science, and sociology. An important part of the project is an attempt to answer the question about the new understanding of unemployment and the identification of its new social features, which in the past did not play a significant role in the characteristics of unemployment.
- Prof. dr hab. Piotr Błędowski (Head of the Project) Professor of economics, social politician and gerontologist, professor at the Warsaw School of Economics and the Institute of Labor and Social Affairs, author of about 200 publications in the field of social policy and gerontology. Research leader and chairman of the Scientific Council of the PolSenior project consortium; principal researcher in the team of the Institute of Social Economy of the Warsaw School of Economics in the Calculator of Costs of Inaction project
- Paweł Kubicki, PhD (SGH project coordinator) PhD in economics, assistant professor at the Institute of Social Economy at the Warsaw School of Economics and research specialist at the Educational Research Institute; qualitative and quantitative researcher specializing in public policy analyses
- Czesława Kliszko (Researcher)
- Łukasz Posłuszny (Researcher) PhD student at the Institute of Sociology of the Adam Mickiewicz University Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. He received a master’s degree in Philosophy (2010), Polish Philology (2011) and Sociology (2012) at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. Author of many articles devoted to the issue of social memory and two books - Spatial forms of commemorating the Holocaust (2014) and Question about memory. Autobiographical accounts of concentration camp prisoners (2012). His interests focus on memory research, with particular emphasis on the sociology of objects and everyday life, as well as urban studies, soundscape and materiality. More information: https://amu.academia.edu/poslusznylukasz
Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe (GOETE)
Project GOETE (Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe. Access, coping and relevance of education for young people in European knowledge societies in comparative perspective) was conducted in the years 2010-2013.
More: GOETE - Welcome to the GOETE website
Calculator of costs of inaction - Kalkulator kosztów zaniechania (KKZ)
The main goal of the project was to create conditions to increase the effectiveness and cohesion of social policy for all local government units of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship by developing and testing an innovative model for conducting active social policy in 25 local governments.
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Calculator of costs of inaction - introducing innovative solutions in Mazovia in the field of social policy in the area of analyzing the costs of not taking activating and supporting activities.
The main objective of the project was to create conditions for increasing the effectiveness and cohesion of social policy for all local government units of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship by the end of 2014 by developing and testing an innovative model for conducting active social policy in 25 local governments. The aim of the project was to create a utility KKZ model available to all local governments of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship - a tool supporting active social policy for decision-makers and implementers of local social policy.
The Warsaw School of Economics team was responsible for the scientific and research side of the Social Calculator (which is one of the products created as part of the project). The main task of the Team was to develop the costs of abandonment from the theoretical point of view. It was the first project of this type in Poland (and one of the few in the world).
The most important effects of the work of the members of the Team include, first of all, the creation of a definition and conceptual framework for the costs of inaction, the development of a unique algorithm for identifying activities and the consequences of inaction, the preparation of a mathematical foundation for the costs of inaction and the indication of potential data sources (and the need for new information) can be used in the Social Calculator. The work of the Team was based on both scientific studies and consultations with experts and the results of field research.
On the basis of the analyzes carried out, a number of scientific publications were created.
The project was financed by the National Science Center (UMO-2012/07/D/HS4/01778) and co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund.
Organizational structure of the KKZ Project:
Mazowieckie Center for Social Policy (Leader)
Institute of Social Economy of the Warsaw School of Economics (Research partner)
Radom Entrepreneurship Center Association (Partner)
- Team
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- prof. dr hab. Piotr Błędowski (Head of the SGH Team and Main Researcher)
- dr Paweł Kubicki (Coordinator and Researcher))
- dr Joanna Felczak (Researcher)
- dr Benedykt Opałka (Researcher)
- dr Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak (Researcher)
- dr Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska (Researcher)
- dr Anita Abramowska-Kmon (Researcher)
- dr Jacek Szczepkowski (Researcher)
- mgr Justyna Gać (Researcher)
- mgr Magdalena Maciejasz (Researcher)
- mgr Karolina Majdzińska (Researcher)
- mgr Marta Styrc (Badacz) (Researcher)
- mgr Sylwia Timoszuk (Researcher)
- mgr Magdalena Szostakowska (Evaluator)
- prof. dr hab. Piotr Błędowski (Head of the SGH Team and Main Researcher)
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Other Research
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A nnumber of statutory research, research by young scientists, government research and other research carried out by the employees of the Institute were carried out.
These studies concern the area of aging societies, health, professional integration, education, social prevention, social exclusion and other areas related to social policy and public policy.