Joshua K. Dubrow
is a PhD of The Ohio State University and a Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Anna Kiersztyn
is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw, and 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 on labor market inequality, job instability and employment precarity, as well as overeducation. Her current research is focused on the social consequences of labor 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.
Katarzyna Kopycka
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. She studied sociology at the University of Lodz and got her PhD in Sociology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Her PhD thesis focused on employment of teachers in Polish public schools. Her research interests include social inequality in a life course perspective, educational inequality, social mobility and occupational careers.
Michał Kotnarowski
is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. He has worked on many data-driven research projects, including the Polish National Election Study, Polish Panel Survey polpan, cost Action: True European Voter. He is the head of the European Social Survey in Poland.
Robert M. Kunovich
PhD is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He conducts research in the areas of the public understanding of science; social stratification and inequality; education; comparative race, ethnicity, and nation; and political sociology. His most recent research focuses on interest, knowledge, and confidence in science; social and political responses to uncertainty; portrayals of certainty and truth in social media; poverty; and student success.
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw. His main area of interest concerns economic sociology. He researches the mortgage market and mortgage population in Poland, as well as valuation processes at the threshold of financial and art markets. His recently published books include, The Future Cannot Begin: Polish Transformation Discourses according to Theories of Time and Theories of Modernization, The Social Life of Mortgage, and the co-authored, Culture on Peripheries.
Sandra Marquart-Pyatt
is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University, jointly appointed in the Department of Political Science. She studies nature-society connections, public opinion and behavior, and methodology. In her substantive work, she investigates environmental and political attitudes and behavior, environmental policy and decision-making, and the spatial distribution of environmental concerns and challenges in comparative context. Her work has been published in Social Science Research, Society and Natural Resources, and Global Environmental Change, among others.
Malgorzata Mikucka
is a sociologist affiliated with mzes, Mannheim University (Germany). Her research interests comprise social inequality, health and wellbeing in relation to life course events, and social relationships Her work has been published, among others, in Journal of Marriage and Family, European Journal of Population, and World Development.
Natalia Pohorila
is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. She is author of articles on in the Polish Political Science Review, International Journal of Sociology, and East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. A long-time analyst of polpan data, Dr. Pohorila contributed to Social Inequality and the Life Course: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013. Her work is on electoral behaviour and political culture of the Ukrainian population, as well as social capital and public perception of the common good.
Aaron Ponce
is Assistant Professor in the International Studies Department at Indiana University. His research agenda coalesces around an interest in the cultural
Dariusz Przybysz
is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences. His primary research interests focus on social stratification, and application of mathematical methods in social sciences. He has authored or co-authored books and articles on intergenerational mobility, marital homogamy, voting behaviours, educational inequalities, and methodology of social research.
Zbigniew Sawiński
is a Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Marcin Ślarzyński
PhD is a Sociologist, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Marcin specializes in political sociology, sociology of culture, and political anthropology. He studies social and political change in Europe, with a special focus on Poland, through the prism of nationalism, memory, and local community studies.
Kazimierz M. Slomczynski
is Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University and Professor Dr. Hab. at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Slomczynski has directed the Polish Panel Survey polpan since 1987.
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow
is a PhD of The Ohio State University (osu), Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (pan), Director of the Graduate School for Social Research at pan, and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, osu. Dr. Tomescu-Dubrow is Co-pi of the Survey Data Recycling (sdr) Project funded by the National Science Foundation (USA) and of polpan 2018, and is pi of polpan 2023, funded by the National Science Center, Poland.
PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include sociology of poverty, sociology of ageing, biographical approach in sociology, life course studies, methodology of social sciences, and social data archiving. She has been a member of the Polish Panel Survey (polpan) team since 2012. She is an author or co-author of articles published in Polish Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Qualitative Sociology Review, Ask: Research and Methods, Studia Socjologiczne, and Journal of Population Ageing, among others.