Information about Hosting Offer
Hosting Offer: University of Warsaw
Information
| Role | Hosting Offer |
|---|---|
| Organisation | University of Warsaw |
| Organisation type | Academic |
| City | Warsaw |
| HR Excellence in Research Award from the European Commission | yes |
| National evaluation category | A+ (excellent) |
| Faculty / Dept. / Division / Laboratory / Research group | Centre of Migration Research |
| Website | http://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/en/ |
| Thematic area/field | HS – Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / HS4 Individuals, institutions, markets |
| Key words | migration, CEE, policy, labour market, integration |
| Short summary of activities and expertise | Centre of Migration Research (CMR) is an interdisciplinary research centre on human migration and mobility. CMR is the biggest and most important migration studies hub in Central and Eastern Europe. Importantly, CMR has excellent expertise in HS3-HS6 panels. From its foundation, CMR studied internal and international mobility as an endogenous aspect of social change in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. With post 2004-enlargement migration, the socio-economic consequences of emigration from Poland became an important research topic for the CMR team. Most importantly, CMR researchers have studied work and other aspects of the economy, population, social mobility, integration, social remittances, family relations, the transformation of elderly care, gender and diaspora policies in relation not only to ethnic Poles abroad but also ethnic minorities in Poland. CMR members have also researched migration within Europe and beyond, including in North Africa, North America, Asia and Oceania. Most recently, and in the light of changing migration patterns, we have examined immigration to Poland and its regions, including rural areas that have traditionally been places of origin for migrants rather than immigrant destinations. CMR’s interdisciplinary team, representing anthropology, economics, demography, sociology, legal studies and political science, is divided into three research units (Migration Policy; Socio-Cultural Aspects of Migration; and Socio-Economics of Migration) which collaborate closely on interdisciplinary research projects. CMR hosts one academic journal, Central and Eastern European Migration Review (CEEMR), recently approved by SCOPUS, and a working paper series. The editorial board of CEEMR brings together CEE migration researchers from the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. |
| Role and profile of key persons (incl. supervisor) | * Director of the Centre, Professor Pawel Kaczmarczyk is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences (Chair of Demography), University of Warsaw. His main research interests include causes and consequences of international labour migration, migration and the labour market, migration policy (with special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe). Author of many publications concerning these areas. ** Deputy Director of the Centre, Professor Agata Górny is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University. Her research interests include mechanisms of illegal migration, remigration and immigration to Poland, economic adaptation of immigrants and, last but not least, the application of research techniques in migration studies. She has extensively published on these topics. *** Professor Marek Okólski is the Chair of the CMR Scientific Council. Great social transformations and their impact upon population processes are at the core of his research interests, including, in particular, globalization impacts on the world economy, international labour mobility, migration theory, migration trends in Central and Eastern Europe, demographic transition in Poland, and health crisis in the European ex-communist countries. **** Professor Magdalena Lesińska is the Head of Postgraduate Program on International Migration in CMR UW. Political scientist, she specialises in the social and political participation of migrants, migration policies and diaspora policies. *****Dr Agnieszka Fihel is a demographer, specialising in international migration to and from Poland and mortality. ******If interested in the supervision of any of the Key Persons or other CMR members whose profiles can be found here: http://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/people_affiliation/obm-staff/, please let us know when contacting CMR. |
| Previous and current involvement in research and training programmes | CMR. an excellent research institution, has previously hosted MSCA Individual Fellows, NCN Polonez Fellows as well as MSCA doctoral students, proving its research and training capacity. Additionally, CMR´s previous involvement in research includes participation in the following international and national projects: CrossMigration (Horizon 2020), Mobile Welfare (NORFACE), TRANSMIC (MSCA ITN), RESPOND (Horizon 2020). Currently, 28 research projects are carried out in CMR UW funded by the European Commission, International Visegrad Fund, National Centre for Research and Development and Konrad Adenauer Foundationand, including: MigIntegrEast (MSCA), EMERG LT PL (Daina2), EmCliC (IdeaLab, EOG Founds). CMR continuously accepts young scientists for individual fellowships http://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/people_affiliation/visiting-scholars/ |
| Relevant publications and/or research/innovation products | CMR members are active in publising their research as monographs, edited volumes and journal articles. Full list of publications can be consulted on CMR website. **Agata Górny and Paweł Kaczmarczyk. 2018. A known but uncertain path: The role of foreign labour in Polish agriculture. Journal of Rural Studies 64, (November 2018), 177–188. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.12.015 **Olga Cojocaru. 2021. “In the back of my mind, time always ticks one hour forward”: The transnational temporalities of Moldovan domestic workers in Italy. Popul Space Place 27, 5 (July 2021). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2406 **Kamila Fiałkowska and Kamil Matuszczyk. 2021. Safe and fruitful? Structural vulnerabilities in the experience of seasonal migrant workers in agriculture in Germany and Poland. Safety Science 139, (July 2021), 105275. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105275 **Agnieszka Fihel and Marek Okólski. 2019. Diminution de la population dans les pays anciennement communistes de l’Union européenne. Population & Sociétés N° 567, 6 (2019), 1. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3917/popsoc.567.0001 **Paweł Kaczmarczyk and Douglass Massey. 2019. The Ethnosurvey Revisited: New Migrations, New Methodologies? Central and Eastern European Migration Review 8, 2 (2019), 9–38. DOI:https://doi.org/10.17467/ceemr.2019.15 **Paweł Kaczmarczyk and Justyna Salamońska. 2018. Why We Still Need Ethnosurveys in Migration Research: Empirical Evidence From Poland. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 12, 4 (October 2018), 458–476. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689818796370 **Russell King and Marek Okólski. 2018. Diverse, Fragile and Fragmented: The New Map of European Migration. Central and Eastern European Migration Review online first (2018), 1–24. DOI:https://doi.org/10.17467/ceemr.2018.18 **Bryan Fanning, Weronika Kloc‐Nowak, and Magdalena Lesińska. 2020. Polish migrant settlement without political integration in the United Kingdom and Ireland. International Migration. 1-59. 10.1111/imig.12758 |
| Key research facilities, infrastructure, and equipment | CMR provides excellent support at the stage of grant proposal and research management. Administrative services at CMR and available on-site on a daily basis are: HR, IT, Financial, Research, and Technology Transfer Offices, ethical committee and Data Protection Officer. The main facilities provided by CMR include office spaces, library, conference room, printing and scanning services. The Fellow will also have infrastructure to securely store and analyse data and an individual mail account at their disposal. CMR organises regular regional, national, and international seminars that will serve as a platform for knowledge exchange between the CMR staff, partners, and the successful Applicant. |
| Hosting arrangements | CMR provides excellent support at the stage of grant proposal and research management. Administrative services at CMR and available on-site on a daily basis are: HR, IT, Financial, Research, and Technology Transfer Offices, ethical committee and Data Protection Officer. The main facilities provided by CMR include office spaces, library, conference room, printing and scanning services. The Fellow will also have infrastructure to securely store and analyse data and an individual mail account at their disposal. CMR organises regular regional, national, and international seminars that will serve as a platform for knowledge exchange between the CMR staff, partners, and the successful Applicant. |
| Key research facilities, infrastructure, and equipment | Polonez Bis Fellow will have access to comfortable office space and common areas such as CMR library, conference room, printing services and office kitchen. CMR researchers have access to computer software such as MS Office, Stata and Atlas.Ti, as well as to the UW library account that gives access to the most recent databases, including journal content platforms. |
| Intersectoral secondments options | If interested, the applicant can consider intersectoral secondment with a range of institutions CMR cooperates with (e.g., the City of Warsaw, charities) or with intersectoral or intrasectoral international partners (e.g., e.g., independent think tanks or research institutions). The choice of the option will be discussed between the candidate and the supervisor. |
| Other benefits | The fellow will join a young and dynamic team where they will be able to conduct their research project in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. UW offers attractive social benefits such as pool cards and sports activities. The Fellow will become a member of staff with access to social security and medical insurance, paid sick and annual leave. UW offers day care options for its workers' small children. |
| Candidate sought | We are looking forward to working with a mid-career candidate with a documented research and publication track. We will also enthusiastically accept candidatures of experienced senior scholars, wishing to share their experience with the early-career part of the CMR team. A perfect candidate has a documented experience in migration studies and will prepare a research project focussed on human mobility. Future applicant can come from various backgrounds, such as Social and Political Sciences, Legal Studies, Humanities or Economic Sciences. We are searching for a person wishing to work on-site to facilitate the best environment for both-ways knowledge transfer. The time spent on-site will be subject to negotiations with the supervisor and the CMR team. Each candidate is expected to determine themselves if they comply with Polonez Bis eligibility requirements. |
| Have you hosted POLONEZ Fellows or MSCA IF Fellows before? | yes |
| Candidatures deadline | 2021-10-23 |
Contact | |
| First name | Katarzyna |
| Last name | Porwit |
| obm.projekty@uw.edu.pl | |
| Phone number | 606922298 |
