Research
I am proud to announce that I have received two research scholarships for the academic year 2025/2026:
1) The Kosciuszko Foundation #ExchangeToTheUS grant/fellowship at the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics, Carnegie Mellon University. I will conduct the research project titled: "Social Network Embeddedness of Sustainable Attitudes and Behavior".
2) Dekaban-Liddle Fellowship in Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow and in Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. I will conduct the research project titled: „Board interlocks and ESG compliance of UK companies”.
Research interests
social networks analisis, social capital, interdisciplinary social research, sustainable development, ecological economics, good governance, new institutional economics, theory of the firm, methodology of economics, methods of social sciences' researches
Last publications
- Double agency and co-evolution for two-mode networks, with an application to corporate interlocks and firms’ environmental performance, "Social Networks", 83/2025, p. 92-104 (coauthored with Tom A.B. Snijders)
- Europe becomes pro-nuclear? Drivers of public support for nuclear energy in six EU countries after the energy crisis of 2022, "Energy Policy", 200/2025 (coauthored with Zbigniew Bohdanowicz and Jarosław Kowalski)
- Social barriers and opportunities for transition towards sustainable mobility: The role of selected beliefs and attitudes in Central-Eastern Europe, "Journal of Transport Geography", 123/2025, (coauthored with Anna Nicińska)
- Support for nuclear power and proenvironmental attitudes: The cases of Germany and Poland, "Energy Policy", 177/2023, (coauthored with Zbigniew Bohdanowicz, Paweł Gajda and Adam Rajewski)
- Social and private activity after retirement— substitutes or complements, "BMC Geriatrics", 22/2022, 781, p. 1-14 (coauthored with Małgorzata Kalbarczyk)
- Exploiting demand-side flexibility: State-of-the-art, open issues and social perspective, "Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews", 165/2022, s. 1-21 (coauthored with F. D’Ettorre, M. Banaei, R. Ebrahimy, S. Ali Pourmousavi, E. M. V. Blomgren, J. Kowalski, Z. Bohdanowicz, C. Biele and H. Madsen)
- Households’ Electrical Energy Conservation and Management: An Ecological Break-Through, or the Same Old Consumption-Growth Path?, "Energies", 14(20)/2021, 6829, p. 1-21 (coauthored with Zbigniew Bohdanowicz, Jarosław Kowalski and Cezary Biele)
- Social capital formation through a Polish LETS: Challenging the presumed merits of local currencies, "Ecological Economics", 158/2019, p. 75-87
- Does participation in social networks foster trust and respect for other people - evidence from Poland, "Sustainability", 11(6)/2019, 1733, p. 1-25
- Publishing patterns of Polish authors in domestic and foreign economic journals, "Ekonomista", 4/2018, p. 442-466 (coauthored with Grażyna Bukowska)
- Horizontal integration between farmers – governing cooperation through different enforcement mechanisms, in: G. Martino, K. Karantininis, S. Pascucci, L. Dries, J. M. Codron (ed.): It’s a jungle out there – the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains, Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2017, p. 85 - 104 (coauthored with Aleksandra Chlebicka and Jan Fałkowski)
- Social relationships and governing collaborative actions in rural areas: some evidence from agricultural producer groups in Poland, "Journal of Rural Studies", 49/2017, p. 104–116 (coauthored with Jan Fałkowski and Aleksandra Chlebicka)
- Collaboration strategies for publishing articles in international journals - a study of Polish scientists in economics, "Social Networks", 44/2016, p. 50-63
Research grants
- „The need for cognitive closure, self-esteem, agency, communion and participation in social networks", investigator, funded by: National Science Centre, conducted at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities: 2020-2024.
- „The importance of social capital for the development of social services in transition”, research module's supervisor in the Central European Social Survey within the "Excellence Initiative - Research University" program, conducted at University of Warsaw 2021-2026.
- „Energy balancing and resilience solutions to unlock the flexibility and increase market options for distribution grid”, investigator, funded by: European Commision within Horizon 2020, conducted at National Information Processing Institute National Research Institute: 2020-2021.
- „Mechanisms of creating social capital - analysis on the basis of Polish empirical examples”, head of research team and main investigator, funded by National Science Centre, conducted at Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw: 2017-2019.
- „Cooperation and publications in top journals - analysis of determinants of Polish scientists' productivity in economics", head of research team and main investigator, funded by: National Science Centre, conducted at Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw: 2012-2014.
- „Social capital as a precondition of the creation of agricultural producer organizations in Poland”, investigator, funded by: National Science Centre, conducted at Warsaw University of Life Sciences and Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw: 2011-2013.
- „Quality of governance and improvement of efficiency in managing public funds: conceptualization, measurement and institutionalisation of good governance principles in Poland“, investigator, funded by: Ministry of Finance, conducted at Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw: 2010-2012.
- „Corporate social capital – influence of social norms and relations existing within company on its efficiency”, main investigator, funded by: Ministry of Finance, conducted at Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw: 2007-2009.
Introduction to economics
Introduction to Economics
Fall semester 2022/2023
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SRM
Social Research Methods
2022/2023, semestr letni
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Contact information
Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych UW, ul. Długa 44/50, 00-241 Warszawa
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