- In my research I focus in historical political economy - how societies' past still shapes their present and future. For my thesis I investigate legacies of foreign media on authoritarian states, resettlement policies, and border changes.
- I graduated with First Class Honours from BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at UCL. I also hold a Master's in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.
Prior to joining DPIR, I've been involved in several projects pertaining to local governments and public administration management. I cooperated on them with researchers from University College London and the World Bank's Bureaucracy Lab, where I did my pre-doc. In that role I also contributed to the creation of a handbook on research methodology - "The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration" (2023). I was also data analyst for the Global Survey of Public Servants project.
Research
- Historical Political Economy
- Local governments
- Public Administration
- Causal Analysis
Surveying
Projects
- EDI Associate, Diversification and decolonisation of curricula/disciplines project | Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford
Research Assistant, ConflictNET project | The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), University of Oxford
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Intermediate Statistics at Department of Politics and International Relations (Michaelmas 2023)
- Research Design for Social Science at the Oxford Internet Institute (Hilary 2023)
Other teaching experience:
- Balliol College Floreat Humanities outreach programme for Year 12 students (Hilary and Trinity 2023)
Balliol College Discovery outreach programme for Year 10 students (Hilary and Trinity 2023)
Previous research work
- World Bank Bureaucracy Lab, Pre-doctoral Researcher 2020-2022)
UCL Department of Political Science - Research Assistant (2018-2021)
Awards
- ORLEN Bone Fide Scholarship (2023)
- World Bank Development Economics Vice Presidency team award for “Managing pandemic government through surveying public servants” (2021)
- Nomination for the UCL Faculty Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellenc, (UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences (2018)
Scholarship of the Prime Minister of Poland (2014)
Languages
Polish (native); Spanish (fluent); German (intermediate); French (intermediate); Russian (basic); Mandarin Chinese (basic)
Publications
Determining Sample Sizes: How Many Public Officials Should Be Surveyed?, Chapter 20 in: Rogger, Daniel; Schuster, Christian (eds.) 2023. The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration. © Washington, DC: World Bank. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO. (with Rogger, D., Schuster C., and Wittels, A.)
Designing Survey Questionnaires: Which Survey Measures Vary, and for Whom?, Chapter 21 in: Rogger, Daniel; Schuster, Christian (eds.) 2023. The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration. © Washington, DC: World Bank. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO. (with Rogger, D., Schuster C., and Wittels, A.)
Designing Survey Questionnaires: To What Types of Survey Questions Do Public Servants Not Respond?, Chapter 22 in: Rogger, Daniel; Schuster, Christian (eds.) 2023. The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration. © Washington, DC: World Bank. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO. (with Rogger, D., and Schuster C.)
Interpreting Survey Findings: Can Survey Results Be Compared across Organizations and Countries?, Chapter 24 in: Rogger, Daniel; Schuster, Christian (eds.) 2023. The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration. © Washington, DC: World Bank. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO. (with Meyer-Sahling J-H., Mikkelsen K.S., and Schuster C.)
Diversity or Decolonization? Searching for the Tools to Dismantle the ‘Master’s House'. London Review of Education 19(1), pp. 1-18. 2021 (with: Arshad, M., Dada, R., Elliott, C., Kalinowska, I. Khan, M., Vassanth, V., Bhandalm, J., de Quinto Schneider, M., Georgis, I., and Shilston, F.)