About team

Questions should be directed to PhD Barbara Jaczewska (PI)
Chair of Regional and Political Geography

Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw
30 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, 00-927 Warsaw

Email: bgibki@uw.edu.pl

PhD Barbara Dominika Jaczewska (PI)

Specialization: socio-economic geography and spatial management; socio-spatial diversity of urban areas, (in)mobility, multi-locality, multi-locality of housing, housing, housing segregation, housing policy, social inequalities, migration and integration policies of migrants

Career: Barbara Jaczewska holds a PhD in Earth Sciences in the field of geography. She is a graduate of geography (socio-economic geography) and spatial management (local and regional planning) at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw.

Since 2012, she has been an assistant professor involved in teaching and research at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies of the University of Warsaw. Since 2012, she has participated in numerous research projects, including projects financed by the National Science Centre, the 4EU+ program, the m.st of Warsaw Office and the University of Warsaw. She is an expert in research commissioned by the City of Warsaw, the Hungary NRDI Office, and the IDUB Initiative of the University of Warsaw. She is a reviewer of research projects and scientific publications in Polish and foreign journals. She actively participates in scientific life by participating in scientific conferences, he also gives lectures abroad. In addition to numerous research internships and research stays, in 2019 she was the recipient of a visiting professorship at the University of Mainz, and in 2024 at the University of Heidelberg.

She is the author and co-author of publications on issues related primarily to socio-economic geography. She is particularly interested in the issues of mobility and migration (integration policies at the local level), ways of living and housing policies, broadly understood socio-spatial inequalities, especially housing segregation and inequalities related to mobility. Previous research has focused on Europe's urban and metropolitan areas.

Nowadays, she combines his main research interests on mobility and housing in his research on multi-locality of housing.

MA Jan Szczepański (Grant holder)

E-mail: jj.szczepanski@uw.edu.pl

Specialization: socio-economic geography, political history of the twentieth century, cultural heritage, contemporary concepts of urban and rural development, human-space relations in the context of sustainable development, demographic processes, regional geography of Eastern Galicia

Career: A graduate of the University of Warsaw at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies in the field of socio-economic geography (master's degree – 2020) and spatial management (master's degree – 2021), as well as the Faculty of History (master's degree – 2021).
PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw in the discipline of socio-economic geography and spatial management (2020-2024). In his doctoral dissertation, written under the supervision of prof. Mikołaj Madurowicz, he studies the case of Lviv as a multicultural place appropriated by the governments of successive countries and nationalities.

In 2022-2023, he was a member of the research team as part of the IDUB New Ideas – Ukraine project entitled: "Resilience of the Warsaw Metropolitan Area to migration waves" carried out under the supervision of Prof. Wojciech Dziemianowicz.

In 2023-2025, he was a scholarship holder of the project entitled: "Residential multilocality in Poland and its importance for sustainable spatial management" under the supervision of PhD Barbara Jaczewska as part of the SONATA-17 NCN competition.