Our PhD Students

A PhD candidate in the discipline of art studies. A graduate of History at Jagiellonian University and Contemporary Art at UKEN, where she earned her master’s degree with distinction for her thesis titled How Do Photobooks Work? The Book as an Affective Medium in Contemporary Polish Photography and Its Institutional Status. Photographer, independent curator, and cultural animator. Within the Doctoral School, she develops her research on the affective potential of photography, particularly its connections with melancholy and hysteria. She combines art theory with explorations in other disciplines, such as philosophy and psychology.

I am a doctoral student working in the field of literary studies. The dissertation I am working on is the fruit of my interest in the works of the British writer D.H. Lawrence, to whom I have already devoted my B.A. thesis focusing on the poetry of this author. My research aims to explore aspects of spirituality and religion in his work, while placing them at the centre of his works as a determining factor in the overall character of his writing.

My research interests include twentieth-century literature and classical philosophy and political philosophy. In addition, I am interested in sociology and the contemporary view of democracy and feminism, which is directly related to my dissertation. Apart from academic studies, I am also interested in music – with a particular focus on classical piano music and jazz.

I am a doctoral student in the discipline of security sciences and a graduate of the Pedagogical University of Krakow. I completed my bachelor’s degree in Health Security, while I obtained my master’s degree in National Security with a specialization in Information Security.

My research interests focus on geopolitical changes, international security, the war in Ukraine, and Poland’s security system.

The topic of my doctoral dissertation is “The Place and Role of Poland in the European Security System in 2014–2022.”

a doctoral student of the Doctoral School, University of the National Education Commission in Kraków. She studied at AGH University in Kraków. She graduated from Mining and Geology with a specialization in Petroleum Geology. Her science interest is micropaleontology. She devoted her master’s and engineering thesis to research on the palaeoenvironment of the coastal zone of the Carpathian Foredeep based, among others, on foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts. Her current research interests include radiolaria from the Cretaceous sediments of the Tethys Ocean.

Ph.D. student at the Doctoral School in the discipline of security sciences. Graduate of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in the field of national security in the specialization of education and security prevention, and Master’s degree in the field of ethics – mediation and negotiation at the KEN Pedagogical University in Cracow.

Research interests focused on the area related to the changes that have occurred over the years in the process of education of children and adolescents in the aspect related to security. The doctoral dissertation will concern the defense education of youth as an element of the strategic resilience of the Republic of Poland to threats.

I am a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Law (2022) and Literary Criticism (2023), currently a Ph.D. student in literary studies at the University of the National Education Commission in Cracow. I also completed a bachelor’s degree in Polish philology with a specialisation in anthropology and culture (2021). I am a member of Związek Literatów Polskich – oddział w Krakowie

My research interests include: law and literature, nineteenth-century literature.

Mihály Köntös lives in Krakow, but he grew up and pursued his high school and university studies in Hungary. He has an MA in English and Hungarian language teaching. In the BA training, he majored in English and American Studies with translation specialization. Over the years he has gained experience in language teaching, translation, and culture management.

His scientific interests include translatoriality, paraprofessional translation, ad hoc translation, machine translation, pedagogical translation, and teaching Hungarian as a foreign language. In his project, he endeavors to examine mediation strategies among the Hungarian community in Poland with special emphasis on translational activities.

As he strongly believes in interdisciplinary approaches, he is looking forward to working with researchers from various fields, such as sociolinguistics. He is also hoping to extend his research to different settings.

Karol Kordas – graduate of political science and history at the Jagiellonian University. Currently a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków.

He is preparing doctoral dissertation about railway workers in the Kraków District during World War II. His research interests focus on the history of 20th century Poland, in particular the history of railways, the Polish Underground State, the history of the Polish People’s Movement and the functioning of Polish society under German and Soviet occupation

I am a doctoral student at the UKEN, conducting research in the field of Economics and Finance. I obtained my academic education through bachelor’s and master’s studies in Environmental Protection at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, as well as master’s programs in Accounting and Controlling and Financial Auditing at the Cracow University of Economics.

In my doctoral dissertation, I focus on analyzing the factors influencing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) disclosures in the reports of large companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

I am a PhD student at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, specializing in pedagogy. I graduated from three specializations at the Faculty of Education: Pre-School and Early School Education, Deaf Education and Pedagogical Therapy with Individual Revalidation. My interests concern issues related to the functioning of Deaf people, in particular inclusive education of deaf students, sign language and communication between hearing and deaf people. Selected conditions of inclusive education of hearing-impaired students in mainstream schools are the subject of my doctoral dissertation.

Krzysztof Adam Kowalczyk, MA – Geographer. Graduate of socio-economic geography and spatial economy and regional development at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Doctoral student at the Doctoral School of the KEN Pedagogical University in Cracow in the discipline of socio-economic geography and spatial economy.
Scientific research related to the dissertation is embedded in the physiognomic and semiotic-aesthetic current of landscape studies and concerns the role that the urban landscape plays in the subjective perception of the quality of life and visual attractiveness of the place of residence.
Research interests are oriented to the issues of perception and aesthetics of the environment, spatial order, quality of life, economic value of the landscape and its intangible aspects, as well as humanistic, political and urban geography.

I am a first-year postgraduate student at the Doctoral School of the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow in the discipline of Linguistics, since October 2024. I graduated with a Bachelor’s and master’s degree in English Philology, at the Institute of English Philology (IFA UP), from. 2016-2019 -2021, in the discipline of Linguistics with specialisations in: Translation Techniques and Translation Studies. My two dissertations were devoted to issues related to specialised language and its translation, terminology, working with text corpora, creating dictionaries and medical language. I am also a student at the Institute of UKEN’s Institute of Neophilology majoring in Ukrainian Philology.

My dissertation aims to analyse and define the methodology of translational work with a new type of medical documentation, that is the physiotherapy documentation, included by the Polish legislator in the group of medical records. The recipients of these guidelines will be mainly students and graduates of translation studies and students of medical and non-medical faculties: physiotherapy and nursing faculties. The dissertation intends to explore the distinctiveness of the as yet unstandardised Physiotherapy language, against the background of general medical language. by showing how the language of physiotherapy looks today in Polish language and what factors shape it.

Bartłomiej Kozioł

A first-year doctoral student at the Doctoral School of the Pedagogical University of the National Education Commission in Cracow, in the discipline of literary studies.

I am a graduate of the first- and second-cycle degree studies in Polish philology (with a teaching specialisation) at the University of Applied Sciences in Tarnów (formerly the State Higher Vocational School in Tarnów and then the Academy of Applied Sciences in Tarnów). The aforementioned period of education culminated in my implementation type M.A. thesis on the motif of the castle in Polish Romantic poetry and its contemporary cultural connotations. It became the basis for the decision to extend my previous investigations and research inspirations that are continued in the Doctoral School.

The research I am conducting for the purpose of preparing my doctoral dissertation covers a wide spectrum of issues related to the folk symbolism of supernatural beings in the poetry of Polish Romanticism. I intend to refer in it to the literary legacy not only of the Three Bards of that period, but also to the creative output of poets less known and forgotten in the discourse of literary studies.

I describe my interests as versatile and primarily oriented towards the search for connections between the humanities at different research levels. In literary studies, I am passionate about all issues related to geopoetics and spirituality present in Romantic poetry as well as descriptions of nature in the poetry of Young Poland. Currently, I am also looking for references to the meaning of the motif of nature in contemporary Polish religious poetry.

I am particularly fascinated by selected issues in the field of Christian theology, philosophy of religion, ethics, didactics and methodology of teaching at the university level. Privately, I am an enthusiast of souvenirs and relics of the past preserved as part of the heritage of material monuments, including historic churches, examples of wooden and fortified architecture. Enchanted by the beauty and pristine nature of Polish mountains.

Monika Kozioł-Sumera – PhD candidate in the field of art history curator. Graduate of art history and postgraduate museum studies from the Jagiellonian University. Awarded scholarship by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Krakow. She is particularly interested in the contemporary art of Central and Eastern Europe and the history of the development of the artistic community of Nowa Huta in Krakow in the 1960s and 1970s.

A PhD candidate in the discipline of political science and public administration at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow. She holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Manchester (2010) and a postgraduate diploma in Parliamentary Law and Practice from the University of Tasmania (2016).

She has gained professional experience in public administration and the civil service in Poland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, working at both central and regional levels. Her roles have included, among others, parliamentary officer at the Parliament of New South Wales, project and international cooperation coordinator in the Science Department at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, and project coordinator at the Marshal’s Office of the Małopolska Region. At the Małopolska Provincial Office in Kraków, she initially worked as a specialist in the Department for Foreigners and later served as a senior regional supervisor, responsible for diplomatic protocol and institutional cooperation.

She is currently employed as a senior specialist in the Social Transformations and Resilience (STR) Partnership Team at the National Science Centre, Poland. Her research interests include participatory processes and democratic innovations, as well as migration studies and human rights.

He is a PhD student in social sciences in the discipline of socio-economic geography and spatial management. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Tourism and Recreation and graduated with distinction from a master’s programme in Tourism Management. His research interests focus on urban tourism, the commercialization of tourist space, and cultural heritage management. Professionally, he is associated with the cultural and tourism sectors.

I completed my bachelor’s studies at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics at AGH University of Science and Technology by defending a thesis entitled “Proper colourings of directed graphs without monochromatic sources”. My supervisor was Prof. Monika Pilśniak, DSc.

I obtained my master’s degree at the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków (UKEN), defending a thesis entitled “Approximate smoothness of real normed spaces”, supervised by Jacek Chmieliński, DSc, Professor  UKEN.

During my doctoral studies, I will investigate approximate geometric properties of normed spaces. In particular, I aim to describe approximate strict convexity and to define approximate reflexivity.

Outside of mathematics, I am interested in football and sport shooting. I am a supporter of Hutnik Nowa Huta.

I work in mathematics in the field of low dimensional topology. I am mostly interested in 4-manifolds, their diffeomorphism groups and exotic structures. My supervisors are Prof. Piotr Pokora and Prof. Maciej Borodzik.

When I am not thinking about mathematics I am probably climbing.

Website: mkujawski.xyz

E-mail address: d751475@doktorant.uken.krakow.pl

PhD candidate in the discipline of literary studies. A graduate of the Interdepartmental Individual Studies in the Humanities program at the Jagiellonian University (major: anthropological and cultural Polish studies). Her academic interests include the anthropology of literatur, feminist and gender criticism, history and women’s literature, maladic discourse and literary geneology. As part of her doctoral dissertation in preparation, she is developing a monograph dedicated to contemporary women’s column writing. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Center for the Study of Cultural Discourses of Illness, operating at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University.