Our Graduates

M.Sc., Eng. Karolina Baron – PhD student in security studies discipline of social sciences at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. Graduate of studies in the field of spatial management with a specialization in spatial planning and engineering, and applied computer science with a specialization in software engineering at the University of Economics in Krakow. Her research interests include crisis management in the light of environmental threats, mechanisms of adaptation to climate change, spatial planning, the idea of a resilient city and the overall implementation of security policy in the process of urban tissue administration. She conducts research on ecological safety in the field of water management in urban environments. She also directs her scientific inquisitiveness towards the analysis of the role of information and communication technologies in shaping the stability of systems and supporting decision-making processes in the field of state security. The author of the website popularizing science: www.miastoodporne.pl

Academic achievements: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karolina-Baron-2

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Environmental safety in water management in the Upper Vistula regional cities in 2010-2020”

On 16.05.2024r. the public defence of the doctoral thesis took place

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-karolina-baron/

Betina Bożek is an animated film director and illustrator. She completed her studies with a diploma specializing in animation. She has created several animated films that have been appreciated all over the world (Oh God, The Land of Whim). She is a winner of international competitions, artistic scholarships, and film festivals.

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Codex. Badanie intermedialności i interdyscyplinarności w autorskim filmie animowanych – geneza, rozwój i wpływ na odbiorców”

PhD student in the discipline of security sciences. Graduated from both: Law and History of Art at the Jagiellonian University.

Research interests are focused on national, internal, social, cultural and personal security, especially protection of cultural and national heritage.

The doctoral dissertation will focus on defining and denominating tasks and rules of security in protection of cultural and national heritage. The scope of the work will cover the Małopolskie Voivodeship in its structure.

Professionally works as a Spokesperson: until 2021 at the Board of Education in Krakow, from October 2021 at the Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Krakow.

Born in 1990 in Poznań, I graduated in Philosophy (2018) at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. My master’s dissertation was about the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. My research interests are: Philosophy of German Idealism and Romanticism, Danish philosophy of the 19th century, Søren Kierkegaard’s thought, as well as 20th century existentialism. My dissertation is on the category of interest in Søren Kierkegaard’s thought. During my doctoral education, I became the author of several translations of the Kierkegaard into Polish, as well as philosophical stories published among others by Post-medium, and Stoner Polski. In my spare time, I am passionate with gliding.

He passed away in January 2024 shortly before handing in his doctoral thesis.

Michał Filipczuk is a graduate in philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. Currently he is a doctoral student at the Philosophy Department of Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland. He is theoretically interested in mutual relations between philosophy and literature.

The aim of his doctoral research project is an analysis of the problem of so called literary skepticism in the thought of an American philosopher Stanley Cavel.

He is not only dealing with language theoretically but also practically: using both academic and literary skills as a professional philosophical and literary translator he has translated into polish more than 50 books. Many of them are academic monographs in philosophy, as well as works by David Hume, George Berkeley, czy Ralph Waldo Emerson, by renown novelists like Joseph Conrad and Jane Austen and many others.

For more information, see Wikipedia – https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Filipczuk

Etienne Gatera started his PhD at the Pedagogical University in October 2020. He studies Socio-economic Geography and Spatial Management. Mr. Gatera holds a B.A. in Development Studies from the National University of Rwanda and an Holds a M.A. in Economics (International Business) from the University of Economy, Poland. Currently works as French Service Desk Administrator at ABB based in Gdańsk.

• PhD Thesis: The impact of economic development on the second demographic transition (SDT) case of Rwanda
• Supervisor: dr hab. Sławomir Kurek, prof. UP
• Research interests: labour, health and education economic development indicators, second demographic transition for Sab-Saharan Africa perspective and spatial autocorrelation of total fertility rate between rural and urban in Rwanda.

He submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “The Impact of Economic Development on the Second Demographic Transition (STD) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): The Case of Rwanda”

On 06.03.2025r. the public defence of the doctoral thesis took place.

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-etienne-gatera/

Andrii Ivanchuk is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the philosophy of consciousness at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. The PhD research title is: “Transformation of patterns of consciousness in phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives”. In addition to his doctoral studies, Ivanchuk’s academic interests include psychoanalysis, logics, and psychiatry. He earned an MPhil degree from Ivan Franko Lviv National University, and has presented reports and papers on a range of topics, including theories of consciousness, the psyche in different schools of thought, non-classical logic, and existentialist philosophy.

Graduate of Russian Philology at the Pedagogical University of the National Education Commission in Krakow. In 2021 she defended her Master’s thesis devoted to the language of wartime agitation in poetic works form the World War II posters “TASS Windows”. Her research interests focus on political discourse and linguistic analysis of artistic texts.

As part of her training in the Doctoral School in the discipline of linguistics, she is preparing a dissertation on the deconstruction of Russian political discourse in contemporary audiovisual parodic works. The planned work aims to show the verbal activity of politicians from the perspective of the parodists and to examine current forms of reaction to the discourse of power in the Internet sphere.

Born in 1994 in Mikołów. PhD Candidate in Arts at the Pedagogical University in Cracow. Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 2019 she received an MA Diploma with distinction in The Painting’s Studio of Andrzej Bednarczyk, annex to diploma in The Audiosphere’s Studio of Marek Chołoniewski at Intermedia Department. She works with paintings, objects, installations and sound art. Obsessively draws grids, lines. Interested in convergences in the process of composing music and image. Introduces the experience of visual arts in the area of issues occurring in the so-called new music. Analyzes and notes mechanisms, creations at the interface of arts. Assuming that visuality is first of all arranging in space, while music – in time – is interested in examples where space directly relates to time and inversely. The starting point is an empty sheet of paper, the surface ordered through a grid, a line or separated area. She deals with the concept of the area, as a defined space, a field, designated area of activity. Fascinated by repetition and what might result from it. Selected exhibitions/projects: 02.2020 Visual setting of the Opera and Operetta Gala of the Academy of Music in Cracow, Cracow Opera 06.2019 „Lasciate ogni pensiero voi ch’entrate”, Kreaktywna, Cracow 05.2019 „Honey, as long You’re happy, I’m happy”, Gallery in Bronowice 05.2019 „Nowy Obraz/ Nowe Spojrzenie”, BWA in Pila 04.2019 „Nowy Obraz/ Nowe Spojrzenie”- exhibition of nominees for the Atistic Award of University of the Arts in Poznan, Stary Browar, Poznan 04.2019 „I like to sit down and rearrange the elements” Jarząb | Koperska as part of KRAKERS Cracow Art Week, space in Drukarnia Związkowa, Cracow 03.2019 „118002ROOMS” Jarząb | Koperska, space in Drukarnia Związkowa, Cracow 06.2018 „Third eye optics”, Telkom – Telos, Cracow 04.2018 „Super Exhibition 2”, Justice Gallery, Vienna 04.2018 „Network 418”, (performance, sound installation) CSW SOLVAY, Cracow 06.2017 „NO PROBLEM”, Potencja Gallery, Cracow 06.2017 „Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to ENDLESS NIGHT”, Ślusarska, Cracow 07.2016 „FOOD DOOF”, Edel Extra Gallery, Nuremberg Scholarships: Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland (2018/2019) Jan Matejko’s Scholarschip in Fine Arts (2018/2019) https://www.instagram.com/jarzabata https://soundcloud.com/katarzyna-jarz-b/scraps-and-lines

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Componere. Entering issues used in contemporary music, music theory into field of visual arts. Possible/impossible translation. Actions from the border of arts”.

On 27.06.2024r. the public defence of the doctoral thesis took place.

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-katarzyna-jarzab/

I am a historian and archivist. Since 2003 I have been working at the National Archives in Krakow, including since 2009 as the head of the Division for the Supervision of the Growing Archive Stock. In 2006 I completed the International Technical Archival Internship in Paris. I am also a member of the Association of Polish Archivists. As a member of collegiate bodies operating within the state archival network, I actively participate in developing solutions regarding methods of shaping archival resources, in particular criteria and methods of valuing and supervising documentation. I also participate in promoting solutions in the field of documentation management, including electronic documentation, in order to ensure permanent preservation of testimonies of the past for posterity. As a participant in the Doctoral School, I have decided to combine my professional experience with academic work and examine the development and changes in the forms and methods of shaping the state archival resource in the 20th century. I plan to investigate the individual elements of formation such as selection (creators of archival materials and scientific assessment of the value of documentation) and supervision (i.e. office control, supervision of company archives and supervision of the destruction of documentation). The aim of the project is to show how, over the years, the selection of documentation constituting sources for historical research was carried out and what the effects of the archivists’ actions were so that the testimonies of the past were permanently secured for future generations.

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Archival selection and supervision conducted by the State Archives in Krakow in years 1919-1939”

On 12.12.2023r. the public defence of the doctoral thesis took place.

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/postepowanie-w-sprawie-nadania-stopnia-doktora-mgr-katarzyny-jaskolki-lesniak/

Graduate of the Faculty of Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Master’s degree realized
In the Studio of Spatial Activities of Mirosław Bałka. Visual artist, using in her artistic practice
various media in her artistic practice, such as photography, video, installation and performance.
As part of her doctoral project, she reflects on the influence of architecture through artistic research,
its material and spatial organization on the body and emotions in the process of dying.
Website:
https://monikakarczmarczyk.com
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/monikakarczmarczyk/

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Thanatoarchitecture: Rehearsing Mortality”

Born 16.06.1994 in Cracow, is a student of the fourth year of the Doctoral School at the Pedagogical University named after the Commission of National Education, where he is preparing a dissertation, “The First Rotation of the Polish Military Special Unit of the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East in 1973-1974,” under the supervision of Professor Marek Herma in the discipline of history. His main field of interest is the political and military history of the Cold War period. He received his bachelor’s degree in 2016 from UP, defending his thesis entitled. “The Korean War in the Perception of the Polish and American Press 1950-1953,” written under the supervision of Professor Piotr Mikietyński, while he received his master’s degree from the same university in 2018 defending a thesis titled. “Arab-Israeli Wars from the War of Israeli Independence to the Intervention in Lebanon in the Light of the Polish Press.” Written under the supervision of Professor Michał Baczkowski. During his studies at the Jagiellonian University, the doctoral student was active in the Scientific Circle of Student Historians of the Jagiellonian University, publishing his texts in the Circle’s journal entitled. “Societas Historicorum”, engaging in the organization of the Festival of Science and taking part in such conferences as Gunpowder against spears – non-European militarism through the ages” (1-2 VI 2018, Poznań, Congo Stories – civil war in the Congo in the memoirs of Polish mercenaries Jan Zumbach and Rafał Gan-Ganowicz), XVI All-Polish Conference of Historians of Military Students (23-25 XI 2018, Poznań, The manner of presenting the PLO’s activities as a liberation struggle in the Trybuna Ludu during the civil war in Lebanon from 1975 to the evacuation of the organization from Lebanon and the slaughter of Sabra and Shatila) or the VI Krakow Conference of Historian Students (1-3 March 2018, Krakow, Day of Reconciliation, Day of Judgment – Yom Kippur War in the light of the press of the People’s Republic of Poland on the examples of the Trybuna Ludu, Polityka and Tygodnik Powszechny). During his studies at the Doctoral School, the doctoral student researched his dissertation topic in the Middle East by conducting archival searches at the Central Military Archives – Military Historical Office, the Archives of New Records and the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, as well as by interviewing participants in the events under study. The doctoral student also conducted a search at the Archives of the United Nations using funding from the PROM Program in July and August 2022. During the research within the framework of the Doctoral School, the doctoral student held a research internship at the Institute of National Remembrance and participated in scientific conferences such as:

VI Scientific Conference ” Wars and Armed Conflicts after 1945″ (20-21 XI 2019, Bydgoszcz, Tasks and activities of agents of the Board II of the General Staff of the Polish Army in the Structures of the Polish Military Special Unit of the UNEF II in the Middle East 1973-1979)

Eastern Forum of Science (30 Oct 2020, online, First rotation of the Polish Military Special Unit of the United Nations Emergency Forces in the Middle East 1973-1974 in the press of the Polish People’s Republic)

Eastern Science Forum (30 VI 2020, online, The Falklands War in the Light of U.S. State Department Documents)

III All-Poland Academic Conference “Art, Politics, Economy – Conflict Throughout History” (4-5 VI 2020, online, The People’s Republic of Poland and the Palestinian Cause – support from the People’s Republic of Poland for Palestinian armed groups and the actions of the Polish secret services against them in the 1970s).

Archeagraph Online Conference (26 VI 2020, online, Circumstances of Poland’s selection to participate in the Second United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East)

National Interdisciplinary Conference “Omnibus VI” ( 23-24 XI 2020, online, Outline of UN efforts to end the Israeli-Arab conflict)

All-Poland Interdisciplinary Conference “Omnibus V (September 10-11, 2020, online, Outline of the Legal Basis for the Participation of Polish Soldiers in the Second Ad Hoc United Nations Armed Forces in the Middle East 1973 – 1979)

XIII All-Poland Scientific Conference “Young Scientists in Poland – research and development” (22 III 2021, online, Outline of logistical preparation of the first rotation of the Polish Military Special Unit of the United Nations Ad Hoc Armed Forces in the Middle East 1973-1974)

Except of the Third National Scientific Conference, all of the above conferences produced publications in which the doctoral student’s texts appeared.

The doctoral student continues his research and develops his interests which include learning foreign languages (English, Russian and Spanish), swimming and fantasy literature.

He submitted a doctoral thesis entitled „Pierwsza zmiana Polskiej Wojskowej Jednostki Specjalnej Doraźnych Sił Zbrojnych ONZ na Bliskim Wschodzie w latach 1973 – 1974”

On 05.11.2024 r. the public defence of the doctoral thesis took place.

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-maciej-kapron/

Sylwia Koczanowicz is a PhD student in biological sciences. She graduated from the Pedagogical University of Kraków. Her research interests are focused on parasitology, acarology, especially parasitic arthropods, and as well as public health. Her research plans are related to ticks, human and animal parasites. Her research project involves collecting ticks in the Poprad Landscape Park, determining the risk of human exposure to tick infestation and diseases transmitted by them.

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “The Risk of human exposure to tick infestation (Acari: Ixodida) and tick-borne diseases in the selected areas of the Poprad Landscape Park”

I am a doctoral candidate in history at the University of the National Education Commission, Kraków (UKEN, Kraków). My research interests include the history of the Polish People’s Republic and, in particular, diplomacy, the Polish diaspora and the history of the Cold War. I am now preparing a doctoral dissertation on the restitution of monetary gold to Poland after the Second World War.

I graduated in history from the Jagiellonian University in 2020. The journals that have published my papers include Dzieje Najnowsze [Recent History], which is one of most prestigious academic historical journals in Poland. I was also vice-president of the Academic Association of History Students at my alma mater. I was awarded a scholarship for my research by the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2019), while my master’s thesis earned a distinction in a competition organised by the Institute of National Remembrance (2021). I was furthermore granted a Lanckoroński Foundation Scholarship for a one-month research trip to London in 2022 and spent time in 2023 at the London School of Economics and Political Science as a visiting research student in International History.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8782-1677

Supervisors:

prof. dr hab. Jan Rydel (University of the National Education Commission)

dr hab. Cecylia Leszczyńska (Warsaw University)

He submited a doctoral thesis entitled “Problem restytucji złota monetarnego zagrabionego przez III Rzeszę. Polska a Komisja Trójstronna (1946–1998)”

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-tomasz-korban/

Blerta Krasniqi is a certified speech-language pathologist from the Republic of Kosovo. She graduated from Heimerer College in Prishtina (RKS) with a BSc in Speech Therapy and an MA in Speech Therapy from the Medical University of Tirana (Albania). She then pursued a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. Before she was engaged as Responsible for Teaching Issues and Teaching Assistant at Heimerer College and also worked as a Field Researcher in an NGO in Prishtina, Kosovo.

Her area of research expertise is dyslexia… More specifically her topic of research is “Predispositions of dyslexia and the neurolinguistics aspect of preschool age children in the Republic of Kosovo and Poland” under the supervision of Dr. Hab. Marzena Błasiak – Tytuła (UP) and Prof.Ass.Dr.Sc. Muljaim Kacka (Heimerer College).

She carries out a publication in the Journal “Specialusis Ugdymas/ Special Education” for the topic “Teacher’s knowledge about some of the dyspraxia elements” and has participated in different international and national conferences, workshops, or seasonal schools for her professional development.

“What is detected in the first stages, will bring better results after the treatment”

Visual artist, designer, curator and researcher whose work centres around spaces of conflict and tensions within cultural mechanisms and systems of identity formation. Her practice encompasses drawing, photography, video, animation, and initiation of performative actions. Krawczyk received her MA from the Jagiellonian University Institute of Audiovisual Arts, followed by Postgraduate Gender Studies at her alma mater. Currently, she artistically researches social photography for her dissertation project at the Pedagogical University of Krakow Doctoral School, analysing mechanism of operations of power and methods of behavioural data usage within global digital architecture. For over a decade, Krawczyk was affiliated with the Bunkier Sztuki CAG in Krakow, where she produced various projects in the form of group problem exhibitions, individual shows, research projects and exhibition experiments. Krawczyk has received numerous scholarships and awards, including: Creative Scholarship of the City of Krakow (2021); Artist of the Month, ART from HEART CIC, London (2021); Ministry of Culture and National Heritage “Kultura Online” [Culture Online] grant (2020); Krakow Municipal Office “Kultura Odporna” [Resilient Culture] scholarship (2020); and Ministry of Culture and National Heritage “Aktywność obywatelska” [Civic Engagement] grant (2015).

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Maskarady”

Graduate in Theatre Studies from the Jagiellonian University, speech therapy at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow and neurology with elements of audiology and phoniatrics at Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University. As a neurologist she provides therapy for children, adolescents, and adults with speech and communication disorders and central auditory processing disorders.

Her research interests include performatics and the neurobiology of creative and linguistic processes with a special focus on auditory perception and language competence in musicians and non-musicians. For her
research project, she received an award from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and in 2021, as part of a fellowship granted by the French Community of Wallonia-Brussels, she completed a research internship at the
Crossmodal Perception and Plasticity Laboratory of UC Louvain.

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Auditory processing and semantic fluency and syntactic competence of musicians and non-musicians in experimental neurolinguistic research”

On 27.11.2023r. the public defence of the doctoral thesis took place.

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-anna-krzyzak/

After completing the Master’s degree, I became a lecturer at the Department of Geography – Hue University of Education, Vietnam.

In 2020, I was a PhD student at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, majoring in Socio-economic geography and spatial management, under the support of the Scholarship Agreement between Vietnam and Poland.

My dissertation focused on identifying the current status of ecotourism development in the Binh Tri Thien region, Vietnam, and proposing the most effective and sustainable development paths. The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Leszek Butowski and Dr. Łukasz Quirini-Popławski.

He submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “A Study on the Status of Ecotourism Development in the Binh-Tri-Thien Region, Vietnam”

Bardh Lipa is a graduate in Political Science and Public Administration. Bardh holds a master’s degree from the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia), where he specialized in Baltic Sea Region Studies, and a Bachelor from the University of Prishtina (Kosovo) in Political Science. His research interests lie in the fields of political parties, populism, post-conflict peacebuilding, and state-building. In particular, he focuses on the development of party politics after the declaration of Kosovo’s independence in 2008 and implications for democratization and state-building in Kosovo.

He submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Party Politics in Post-Independence Kosovo: Implications for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding”

On 10.12.2024r. the public defence of the doctoral thesis took place.

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-bardh-lipa/

Graduate in the discipline of literary studies. Graduate of Czech philology at Jagiellonian University and biomedical engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology. Winner of the Josef Dobrovsky Scholarship (2021) and the Susanna Roth Prize for young Czech translators (2017). Her research interests primarily include contemporary Czech literature and the reception of Czech literature in Poland. She popularizes Czech culture in Poland as a translator, blogger and contributor to the Kino na Granicy film festival; her texts about literature have been published in Polish („Nowe Książki”, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, „Twórczość”) and Czech media (H7O, iLiteratura.cz).

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled „Literatura czeska wydawana w Polsce w latach 1993-2019 w świetle teorii Pierre’a Bourdieu”

Information about the public defence and thesis https://bip.uken.krakow.pl/mgr-anna-maslanka/