We are proud to announce that two of our experts have been awarded research grants from the National Science Center (NCN). Dr. Agnieszka Kwiatkowska and Dr. Katarzyna Głąb from SWPS University have been recognized in the OPUS 28 and SONATA 20 competitions.
Financial support for our researchers
The National Science Center has announced the results of the OPUS 28 and SONATA 20 contests. The goal of these competitions was to provide financial support to scholars in their research.
The OPUS 28 competition was aimed at a very wide audience. Applications could be submitted by researchers who had published at least one scientific paper, regardless of their academic degree or title and without any restrictions regarding experience in conducting research. Ultimately, 1,823 applications were submitted to the competition, and 234 projects were financed.
Among the winners of this year's edition was Dr. Agnieszka Kwiatkowska from SWPS University’s Faculty of Social Sciences in Warsaw. She received funding of PLN 1,236,057 for the project entitled “The Effectiveness of Discursive Strategies of Democratic Backsliding and Democratic Resilience”. The aim of the research is to identify and analyze the main narratives of democratic regression and democratic resilience employed by anti-democratic and pro-democratic parties in Europe. The study also aims to assess the responsiveness of key target groups to discursive strategies of democratic regression and democratic resilience and to estimate their electoral mobilisation potential.
The SONATA 20 competition was addressed to researchers with a doctoral degree obtained 2 to 7 years before the year of submitting the application. In this edition, 1,179 applications were submitted, and 207 projects were qualified for financing.
The competition awarded the project of Dr. Katarzyna Głąb, associated with SWPS University’s Center for Research on the Economics of Memorial Sites. The researcher received a grant for the project entitled "Resilient Sisterhood: Indigenous Women and Climate Change Adaptation in Indonesia" in the amount of PLN 703,354. The study aims to develop our understanding of ‘extended multispecies sisterhood’ in the context of rapid climate change. Specifically, it will examine how indigenous women from coastal marine communities in three Nusa Tenggara Timur regions (Sumba, West Timor and Rote) are coping with the challenges of climate change by developing unique multispecies sisterhood relationships in their local environments, thereby increasing the resilience of their communities to climate change.
See the full list of competition winners
Learn more about the researchers:
Ph.D.
Katarzyna M. Głąb
Is a social and cultural anthropologist at SWPS University. She conducts interdisciplinary research on cultural memory, multi-species justice and adaptation of indigenous ethnic groups to climate change.
Ph.D. / Assistant Professor
Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
Is a sociologist and political scientist. She researches political behaviors, transformation of social values, social movements, and political parties. She specializes in quantitative research methods in social sciences and designs and analyzes polls.