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IFiS  PAN, Director of GSSR

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), and manages the Cross-national Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training program of The Ohio State University and PAN (consirt.osu.edu). She conducts research and teaches on methodology, including ex-post survey data harmonization, and on social transformations. Irina is co-PI of a large harmonization project (NSF award 1738502, asc.ohio-state.edu/dataharmonization) and the 2018 Polish Panel Survey POLPAN (polpan.org/en/about-polpan/polpan-2018). Irina is co-editor of the Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, and a member of the AAPOR/WAPOR Task Force on Quality in Comparative Surveys.

Professor dr hab. at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In the years 2000-2012 he was the director of the Institute. He studies the objective and conscious aspects of social stratification, and social mobility, social research methodology and international comparative research. Author or co-author of 35 books, including: “Zadowolony niewolnik. Studium o nierównościach społecznych między mężczyznami I kobietami w Polsce” (1992), “Społeczeństwa klasy średniej ” (1994), “Prestiż” (1999), “On the Verge of Convergence “(2000), “Hierarchie i bariery społeczne w latach 90-tych”,” Women on the Polish Labor Market “(2001), „Ubóstwo w społeczeństwach postkomunistycznych” (2002), „O ruchliwości społecznej” (2004), „Homogamia małżeńska a hierarchie społeczne” (2007), „Struktura społeczna” (2007), “Sociological Tools. Measuring Occupations” (2009), “Społeczeństwa europejskie ” (2009), ” Podziały terytorialne, globalizacja a nierówności społeczne. Wprowadzenie do modeli wielopoziomowych “(2011), “Metodologia badań nad stratyfikacją społeczną “(2012),”Sprawiedliwe nierówności zarobków w odczuciu społecznym “(2013). Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Ask. Research & Methods “, devoted to the methodology of sociological research.

A sociologist and historian of ideas, she works at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the University of Warsaw. She teaches at the Graduate School for Social Research in IFIS PAN as well as at other academic centers. She deals with historical sociology, theoretical sociology, the history of social thought and, more recently, the borderland of sociology of culture and sociology of politics. Her theoretical interests concerning the nation, nationalism and regionalism are combined with empirical research into civil society and locality. She is also a member of many editorial offices and scientific councils in Poland and abroad.

Andrzej Leder studied philosophy and medicine in the Warsaw University and prepared his PhD in philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He works on the political philosophy and philosophy of culture, applying phenomenological and psychoanalytical tools, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis. Has published books in Polish: Unconsciousness Seen as the Void (2001) The Teaching of Freud in the Time of Sein und Zeit (2007), The Scratch on the Glass (2016) and two collections of philosophical essays, awarded a literary prize in 2004, available in 2013 in English as The Changing Guise of Myths. His main work in political philosophy Sleepwalking the Revolution. Exercise in Historical Logics (2014) was vastly discussed in Poland. He has also published articles in English and French philosophical reviews.

Co-founder and professor of the international Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Most of his research work has been devoted to the science policy, theory of knowledge and the border-line of philosophy and sociology, e.g. to the philosophy of social sciences and sociology of knowledge. Since 1987 collaborates with the Club of Rome and gets involved in international relations problems, global problems and the problems of integration of Europe. Member of the Committee for the Future Studies, “Poland 2000 Plus”, at the Board of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Over 100 publications in Polish and English in philosophy, methodology of social sciences, sociology of knowledge and since 1989 in global problems, international relations and the problems of European integration.

Professor of sociology, Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Director of the the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Main areas of research: sociology of political and economic institutions, post-communist transformation. Among last publications: „The Legacy of Polish Solidarity“, co-edited, Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main, 2015. Lives in Warsaw.

Kazimierz M. Słomczyński is Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, OSU and Professor Dr. Hab. at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a leading expert in the methodology of cross-national research and longitudinal studies. Professor Słomczynski directs the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN, a unique longitudinal study on the transformation of the Polish stratification system after 1989. He is also Co-PI of the Survey Data Recycling (SDR) Project, which involves the ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data sets from 1966 to 2017.  Substantively, Professor Słomczyński’s areas of expertise are Social Stratification, Occupations and Work, and Political Sociology.

Prof. Szymon Wróbel is a professor of philosophy. He graduated in psychology (specialization: clinical psychology) at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. For fifteen years he was associated with the Pedagogical and Artistic Faculty of Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz. His main areas of scientific interest are: power theory, theory of literature, contemporary linguistics and cognitive science, and the application of psychoanalytic ideas in political theories. He is the author of numerous books and articles scattered in various scientific journals. His recent books include “Deferring the Self” and “Grammar and Glamor of Cooperation”, “ Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind”, “Language and Action” published in 2013 and 2014 by the Peter Lang publishing house, while in Polish: Ćwiczenia z przyjażni, Lektury retroaktywne, Rodowody wspólczesnej myśli filozoficznej.

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