The young researchers listed below  can be contacted by sending a message to the school office  <sns@ifispan.edu.pl>

Doctoral School:Philosophy, first year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Ove Averin	Valentina Lepri	Ramist influences in Students Disputations of 17th century Academia Gustaviana
Agata Bielińska	Agata Bielik-Robson	W poszukiwaniu (post)psychoanalitycznej filozofii miłości. Problem miłości do innego w psychoanalizie
Gniewomir Hawrasz	Valentina Lepri	The neoplatonic influences in the notebooks of Polish students of Italian universities and academies, until the end of 16th century
Mateusz Hebda	Andrzej Leder,co-Mikołaj Ratajczak	The phanthom of “post-truth”. Analysis of the fake news phenomenon based on philosophical theories of hegemony and populism by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Szymon Miłkoś	Marcin Miłkowski	Methodology of scientific discovery with causal discovery methods in context of computational neuroscience, deep learning algorithms and availability of big data
Adam Ostrowski	Agata Bielik-Robson	U. von Balthasar’s Theo-Drama. A framework for the centrality of Man in post-modern theology
Daniel Piecka	Marcin Miłkowski	Semantics Out of The Grey Box: How Can Representational Mechanisms of the Brain Provide Semantic Properties of Structural Representation?
Ewa Potępa	Agata Bielik-Robson, Adam Lipszyc	The Special Normalisation of depression examined through the lens of depressive realism
Marcin Rabiza	Marcin Miłkowski	Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Agency. On the Dialectical Relation Between Explainability and Attributed Agency

 

Doctoral School: Philosophy, second year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Filip Brzeźniak	Prof. Andrzej Leder	Political Melancholy in the Radical Thought of the 20th Century
Thomas Dojan	Prof. Jagna Brudzińska	Intentional Embodiment and Genealogy of Gendered Personhood between  Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis	Thomas Dojan publications
Andrzej Frelek	Prof. Szymon Wróbel	Teoria krytyczna wobec antropogenicznej zmiany klimatu
Iwona Jamrozik	Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson	Voice and the Self in Philosophy and Literature
Wiktor Lachowski	Prof. Marcin Miłkowski	Rola wartości w poszczególnych dziedzinach nauki
Natalia Zakrzewska	Prof. Szymon Wróbel Prof. Marcin Miłkowski	Critical evaluation of the struggle for the recognition and robots.

 

 

Doctoral School: Philosophy, third year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Stanisław Chankowski	Prof. Andrzej Leder	Hegel’s Theory of Universal Class  “Koncepcja klasy uniwersalnej w filozofii Hegla”
Wojciech Mamak	Prof. Marcin Miłkowski	Mental Cartography and Scientific Butchery: Identifying the Building Blocks of Cognition Through Information Flow
Jakub Wolak	Prof. Danilo Facca	Idea Apocalyptica seu Apocalypsis Stanislai Orichovii. Edition, translation and interpretation of a Pseudo-Orichovian eschatologico-political apocrypha	Jakub Wolak publications

 

Philosophy, fourth year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Barbara Barysz	Prof. Andrzej Leder	Different models of subjectivity rooted in tradition by the example of philosophical conservative journalism in contemporary Poland
Jędrzej Brzeziński	Prof. Szymon Wróbel	Ta sama i inna. Wprowadzenie do współczesnej francuskiej fenomenologii erotycznej.
Helen Grela	Prof. Andrzej Leder	Is Nozick’s Theory of Property Grounded in an Antinomy That Ultimately Undermines its Purpose?
Philip Hoejme	Prof. Adam Lipszyc Prof. Szymon Wróbel	A (Negative) Dialectical reading of Adorno and Butler – Bridging Postmodernism and Critical Theory	Philip Hoejme publications
Gabriel Klimont	Prof. Szymon Wróbel Prof. Joanna Kurczewska	The Origins of Biopolitics in Poland. Transformations of power over vagabonds – social practices of subordinate classes in the second half of the 18th century
Murat Kok	Prof. Szymon Wróbel	On the Virtues of Cosmic Pessimism	Mumtaz Murat Kok Publications
Justyna Minkiewicz	Prof. Maria Gołębiewska	Artificial Intelligence in art. Understanding the scope and current limitations of its creative possibilities
Michał Stemerowicz	Prof. Andrzej Leder	Świat jako zasób (The world as resource/Die Welt als Bestand)
Thung-Chu Wang	Prof. Adam Lipszyc	“Populism” as an Epistemological Matter of Social Inquiry
Damian Wyżkiewicz	Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson	Metodologia filozofii niepełnosprawności

 

Philosophy,  preparing defence

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Alicja Bachulska	Prof. Andrzej Leder	History-related cultural trauma and its representation in public and private museums in the post-Mao People’s Republic of China

 

Doctoral School: Political studies,  First year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Siarhei Salai	Tomasz Stryjek	Use and Misuse of Historical Memory in Contemporary Belarus

 

Doctoral School: Political studies, second year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Sara Nowacka	Prof. Paulina Codogni	Value Conflict – the Role of Local Communities in Managing the Resources of International Rivers

 

 

Doctoral School:Psychology, First year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Sena Bilgin	Mateusz Gola/pomocniczy Tadeusz Kononowicz	Neuronal dynamics underlying temporal error monitoring in humans and rodents
Zusanna Kamińska	Małgorzata Fajkowska	Attentional processing of dynamic emotional stymuli and types of depresion
Sirinnaz Ozturk	Robert Balas/Michał Wierzchoń	A Resting State Event Related Potential study: The impact of rumination on the attentional network in visual awareness
Hubert Plisiecki	Artur Pokropek	Predicting the Mood of the Social Body
Maja Rzeczkowska	Jakub Kryś	Different facets of modernization and the folk theory of social change
Marta Urbaniak	Robert Balas/pomocniczy Łukasz Bola	Function of early visual cortex in congenitally blind individuals
Arkadiusz Wąsiel	Jakub Kryś	Cross-cultural differences in perception of power and desired societal change
Chun Yeung	Jakub Kryś	Emotion and well-being- Toward a balanced, culturally sensitive perspective

 

Doctoral School: Psychology, second year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Adrianna Aleksandrowicz	Prof. Łukasz Gawęda	Perceptual anomalies from the perspective of experimental psychopathology: the impact of cognitive expectancies on false auditory and its relevance to the continuum of auditory perceptual anomalies in clinical and non-clinical groups
Paulina Bagrowska	Prof. Łukasz Gawęda	An impact of social rejection, interpersonal fear and cannabis consumption on paranoia. Virtual reality study
Marta Chrustowicz	Prof. Łukasz Okruszek	Perceived social isolation and social rejection sensitivity –investigation with electroencephalography and experience sampling methods
Katarzyna Goncikowska	Prof. Wojciech Pisula Dr Klaudia Modlińska	Social perception of people eating insects and its consequences for promoting this meat substitute
Zuzanna Laudańska	Prof. Przemysław Tomalski Dr David Lopez Perez	Effectors selection in early social interactions: motor-vocal decoupling in infancy
Szymon Mąka	Prof. Łukasz Okruszek	Casual role of dorsal medial prefrontal cortex on perceived social isolation – study using EEG and transcranial direct current stimulation
Zuzanna Molenda	Prof. Aleksandra Cisłak Dr Marta Marchlewska	Emotion and Stress Regulation Strategies and Different Types of Ingroup Commitment

 

Doctoral School: Psychology, third year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Małgorzata Krawczyk	Prof. Łukasz Okruszek	From biological motion processing to theory of mind – social brain architecture in individuals with autism spectrum disorders
Katarzyna Obarska	Prof. Mateusz Gola	Sexualized drug use: prevalence, clinical and psychological characteristics, and its association with CSBD and substance use disorder	Katarzyna Obarska publications
Aleksandra Piejka	Prof. Łukasz Okruszek	Does loneliness impact social information processing? Influance of the percived social isolation on behavioral and parasympathetic markers of social cognition	Aleksandra Piejka – Publications
Marcelina Wiśniewska	Prof. Łukasz Okruszek	Associations between perceived social isolation, neural activity and parasympathetic response

 

Doctoral School:Sociology, First year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Chen Xi	Michał Federowicz, co-Krzysztof Niedziałkowski	Health of the left-behind children in China – a critical study
Karol Haratyk		The analysis of biographical tensions with the categories of social orders and narrative perspective: cases of project-oriented workers and workers in transnational corporations in Poland
Marta Olejniczak	Joanna Kurczewska	A study of changes in transport behavior in Poland after 1989
Piotr Trzaskowski	Joshua Dubrow	Citizens’ assemblies in Poland and their impact on climate change policies

 

Doctoral School: Sociology, second year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Anna Bednarczyk	Prof. Magdalena Grabowska	Spatiality of care and gendered urban safety in Argentina	Anna Bednarczyk publications
Kirill Lapitskii	Prof. Joanna Kurczewska	Post-Soviet De-secularization: The Paradox of State-sponsored Monopolization of Religion
Jacek Mazurczak	Prof. Kazimierz Słomczyński	The radicalisation. A study in sociology.
Andrzej Strzałkowski	Prof. Piotra Matczak Dr Krzysztof Niedziałkowski	Implications of the post-growth for dynamics of daily social practices and law-making in climate policies
Beata Szulęcka	Prof. Małgorzata Rajtar	“Groźna choroba”. Ból, ucieleśnienie i relacyjność w socjologii depresji

 

Doctoral School: Sociology, third year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Piotr Koc	Prof. Artur Pokropek Prof. Natalia Letki-Garner	Challenges of Measurement in Comparative Political Behaviour Research: the Case of Political Participation	Piotr Koc publications
Olga Li	Prof. Joshua Dubrow	The anti-government protest movement in Putin’s Russia: determinants, demographics and mobilization
Emilia Sieczka	Prof. Marta Bucholc Dr Piotr Filipkowski	Genealogy of the Polish middle class in socialist Poland: discursive denial, life trajectories and contemporary memory politics

 

Sociology, fourth year 

 

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Stephen Davies	Prof. Sławomir Kapralski	The origins and development of Polish cultural schemas and representation of Islam, and their importance in shaping contemporary social attitudes towards Muslims
Oleg Dietkow	Prof. Józef Niżnik	European Gaming Culture: the Case of Gamers Identity
Emilia Kowalewska	Prof. Antoni Z. Kamiński, Dr Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer	“Competing Constitutionalisms in Post-Socialist Poland: An Institutional Review of Constitution-Making Processes, 1989-1997″
Katarzyna Król	Prof. Małgorzata Rajtar	Knowledge production and biomedical cultures within rare diseases in Poland
Michał Pachocki	Prof. Michał Federowicz	The role of transnational mobility in the internationalism of Polish schools
Chengetai Rwazemba	Prof. Magdalena Grabowska	Women involvement in science technology
Marzia Sultana	Prof. Agnieszka Kościańska	Exploring the Maternal and Reproductive Health Status of the Ready-made Garments Workers in Bangladesh
Edit Zgut	Prof. Daniel Kelemen Prof. Józef Niżnik	Informal power in hybrid authoritarian regimes: tilting the playing field in Hungary and Poland	Edit Zgut Publications

 

Sociology,  preparing defence

Name	Supervisor	Thesis	Publications
Volha Braun	Prof. Sławomir Kapralski Prof. Jagna Brudzińska	The long-term effect of the short-term stays abroad: the phenomenon of the recuperative holiday on the example of Belarusian children
Joanna Bednarek	Prof. Urszula Jarecka	How Do the News Media Describe the Syrian Civil War? The Case Study of the CNN, BBC, and TVN online stories	Joanna Bednarek publicationss
Jan Frankowski	Prof. Michał Federowicz	Procedural justice and urban fuel poverty	Jan Frankowski Publications
Denys Lavryk	Prof. Kazimierz Słomczyński	Class differences in cultural values of post-socialist countries in the context of new institutional theory
Alexander Makhow	Prof. Joanna Kurczewska	The Role of National Historical Politics in Shaping 20th Century Academic History in Today’s Russia
Alla Marchenko	Prof. Sławomir Kapralski	Comparative Analysis of the Hasidic Pilgrimage Effects upon the Local Frames of Memory in Ukraine and Poland	Alla Marchenko publications
Viktoriia Muliavka	Prof. Jan Kubik Dr Katerina Vrablikova	Dependency perspective on the protest participation gap between Central Eastern and Western Europe: class composition, social redistribution and mobilization capacity	Viktoriia Muliavka publications
Anna Sedysheva	Prof. Magdalena Grabowska	Social Media Platforms as a New Source for Feminists’ Movement	Anna Sedysheva publications
Anna Węgiel	Dr Justyna Straczuk	Technology, Nutrition, Tradition: Discourses and Images of Healthy Diet in High Modernist Poland People’s Republic
Ekaterina Klimenko	Prof. Zdzisław Mach	Between Assimilation and Multiculturalism: “Migrant Integration” in the post-Socialist Space. The Cases of Russia and Poland
Dagmara Swałtek-Niewińska	Prof. Dariusz Libionka	Sieci społeczne i strategie przetrwania Żydów w powiecie krakowskim 1939-1945	Dagmara Swaltek-Niewińska publications