Bejma Agnieszka

dr Agnieszka Bejma – Doctor of Political Science (2012, with distinction), Assistant Professor [Adiunkt]. Dean’s representative for the student research movement. Since 2016, member of the Board of Research Committee No.  34 “Quality of Democracy”, and since 2018, also of the Board of Research Committee No.  13 “Democracy in Comparative Perspective” of the International Political Science Assosiation (IPSA) and the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). 

Participant in international and national research projects, including a postdoc in the CIVILSPACE: The Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Europe project led by Prof. Nicole Bolleyer and Democratization and Autocratization in Multi-Level Democracies. A Case Study of Poland funded by the National Science Center and directed by Dr. Adam Szymanski, Prof. UW. 

She is the author of publications on the third sector and various aspects of volunteer activism. In 2011-2019 she presented papers at national and international scientific conferences, including: Banska Bystrica, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, Bucharest, Krakow, Lecce, Lublin, Milan, Pécs, Poznan, Rome, Turin, Urbino and Wroclaw.

Research interests

Sociology and psychology of politics, civic activity, political participation, formation of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, functioning of non-governmental organisations in Central and Eastern Europe, human trafficking and observance of human rights.

Unit

Department of Political Theory and Political Thought

Recent publications:

A. Bejma, E. Ignățoiu-Sora, Civil society role(s) in the Ukrainian refugee crisis – Responses in Poland and Romania, “Polish Political Science Year Book”, 2024 volume 54, issue 4, p. 227-242.

A. Bejma (red.), Społeczeństwo obywatelskie w dobie postdemokracji, „Studia Politologiczne”, 2023, vol. 70.

A. Bejma, B. Pająk-Patkowska, Institutional forms of aid for refugees/victims of war in Ukraine, [in:] M. Musiał-Karg, N. Lubik-Reczek (eds.), The War in Ukraine. (Dis)information – Perception – Attitudes, Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin 2023, p. 178-196.