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Karolina Łukasiewicz is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research. Her research is focused on immigrant integration and poverty policies in urban contexts. She has been studying various aspects of these policies for over 15 years in European and American cities using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her research was funded by the European Commission, European Social Fund, the National Science Centre in Poland, national and local administrations (e.g. the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior), the American Association of University Women, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at New York University and Jagiellonian University. Her articles were published in journals such as Journal of Migration and Ethnic Studies, International Migration, City and Community, Polish American Studies, and Journal of Family Issues. Additionally to her academic engagement, Karolina has served as an evaluation consultant for NGOs and centers supporting immigrant communities, including the NYU Collaborative for New Immigrant Education. Prior to joining CMR, Karolina was a researcher at McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy and Research at New York University and at the Centre for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at the Jagiellonian University. She received her postdoctoral training at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, Ph.D. in Sociology at the Jagiellonian University, and M.A.in European Political Sociology at Dalarna University and at the Jagiellonian University.

Psychologist. She develops and implements intercultural sensitivity and social skills development trainings. She works within a field of cross-cultural negotiation consulting, and international team management.
She specializes in increasing the efficiency of organizational cultures as well as in preventing organizational pathologies. Her research focuses on managers’ personality, communication, diversity and change managementin cross-cultural context. She studies organizational psychopaths, narcissists and histrionic personality disorders in management. Her professional interests also include game-simulation techniques in training, consulting and research practice.

She is a visiting professor at The Polish University Abroad in London and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.

At SWPS University she teaches cross-cultural organizational psychology and is a Master’s thesis advisor.