Adam Mrozowicki - Head of the Department of Sociology of Work and Economy at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Wrocław since October 2017. He obtained his PhD in Social Sciences in 2009 at the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven (Belgium). He has been working at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Wrocław since October 2009. In 2016, he obtained his postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in Social Sciences in the field of sociology, specializing in the sociology of economy, at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław. 

 

His research interests include the sociology of work, the sociology of economy, comparative studies of collective labor relations, research on precarization, critical social realism, and the methodology of biographical research. At the University of Wrocław, he has led research projects funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme and Horizon Europe, the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion of the European Commission, the Polish Science Foundation, and the National Science Centre. 

 

He is the Vice-Chairman of the Sociology of Work Section of the Polish Sociological Association, and a member of the editorial boards of Przegląd Socjologiczny, European Journal of Industrial Relations, and Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. He is the principal investigator of the NCN OPUS project “COV-WORK: Socio-economic awareness, work experiences, and coping strategies of Poles in the post-pandemic crisis context” and the research team leader in the Horizon Europe project INCA (INcrease Corporate political responsibility and Accountability, project number 101061653). 

 

He is also a Fulbright Senior Award Fellow of the Polish-American Fulbright Commission at Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (Ithaca, USA) in 2024 

 

 

 

Photo author: Paweł Ponikowski (UWr)