PROFILE

Scope of duties in the position held:

1) in terms of teaching duties:

— I am a tutor supporting the development of academic competences necessary in studying and building educational capital focused on neurodiverse people (with particular emphasis on ADHD people);

— I conduct classes on the sociology of death and mourning (change management), the sociology of interspecies relations and on difficult situations or ethical issues in relation to organizations and internal audit;

— I take part in trainings and projects aimed at improving my professional qualifications (mainly in the field of animal studies and death studies and adult education):

Good Grief Festival [2020],

Hybrid Lab: Alive Together! [2020],

Hybrid Lab: Hybrid intelligentia in art and science [2021],

Animal Justice Academy [2021],

Effective Animal Advocacy [2021],

Suffering in contemporary society [2021],

The Posthumanism & New Materialism [2021],

End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovations [2021],

One Health: A Ten Thousand Year-Old View into the Future [2022],

Photography in therapy and personal development [2023],

Tutor training [2023],

Theater based on facts [2022-25].

2) in terms of scientific duties:

— I conduct research on the experience of loss (mourning, dying, death, cancer, life after transplantation – mainly lung transplantation in cases of cystic fibrosis) and the use of photography in therapy and personal development. I am also interested in issues related to running businesses involving non-human animals (e.g. cat cafes), homelessness (humans and animals), etc.;

— I organize and conduct trainings and workshops for funeral homes, medics, veterinary offices and workplaces on coping with difficult situations and support in grief;

— I participate in Polish and international conferences (animal studies, death studies, trauma studies, gender studies);

— I publish in scientific journals and books (animal studies, death studies, diversity); 

— I collaborated in the international project (pilot) "From Deathworlds to Lifeworlds: Collaboration with Strangers for Personal, Sociol and Ecological Transformation: A Web-Based StoryMap Pilot Project", led by prof. Valerie Malhorta Bentz (School of Leadership Studies, Fielding Graduate University) and dr. James Marlatt (Institute for Social Innovations, Fielding Graduate University);

— I participated in the international discussion group Phoenix Zones Initiative ECHO "Just One Health" (30.09.-18.11.2021);

— I participate in the international discussion group Sound/Music/Trauma Study Group (since 2023);

— I participate in the international discussion group Werkgroep Dierfilosofie (since 2024).

3) in terms of organizational duties:

— I am active in the International Association for Vegan Sociologists. I was a reviewer for the student journal "Student Journal of Vegan Sociology", and the event coordinator;

— I am active in the European Association for Critical Animal Studies;

— I cooperate with the Faculty of Artes Literales at the University of Warsaw, where, as part of the Anthropozoology program, I have been teaching classes on "Sociology of human-animal relations" (compulsory) and "Dealing with difficult situations in interspecies relations" (optional) since 2022; I cooperate with Medical University in Łódź, where I teach about the good death.

— I am active in the Bereavement Network Europe at the Danish National Center for Grief;

— I cooperate with the Institute of Good Death collective, and some other organizations where I act as an expert (topics of mourning of parents; mourning for non-human animals; alternative burial methods; photography, theater and drama as tools for coping with loss, etc.), I run grief circles (after the death of non-human animals, ecological, for people bereaved by suicide, open circles for any kind of loss) and meetings such as Death Café and "Dinner to Death/Dinner with Death" (referring to the project "Let's talk about death over dinner"). I offer help as a photo therapist in coping with loss, I create farewells for non-human animals and accompany people in mourning after the death of their animal without charges, I also support people with a terminal diagnosis. I work as an educator in the field of thanatologies and popularize this knowledge; 

— I am active within the OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (member of the Presidium, representative member of the OZZ IP Evaluation Commission of the Economic and Sociological Faculty, Social Labor Inspector.