Dr Aneta Piekut
School of Education
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences
+44 114 222 6288
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School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
91探花
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Understanding movement between boarders - Meet Dr Aneta Piekut Dr Aneta Piekut joined the 91探花 Methods Institute in 2014. Before that she worked as a researcher at the Universities of Warsaw (the Centre of Migration Research, 2005-2009), Leeds and 91探花 (2010-2014). She completed her PhD studies at the University of Warsaw in 2009.
Aneta is Co-Director of the Migration Research Group - an interdisciplinary research network in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
She is a mixed methods sociologist and her research spans disciplinary boundaries. Her research focuses on ethnic diversity, socio-spatial segregation and social cohesion, attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities, including their measurement and the problem of survey nonresponse.
She published widely in leading academic journals on issues of migration, ethnicity and segregation (e.g. European Sociological Review, Sociology, Social Science Research, Social & Cultural Geography, International Sociology), and in 2017 she won the prestigious awarded by the British Sociological Association鈥檚 (BSA) for a paper published in Sociology journal.
- Publications
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Books
- Making Sense of Data in the Media. Sage.
Journal articles
- . Survey Research Methods, 18(2), 113-135.
- . Survey Methods - Insights from the Field, 2(2).
- . Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 30(3), 207-208.
- . Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
- . Studia Socjologiczne, 2022(2), 165-189.
- . Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 9(1), 5-12.
- . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
- . Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.
- . Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie.
- . Social Science Research, 62, 175-188.
- . Social & Cultural Geography, 18(1), 16-33.
- . European Sociological Review, 32(3), 339-354.
- . Sociology, 50(1), 60-76.
- . Ethnicities, 15(4), 568-585.
- . Qualitative Research.
- . Geographical Journal.
- Seeking 鈥榯he New Normal鈥? Troubled spaces of encountering visible differences in Warsaw. Polish Sociological Review, 2014(4).
- Migration and modernisation - An alternative. polemic essay with Marek Ok贸lski's article "modernising impacts of emigration". Studia Socjologiczne(1), 157-169.
- You鈥檝e got Starbucks and Coffee Heaven... I Can Do This! Spaces of Social Adaptation of Highly Skilled Migrants in Warsaw. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 2(1).
- . Environment and Planning A, 44(12), 2988-3009.
- Czy mamy juz w Polsce mala Ukraine i polskie Viettown? Spoleczno-przestrzenne wzory zamieszkiwania imigrant贸w w metropolii warszawskiej. Studia Lokalne i Regionalne, 4(30).
- . PLOS ONE, 19(8), e0305774-e0305774.
- . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19.
- . Field Methods.
- . International Sociology, 026858092199852-026858092199852.
Chapters
- Postawy wobec imigrant贸w w 鈥瀞tarych鈥 i 鈥瀗owych鈥 krajach imigracyjnych. Czy historia imigracji ma znaczenie? In Sztabi艅ski P, Przybysz D & Sztabi艅ski F (Ed.), Polska - Europa. Wyniki Europejskiego Sonda偶u Spo艂ecznego 2002-2018/19 (pp. 92-113). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Filozofi i i Socjologii PAN.
- , The Urban Book Series (pp. 13-38). Springer International Publishing
- Kosmopolityczna Praga? W poszukiwaniu (nowej) to偶samo艣ci
praskiej In G贸rny A, Toru艅czyk-Ruiz S & Winiarska A (Ed.), Po s膮siedzku z r贸偶norodno艣ci膮. Interakcje w miejskich przestrzeniach lokalnych z perspektywy r贸偶nych grup mieszka艅c贸w (pp. 155-197). Warsaw: Scholar.
- Integracja migrant贸w w spo艂ecze艅stwie przyjmuj膮cym In Lesi艅ska M & Ok贸lski M (Ed.), 25 wyk艂ad贸w o migracjach (pp. 178-195). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.
- Unpacking Prejudice: Narratives of Homophobia in Cross-National Context In Vieten UM & Valentine G (Ed.), Cartographies of Differences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 15-40). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang.
- Visible and Invisible Ethnic 鈥極thers鈥 in Warsaw: Spaces of Encounter and Places of Exclusion In Grubbauer M & Kusiak J (Ed.), Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990 Campus Verlag
- From (many) datasets to (one) integration monitoring system in Poland? In Bijn R & Verweij A (Ed.), Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant Integration in Europe. Integration Policies and Monitoring Efforts in 17 European Countries
- Wybrane aspekty integracji imigrant贸w: w poszukiwaniu mechanizm贸w sprzyjaj膮cych dalszemu nap艂ywowi cudzoziemc贸w do Polski [Selected aspects of immigrant integration: Searching for mechanisms supporting further inflow of foreigners to Poland] In G贸rny A, Grabowska-Lusi艅ska I, Lisi艅ska M & Ok贸lski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 188-231).
- Integration: A Supplementary Driver of Immigration? In G贸rny A, Grabowska-Lusi艅ska I, Lesi艅ska M & Ok贸lski M (Ed.), Immigration to Poland: Policy 鈥 Labour Market 鈥 Integration (pp. 151-194).
- Spo艂eczny wymiar integracji [The social dimension of integration] In Gorny A, Grabowska-Lusinska I, Lesinska M & Okolski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 202-216).
- Adaptacja imigrant贸w na lubelskim rynku pracy [Immigrant adaptation in Lublin city labour market] In Kaczmarczyk P (Ed.), Migracje zagraniczne a procesy rynku pracy 鈥 przypadek Lubelszczyzny (pp. 63-88).
- Wielo艣膰 wymiar贸w 鈥 zatem jaka integracja? Przegl膮d tematyki i metod bada艅 integracyjnych In Grzymala-Kaz艂owska A & 艁odzi艅ski S (Ed.), Problemy integracji imigrant贸w koncepcje, badania, polityki Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Book reviews
- Book review: "Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion. Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action" by Merlin Schaeffer, Ashgate, 2014. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 1(3), 137-140.
Conference proceedings papers
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Reports
Performances
- Blurring the Edges. Festival of the Mind 2022.
Exhibitions
- Blurring the Edges. Festival of Dabate / Migration Matters Festival.
- Spaces of (dis)connection: Migrant essential workers. Centrala, Birmigham / Clapham Library, London / Art27, Edinburgh.
Website content
- Polish key workers feel unwelcome in the UK thanks to Brexit plus COVID.
- Stopping segregation: it鈥檚 not just where you live, it鈥檚 the places you go that matter.
- You鈥檙e probably wrong, but there鈥檚 data to understand why.
- Using Eurovision to explain sampling bias.
- Revealed: the truth about ethnic diversity of neighbourhoods.
Working papers
- The tale of two cities: Diversity in Leeds and Warsaw. Working Paper of the University of Leeds, School of Geography, 11.
Datasets
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- Making Sense of Data in the Media. Sage.
- Grants
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Duration
Role
Project title
Awarding body
Funding amount
2024-2025 Co-Investigator UKRI/ESRC 拢1,114,718 2024 Principal investigator Crossing the frontier: Exploring the potential of the Collective Mobile Method as a participatory research tool in Rotherham UKRI Research England 拢11,648 2023
Principal investigator Blurring the edges: social frontiers as places of encounter Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) 拢23,000 2022
Co-Investigator
Migrant essential workers in the UK - Portable multi-arts exhibition
ESRC Impact Accelerator Award
拢20,000
2020-2022
Co-Investigator
UKRI/ESRC
拢300,000
2020-2021
Fellowship
Project TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) Fellow
$5,000
2020-2023
Co-Director
: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants
Nordforsk/ESRC
拢1惭
2019-2023
Co-Investigator
Migration, Integration and Governance Research Centre ()
H2020-WIDESPREAD
拢710,000
2019
Principal investigator
Consultancy work for Work Package 6 on 鈥淢igration Flows in Europe鈥
Horizon2020 Cross-Migration
拢5,000
2017-2019
Co-Investigator
Modern Poland: Migration and Transformations
Oxford Noble Foundation
拢30,000
2014-2015
Coordinator
Research cluster 鈥淒iversity, Migration & Social Cohesion鈥
seed funding
鈧6,000
2010-2011
Principal investigator
Highly skilled immigrants from European Union in Warsaw
Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland
15,000 PLN
2007-2008
Principal investigator
Highly skilled workers of transnational corporations in Warsaw
Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland
20,000 PLN
- Teaching interests
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Methods are not neutral tools of data collection and analysis, so in her modules Aneta encourages students to critically reflect on why and how they apply them. As with other lecturers at SMI, Aneta's teaching is research-led, with substantial time devoted to hands-on practice with data.
In 2020/21 Aneta was awarded a in recognition of embedding principles of transparency and reproducibility in her teaching of quantitative social sciences.
Aneta has been a certified Fellow of the (HEA) since 2017.
- Teaching activities
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Aneta has been teaching across a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the SMI . Currently she leads on:
- SMI108 Survey Design and Data Collection
- SMI205 Intermediate Research Project in Quantitative Social Sciences (aka Replication project)
- SMI304 Doing Mixed Methods Research
Together with colleagues from SMI Aneta developed a highly successful MOOC 'Making Sense of Data in the Media' - a massive, open, online course on - making sense of data in the media and beyond. It's available for free .
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Co-Director of the Migration Research Group, University of 91探花
- Research Fellow of the , University of Warsaw (since 2005)
- Executive Committee member of Project TIER -
- Associate Editor of
- Member of editorial board of
- Member of editorial board of
Member of (PTS), (BSA) and (ESRA).
- Postgraduate supervision
Current PhD supervision:
- Chandima Arambepola, Border struggles and 鈥榙oing family鈥 (CDT New Horizons in Borders and Bordering, co-supervised with prof. Majella Kilkey)
- Eleanor Bale, Social Frontiers in Residential Segregation: A Data Analytics Approach (funded by ESRC ; co-supervision with prof. Gwilym Pryce.
Past PhD supervision:
- Natalie Bennet, Social cohesion, ethnic diversity, and mental wellbeing (funded by (SPHR); co-supervision with prof. Sarah Salway)
- Ben Gardner, Modelling of passenger clearance at the UK Border (funded by ESRC ; co-supervision with prof. Gwilym Pryce & dr. Mauricio A. Alvarez)
Aneta is interested in supervising motivated research students in the following areas:
- The relationship between ethnic diversity and social cohesion;
- Consequences of international migration for local communities and everyday lives of migrants and non-migrants;
- Spatial distribution and ethnic segregation;
- Attitudes towards immigration, various immigrant groups and ethnic minorities;
- Highly skilled migration and intra-EU mobility;
- survey methodology, specifically item nonresponse, measurement, mixed-mode surveys;
- Advanced quantitative and mixed methods research.