Artur Kinal, PhD

tel.: (+48) 789-44-2019
e-mail: A.Kinal@is.uz.zgora.pl

Artur Kinal – Works as an assistant professor at The University of Zielona Góra. Research areas of interest: urban sociology, visual sociology, sound as a data source in social sciences.

Biography

1998-2003: sociological studies (University of Zielona Góra)

Specialization: Sociology of local communities.

Master's thesis "Individual determinants of the fate of the homeless in the local community based on the example of Żary" written under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Leszek Gołdyka

20.06.2012: Doctor of Humanities degree (awarded by the decision of the Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław) based on the thesis: "Nineteenth- and twentieth-century visions of cities of the future in the face of the challenges of modernity".

Supervisor: prof. zw. dr hab. Mirosław Chałubiński

Research interests:

urban sociology, history of ideas, visual sociology, sound data in social sciences

Awards received

2017 Rector's Award for organizational activity consisting in popularizing sociological knowledge as part of the Sociologist's Salon

2018 Rector's Award for organizational activity consisting in popularizing sociological knowledge as part of the Sociologist's Salon

Participation in research projects, grants, etc.

2014/2015: participation in a transnational project co-financed by the European Union: "Bottom Up - an innovative tool for shaping public space". The project included training and study visits

2020/2023: Participation in an international project - Social Education on the Move - No. 2020-1-PL01-KA203-082186

2021: Collaboration with the Cities and Memory project in the co-creation of the Global Sound Map