Tomasz Kołodziej, PhD

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e-mail: T.Kolodziej@is.uz.zgora.pl

Tomasz Kołodziej, (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Zielona Góra. He obtained a PhD in social sciences in sociology in 2018. Research interests: eSport, sociology of politics, the role of the police in society, methodology and statistical methods in social sciences. As part of SoMovED, he takes up the subject of m-learning and gamification. Privately, a fan of Rock, Guy Ritchie, new technologies and classical (paper) books.

Graduate of Master's degree in Sociology at the University of Zielona Góra.
Graduate of The Ohio State Summer School in Social Sciences in Warsaw - implemented as part of the CONSIRT program by The Ohio State University and the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Doctor of Social Sciences degree obtained in 2018 based on the thesis "Formal and informal determinants of the course of professional careers in the Police. Sociological analysis.".

Since October 2022, member of the Social Analytics and esports laboratory operating at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zielona Góra.
Research interests:

sociology of esports, sociology of politics, sociology of dispositional groups, statistical analyses.

Member of the research project team:

Social Education on the Move (SoMovED), a project implemented since 2020 as part of a grant in the ERASMUS+ program (http://www.somoveed.is.uz.zgora.pl/)
Youth in times of distrust and civilization threats. International comparative research - project implemented in 2015.
Diagnosis of the level and quality of life of residents of the Lubuskie Voivodeship 2014. Lubuski Social Survey III.

Important publications:

Nyćkowiak, J., Kołodziej, T., Jasny, M., Siuda, P. (2023). Toward Successful Esports Team: How Does National Diversity Affect Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Video Games. In: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 3-6, 2023- HICSS (#), Honolulu, USA, Honolulu: University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2023, pp. 3902--3911, ISBN: 9780998133164. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/103108 (140 points)
Kołodziej, T., Nićkowiak, J. (2021). Switching Political Affiliation: Electoral-List Mobility in Poland, 2005-2015. Polish Sociological Review, Vol. 213, 1, 47—70. (75 pts.) doi: https://doi.org/10.26412/psr213.03 (75 pts.)
Nyćkowiak J., Kołodziej T., (2021), Misunderstanding institutional rules: Electoral-list mobility in Poland, 2005-2015, [in:] Designing and Implementing Public Policy of Contemporary Polish Society. Selected Problems, (eds.) Dorota Szaban, Inetta Nowosad, Piotr Pochyły, V&R unipress, pp. 209-227. (75 pts.)
Kołodziej T., (2020), Police - determinants of officers' professional careers, Poznań: FNCE Scientific Publishing House, p. 252, , ISBN: 9788366264908. (120 pts.)
Kołodziej, T. (2019). The influence of players’ nationality on the effectiveness of eSports teams based on the example of The International DOTA 2 tournaments, Review of Nationalities, 9(1), 85-99. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/pn-2019-0007 (40 pts.)