e-mail: D.Bazun@is.uz.zgora.pl

     
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dorota-Bazun-2

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Education:
– 2006 PhD in Sociology
Title: MONAR Movement in the Process of Transformations between 1978 and 2002. Between Spontaneity and Institutionalization.
Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Mirosław Chałubiński, Full Professor
Graduated of the Adam Mickiewicz University – Poznań

– 1996: Master’s Degree in Philosophy,
Title: Critical Edition of Book IV of the Fifteenth Century Commentary to Aristotle’s Physics Puncta Phisicorum Aristotelis secundum Benedictum Hesse de Cracovia
Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Wielgus, Full Professor
1990-1996: graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin at the Faculty of Philosophy;

– 2014-2015 – Postgraduate studies „Research and development projects management” at WSB University in Wrocław.

Relevant Employment:
– since 1997: research and didactic worker at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zielona Góra (formerly the Higher School of Pedagogy in Zielona Góra)

Participation in more than 70 national and international scientific conferences (selected below):
• International Conference Ekonomika a občan v procesu integrace, Usti nad Labem 7-8.11.2002 r. Paper: MONAR as a NGO in the Civil Society
• International Conference: Konkurenceschopnost regionu – rozvoj lidskych zdroju, Usti nad Labem 4-5.11.2004 r. Paper: Social movements as the source of forming active social attitudes
• International Conference: History Regained. Assimilating the Past in Central European Regions of Intermingling (19th and 20th Century), Lübeck 29-31.10. 2004 r. Paper: Changes in Attitude Towards Cultural Heritage as an Expression of Domesticating Troubled History by Inhabitants of the Western Borderland
• International seminar: Erasmus Programme – Exchange of Academic Staff – Gazi University in Ankara, April 2012 (lectures: „Polish society – brief characteristic and selected problems”, „Sociology of body – challenges of a new branch of sociology”, „Polish labour market – the situation of the youths”.
• International Conference: Social Network Environments Conference (SoNetE 2013), Romania, Bucharest, May 27 -31, 2013. Paper: The Leaders of Social Economy in Poland.
• International Conference: Towards a European SOCIETY? Boundaries, Borders, Barriers, Zagreb (Croatia) 14-16.06.2014, Paper: Cross-border Social Networks – Polish-German Border Case (cooperation with dr. hab. Mariusz Kwiatkowski, prof. UZ).
• 3rd International Higher Education Studies Conference: Revisiting Higher Education in an Ever-Changing World; Paper: Non-formal methods of learning in the formal surrounding. Examples of good practices; Kayseri (Turcja), 11-13.10.2018; (cooperation with dr. hab. Mariusz Kwiatkowski, prof. UZ).
• 3rd International Higher Education Studies Conference: Revisiting Higher Education in an Ever-Changing World; Paper: „Among Others” Project – Old Problems New Challenges, Kayseri (Turcja), 11-13.10.2018; (cooperation with dr. hab. Mariusz Kwiatkowski, prof. UZ).
• International Conference: Trainers of Intercultural Communication as Living Bridges; paper: LIVING BRIDGES. Towards Interdisciplinary Research on People of Dialogue; 14.11.2018, Funchal, Portugalia; (cooperation with dr. hab. Mariusz Kwiatkowski, prof. UZ).
• International Conference: „Somewhere In Between Borders and Borderlands”, Paper: „Inter-Relational Concept of Shaping Public Space. Assumptions and Applications”; 29.05.2017 – London, Great Britain; (cooperation with dr. hab. Mariusz Kwiatkowski, prof. UZ).
• Conference: “Metropolitalny Kongres Rewitalizacji „Od założeń polityki do społecznej zmiany. Rewitalizacja w działaniu”; Paper: „Pies w (wielkim) mieście. Dlaczego warto przygotować przestrzeń dla psów i ich właścicieli?” (A dog in a big city. Why is it worth preparing a space for dogs and their owners?). 5-6.10.2017, Gdańsk,
• International Conference: „The Place of Memory and Memory of Place”, Paper: „Deportees Memory and Commemoration of Deportation”, 14.10.2017, Cambridge
• International Seminar on the Validation of Intercultural Competence; Paper: „Development of Intercultural Competence. Theory and Practice”, 19.10.2017-22.10.2017, Birmingham; (cooperation with dr. hab. Mariusz Kwiatkowski, prof. UZ).
• International seminar: Connectivity seminar – New Ideas, New Projects; Paper: Workshop Methods as Tools of Developing Students’ Competences, 2.11.2017-3.11.2017, Prague, Czech Republic.
• International Conference:. „Contact Zones and Border Regions. Current Perspective in Cultural Sciences” (Kontakt-zonen und Grenz regionen. Aktuelle kulturwissen-schaftliche Perspektiven”, organizator: Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V., Paper: „Eurotown Gubin-Guben as a Laboratory of Contact with „Stangers” (Die Eurostadt Gubin-Guben als Laboratorium für den Kontakt mit “Fremden”. 23-24.10.2017 Dresden, Germany; (cooperation with dr. hab. Mariusz Kwiatkowski, prof. UZ).

Internships and Erasmus+ Staff Mobility
2019-.05-01-2019-10-10.2019 – internship at the Charles University – Prague;
2012 and 2016 – Erasmus+ programme, Staff Mobility at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey.

Projects:
• Project: „BOTTOM-UP – INNOVATIVE TOOLS OF CREATING PUBLIC SPACE” – taking part in international (Polish-Danish) project; training about the processes of the revitalization of public spaces. From 2013 till 2015.

• Project: “TRUST BEYOND THE BORDERS” („Zaufanie ponad granicami-Vertrauen űber Grenzen hinaus”). Euroregion Spree-Neise-Bober (Guben-Gubin, Brandenburg and Lubuskie Region); period: from December 2012- to February 2014 (Grant no: 516/ FMP/12) – Polish-German project about transborder cooperation on the basis of Euroregion Spree-Neise-Bober; project with cooperation with the German partner: Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.

• Project: „IN BETWEEN? SEARCHING FOR LOCAL HISTORIES IN BORDERLANDS OF EUROPE” – an international project implemented by „European Network Remembrance and Solidarity; my role: expert in research on the Polish-German border. In: 2016.

• Project: „AMONG OTHERS BRINGING INTERCULTURAL AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION TO HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS” – an international project implemented by the Foundation of Educational System Development and Polish-German Youth Cooperation. Role in the project: organizing the workshops for the students, taking part in the thematic seminars. From 2015 till now (2021).

• Project: „SOCIAL EDUCATION ON THE MOVE” – Since 2020, one of the coordinators of a significant international strategic partnership, the activities of which are financed under the Erasmus + programme. The partnership includes organizations from 10 countries (8 universities, 2 NGO’s, 1 SMEs). The project aims to change the forms of classes in universities by introducing mobile methods. The project started in 2020 and will be completed in 2023. Projects No. 2020-1-PL01-KA203-082186; project financed under Erasmus+ Programme, Action 2: Strategic Partnership in Higher Education Institutions. http://www.somoveed.is.uz.zgora.pl/

• Project „SILVER SMES. IDENTIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REGIONAL POLICIES TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SILVER ECONOMY DERIVED OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE SMES IN GROWTH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SPIRIT”, launched in 2018 – planned end of the project in 2023. SILVER SMEs aims to improve the implementation and delivery of Regional Policies for SMEs competitiveness by building on significant opportunities arising from the Silver Economy (SE). My role in the project: Action Plan for Lubuskie Region about developing silver economy in the region.

Research Interests:
– sociology of social movements (which resulted in the dissertation concerning Polish anti-drug movement – MONAR);
– social space – cultural and social processes of adapting new space (processes of adapting new cultural and physical space among inhabitants of recovered territories);
– social economy;
– social dimension of transborder cooperation (participation in the cycle of conferences entitled Transbordering in Sociological Perspective; articles published in volumes of the same title);

Interests and Additional Information:
Amateur kayaking, mountain hiking.
• Between 1987 and 1992 a member of the Youth-Movement for Counteraction of Drug addiction MONAR and during that time, participated in a training programme for prevention of drug dependencies.
• Between 1992 and 1994 was a member of the Jowisz Association in Jelenia Góra.
• Since 2016 a member of Fundacja Partycypacja (Foundation Participation).