Curriculum Vitae

Elżbieta Czapka, PhD, graduated from the Catholic University in Lublin (Poland). She obtained a PhD in sociology in 2004 from the same University.

Dissertation: Stereotype of a refugee. A comparative analysis based on research conducted among the students of selected European countries.  

From 1998 Czapka was teaching and supervising students at several universities in Poland and in Norway. Her teaching areas included among others introductory sociology, sociology of minorities, sociology of mobility and migration, migration and health, statistics and health promotion.

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Employment history

Associated Professor (20% position)	08.2021-
Oslo Metropolitan University

Assistant Professor	10.2020-
University of Gdańsk

Project Coordinator	05-07.2020
University of Bergen

Postdoctoral fellow	2017 – 2020
Oslo Metropolitan University

Assistant Professor	2015 – 2017
Marie Curie-Sklodowska University

Researcher	2016
Sykehuset Innlandet

Researcher	04 – 05.2015
University of Bergen

Senior Researcher	2012 – 2015
NAKMI

Assistant Professor	2009 – 2013
Marie Curie-Sklodowska University

Researcher (postdoctoral project)	2007 – 2010
Norwegian Centre for Minority Health Research

Assistant Professor	2007 – 2010
Warmia and Mazury University

Assistant Professor	2005 – 2011
Józef Rusiecki Institute of High Education

Research Assistant	1998 – 2004
Warmia and Mazury University

Education

PhD in Sociology	Defended in 2004	2001 – 2004
Department of Social Sciences		Catholic University of Lublin

MA in Pedagogics		1993 – 1998
Department of Social Sciences		Catholic University of Lublin

Professional development

• 15-20 February 2015, A course on Respondent Driven Sampling, Bamberg, Germany
• 5-7 May 2008, A workshop on microanalysis of communication, Malmo, Sweden
• July 2003 “Advanced regression methods in research practice – Structural Equations Modeling” organized by Warsaw University and run by Professor R. Gonzalez (University of Michigan)