
Date of birth: 20/11/1974
Languages
Polish (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Norwegian (B1/B2)
Russian (elementary)
French (elementary)
Professional Membership
European Sociological Association
Nordic Migration Network
European Network on Intercultural Elderly Care
Nordisk Demens Nettverk
Scientific interests
Migration and health
Sociology of medicine
Eating disorders
Theories of deviance
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.
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 |
Lublin, Poland
Researcher | 2016 |
Sykehuset Innlandet |
Researcher | 04 – 05.2015 |
University of Bergen |
Senior Researcher | 2012 – 2015 |
NAKMI |
Assistant Professor | 2009 – 2013 |
Marie Curie-Sklodowska University |
Lublin, Poland
Researcher (postdoctoral project) | 2007 – 2010 |
Norwegian Centre for Minority Health Research |
Assistant Professor | 2007 – 2010 |
Warmia and Mazury University |
Olsztyn, Poland
Assistant Professor | 2005 – 2011 |
Józef Rusiecki Institute of High Education |
Research Assistant | 1998 – 2004 |
Warmia and Mazury University |
Department of Social Sciences
Olsztyn, Poland
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)
“All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.”
Mohsin Hamid