Survey Data Analysis Using the Example of the European Social Survey Course for Doctoral School Students 13-14 May 2025
Course Description
The aim of the course is to familiarize participants with the European Social Survey (ESS) and the analytical opportunities it offers using data from this and similar projects. The ESS is an international academic research project in which survey research is regularly conducted across more than thirty European countries. The ESS provides data on the attitudes and behaviours of Europeans regarding key socio-political issues. It has been conducted continuously since 2002, with new survey rounds every two years. ESS data enable cross-national comparisons and monitoring attitude and behaviour changes over time. All data from the ESS rounds are freely available to researchers and students. Poland has participated in the ESS since its inception.
With coal forever? Conflicted attitudes of residents in coal mining areas in the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland to coal phase-out
Bohumil Frantál, Chodkowska-Miszczuk, J. M., Filip Alexandrescu, > Franziska Stölzel, Petr Klusáček, Ondřej Konečný, Süsser, D., Agata Lewandowska, & Dominik Zieliński
The article presents the results of an international comparative study that covered residents of three mining regions: the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland. The study aimed to understand how local communities perceive the negative effects of coal mining, their attitudes towards mining, and their preferred pace of phasing out coal. The authors focused on people living near active open-pit mines, who have personal experience with both the environmental impact of mining and the consequences of mine closures for the local economy.
Winner of Grants4NCUStudents and winner of the 8th edition of the “Mobility for Doctoral Students” competition
Ms. Marta Banasiak – a PhD student in the discipline of safety sciences at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences "Academia Rerum Socialium" at Nicolaus Copernicus University – has become a laureate of the 8th edition of the "Mobility for Doctoral Students" competition, under the "Excellence Initiative - Research University" programme.
The awarded project, supervised by Dr. hab. Joanna Marszałek-Kawa, Professor at UMK, is titled "Shaping the Social Security Policy of the Roma Minority in the Slovak Republic." The project's theme is part of the research on the Visegrad Group, as well as a preliminary study for her doctoral dissertation.
As part of the competition, Ms. Marta received funding to complete a short-term research internship abroad. During her thirty-day stay, she will visit Comenius University in Bratislava, the Slovak National Library, the Academic Library of Comenius University, the Library of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, the Library of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University, and the Library of the Parliament of the Slovak Republic.
