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.
This is not the only success achieved by our PhD student.
She also became a laureate of the 9th edition of the Grants4NCUStudents under the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" programme.
The awarded project, also carried out with the support of her supervisor, Dr. hab. Joanna Marszałek-Kawa, Professor at UMK, is titled "Determinants of Shaping Social Security Policy for the Roma Population in the Czech Republic."
The aim of this project is to study the actions undertaken by the Roma community to improve their living conditions, in the context of broadly understood social security for Roma people in the Czech Republic.