Aleksandra Szymczyk
Research Associate
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Biography
Aleksandra is a Research Associate at Policy Evaluation and Research Unit. She has been working on the Horizon 2020 ECDP, which has created the specification and business case for a European Research Infrastructure providing comparative cross-European longitudinal data on child and youth well-being. Currently, she conducting research activities for the H2020 MiCREATE project, which strives to stimulate inclusion of diverse groups of migrant children by adopting a child-centered approach to migrant children integration on an educational and policy level.
Academic and professional qualifications
Aleksandra completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of East Anglia in 2016 and her MA in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester in 2017. Her undergraduate and master’s research projects focused on experiences of migrants in the UK.
Languages
English (Fluent)
Polish (Native)
French (Elementary)
Teaching
Supervision
MA Criminology Dissertation:
- Ani Gabisonia, 2021 (in progress): ‘Russia for Russians’: the Immigrant as a Public Enemy, and The Role of Mass Media in Spreading Xenophobia
Research outputs
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Chapters in books
Arun, S., Bailey, G., Szymczyk, A. (2021) 'Child migrants ‘integrating’ : what do we know so far?.' In Sedmak, M., Hernández-Hernández, F., Sancho-Gil, J.M., Gornik, B. (ed.) Migrant Children’s Integration and Education in Europe: Approaches, Methodologies and Policies. Ediciones Octaedro SL, pp. 39-59.
Pollock, G., Goswami, H., Szymczyk, A. (2021) 'Towards a comparative cohort survey of child well-being.' Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course: Evidence from Longitudinal Research. Bristol University Press,