Dr Aneta Piekut
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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4th Floor, ICoSS Building |
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0114 222 6288 |
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+44 114 222 6288 |
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A.Piekut@Sheffield.ac.uk |
Aneta gained her PhD is sociology in 2010 after defending her PhD thesis “Highly skilled foreign employees in transnational corporations in Warsaw” at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Warsaw. Since 2010 she has worked as a post-doctoral researcher first at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, and currently at the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield for the research project “Living with Difference in Europe: making communities out of strangers in an era of super mobility and super diversity”.
Research Interests
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Aneta’s research interests include ethnic minorities’ integration, social attitudes, socio-spatial segregation, urban sociology and highly skilled migration.
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Current research
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Aneta works on the LIVEDIFFERENCE research programme. This project involves five inter-linked projects which explore the extent and nature of everyday encounters with ‘difference’, by each collecting original data in the UK (a post-colonial European state) and Poland (a post-communist European state).
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Key Publications
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Journal articles
- Piekut A. (2013). 'You’ve got Starbucks and Coffee Heaven... I Can Do This!' Spaces of Social Adaptation of Highly Skilled Migrants in Warsaw. Central and Eastern European Migration Review 2(1), 113–134.
Available online.
- Piekut A., Rees P., Valentine G. and Kupiszewski M. (2012). Multidimensional diversity in two European cities: thinking beyond ethnicity. Environment and Planning A. 44(12), 2988-3009.
doi:10.1068/a4512
- Grzymala-Kazlowska A., Piekut A. (2007). Czy mamy juz w Polsce mala Ukraine i polskie Viettown? Spoleczno-przestrzenne wzory zamieszkiwania imigrantów w metropolii warszawskiej. [Is there a ‘Little Ukraine’ or a ‘Polish Viettown’ in Poland? Socio-spatial settlement patterns in Warsaw metropolis]. Studia Lokalne i Regionalne, 4(30), 77-99.
Available online
Book chapters in English
- Piekut A. (2012). Visible and Invisible Ethnic ‘Others’ in Warsaw: Spaces of Encounter and Places of Exclusion. In: M. Grubbauer, J. Kusiak (eds). Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990. Frankfurt, New York: Campus.
- Górny A., Piekut A., Stefanska R. (2012). From (many) datasets to (one) integration monitoring system in Poland? In: R. Bijn, A. Verweij (eds). Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant Integration in Europe. Integration Policies and Monitoring Efforts in 17 European Countries. Hague: The Netherlands Institute for Social Research.
- Piekut A. (2011). The social dimension of integration. In: A. Górny, I. Grabowska-Lusinska, M. Lesinska, M. Okólski (eds). Immigration to Poland: Policy - Labour Market - Integration. Warszawa: Scholar.
- Piekut A. (2011). Preference for cities: spatial distribution of settled migrants. In: A. Górny, I. Grabowska-Lusinska, M. Lesinska, M. Okólski (eds). Immigration to Poland: Policy - Labour Market - Integration. Warszawa: Scholar.
Book chapters and reports in Polish
- Piekut A. (2009). Cudzoziemcy w Warszawie – wielokulturowosc w teorii i praktyce [Foreigners in Warsaw – multiculturalism in theory and practice]. Report for the Warsaw City Hall, Social Strategy Team.
- Piekut A. (2008). Wielosc wymiarów – zatem jaka integracja? Przeglad tematyki i metod badan integracyjnych. [Variety of dimensions – what integration?] In: A. Grzymala-Kazlowska, S. Lodzinski (eds). Problemy integracji imigrantów. Koncepcje, badania, polityki. Warszawa: Scholar.
- Piekut A. (2008). Adaptacja imigrantów na lubelskim rynku pracy [Immigrant adaptation in Lublin labour market]. In: P. Kaczmarczyk (ed). Migracje zagraniczne a procesy rynku pracy – przypadek Lubelszczyzny. Lublin/Warszawa.
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Other information
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Aneta Piekut is also a member of the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and a memeber of Editorial Board of Central and Eastern European Migration Review.
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Contact details
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4th Floor, ICoSS Building,
University of Sheffield,
219 Portobello,
SHEFFIELD, S1 4DP
United Kingdom
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