Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz
Associate Professor in Societal Security and Safety
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Research interests
Areas of research: terrorism and political violence, international security with particular focus on societal security and resilience, international relations, religion and politics, political and religious radicalisation, migration, geopolitics, clash of civilisations, culture and identity in political processes.
FIELDWORK/RESEARCH
2018-2021 - comparative research on migration in Poland, Ukraine, Albania, UK, and the Czech Republic in cooperation with Collegium Civitas (Warsaw, Poland).
April/May 2014 – field research in Kosovo two main themes of this research were religious radicalisation and political radicalisation (of religious and nationalist origin). This research was carried out in cooperation with Amsterdam University College.
January 2013 and January 2012 – fieldwork in Kosovo including visits to international organisations and institutions (such as EULEX, UNMIK, UNDP, OBWE, OHCHR, KFOR), and to local and regional non-governmental organizations (including media and religious organisations) and interviews with senior, middle and junior staff members or field workers for inter-governmental, governmental, and non-governmental organisations as well as with Kosovo Albanians and Serbs.
2010 - 2012 – fieldwork in the United Kingdom (England and Scotland), The Netherlands, Denmark, and Poland carried out during the doctoral research.
2011 – an independent study on converts' radicalisation in the prison environment carried out in cooperation with the Scottish Prison Service. The research was conducted in four different prisons across Scotland.
2011 – consultant and expert invited to Our Shared Europe project implemented in Denmark by the British Council in a response to cultural challenges facing contemporary Europe.
2010 – research assistant and interpreter in the European Survey of Youth Mobilization (ESYM), an innovative and multidisciplinary study of youth political activity in Europe (11 countries covered) managed by Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer at St Andrews University, Scotland, UK.
Teaching
SVF-3207 Resilience
SVF-3211 Crises and Conflicts
SVF-3208 Contemporary issues in societal security
Member of research group
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Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz has graduated with MA in International Relations from the University of Lodz (Poland) and MLitt in International Security Studies from St Andrews University (UK). Also in St. Andrews, she has completed her PhD and her doctoral thesis on Controversies of Conversions: Exploring the Potential Terrorist Threat of European Converts to Islam (2013) explored the questions of identity and belonging considered from a security perspective, with the particular focus given to the potential terrorist threat posed by European converts to Islam.
She has carried out interdisciplinary research in Scotland, England, The Netherlands, Denmark, Kosovo and Poland. In 2005 Dr Bartoszewicz was awarded a scholarship at the Centre for Transatlantic Studies in Maastricht, the Netherlands. In 2007 she was a research intern at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence and in 2009 her work was recognized with the Russell Trust Award.
Dr Bartoszewicz was also a research assistant for the European Survey of Youth Mobilisation, an international research project looking at youth radicalisation in Europe. In 2011 Dr Bartoszewicz carried out independent research for Scottish Prison Services on the radicalisation of European converts to Islam and took part in British Council’s Our Shared Europe project.
From 2011 to 2013 she was appointed as the E.MA Fellow specialising in International Relations in the European Inter-University Centre in Venice (Italy). From 2015 to 2016 she was a vising lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland); from 2015 to 2017 she was an assistant professor at Vistula Vistula University in Warsaw (Poland), and between 2018 and 2022, she had a full-time research and teaching position at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic).
Dr Bartoszewicz also serves as a European Commission expert, rapporteur and evaluator, expert of the Polish, Czech and Latvian institutions, and reviewer. She is also an associate member of the Centre for Security Research (CeSeR) in Edinburgh and a member of the British International Studies Association.