Ph.D. Sławomir Rębisz

Informacje

SŁAWOMIR RĘBISZ, PhD (Assist. Prof.) – Dr. Rębisz is a graduate of two full-time M.A. programmes: Political and Social Sciences (1994) and Sociology (1997). In 2000, he was awarded the Senior Manager of Continuing Education Certificate by Kennesaw State University, University System of Georgia, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at the Department of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (2005). Dr. Rębisz is also a Salzburg Global Fellow, having participated as an alumnus in the prestigious Salzburg Seminar, Session 436, Austria (2006). From 1995 to 2011, he worked at the Institute of Sociology, University of Rzeszów, Poland, in the Section of Applied Sociology and Communication. During the academic years 2007–2009, he also served as Coordinator for International Programmes. Currently, he is employed at the Institute of Education, Department of School and Media Research, University of Rzeszów, Poland. In 2017, he was honoured with the Medal of the Commission of National Education.

AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST

His research interests focus on (1) scientific careers and the scope and directions of change in higher education after 1989 (especially in Central and Eastern Europe), (2) bibliometric analysis, (3) cross-border and Euroregional cooperation within Central and Eastern Europe, (4) loneliness, and (5) problematic use of new media.

SELECTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2021–2023 – Project Manager of the international project MC-VIEW: Media Literacy and Critical Viewing as Effective Outreach to Lifelong Learning for People with Fewer Opportunities, supported by the Foundation for the Development of the Education System (FRSE) – the Polish National Agency of the Erasmus+ Programme (Adult Education), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (Project No. 2020-1-PL01-KA204-081921). The main objective of the MC-VIEW project was to foster adult education in media literacy through the development of media, information, and digital competences, as well as to strengthen the capacities of adult educators. The project was implemented in cooperation with partners from Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

• 2014 – Main Research Manager of the micro-project ABC of Studying and Working in Poland, supported by the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Poland–Belarus–Ukraine 2007–2013. The research was conducted in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus.

• 2014 – Administrative Assistant in the umbrella project The Promotion of the Polish and Ukrainian Common Historical and Cultural Heritage – The Przemyśl Fortress, implemented by the Association of the Carpathian Euroregion Poland and supported by the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Poland–Belarus–Ukraine 2007–2013.

• 2009–2010 – Member of the research team in the project Between Migration and the Grey Market: Forms of Occupational Adaptation of Upper Secondary School Graduates (BD-CENTER), implemented under the Human Capital Operational Programme (POKL) and supported by European Union funds (Project No. WND-POKL.06.01.01-18-169/08).

• 2004–2006 – Expert in the international project Assessing Intercultural Skills in Adult Education, EU Programme SOCRATES GRUNDTVIG 1 – European Cooperation Projects and Training Courses (No. 114120-CP-1-2004-1-DE-GRUNDTVIG-G11PP).

• 2003 – Participant in the international project Research and Analysis of Community Economic Development in the Carpathians for the Carpathian Foundation, implemented by the Association for Innovation and Technology Transfer “Horizons” in Rzeszów. Responsible for the project component EU Enlargement and the Future of the Carpathian Euroregion.

• 1999–2001 – Individual Research Grant for the project The Needs and Opportunities for Cross-Border Cooperation within the Carpathian Euroregion, awarded by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation (RSS No. 66/1999). The research was conducted in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine.

SCHOLARSHIP EXPERIENCE

• 2021/2022 – Bilateral State Scholarship for a research stay in Hungary at the Institute of Sociology, Miskolc University, Hungary, awarded by the Tempus Public Foundation (Registration No. AK-00203-002/2021)).
• 2014 – Scholarship for a study visit at Kennesaw State University, College of Continuing and Professional Education (USA), within the project Modernity and the Future of the Region, co-funded by the European Union under the European Social Fund (UDA-POKL.04.01.01-00-068/10-00).
• 2011/2012 – Academic internship at Central European University, Budapest, Department of Public Policy, Hungary, within the project Building Didactic Potential at the University of Rzeszów at the European Level (Human Capital Operational Programme).
• 2011/2012 – Research stay at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia, under the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic.
• 2011/2012 – Research stay at the Institute of Sociology, University of Miskolc, Hungary, supported by the Balassi Institute – Hungarian Scholarship Board Office (Ref. No. MÖB/164-2/2010).

ACADEMIC SERVICE

• Since May 2021, by decision of the Qualification Committee of the Foundation for the Development of the Education System (FRSE) – the Polish National Agency of the Erasmus+ Programme, he has been included in the Expert Database of the National Agency of the Erasmus+ Programme and the European Solidarity Corps in the Higher Education sector for 2021–2027.
• Since 2019, he has served as an external expert of the Foundation for the Development of the Education System (FRSE) – the Polish National Agency of the Erasmus+ Programme, in the Higher Education sector.
• Since 2018, he has been listed in the database of external experts of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA).
• In 2009, he participated in a special working group led by Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki, tasked with preparing a draft for the Strategy for the Development of Higher Education in Poland 2010–2020.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP

Member of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Innovation in Upbringing (ISSN 2411-4553).

CONFERENCES

He has participated in 60 academic conferences, including 28 international conferences (Spain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Austria, USA) and 32 national conferences.

ADDITIONAL LECTURES

Since 2008, he has delivered lectures at foreign universities within the framework of the LLP-Erasmus Programme (Individual Teaching Programme for Staff Mobility), including:

• 2022 - University of J.E. Purkyne in Usti nad Labem (Czech Rep.)
• 2020 – Univesristy of Novi Sad (Serbia)
• 2019 – Kennesaw State University (USA)
• 2017 – Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Rep.)
• 2012 – University of Miskolc (Hungary),
• 2010 – Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia)
• 2010 – West University of Timisoara (Romania)
• 2009 – Universidad de Córdoba (Spain)
• 2008 – University of Oradea (Romania)
• 2008 – Szent István University, Gödöllő (Hungary)

PUBLICATIONS:

He is the author of 57 publications, including 24 in English (with selected articles indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases). His publications have received 159 citations in Web of Science and 183 citations in Scopus (total IF = 8.991). According to Google Scholar and Publish or Perish, his h-index is 11, with a total of 692 citations. He has published 33 works in Polish. He is the co-editor of one edited volume, the author of two monographs, and the co-author of one monograph. He also serves as a reviewer for journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.