University of Warsaw

Kamila Wichrowska, Phd is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education UW. She worked as an assistant in the Polish part of the ELLiE Project – a transnational, longitudinal study of the introduction of foreign language learning in public primary schools. Afterwards in the years 2014-2016 she was involved in the international project Curriculum and Quality Analysis and Impact Review of European Early Childhood Education and Care (CARE).Currently she is an academic teacher of a several courses (in English and Polish language) at the Faculty of Education at Warsaw University. Her interests are focused on an early education and care – crèches, preschools, lower primary school and Teaching English to Young Learners.

Krzysztof Bulkowski is a PhD student at the Institute of Sociology UW (Unit of Statistics, Demography and Mathematical Sociology). Since 2012 he is a Research Methodology Specialist at the Educational Research Institute in Warsaw where he works in different teams on national and international projects, including: PISA 2018 (National Field and Data Manager), PIRLS 2016 (National Data Manager), TIMSS 2015 (National Data Manager). He is interested in quantitative methods, especially complex samples designs and statistical analysis, and in Rational Choice Theory.

Prof. Małgorzata Karwowska- Struczyk is currently a professor at the University of Warsaw (Poland), and has been involved in ECEC for 30 years, firstly as a psychologist working with young abandoned children, then as a researcher in the field of child development and education, finally a teacher educator and the Head of the ECEC Department at Warsaw University (Faculty of Education). She has written over 100 articles, contributions to books and also her original books. Karwowska-Struczyk has cooperated with the Van Leer Foundation, World Association for Case Studies and Applications (WACRA), World Forum Foundation as a National Leader. For many years she has been Polish Coordinator for the International High / Scope / IEA comparative Quality of Life study. She was The Coordinator of the FP7 Curriculum and the Impact of Early European Review Childhood Education and Care Project (CARE) in Poland.

Olga Wysłowska, M.A., holds a junior researcher position at the Department of Education Policy and Social Research on Education at the Faculty of Education UW. Currently she is involved in two international projects: Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Europe (ISOTIS) and How and under what conditions does quality in early education and care matter? (QualityMatters), a study across four European countries (project reference PTDC/MHCCED/5913/2014). Previously she took part in the project Curriculum and Quality Analysis and Impact Review of European Early Childhood Education and Care (CARE). She is a PhD candidate, former ECEC teacher and teacher educator, an author of several publications for ECEC educators.

She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education at the University of Warsaw (Department of Education Policy and Social Research on Education). The title of her submitted PhD thesis is: “Family, education and peer group environment factors influencing early school leaving”. Her research interests include language teaching, education, teacher education, early leaving from education and training, youth at risk of exclusion. She was a member of the Polish team in the FP7 research project Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe carried out in 2013–2018. She is currently involved in an Erasmus+ project – A Blog as open learning platform for the field of Early Childhood Education about Research and Innovation to support Disadvantaged and Diverse children (BECERID).