Krystian Szadkowski, PhD, Habil. is a senior researcher at the Scholarly Communication Research Group of Adam Mickiewicz University. His interests cover Marxist political economy, analysis of development of peripheral academic capitalism and transformations of higher education systems in Central Eastern Europe, as well as the issues of the public and the common in higher education. He worked as a researcher for Education International (Brussels, Belgium) (2010-2012) and as a consultant in policy projects funded by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Research interests: political ontology, political economy of higher education, critical university studies
Currently he is Principal Investigator in two projects run at Scholarly Communication Research Group:
2024-2026 – Research on the consequences of ‘shock therapy’ of 1990s for the contemporary conditions of development of science and higher education in Poland. Funding: Ministry of Science and Higher Education. [More info]
2023-2029 – Origins and development of the peripheral academic capitalism in Poland (1990-2021). Funding: National Science Centre (Poland). [More info]
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