Stefan Bieńkowski

Selected Conference Presentations

  • 2025 – “My Grandparents’ Backgrounds Were Very Different…”. Ruptures and Non-Linear Trajectories in Intergenerational Class (Im)Mobility in Poland (with Justyna Kajta). Accepted for presentation at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Rabat.
  • 2025 – “Pęknięcia i szczeliny w strukturze. Trajektorie międzypokoleniowej (nie)mobilności klasowej w Polsce” (with Justyna Kajta). 19th Polish Sociological Congress, Polish Sociological Association.
  • 2024 – “I’m better out of the system – on my own”: The Experience and Meaning of Non-standard Employment in Poland. International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work”, Polish Sociological Association, Sociology of Work Section.
  • 2022 – “Between safety and self-realization – meaning of work in narrations of young Polish data analysts”. International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work”, Polish Sociological Association, Sociology of Work Section.
  • 2021 – “POLPAN in International Context: Moving Towards Harmonization in the CNB-Young Project” (with A. Kiersztyn, Z. Sawiński, K. Kopycka, R. Żulicki, V. Sovpenchuk). Conference “Harmonized Longitudinal Data on Social Structure: Polish Research in a Cross-National Perspective.”
  • 2021 – “How to measure precarious employment in an international comparative perspective?” (with A. Kiersztyn and K. Kopycka). Conference “Methodological Inspirations 2021: Quantitative Research in Social Sciences – Challenges and Problems.”
  • 2020 – “Discourse and diversity in outsourced work: a cross-country comparison”. International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work”, Polish Sociological Association, Sociology of Work Section.

Research Stays and Workshops

  • December 2022 – Research workshop, University of Bamberg (Germany). Paper presentation: “Between non-standard employment, ideology of work and employment precarity.”
  • September–October 2022 – Research visit, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil) and University of São Paulo (Brazil). Academic activities included:
    • Paper presentation: “Como entender a precarização do emprego na Polônia?” [How to understand the precarization of employment in Poland] at the Sociology of Work research group meeting, University of São Paulo.
    • Participation in academic debates: “A ideologia do trabalho para compreender o mundo do trabalho hoje” [Ideology of work to understand the world of work nowadays] and “A precarização do trabalho na América Latina e Leste Europeu” [Precarization of work in Latin America and Eastern Europe] at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
  • September 2022 – Research workshop “Precarization and Resistance”, organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) at University of Tunis El Manar (Tunis, Tunisia). Paper presentation: “Ideology of work among workers with non-standard employment in Poland. The case of post-Fordist ideology of work.”