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dr Iwona Nowakowska

Biography

Assistant Professor at The Maria Grzegorzewska University Institute of Psychology. Graduate of Psychology (University of Warsaw, 2019), and PhD in this field (Maria Grzegorzewska University, 2022). Conducted research in the fields of: social and clinical psychology and individual differences. Her current research activity concentrates on prosociality (volunteering, philanthropy, socially responsible behaviors) and their correlates.

She leads grants awarded by internal and external funding bodies. She is the Principal Investigator of PRELUDIUM National Science Centre (Poland) grant: Longitudinal studies on prosocial tendencies during the late pandemic period: between own and others' welfare and present or future orientation (2022-23), and a beneficiary of a postdoc internship granted by Bekker NAWA programme, realized at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia, Italy.

In 2020-21 she coordinated a task within "University for All - Level up" grant at University of Warsaw, supporting the process of establishing a counselling centre for students with autism spectrum disorder, as well as creating novel tools for functional diagnosis of students. In 2017-19 she led research during a program promoting applied BA and MA theses, and evaluated the efficiency and social impact of anti-discriminatory workshops led by self-advocates with intellectual disability.

She published in, among others, Personality and Individual Differences, Current Psychology, Psychological Reports, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Education and Information Technologies.

She is an ad hoc reviewer for e.g., Personality and Individual Differences, Voluntas, Voluntary Sector Review, and SAGE Open.

Since 2021 she is a Co-Editor of Policy and Practice Section at Voluntary Sector Review journal (published by Bristol University Press, United Kingdom). Since 2023 she is also an Editorial Board Member of Current Psychology (published by Springer).

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