Research Team

Natasza
Kosakowska-Berezecka

Tomasz Besta

Magdalena Żadkowska

Sarah Martiny

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

WP 2 Leader

WP3 Leader

WP 1 Leader

Full Professor in the Division of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Gender at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). Her main area of research interest are cultural cues fostering gender equality within societies across the world. She also conducts research on backlash against communal men and universality of precarious manhood.

Works at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). His research focuses on personality and social psychology, especially collective action, crowd dynamics, and intergroup relations. He studies identity fusion and strong group identification among women’s rights advocates, political activists, participants of religious events and music festivals, football fans, and charity volunteers.

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gdansk, Poland. She is a researcher whose methodology is based on quantitative methods. She studies topics related to gender, intimate relationships and family. In the context of cultural differences, migration dynamics and workplace environments she focuses on couple’s relationship.

Sarah works as a full professor in social and community psychology at the Department of Psychology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her research is at the intersection of social, cultural and educational psychology. In her research she focuses on social inequality, stereotypes and discrimination, intergroup relations and well-being.

Göksu Celikkol

Jurand Sobiecki

Dorota Brzezińska

Kjaersti Thorsteinsen

She’s a social psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gdańsk. Her research interests include intergroup attitudes and behavior, social identities, majority-minority relations, intergroup inequality, collective action and support for social change.

PhD student; University of Gdansk; religiosity, gender, evolutionary psychology, cognitive dissonance. Psychologist and medical biologist working on broadening scientific toolkit by being responsible for statistical analyses, creating scientific tools, and writing publications.

University of Gdańsk, Poland
Teaching Assistant and PhD candidate in the Institute of Psychology. Psychologist and educator working on topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Kjaersti is a postdoctoral reseacher in Social Psychology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Her main research interests are the relationship between human development and wellbeing, including topics such as positive emotions, motivation and prosocial behavior.

Marte Olsen

Artur Sawicki

Kine Bjørneby Olsen

Krzysztof Jędrzejewski

Marte holds is a doctor of psychology and an advisor at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Her main research interests are the formation of social identities and gendered norms in childhood and social inequality.

His research interests include psychometrics and statistical methods in social sciences. More psychologically, he studies the motive of self-enhancement, especially narcissism in its various manifestations.

Kine is a PhD student at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her research interests revolve around social psychology, specifically gender studies, views on gender equality and well-being.

Recent graduate in psychology from the University of Gdansk. His academic interests are focused on cultural psychology and intergroup relations. He’s also keen on positive psychology. He enjoys music, photography and nature.

Marianna Mazur

Aleksandra Cupta

Grzegorz Małek

İlayda Kayım

She recently graduated psychology at University of Gdańsk. As part of her master’s thesis, she studied precarious manhood theory. Her main academic interests are clinical and cultural psychology. She’s also passionate about psychotherapy.

She is a first-year PhD candidate and Lab Manager at Protest Lab, as well as a Research Assistant in the Horizon Europe project “Men4Dem”. Her research focuses on misinformation in social media and strategies to build resistance to online manipulation, particularly among young men, in international research settings.

Fifth-year psychology student at the University of Gdańsk. His research focuses on the psychology of gender, particularly male gender identity, and factors contributing to men’s engagement in contemporary equality movements.

Bachelor’s graduate from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. Her research interests mainly focus on masculine identity, men’s out-group behaviors and their wel-lbeing.

Martyna Nitek

Julia Bilicka

Julia Strzałkowska

Kuba Rusek

Recent psychology graduate at the University of Gdańsk. Academically intrested in social, political and cultural psychology. Freshly passionate about data science, research methodology and science popularization.

Fifth year psychology student at the University of Gdańsk. Passionate about data analysis, research methods, and coding. A professional powerlifter with a strong commitment to both intellectual and physical growth.

Fifth year student of Psychology at the University of Gdańsk. Still exploring her interests in the field, especially around social and cross-cultural psychology. She helps managing project’s social media channels

Fifth-year psychology student at the University of Gdańsk. They are interested in cross-cultural and gender psychology and how video games affect the way children are raised.

Martyna Formela

Kaja Juszczenko

Dominik Cirocki

Mikołaj Tomaszewski

Forth year psychology student at the University of Gdańsk, specializing in intercultural psychology. Her academic interests include community psychology, cultural differences and social & gender norms.

Third year cultural studies student at the University of Gdańsk. Responsible for creating and managing our project’s social media. Researching visual culture with a focus on queer and feminist perspectives.

Fourth year psychology student at the University of Gdansk. He is interested in social psychology and research methodology. Passionate about running workshops about mental health among adolescents.

Fifth year psychology student at the University of Gdansk. My main areas of interest are mental health determinants, addiction and rehabilitation, mental resilience and motivation.