Katarzyna Iwinska is sociologist and Vice-rector for Scientific Research at Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. She worked as expert and research coordinator in international and national projects concerning public participation and energy transition. Her research focuses on environmental sociology, civil society, public perception of energy transition, and decision making processes. She also has broad academic teaching experience – she has published a book “Widening Interdisciplinary Sustainable Education” built on the sustainability case- and project-based teaching methods (Eds. Iwinska, Jones, Kraszewska 2018).
Xymena Bukowska is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. Her research interests include: civil society, democracy and citizenship theory, as well as cultural sociology, political culture and identity in the (late) modern societies – both at national andat local level. Her recently published work is Women’s Silesia: tradition, activity and ecology [Slask kobiet: tradycja, aktywnosc i ekologia], (Eds. Iwinska, Bukowska, 2018).