The University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education university links: | home | contacts | search |

Marta Moskal

Research Fellow

Email: m.moskal@ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6278
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6239

 

Biographical details

Marta Moskal is Marie Curie Post-doc Research Fellow at CES. She works closely with Professor Jenny Ozga as her mentor. She joined CES in 2008, first as visiting research fellow working on project ‘Families and children of Polish migrant workers in Scotland: integration versus schooling system’ (Royal Society of Edinburgh grant), and then as Marie Curie research fellow working on Education and Migrants Integration project (since April 2008). Before coming to CES Dr Moskal was lecturer at Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland).

 

Research

Marta Moskal’s main research interests include regional comparative policy and immigrant and ethnic minority policy in European context. Main research studies and consulting projects are on topics linked with identity, family and children migration, intercultural education, ethnic minorities and immigrant’s bilingualism, language policy, educational policy, social inclusion/exclusion and quality of life.

 

Current and Recent Research

2006-2007: Migration, identity dynamic and construction of social differences: the case of Polish migration in Scotland, Post-doctoral Project at IASH, University of Edinburgh
2001-2004: PhD Thesis on policy towards minority languages and cultures in European Union countries, focusing on the comparative regional policy studies

 

Selected papers and publications

Published Papers
Moskal, S. and Moskal, M., (2007) Sociology of Rural Areas and Development/ Socjologia wsi i rozwoju, Krakow: AR Krakow Press.
Journal Articles
Moskal, M. and Ozga J. (2008) Europeanisation and Education in post-enlargement Europe: policy for citizenship education in Scotland. Journal of Education Policy (submitted)

Moskal, M., (2008) Family migration and transnational habitus in post-enlargement Europe. European societies (submitted)

Moskal, M., (2007) To which space do I belong? The Polish migrants sense of place and imagining citizenship. Political Geography Studies: European multiculturalism as a challenge - policies, successes and failures, Vol. 1, pp. 77-88.

Moskal, M., (2007) Multicultural regions and language policies in the EU countries. Region and Regionalism. Region in the process of European Integration, Vol. 8(1), pp. 89-102.

Moskal, M., (2006) Migration and the quality of life in the Malopolska region/ Migracje a jakosc zycia w Malopolsce. Krakowskie Studia Malopolskie, Vol. 10, pp. 52-65.

Moskal, M., (2006) Finding ways to manage multi-ethnicity in the regions of Poland Language Policy, Vol. 5(4), pp. 68-85.

Moskal, M., (2004) Education and ethno-linguistic identity in Malopolska region/ Edukacja a tozsamosc etniczno-jezykowa w wojewodztwie malopolskim. Krakowskie Studia Malopolskie, Vol. 8, pp. 321-337.

Moskal, M., (2004) Language minorities in Poland at the moment of accession to the EU, Journal of Sociolinguistics (on-line).

Moskal, M., (2002) Place and Role of regional culture in policy of the EU/ Miejsce i rola kultury regionalnej w polityce Unii Europejskiej. Krakowskie Studia Malopolskie, Vol. 6, pp. 70-78.

Moskal, M., (2002) Policy on regional and minority languages in France/ Polityka wobec jezykow regionalnych i mniejszosciowych we Francji. Zarzadzanie w Kulturze, Zeszyty Naukowe UJ, Prace Wydzialu Zarzadzania i Komunikacji Spolecznej UJ, Vol. 5(3), pp. 121-134.

Moskal, M., (2001) The ethno-territorial identity change in the border regions of little Poland Region and Regionalism - Changing role of border area and regional policies, Vol. 5, pp. 193-201.
Published Conference Papers
Moskal, M., (2007) Polish migration industry: institutional settings of immigrant mobilization and self-organization. IMISCOE Cluster A1 Workshop, Home of Geography, Rome, Italy.

Moskal, M., (2005) Polish migrants in the New Europe: social, demographic and economic contours Proceedings of 17th Annual Meeting of Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Central European University and Corvinus University, Budapest.

Moskal, M., (2004) Minority languages and cultures education in Poland in Linguistic diversity and education: challenges and opportunities. Proceedings of the III Mercator International Symposium, Fryske Academy, Ljouwert.

Moskal, M., (2004) Language Policy and Protection of Endangered Languages in Poland in On the Margins of Nations: Endangered Languages and Linguistic Rights, Proceedings of the Eighth FEL Conference, Ed. Argenter, J.A. and McKenna Brown, R.,, UNESCO Chair on Languages and Education and Foundation for Endangered Languages.