Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz

Dr Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz is a Marcin Król Fellow at Visegrad Insight and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sociology at the UCL Social Research Institute (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society), a Research Associate at the Conflict and Civicness Research Group at LSE IDEAS, and a Marcin Król Fellow at the Visegrad Insight in Warsaw, Poland. He has a track record of academic evidence-based research in the field of sociology with a focus on civil society, migration and European integration. In the past, he studied the social organization and civic identity of Polish migrants in the UK post-2004, the political mobilisation of Ukrainian migrants in Poland after Euromaidan, the social repercussions of Brexit in the UK, and grassroots civic activism across Europe. Dr Dunin-Wąsowicz’s academic training is in political sociology. He graduated from the New School for Social Research in New York City and obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His current research interests cover transnational entrepreneurs and businesses working towards civic end-goals in support of Ukraine, as well as how in the context of populism, social movements channel civic discontent, counter de-democratization, and enhance democratic resilience in Europe.