mgr Kseniya Homel

mgr Kseniya Homel

She graduated from the Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization, University of Warsaw. Kseniya is currently a PhD student at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Research interests include issues of  entrepreneurship among individuals with migration experience, particularly women, the functioning of support networks, and forms of self-organization in areas where there are no systemic solutions from the state and the mainstream society.

She is conducting research projects on women’s entrepreneurship with migration experience: NCN Preludium 21 “Strategies for achieving agency in the masculinized world of business: a sociological analysis of entrepreneurial trajectories of female migrants in Poland” (2022/45/N/HS6/01241), and IDUB CESS “Business in a New Country: Strategies of Female Migrants and Entrepreneurial Support Infrastructure in Poland and Italy.”

Kseniya has collaborated with think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and social initiatives, including ODI, the Institute of Public Affairs, the Association of Legal Intervention, Inicjatywa Dom Otwarty Foundation, and others.

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Research projects