Ilona Wysmułek



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Imię i nazwisko

Ilona Wysmułek

Stopnie i tytuły naukowe

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Stanowisko

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E-mail

ilona.wysmulek@ifispan.edu.pl

Pokój

253

Filozofia/Socjologia

Socjologia

Zespół badawczy

Zespół Porównawczych Analiz Nierówności Społecznych

Wykształcenie

2011–2018 PhD in Sociology (with distinction). Graduate School for Social Science, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland)

Dissertation: Informal Payments in Public Schools: the Determinants of Corruption Perception and Behavior in Europe (supervisors: prof. dr. hab. Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and dr. hab Zbigniew Sawinski, IFIS PAN)

2012 MA in Culture, Media and Society. Polish Academy of Science (Poland) and Lancaster University (Great Britain)

2008 MA in Philology with qualifications of English and German language and literature teacher, entrepreneur, National University of Ostroh Academy (Ukraine)

Additional training (selected)

2019 – SERISS Training on Cross-National Comparative Research. Instructors: Gundi Knies and Dr Min Zhang, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 18-19.

2018 – Social Data Analysis: Theories and Methods. An Introduction to the Computational Social Science approach. Instructor: Camilo Cristancho (Universitat de Barcelona), held at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University, October 6.

2016Applications of Hierarchical Linear Models. SOCI 20112. Instructor: S. Raudenbush. The University of Chicago. Spring term. (audit)

2015Research Data Management. Instructor: Kevin Ashley (director of the Digital Curation Center, University of Edinburg). Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling. June 22.

2014 – The Ohio State Summer School in Social Sciences. 7th edition. Instructors: Kazimierz Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. Warsaw, Poland. Summer term.       

Professional Interests

Survey methodology, cross-national comparative studies, corruption research, educational inequalities

Language Skills

Ukrainian (native), Russian (native), English (fluent), Polish (fluent), German (competent)

Doświadczenie zawodowe

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles 

Wysmułek, Ilona. 2019. Using Public Opinion Surveys to Evaluate Corruption in Europe: Trends in the Corruption Items of 21 International Survey Projects, 1989–2017. Quality & Quantity 53, nr 5: 2589–2610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00873-x.

Wysmulek, Ilona. 2018. Europe of Uneven Data: Country Representation in International Surveys on Corruption, 1989–2017. Ask: Research and Methods, 27(1), 87–104.

Wysmulek, Ilona 2017. Corruption in Schools? Scale and Sources of Corruption Perception and Bribe-Giving Experience in Poland, Edukacja. Kwartalnik, nr. 4 (143): 41-55.

Baczko-Dombi, Anna and Ilona Wysmułek. 2015. Determinants of Success in Public Opinion in Poland: Factors, Directions and Dynamics of Change, Polish Sociological Review nr. 3(191): 277- 293.

Wysmułek, Ilona. 2012. Language Immersion Program in the Montessori Preschool Setting. VI Jauno Zinatnieku Konference, Riga Vol 6: 213-220.

Ilona Babiyets. 2009. „Montessori Method in Teaching Foreign Languages.” Науковізаписки 11: 446-454.

Data

Corruption Items in Cross-National General Surveys (1989-2017)”, Wysmułek, Ilona. 2017, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DL9QCE, Harvard Dataverse, V1.

Survey Data Recycling SDR Master Box. Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Jenkins, J. Craig; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina; Kołczyńska, Marta; Wysmułek, Ilona; Oleksiyenko, Olena; Powałko, Przemek; Zieliński, Marcin W., 2017, doi:10.7910/DVN/VWGF5Q, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Books

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Ilona Wysmułek, eds. 2016. Social Inequality and the Life Course: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013. Warsaw, Poland: IFiS Publishers.

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, with Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek and Ilona  Wysmułek, eds. 2016. Dynamics of Social Structure: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013.  Warsaw, Poland: IFiS Publishers.

Słomczyński, Kazimierz M., Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, J. Craig Jenkins, with Marta Kołczyńska,  Przemek Powałko, Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyanko, Marcin W. Zieliński and Joshua K.  Dubrow. 2016. Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Harmonization of Data from International  Survey Projects. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Book Chapters 

Oleksiyenko, Olena, Ilona Wysmulek and Anastas Vangeli. 2018. “Data and Documentation Quality Check: Cross-national Surveys Quality in the Light of Data Harmonization”. Chapter in the edited book Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multicultural, Multinational and Multiregional Contexts. red. Johnson, Pennell, Stoop and Dorer, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Povitkina, Marina and Ilona Wysmulek. 2017. “Quantitative methods in researching corruption: surveys, cross-national studies, and measurement issues.” Pp. 25-34 in How to Research Corruption, edited by Anna K. Schwickerath, Aiysha Varraich and Laura-Lee Smith, Mannheim:ICRN; (nbn-resolving.de)

Wysmulek, Ilona. 2016. „What Can the Government Do about Corruption? Public Perception of Government Effectiveness.” Pp. 69-84 in Social Inequality and the Life Course. Poland’s Transformative Years 1988-2013, edited by Kazimierz Slomczynski, Ilona Wysmułek, Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Oleksiyenko, Olena and Ilona Wysmulek. 2016. „Structural Determinants of Foreign Language Skills.” In Social Inequality and the Life Course: Poland Transformative Years, 1988-2013, edited by: K.M. Slomczynski and I. Wysmulek. Warsaw: IFiS PAN Publishers.

Baczko-Dombi, Anna, Wysmułek, Ilona. 2016. „Perceived Determinants of Success: Factors and Dynamics of Change.” In Dynamics of Social Structure: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988– 2013, edited by Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, with Danuta Życzyńska- Ciołek and Ilona Wysmułek. Warsaw, Poland: IFiS Publishers.

Ilona Wysmulek. 2016. “Corruption during Transformations of Polish Society: Survey Data Analysis of Perceived Changes and their Determinants.” POMP Working Paper Series, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford sant.ox.ac.uk)

In Polish 

Wysmułek, Ilona. 2017. „Rząd wobec korupcji? Główne uwarunkowania percepcji walki z korupcją.” Pp. in Rozwarstwienie społeczne, edited by Anna Kiersztyn, Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Wysmulek, Ilona and Olena Oleksiyenko. 2017. „Angielski czy rosyjski? Kompetencje językowe i ich strukturalne uwarunkowania”. Pp. in Rozwarstwienie społeczne, edited by Anna Kiersztyn, Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Baczko-Dombi, Anna and Ilona Wysmułek. 2017. „Czynniki sukcesu w świadomości społecznej : uwarunkowania, kierunki i dynamika zmian.” Pp. in Rozwarstwienie społeczne, edited by Anna Kiersztyn, Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Other Publications 

Wysmułek, Ilona. 2017. Measuring Perceptions: Comparability of Corruption Items in Crossnational Surveys. In Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Hamonization in the Social Sciences, edited by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Josh Dubrow, 3(2), 6-12.

Wysmulek, Ilona. 2016/2017. Creating a ‘Common File’ of Source Variables for Ex-post Harmonization of International Surveys featuring Corruption Items. In Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Hamonization in the Social Sciences, edited by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Josh Dubrow, 2(2), 19-24.

Wysmułek, Ilona, Olena Oleksiyenko, Przemek Powałko, Marcin W. Zieliński, Kazimierz M. Słomczynski. 2015. Towards Standardization: Target Variable Report Template in the Harmonization Project. In Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Hamonization in the Social Sciences, edited by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Josh Dubrow, 1(2), 13-17.

Wysmułek, Ilona, Olena Oleksiyenko, and Anastas Vangeli. 2015. Processing Errors in Crossnational Surveys:Insights from the Harmonization Project. In Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Hamonization in the Social Sciences, edited by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Josh Dubrow, 1(1), 15-17.

 

Pełnione funkcje w organizacjach, towarzystwach i gremiach naukowych

Board member:

Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network: https://www.icrnetwork.org/who-we-are-1/members/ilona-wysmulek/

RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development of the International Sociological Association (ISA): https://rc09socialtransformations.org/

Other professional associations:

Polish Sociological Association (PTS: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne)

World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)

Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI)

European Sociological Association (ESA)

European Survey Research Association (ESRA)

Realizowane projekty badawcze

2020-2023 Principal investigator: Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Empirical Research: Critical Reflections on Concepts, Data and Methods – European Grant within a Constructive Advanced Thinking Program for interdisciplinary research teams of early-career researchers. 

2017-2021 Core team: Survey Data Recycling: New Analytic Framework, Integrated Database, and Tools for Cross-national Social, Behavioral and Economic Research – Grant of the National Science Foundation. Principal investigators: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Craig Jenkins; a joint project of Polish Academy of Sciences and The Ohio State University.

2018-2021 Core team: Multidimensional Biographies and Social Structure: Poland 1988-2018 – Grant of the (Polish) National Science Center. Principal investigators: Professor Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. Polish Academy of Sciences.

2015-2016 Principal investigator: Mobility Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland for a 6 month research project Harmonization and Analyses of Data on Corruptive Behaviors in the Public Sector in Europe: Multilevel Modelling at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University; duration: [November 2015- May 2016].  

2014-2015 Principal investigator: Public Sector Corruption in Europe: Micro and Macro Determinants of Perception and Behavior – Grant for doctoral students’ research project in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Research; duration: [December 2014 – December 2015]

2013-2015 Research assistant: “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling” –  Grant of the (Polish) National Science Center. Principal investigator: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. Administered by the Institute of Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University [September 2013 – October 2015]

2013-2015 Research assistant: “Polish Panel Survey: Social Structure and Mobility.” Grant of the (Polish) National Science Center. Principal investigator: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. Administered by the Institute of Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Zagraniczne doświadczenia naukowe

2018 GESIS Grant: 1,5 month stay at Gesis research center (Mannheim, Germany) to work on joint projects with colleagues from the department on Survey Design and Methodology; supervisor at GESIS: Natalia Menold [February – March 2018]

2015-2016 Visiting researcher at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University and the National Opinion Research Center NORC, the University of Chicago (grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education 1292/MOB/IV/2015/0)

2008-2009. Fellowship at the Pultusk Academy, department of Pedagogy, supported by Erasmus Mundus Cooperation Window Lot 6 Scholarship (for research on teaching English in Montessori schools)

2005-2006 Canada World Youth exchange program participant

Stypendia naukowe

2012-2014 Full fee waiver and HESP stipend during the time of doctoral program in the Graduate School for Social Research

2007-2008 Academic scholarship of Pinchuk foundation ‘Zavtra.Ua’

Nagrody i wyróżnienia

2007 Honorable academic award of the Cabinet of Minister of Ukraine

Działalność dydaktyczna

Since 2018  Graduate School for Social Research, compulsory course for 1 year PhD students:
Empirical Research in the Social Sciences: Design, Implementation and Write-up
(course website: https://socialinquiry.wordpress.com/)
Part 1. Research Design and Implementation in Social Science (co-teaching with Irina Tomescu-Dubrow)
Part 2. Reading and Writing in Social Science (co-teaching with Joshua K. Dubrow)
2013 Globalization and Education (co-teaching with Marta Zahorska, Warsaw University, Poland)

2008-2013 – developing and teaching a course „Foreign Language in Montessori” in Krakow;  English Montessori teacher.

Wystąpienia na konferencjach, sympozjach, lub seminariach

Conferences  (selected)

2019 Ilona Wysmulek „Co-creation: Handbook on Researching Corruption” session organizer and presented a paper “Education systems, corruption and bribe-giving in Europe” at the 4th Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Forum “Varieties of (anti)corruption: Learning from the past for the future”, Kiev, Ukraine, June 13-15

2018 Ilona Wysmulek. “Public Sector Corruption, Inequality and Social Transformations” session organizer and chair at the International Sociological Association ISA World Congress of Sociology. Toronto, Canada, July 15-21.

2018 Ilona Wysmulek “Education Systems, Corruption and Bribe-Giving in Europe” paper presented at the ISA World Congress of Sociology. Toronto, Canada, July 15-21.

2018 Ilona Wysmulek “Inter-survey variability of corruption measures: Implications of harmonization procedures” paper presented at the CSDI workshop in Limerick, Ireland, March 26-28.

2017 Ilona Wysmulek and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski “Measuring Perceptions: Comparability of Corruption Items in Cross-National Surveys” paper presented at the Gesis symposium “Advances in Scale Development in the Social Sciences: Issues of Comparability”, Mannheim, Germany, November 14-15.

2017 Ilona Wysmulek “Corruption and Inequality in Schools in Central and Eastern Europe: Prevalence and Structural Patterns” paper presented at the 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Athens, Greece, August 29 – September 01.

2017 Ilona Wysmulek “From Concept to Variable: Corruption Items in Cross-national Questionnaires” paper presented at the ICRN FORUM PARIS “How to conceptualize corruption? Understanding corruption to design effective policies”, Sciences Po Paris and the E4J Initiative, Paris, France, June 15-16.

2017 Ilona Wysmulek “Applying ex-post harmonization of corruption items from cross-national survey projects” paper presented at the CSDI workshop, the University of Mannheim, Germany, March 16- 18.

2016 Ilona Wysmułek “International Survey Data on Corruption (1989-2013): Overview and Harmonization Implications” paper presented at the World Association for Public Opinion Research WAPOR 69th Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, United States, May 10-12.

2016 Ilona Wysmułek “Cross-national Survey Data on Corruption: Hierarchical Linear Models” paper presented at the 8th workshop on Mathematical Modeling, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, United States, May 6-7.

2016 Olena Oleksiyenko, Ilona Wysmułek “Quality of Data Processing in International
Social Survey Project ( 1985 – 2011): evaluation and potential threads” paper prepared for ISSP General Assembly Research Session, Kaunas, Lithuania, May, 1.

2015 Ilona Wysmułek, Anna Baczko-Dombi  “Between Connections and Meritocracy: Dynamics of Public Opinion on Determinants of Success in Poland (1988 -2013)” paper presented at the 12th conference of the European Sociological Association “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination”, Prague, Czech Republic, August 25-28.

2015 Olena Oleksiyenko, Ilona Wysmulek “New Educational Inequalities or Changing Preferences? Structural diversification of foreign language proficiency in Poland (1993-2013)” poster presented at the 12th conference of the European Sociological Association “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination”, Prague, Czech Republic, August 25-28.

2015 Olena Oleksiyenko, Ilona Wysmulek, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow Kazimierz M. Słomczyński „Harmonizing Large International Projects on Public Opinion: Challenges in Preparing Data for Quantitative Analysis, presented at the conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), University of Reykjavik, July 13-17.

2015 Ilona Wysmulek, Olena Oleksiyenko „Processing Errors in the Cross-national Surveys”, presented at the conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), University of Reykjavik, July 13-17.

2015 Ilona Wysmulek “Corruption during transformations of polish society: survey data analysis of perceived changes and their determinants”, presented at the conference “Post-1945 Poland: Modernities, Transformations and Evolving Identities”, Program on Modern Poland POMP, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, June 11-12.

2015 Ilona Wysmulek, Olena Oleksiyenko “(In)consistency of survey data and their description” seminar given at the International Training Event on Survey Methodology “Cross-national Survey Harmonization and Analysis: Weights, Data Quality and Multi-level Modeling”, The Ohio State University, Columbus, May 11-16. Presentation available at https://dataharmonization.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/day-4-session-i-data-documentation-discrepancies-wysmulek-oleksiyenko.pdf

2015 Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyenko “Documentation Quality Assessment in Ex-Post Survey Harmonization: Implications for Comparative Research”, presented at the conference “Comparative Survey Design and Implementation”, City University in London, 26-28 March.

2014 Marta Kołczyńska, Mathew Schoene, Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyenko, Przemysław Powałko, Marcin Zieliński “Ocena jakości danych w procesie harmonizacji międzynarodowych projektów badań sondażowych”,  Paper presented at the conference „Metodologiczne inspiracje. Badania Ilościowe w Naukach Społecznych – Wyzwania i Problemy”, Poland,  Jabłonna, 24-26 September.

2014 Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Matthew Schoene, Marta Kolczynska, Przemek Powalko, Ilona Wysmulek and Olena Oleksiyenko, “Comparability of variables, Part I: Control variables for data quality” presented on the workshop “Comparability of Survey Data on Political Behavior following Ex-Post Harmonization of Selected Survey Projects”, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 8-9.

2014 Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Przemek Powalko, Ilona Wysmulek and Olena Oleksiyenko, „Comparability of variables, Part II: Control variables for validity and reliability of target variables” presented on the workshop “Comparability of Survey Data on Political Behavior following Ex-Post Harmonization of Selected Survey Projects”, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 8-9.

2014 Ilona Wysmułek “Citizenship Education in Action? Gift Exchange Practice in Ukrainian Schools”, referat prezentowany na konferencji międzynarodowej The RN10 Sociology of Education ESA “Education and Citizenship: theoretical issues, policies and practices”, Portugalia, Lizbona, 8 -9 września.

2014 Ilona Wysmułek “Corruption in educational institutions in Ukraine”, referat prezentowany na warsztatach międzynarodowych Expert-Ease Workshop w Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Budapeszt, Węgry, 26-28 lipca.

2014 Ilona Wysmułek, “Gift-giving in educational institutions in Poland and Ukraine: mixed method comparative study”, referat prezentowany na seminarium POLPAN prof. Kazimierza Słomczyńskiego, Warszawa, Polska, 10 czerwca.

2014 Anna Baczko-Dombi, Ilona Wysmułek “What do you need to succeed, Poles?”, Paper presented at the midterm ESA conference “25 Years After Communism: East and West of Europe in Search of Solidarity”, Poland, Gdańsk, 16-18 October.

2014 Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyenko “Multilingual Education of European Union – Backstage of Ideology”. Paper presented on the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology “Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology”, Japan, Yokohama, 13-19 July.

2014 Ilona Wysmułek, Anna Baczko- Dombi. „Determinants of Success” Paper presented on the POLPAN workshop, Warsaw, IFiS, March 20-21.

2014 Ilona Wysmułek, discussant in the session “Gender, politics and the labor market” giving comments to the papers of Sheri Kunovich (South Methodist University), Robert Kunovich (University of Texas) and Małgorzata Mikucka (University of Leuven) on the conference “The Polish Panel Survey POLPAN 1988-2013: A Cross-National Perspective”, Warsaw, IFiS, March19.

2013 Ilona Wysmułek, “Contextual Variables in the Harmonia Project” Paper presented on the workshop “Survey Data Harmonization”, IFiS, Warszawa, December 18-21.

2013 Olena Oleksiyenko, Ilona Wysmułek and Katarzyna Andrejuk, “Source Variables in the Harmonia Project” Paper presented on the workshop “Survey Data Harmonization”, IFiS, Warszawa December 18-21.

2013 Ilona Wysmułek. “Do ut Des: Gift Giving in Educational Institutions in Ukraine.” referat prezentowany na konferencji międzynarodowej “Informal Practices and Structures in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”, University of Fribourg, Friburg, Szwajcaria, 21-23 listopada.

 

Dorobek popularyzatorski

2013 Ilona Wysmułek, “Education and Democracy: Choice Making as a Skill.” Presentation at the TEDx Polish Academy of Science,Warsaw, Poland, May 18 http://tedxpolishacademyofsciences.com/speakers/ilona-wysmulek/

Inne

2015-2016 – volunteer at the Kosciuszko Foundation, Chicago Chapter, United States

2014-2012 – co-organizer and leading teacher of the Montessori 30-hour certificate program „Montessori i Język Obcy”, Montessori foundation „Ziarenko maku”, Krakow, Poland

2013 – Co-teacher of “Globalization and Education” course in Warsaw University, under supervision of dr hab. Marta Zahorska, Warsaw, Poland

2013-2008 – English Montessori teacher, working with 3-6 age year old group; teaching experience in Ukraine (2008-2009), Poland (2009; 2010-2013) and Latvia (2010)

2008-2007 – Full time English language teacher responsible for teaching students from Political Science and Information Management Departments in the National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine

 

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