Professor Marta Moskal
- Professor of Migration and Diversity (Education)
email:
Marta.Moskal@glasgow.ac.uk
St Andrews Building, 11, Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH
Biography
Marta Moskal joined the School of Education at Glasgow from Durham University (2017-20). She trained at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the University of Montpellier in geography, sociology and public policy and received a PhD from Jagiellonian in 2004. She then was Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh (2006-07), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh (2008-11), and Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow (2012-16).
Her research explores how marginalisation in education and society can be understood and addressed. Her work demonstrates cultural and social diversity promotes optimal education and career outcomes. And how this knowledge can be translated into fair and inclusive policies and practices for migrant young people, students, workers, refugees and families to help them realise their best contribution, including the influx of international students to Higher Education in the UK.
Her research is funded by the European Commission, Economic and Social Research Council, Art and Humanities Research Council and British Academy. Her work is published in leading international journals, including International Migration Review, Global Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Educational Development, Globalisation Society and Education, Geoforum, Children's Geographies, Race, Ethnicity and Education and elsewhere.
She was UK lead for two projects funded by European Commission - Inter4Ref “Accreditation framework to up-skill interpreters to support social inclusion of refugees” and ReCulm “Resources for local and international intercultural mediators addressing the refugees’ needs”. She led design and delivery of the massive open online courses (MOOCs):
Interpreting for Refugees: Contexts, Practices and Ethics
Working Supportively with Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives
Research interests
- migration and transnationalism
- race, ethnicity and education
- geographies of children, youth and families
- international students, higher education and skills
- minority rights and cultural diversity
- comparative and international education
- sustainability education
- sociology of education
Grants
British Academy/Leverhulme 2023-25 Housing precarity in the social transitions of international students, Co-I (with Ben Mulvey)
Chancellor's Fund 2022-24 Internationalisation at home, PI
College Strategic Research Fund 2022 University to work transitions among international student graduates, PI
EC Erasmus+ 2018-21 Inter4Ref: CVET and accreditation framework to up-skill interpreters to support the social inclusion of refugees, UK PI with National Centre for Social Research Athens, Greece - Coordinator, University of Modena, Italy and University of Almeria, Spain, EOPPEP, Greece (Euros 260,147)
AHRC GCRF 2018-19 BIPHEC Building an intercultural pedagogy for higher education in conditions of conflict and protracted crises, Co-I at University of Durham (lead), with University of Istanbul, Turkey, University of Gaza, Palestine and University of Los Andes, Columbia (£53,942)
ESRC 2016-19 Here To Stay? Identity, Belonging and Citizenship among Eastern European Settled Migrant Children in the UK, Co-I with Daniela Sime PI, University of Strathclyde and Naomi Tyrrell, University of Plymouth (£339,852)
EC Erasmus+ 2016-18 ReCulm: Resources for local and international intercultural mediators addressing the refugees’ needs, UK PI with National Centre for Social Research Athens, Greece - Coordinator, University of Modena, Italy and University of Almeria, Spain. Project won Erasmus+ Good Practice Award (Euros 223,674)
ESRC IAA 2016-17 Racial Equality and Scottish School Education PI at Glasgow joint with Rowena Arshad, PI at Edinburgh (£8,530)
SUII 2015 Migrant Youth Identities in Post-Referendum Scotland Knowledge Exchange project, Co-I with University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh
British Academy/Leverhulme 2014-15 International student mobility, culture change and capacity building in sending countries, PI (£9,225)
Robertson Bequest + New Initiatives Fund, University of Glasgow 2014 Migration and Intimate Life, GRAMNet workshops 18 June and 14 November 2014 (with Francesca Stella)
Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn Fund 2012-13, International Students in UK Universities: Institutional Settings, Individual Life Projects and Identity Change, PI
EC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2008-10 MIGRATE: Post-enlargement Migration, Integration and Education: Polish Immigrants in Scotland at CES Edinburgh, Jenny Ozga - mentor (£180,000)
Royal Society of Edinburgh 2008 small grant at Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh, Families and children of Polish migrant workers in Scotland PI
IASH Postdoctoral Fellowship 2006-07 University of Edinburgh, funded by AHRC Migration, Identities and Diaspora programme, project Migration, identity dynamics and construction of social differences: Polish migrants in Scotland (£10,000)
Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) 2006 START competition Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher
Supervision
I am an experienced PhD supervisor. I welcome enquiries about doctoral supervision from students who share any of my research interests and who are keen on qualitative empirical studies or mixed methods research.
- Bacquet Quiroga, Gaston Esteban
Non-violence as a practice of equality: An exploration in a Chilean higher education classroom through critical participatory action research - Hu, Mei
How do potential differences of instiutional habitis of the UK - Izham, Nur Afzan Binti
KNOWLEDGE SHARING PRACTICES & INTERACTION PATTERNS AMONG ACADEMICIANS IN MALAYSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS - Jiang, Ruiqi
Exploring the concept of formal environmental education - KARAKUS, HATICE
Policy and political discourses - Nouraldeen, Munther
Refugee education in the UK: The case of Syrian children in Glasgow - Nygren, Lindsay Marie
The role of the university in international students’ employability in the UK
PhD Completed
Ania Gruszczyńska-Thompson Immigrant-background young adults giving accounts of themselves: agentic and dialogic reframing of parental cultural heritage (ESRC scholarship)
Keyu Zhai Social mobility and international graduates in China (CSC-UG scholarship)
Sihui Wang International students' participation in intercultural classroom at a the UK university (CSC-UG scholarship)
Yun Yu Church participation as intercultural encounter in the experiences of Chinese international students in the UK (CSC-UG scholarship)
External PhD examination
Hexuan Zhang A comparative study of Polish and Chinese student migrants in the UK motivation, integration and national identity, University College London
Dan Liu Students' Choice of Postgraduate Education at G University in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China University of Nottingham
Teaching
Current teaching
MSc Educational Studies programme:
- Sustainable Development and Education (course lead)
- Seminars in Contemporary Issues (course lead)
- Comparative Education (course lead)
Previous teaching
- International and Comparative Education (postgraduate/ course lead)
- Intercultural Communication and Education (podgraduate/ programme lead)
- Intercultural Communication (postgraduate/ course lead)
- International Development and Education (postgraduate)
- Education in a Global Age (3 level/ course lead)
- Race, Ethnicity, Migration (3 level/ guest lecturer)
- Advanced Research Methods (postgraduate)
- Applied Qualitative Methods (postgraduate)
- Introduction to Social and Educational Research (postgraduate)
- Social and Political Geography (1 level/ course lead)
- Social Demography (3 level/ course lead)
- BA/MA/MPhil/MSc dissertations (supervisior)