Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak

Dr hab. Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak, University Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, Research Affiliate at the Life Course Centre (Australia) and Adam Smith Business School Affiliate at the University of Glasgow.

She specializes in labour economics (in particular, the evaluation of passive labour market policy instruments) and the economics of crime.

Since April 2024, she has been a member of the Scientific Council at the Educational Research Institute. Head of research projects funded by the National Science Centre (‘Registered unemployment as a non-traditional path of economic deactivation of the elderly. Analysis using longitudinal data on multiple events‘, 2019-2025), NAWA (’Changes in the period of receiving unemployment benefit, introduced in Poland in 2009, and their impact on the situation of the unemployed‘, 2023-2024), CERGE-EI Foundation and OECD (’Developing Public Employment Service for Economically Inactive People in Poland', 2024-2025). A Member of the Scientific Council at the Educational Research Institute (IBE).

She has received inter alia the START scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science, the Minister’s scholarship for outstanding young scientists, and was awarded the Dekaban-Liddle Senior Fellowship.

She has made study visits to Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad Pablo de Olavide en Sevilla, Universidad de Huelva, RWI Berlin, University of Glasgow, among others.