Associate Professor Maciej Bernasiewicz

Position: Professor of the University

Staff group: Research-teaching staff

Expertise: pedagogy

Room: 220 & 137

Phone: 32 359 98 12

Academic biography

– 2003 Master of Arts in pedagogy (with major in special pedagogy and rehabilitation); University of Silesia in Katowice

– 2005 Master of Arts in sociology. University of Silesia in Katowice

– 2004 Employment at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology (currently Faculty of Social Sciences), University of Silesia in Katowice

– 2008 Doctor of Pedagogy (PhD), supervisor prof. Zbyszko Melosik, University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań)

– 2015 Associate professor, University of Silesia in Katowice

Research

– Pedagogy of rehabilitation (especially the methodology and programs of rehabilitation)

– Criminology (the determinants of crime and delinquency and contemporary criminological conceptions)

– Sociology of culture (modern lifestyles and youth cultures)

– Sociology of family (transformations of family life, parental attitudes).

Main achievements, distinctions, awards

– Winning the NCN Miniatura Grant (single activity under the title “Research, Education, and the Functioning of the System in Crime Prevention in North Carolina State, US”, nr DEC.: 2019/03/X/HS6/00337 z dn. 23.10.2019. The planned fellowship (April 2021) serves to establish academic relations with researchers and lecturers who teach on Criminal Justice Masters degree programs at The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina in Pembroke (US). The aim of the visit is to obtain comparatist knowledge in crime prevention and rehabilitation programs implemented in the US

– Reviewer and member of the scientific board in proceedings for awarding the associate professor and PhD degrees; reviewer in the procedure of considering appeals by the Central Commission for Degrees and Titles (until 2019) and The Board of Scientific Excellence (from 2019 to July 2020). Four times reviewer and six times member of the scientific board in the proceedings for awarding the associate professor degree in pedagogy and sociology. Four times reviewer in the proceedings for awarding a PhD degree and one time reviewer in appeal processing. One time PhD promotor/supervisor

– Ten times beneficiary of the Rector award (2010, 2012 – in two categories, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, by the Rector of University of Silesia) and by the Rector of University of Adam Mickiewicz (2011, 2013)

Fellowships, study visits, conferences

– Germany (Hamburger Volkshochschule and Freie Universität Berlin – twice)

– Austria (Pädagogische Hochschule Wien)

– Denmark (Via University College, Department of Social Work, Holstebro)

– Czech Republic (Ostravska Univerzita v Ostrave oraz Institut Mezioborovych Studii Brno).

– Slovakia (Uniwersytet Komeńskiego w Bratysławie)

Memberships in scientific and editorial boards

– Member of the scientific board of the publishing series “Behind the Curtain of Resocialisation”, Adam Marszałek Publishing House, Toruń

Reviewer in home-based and foreign scientific journals: Rocznik Naukowy AWFiS w Gdańsku (rok 2017), Pedagogika Społeczna (rok 2015, 2017, 2020), The New Educational Review (2015, 2017), Papers of Social Pedagogy (2019), Lubelski Rocznik Pedagogiczny (2020), Basic and Applied Social Psychology, USA (2018), International Journal about Parents in Education (2019)