About us | Ethics Committee for Research Involving Humans
Composition of the Ethics Committee
Monika Jagielska, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. | Faculty of Law and Administration | Chair of the Ethics Committee
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=9202
Anna Kołodziej-Zaleska, PhD, Assoc. Prof. | Faculty of Social Sciences | Vice Chair of the Ethics Committee
She served as Secretary of the Ethics Committee at the University of Silesia from 2020 to 2024.
Her scientific work is focused mainly on the issues of family crises or development difficulties and problems with mental health experienced in the context of the family system, taking into account the importance of individual and social resources.
Her professional experience includes hospitals, clinics, counseling centers, schools, and kindergartens. The practical activities include the diagnosis of parents and children (especially from foster families, divorced families, and stepfamilies) and parent counseling.
The scientific achievements include articles published in scientific journals, international and interdisciplinary cooperation, books, book chapters, and scientific conferences. Scientific research focuses on the mental health of people experiencing normative and non-normative life crises. She has experience primarily in conducting research on pregnant and postnatal women, parents after divorce, stepparents, foster parents, parents of children with disabilities, and adolescents with disabilities and developmental difficulties.
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=42201
Magdalena Sitko-Dominik, PhD | Faculty of Social Sciences | Secretary of the Ethics Committee
Associate Professor, Doctor of Science, University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Arts and Educational Science in Cieszyn.
Since her employment at the University of Silesia, she has been conducting research involving people, in several areas:
- early school education;
- the situation of a teacher in the process of transformation and (also non-school) determinants of educational changes;
- educational policy;
- multi- and intercultural pedagogy.
She carries out research activities outside Poland as well. As a result of the established cooperation, she has completed 13 longer (at least one-month) research internships at such universities as: Curtin University of Technology, Perth (Australia), Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg (Russia), Boris Grinchenko University of Kiev, Kiev (Ukraine). Three longer than one-month internships and research activities at the following universities abroad were a result of competitions by the Office for Academic Recognition and International Exchange and the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange: University of Ostrava, Ostrava (Czech Republic), Ivan Franko State University of Zhytomyr, Zhytomyr (Ukraine), Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica (Slovakia). She also carried out research activities for a period of less than one month at the following universities: Twente University, Enschede (Netherlands); Lusiada Lisbon University, Lisbon (Portugal); University of Extramadura, Badajoz (Spain). She also participated in numerous teaching and training internships within the Erasmus+ program.
As regards activities related to the implementation of scientific projects financed from domestic and foreign sources, in the last 10 years she has participated in eight grants, of which she coordinated four (as their applicant) and in one she acted as an expert. She has also participated in five didactic projects – coordinating two of them and in two others acting as an expert. She also coordinated activities in two projects of organizational nature. She obtained funds for research activities carried out outside Poland twice as part of the Freedom of Research.
She is a member of the Academy of Acmeology of Ukraine, the Association for Supporting Intercultural Education, the Polish-Czech Scientific Society, the Section of School Pedagogy operating under the patronage of the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences; and of the Commission for Pedagogical Profession also operating under the patronage of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
e-mail: annaszafranska@interia.eu; anna.gadzica@us.edu.pl
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=6222
Doctor of Science, Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice. She specializes in ethics and bioethics. As a member of two bioethics committees (the Bioethics Committee of the Medical University of Silesia and the Bioethics Committee of the Silesian Medical Chamber), she participates in reviewing medical experiments involving human participants. Since 2016 member of the Ethics Committee at the University of Silesia.
e-mail: danuta.sleczek-czakon@us.edu.pl
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=33462
Associate Professor, Doctor of the University of Silesia, heads the Centre for Research on Stuttering and Cluttering at the University. She is also a co-founder and President of the Logopedic Centre Foundation (Fundacja Centrum Logopedyczne, www.fcl.org.pl).
Her research and clinical practice focus primarily on stuttering and cluttering. She holds the European Certificate in Stuttering (www.certifiedeuropeanstutteringspecialists.eu) and serves as a lecturer within the European Stuttering Specialization (www.stutteringspecialization.eu).
She actively participates in numerous research projects, including the International Project on Attitudes Toward Human Attributes (IPATHA). At the 11th Oxford Conference on Fluency Disorders, she received the David Rowley Award for international initiatives in the field of stuttering. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigious title of ASHA Fellow (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association).
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=31692
Associate Professor, Doctor. Plenipotentiary of the Dean for International Academic Exchange at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Univerity of Silesia in Katowice.
He is employed as a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include determinants of decision-making in the context of anomalous behavior, quantum probability theory, human-computer interaction and experimental research. For more than 10 years he has been an active Expert Witness at the District Court in Katowice, which makes him particularly sensitive to ethical issues related to research conducted on minors.
As an expert in the discipline of psychology, he has also supported extensive research on children; including one focusing on discrimination at school from the perspective of students and teachers. The study included a sample of more than 1,000 individuals, providing valuable insights into developmental psychology and educational practices.
Dr. Bożek has conducted psychological research in AI-based projects with funding in excess of 1 million $. He has overseen psychological components in several AI-based start-ups and conducted commercially funded laboratory research for entities at the top of the Shanghai List. His recent publications also include experimental research on the trauma effects of terrorist propaganda on researchers.
As a scientific advisor, he has assisted institutions such as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) with the substantive support of behavioral detection programs carried out in cooperation with the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC). His work focuses on behavioral detection and the use of artificial intelligence in predicting and preventing anomalous behavior of people in airport space.
Among his notable scientific achievements is the creation of the Silesian Deception Database in cooperation with the Silesian University of Technology and the Katowice Police School. This advanced database of experimental recordings has been used by more than 25 research teams around the world in their computer vision and machine learning endeavors.
Selected Publications:
- Radlak, K., Bożek, M., & Smolka, B. (2015). Silesian Deception Database – Presentation and Analysis. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection, s. 29-35, Seattle, USA.
- Lakomy, M., & Bożek, M. (2023). Understanding the Trauma-related Effects of Terrorist Propaganda on Researchers. Global Network on Extremism and Technology.
- Jarosz, E., Dobosz, D. M., Hetmańczyk, H. H., i in. (2023). Dyskryminacja w szkole: perspektywa uczniów i nauczycieli. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Gnome. ISBN 978-83-63268-76-3.
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=2012
Doctor, Associate Professor. She completed her master’s degrees in psychology and philosophy at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She holds a PhD in social sciences (psychology) from the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw.
She works as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology and the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Silesia in Katowice. She is a member of the Ethics Committee at the University of Silesia since 2020.
Her research interests include:
- behavioral addictions and substance addictions,
- spirituality, religiosity, forgiveness, and gratitude,
- well-being,
- work attitudes and ethics at work,
- psychometrics and statistics.
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=35411
Doctor, Associate Professor at the Institute of Pedagogy, University of Silesia in Katowice. He has completed internships and study visits at institutions such as the University of Birmingham, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the University of Oxford, and the University of Oslo. He is an associate member of the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF) in Canada and the Children’s Worlds research team.
He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, School of Education, University of Birmingham. He serves as a reviewer and a member of the Editorial Boards of journals such as Child Protection and Practice, Child Abuse & Neglect, Child Indicators Research, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, International Gifted Education, Gifted Child Quarterly, and Children and Youth Services Review. His research interests include environmental and educational support for gifted children and youth, emotional neglect, and methodological solutions for diagnosing and optimising the well-being of children and youth.
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=56803
Doctor, Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Silesia and a cognitive-behavioral therapist.
She has conducted research with human subjects – including children and clinical populations – at several institutions in the United States, including the University of Georgia, National Institutes of Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Emory University School of Medicine. Her research interests include dysregulated eating, addictions and posttraumatic stress.
Currently, she serves as the primary investigator (PI) in a project investigating associations among posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, food addiction and health biomarkers (Opus 2021/41/B/HS6/04029) at the University of Silesia. She participates in continuing education workshops focused on ethical aspects of clinical work annually.
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=65583
Doctor, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences in University of Silesia in Katowice. His research interests include comparative embryology of squamate reptiles (Squamata) with special emphasis on the morphogenesis of sensory organs. Member of the Advisory Board for the welfare of animals used for scientific or educational purposes at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Silesia.
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=PE190167
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Doctor, Sociologist, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at University of Silesia in Katowice. Research interests cover sociology of work, economic sociology and just transition. For many years was researching in the field of trust and risk. Author of numerous articles, author and co-author of five books and redactor of edited volumes.
Scientific coordinator in Just Transition Research Group at the University of Member of Just Transition Research Collaborative at UNSDP. Co-author of report Propozycje rekomendacji dla obszaru sprawiedliwa transformacja prepared for Ministry of Climate (2020).
Research coordinator and research team member in numerous research projects for Marshal Office of Silesia, Province Office of Silesia, Town Hall of Katowice and other.
Contact: https://ab.us.edu.pl/emp?id=28622