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Dr. Małgorzata Ćwikła – Lecturer Environmental and Sustainability Studies

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ĆwikłaMałgorzata Ćwikła's main research interests include ecology, sustainable management practices, the future of work during the climate emergency, and creative responses to environmental challenges.

She graduated in Polish Philology from the University of Wrocław and completed two PhD studies, one in management and the second in the Interdisciplinary PhD program 'Society – Environment – Technology' at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Małgorzata worked for several years at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University, where she developed a strong interest in environmental humanities and sustainability studies. In parallel, she completed numerous courses on landscape ecology, the human-caused climate crisis, nature in cities, and transdisciplinary approaches to research.

Since 2021, she has been working at ICLEI Europe Local Governments for Sustainability, collaborating, among others, with the New European Bauhaus Initiatives, the European Environmental Agency, and diverse consortia implementing international projects supporting sustainable ambitions in cities.

At University College Freiburg, she is a lecturer in the Major Environmental and Sustainability Sciences.

Selected research projects

  • since 2023 – INHERIT. Next Generation Solutions for Sustainable, Inclusive, Resource-efficient and Resilient Cultural Heritage (work package leader at ICLEI Europe, Horizon Europe)
  • since 2021 – Be.CULTOUR. Beyond CULtural TOURism: heritage innovation networks as drivers of Europeanisation towards a human-centred and circular tourism economy (work package leader at ICLEI Europe, Horizon 2020)
  • 2021 – 2022 Testing diffractive method in management studies (project leader, Polish National Research Center)
  • 2021 – Towards pro-ecological solutions in managing cultural projects (project leader, Strategic Program Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University)

Selected publications

  • Ćwikła, M., Lindell, E. (2023), Images of the "future of work". A discourse analysis of visual data on the internet, Futures, Volume 153, 103235.
  • Ćwikła, M. (2023), To Measure the Carbon Footprint of a Culture. A Case Study of a Theatrical Project, Culture Management, Vol. 24, No. 3, 119-138 (in Polish).
  • Ćwikła, M. (2023), On the trail of entanglements in cultural institutions: an attempt at diffractive analysis in a moonless city, [in:] Hacking the Anthropocene: new concepts of more-than-human communities in ecological speculative fabulations, ed. M. Sugiera, Jagiellonian University Press, 239-262 (in Polish).
  • Ćwikła, M. (2023), Sustainable Project Management: A Critical Literature Review, Research Papers of Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Vol. 67, No. 5, 87-100 (in Polish).
  • Ćwikła, M. (2019), Good Labor. Affirmative Work Awareness and Hope [in:] Organising goodness and hope – Narratives beyond interregnum, eds. M. Kostera, M., D. Ericsson, Edward Elgar, 188-198.
  • Ćwikła, M. (2021), Management in the Anthropocene and What Comes Out of It. Analysis of the Literature on the Entanglement of Phenomena, Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 1, No. 47, 26-42 (in Polish).
  • Ćwikła, M. (2017), Cultural Projects in 2030: A Performative Approach, [in:] ReThinking Management. Perspectives and Impacts of Cultural Turns and Beyond, eds. Küpers, W., Sonnenburg, S., Zierold, M., Springer VS, 97-114.