About me
Photo: Kozminski University, Inaugural Lecture 2025/26.
Professor Dr. Izabela Grabowska is a sociologist and economist and holds the title of Full Professor of Social Sciences. She is Professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw, where she founded and directs the CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility. Her research focuses on labour migration, mobility, skills, labour markets, social change, social remittances, and, increasingly, the relationships between artificial intelligence, automation, employment, and migration.
Professor Grabowska earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Warsaw. She also holds a Master’s degree in Economic Sciences from University College Dublin and a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Wrocław. She joined the Department of Economics at Kozminski University in 2021. From 2016 to 2021, she directed the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at SWPS University in Warsaw. Between 2002 and 2019, she worked at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and continues to contribute to the Centre as a member of its Scientific Board.
Professor Grabowska has played an active role in the development of European migration research networks. From 2008 to 2019, she served on the Executive Board and Board of Directors of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest interdisciplinary research network in the field of migration, integration, and social cohesion. In 2026, she rejoined the IMISCOE Board of Directors through the institutional membership of the CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility. She has also worked as a national expert for the European Commission, contributing to initiatives related to the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations classification, ESCO, and the European Mobility Partnership. She currently contributes her expertise to the European Labour Authority and the European Employment Services, EURES.
Her latest monographs include Fair Skilled Mobility: A Manifesto, co-authored with Mary Boatemaa Setrana and published by Taylor & Francis in 2026, and Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances, co-authored with Iryna Kyliushyk and Ewa Chról and published by Taylor & Francis in 2025. Her earlier books include Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital: Insights from Central Europe and Mexico, co-authored with Agnieszka Jastrzębowska and published by Routledge in 2022; The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change, co-authored with Anne White, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, and Krystyna Slany and published by UCL Press in 2018; and Migrants as Agents of Change, co-authored with Michał Garapich, Ewa Jaźwińska, and Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. She also co-edited Mobility in Transition: Migration Patterns after EU Enlargement, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2013.
Professor Grabowska has led numerous national and international research projects on migrants’ careers, skills and human capital, social remittances, peer groups and migration, the life courses of young migrants, Brexit-related mobility, and migrant integration. Since 2022, she has led the BigMig project, funded through the OPUS programme of the Polish National Science Centre, which investigates migration through the combined use of big and small data and examines the development and mobilisation of human capacities.
She is also the Scientific Coordinator of Link4Skills, a Horizon Europe research project examining skills, migration, and labour-market matching across regions and countries. Through this work, she contributes to the development of more equitable, evidence-based, and sustainable approaches to international skills mobility.
Together with Professor Aleksandra Przegalińska, Professor Grabowska has established the AISOME research program, Artificial Intelligence, Society, Migration and Employment. The programme marks the beginning of a new interdisciplinary research agenda on artificial intelligence, automation, employment and migration. It examines how AI-based technologies, automated decision-making, digital infrastructures, and changing forms of work transform migration processes, labour-market institutions, skills recognition, mobility governance, and the experiences of migrants.
Across her research, Professor Grabowska combines sociological and economic perspectives with interdisciplinary, comparative, and mixed-method approaches. Her work connects academic research with policy development and public debate, with particular emphasis on migrants as agents of change, the circulation of skills and knowledge, fair mobility, and the societal consequences of technological transformation.
Izabela Grabowska is Scientific Coordinator of Horizon Europe Link4Skills https://link4skills.eu/ (first Horizon Europe in social sciences coordinated from Poland)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izabela_Grabowska_(sociologist)
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7957-4901
Web of Science ResearcherID: AAD-6532-2019
Scopus: Scopus ID 57188853568
Google Scholar: Izabela Grabowska – Google Scholar
Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Izabela_Grabowska
Migration Expert Index for Izabela Grabowska: https://crossmigration.eu/experts/1080
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/izabela-grabowska-6b5362232/?originalSubdomain=pl
KEY RESERACH & ASSESSMENT DASHBOARD WITH FEEDBACK TO RESPONDENTS:
NOW new applied version for intra-EU mobility and Erasmus exchanges:
JUST PUBLISHED:
Grabowska, I., & Boatemaa Setrana, M. (2026). Fair Skilled Mobility: A Manifesto (p. 248). Taylor & Francis.Fair Skilled Mobility: A Manifesto [open access].
Grabowska, I., Kyliushyk, I., & Chról, E. (2025). Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances. London: Taylor & Francis.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS
An elected member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences (start January 2023)
Full Professor of Social Sciences at Kozminski University (start 1/09/2021)
https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/en
Founder and Director of CRASH Center for Research of Social Change and Human Mobility at Kozminski University
https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/en/department/centre-research-social-change-and-human-mobility-crash
CRASH on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crashkozuni_strona-g%C5%82%C3%B3wna-activity-7158494519250825216-ul7y/?originalSubdomain=pl
Member of Migration & Society Editorial Board:
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/migration-and-society/migration-and-society-overview.xml
Member of European Sociological Association (ESA); Board Member of RN 30 (Youth and Generation); Member of RN 17 (Work, Employment and Industrial Relations); Member of RN 35 (Migration).
Member of Polish Sociological Association
National Expert for EY and European Commission’s educational program Return mobility for European Employment Services and EURES (2019-2020) [see more at https://www.izabelagrabowska.com/social-impact/ on this webiste].
Member of Polish Migration. A resource for anyone interested in contemporary Polish migration: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/research/polish-migration/profiles
FORMER ASSIGNMENTS
Professor of SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw
https://www.swps.pl/izabela-grabowska (POLISH)
https://english.swps.pl/izabela-grabowska (ENGLISH)
Director of Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of SWPS University
www.doktoranckie.com
Leader of Mobility Research Group of SWPS University
https://english.swps.pl/research/research-centers/mobility-research-group
Former Senior Member of Centre of Migration Research (2002-2019) and Head of Research Group (2014-2016)
Funder and Former Leader of Youth Research Center of SWPS University (2015-2019)
Former Deputy Chair of IMISCOE Board of Directors and Member of IMISCOE Executive Board (2008-2019): http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/
Former Expert of IOM LINET Network http://www.labourmigration.eu/expert-profiles/profile/52-izabela-grabowska-lusiska-
Former Member of the Commission of SKILLS- FNP Mentoring and SKILLS-Coaching Programmes of the Foundation of Polish Science (2015-2016)
http://www.fnp.org.pl/en/oferta/skills-coaching-2/
http://www.fnp.org.pl/en/oferta/skills-fnp-mentoring/
Former National Expert of Mobility Laboratory of European Commission (2009-2014)
http://www.mobilitypartnership.eu/WebApp/Home.aspx
Former National Expert of WEESP (Web-tool for Evaluation of Employment Services Practices) of the European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/social/
Former National Expert of ESCO European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) of the European Commission
https://ec.europa.eu/esco/home
Cooperation with Public Employment Services
Local Labour Office in Nysa
http://pup.nysa.pl/download/12.pdf
http://www.pwsz.nysa.pl/index.php?p=3,,0,0,3,0&ak=2,1343,0