Department of Regional Policy and Labour Market Studies

Research Areas

The Department conducts research in a wide range of topics, including:

demographic determinants of development;
the impact of international migration and immigration on regional development;
European Union educational programmes and projects;
labour market development conditions and challenges;
occupational stereotypes;
rural development processes;
innovation and knowledge transfer within regions;
fostering entrepreneurship and strengthening social capital;
the influence of cluster structures on regional development;
the impact of working conditions on regional growth;
innovation implementation in the SME sector;
market and marketing research, sales techniques and customer communication;
evaluation of customer equity effectiveness;
analysis and assessment of human capital;
opportunities and constraints in introducing business solutions to the public sector;
optimisation of organisational costs through outsourcing;
corporate social responsibility (CSR);
sources of constitutional, European and administrative law; analysis of legal regulations and draft legislative solutions;
relationships between European and national legal systems; the institutional system of the European Union; analysis of treaty freedoms; European economic law;
analysis of the legal principles and foundations of the European Union and their impact on national legal systems;
human rights protection systems;
analysis of alternative dispute resolution methods (ADR).

Key Directions of Research and Development Activity

Our research and development efforts focus on:

socio-economic foundations of regional and local development policy;
regional and local development strategies;
clusters and cluster initiatives and their role in regional development;
innovation and knowledge transfer within regions;
entrepreneurship development and the significance of social capital;
access to public services, including rural areas;
causes and effects of international migration, migration in regional contexts, immigration and educational migration;
labour market policy;
contemporary demographic issues;
quality of working conditions in industry;
educational systems and education policy;
human capital management;
marketing management;
research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities within organisations;
organisational human and marketing resources, including relational capital;
identification of socio-economic development factors;
change management, including restructuring and outsourcing;
implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles and sustainable development;
identification of opportunities and limitations in applying business solutions to the public sector, including the effective functioning of public administration;
constitutional law issues, including the general principles of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, the structure of legislative, executive and judicial powers, competencies of public authorities, legislative procedures and the functioning of constitutional judiciary;
European law, understood broadly as EU law, domestic law of EU Member States and law within the Council of Europe system;
administrative law in its substantive, institutional and procedural dimensions;
alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods and their impact on the functioning of the judicial system.