Research interests
street-level bureaucracies/organisations, algorithms and other information and communication technologies in public policies, inequalities in the access to public services, labour market and social policy, sociology and anthropology of public policies, sociology and anthropology of organisations, science and technology studies, sociology of work.

Education
2005 – MA, Université Nancy 2 (Francja)
2007 – MA, Instytut Socjologii UW
2015 – PhD in sociology (double diploma, fr. co-tutelle) Centre de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po de Paris and Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw

Selected publications

BOOKS:
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2016) Obywatel spotyka państwo. O urzędach pracy jako biurokracji pierwszego kontaktu, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2010), Teoria praktyki i praktyka teorii. Wstęp do socjologii Pierre’a Bourdieu, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES:
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (red.) (2018) Państwo na co dzień. Etnografia polityk publicznych wobec grup zmarginalizowanych we Francji, numer tematyczny. Kultura i rozwój 1 (6).    
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, Sławomir Mandes  (red.) (2015) Lokalna Polityka Społeczna, Polityka społeczna, IPiSS, Warszawa.

ARTICLES:
Sztandar-Sztanderska K., Kotnarowski M., Zieleńska M. (2021) Czy algorytmy wprowadzają w błąd? Metaanaliza algorytmu profilowania bezrobotnych stosowanego w Polsce. Studia socjologiczne 1 (240)
Sztandar-Sztanderska K., Zieleńska M. (2020) What Makes an Ideal Unemployed Person? Values and Norms Encapsulated in a Computerized Profiling Tool. Social Work & Society 18 (1).
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, Marianna Zieleńska (2018) Changing social citizenship through information technology. Social Work & Society, 16 (2).
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2018) Państwo na co dzień. Etnografia polityk publicznych wobec grup zmarginalizowanych we Francji, Kultura i rozwój 1 (6): 10-25.
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2017) Czego nie widać? Literatura o polityce rynku pracy a praktyki urzędników pierwszego kontaktu, Studia z Polityki Publicznej, 2 (14)
Alexandra Filhon; Jérôme Deauvieau; Laure Verdalle; Agnès Pelage; Tristan Poullaouec; Cécile Brousse; Martine Mespoulet; Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2016) European Classification Project, Comparative Sociology, vol. 15, issue 3.
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2015) Usługi publiczne dla wszystkich i dla nikogo? Krytyczne studium wymogów administracji pracy, Polityka społeczna, numer tematyczny 1, IPiSS.
Lavinia Bifulco, Carlotta Mozzana, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, Marianna Zieleńska (2015) Politiche di sostegno alle transizioni scuola-lavoro e promozione delle capacità, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche.
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2009), Activation of the unemployed in Poland: from policy design to policy implementation, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 29 (11). 

CHAPTERS:
Christina Garsten, Kerstin Jacobsson, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2016) Negotiating Social Citizenship at the Street-Level: Local Activation Policies and Individualization in Sweden and Poland w: M. Heidenreich, D. Rice, D. (red.), Integrating Social and Employment Policies in Europe: Active Inclusion and Challenges for Local Welfare Governance, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Northampton, s. 265-293.
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, Marianna Zieleńska The Development of Capabilities of Young People in a Public-Private Programme w: Hans-Uwe Otto et al. (red.) Facing Trajectories from School to Work, Springer.
Catherine Spieser, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2011) The Mobilization That was Not. Explaining the Weak Politicization of the Issue of Unemployment in Poland w: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe. From Acquiescence to Protest?, Palgrave-Macmillan: 247-275.
Stéphane Portet, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska (2010) Poland. Unemployment benefit: haunted by a lack of legitimacy w: Unemployment benefit systems in Europe and North America: reforms and crisis, ETUI: 261-280.

Link to the Polish National Bibliography

Teaching
See the USOSweb profile

Other activities and projects
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Information technologies in public policy. Critical analysis of the profiling the unemployed in Poland, National Science Centre, Poland, OPUS, UMO-2016/23/B/HS5/00889, 2017-2020, as principal investigator, research team: Marianna Zieleńska, Michał Kotnarowski, Alicja Palęcka, Barbara Godlewska-Bujok. 
   
PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS (selected):
1) LOCALISE: local words of social cohesion (7 FP EU); 
2) WORKABLE: Making capabiilities work, (7 FP EU) ; 
3)  CAPRIGHT  Resources, Rights And Capabilities: In Search Of Social Foundations For Europe  (6 FP EU); 
4) Quantifying Europe: genesis, instrumentation and compared appropriations of the process of harmonization of socio-economic classifications (EURéQUA).

RESEARCH STAYS ABROAD (selected):
1) Visiting researcher w Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)
2) Visiting researcher w University of Oldenburg (Carl von Ossietzky Universität).

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS (selected):
1) Scholarship for outstanding young scholars, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2015-2018
2) Award (wyróżnienie) of the Institute of Labour and Social Studies (IPiSS) in the competition for the best PhD on labour and social policy for dissertation Praktyki administracyjne wobec bezrobotnych w Polsce [Administrative treatment of the unemployed in Poland], 2015.
3) Scholarship Mobility Plus of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for research stay in Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics)
4) Scholarship Start for young talented researchers of Polish Foundation of Science, 2010-2011
5) Three year scholarship of French government for PhD students preparing double PhD thesis in France and other country2007-2010.

OTHER (selected):
1) Reviewer for the Polish Natiomal Agency for Academic Exchange (since 2019)
2) Member of the Council for Sociological Discipline (Rada Dyscypliny Nauki Socjologiczne) at University of Warsaw (nomitated by Rector), (since 2019)
3) Member of the advisory committe of the project Transforming the State-Citizen Relationship. The institutionalization of personal income tax in Poland after 1989, directed by Andrzej Rycharda, Polish Academy of Sciences.
3) Member of the advisory committe of the project Justice, Equity and Technologies Project, London School of Economics directed by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, LSE.