Personal information
Professional experience
1/12/2022-current
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Warsaw, Poland,
Migration Research Center
1/10/2021-current
Assistant Professor
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Institute of Intercultural Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies
1/08/2018-31/07/2021
Associate Professor in Human Geography
University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
1/08/2013-20/04/2018
Fully Funded Doctoral Research Fellow
University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
15/09/2015-15/09/2016
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Research Fellow
as part of the Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN Integration and international migration: pathways and integration policies (INTEGRIM)
Migration Research Centre, Koç University, Turkey
1/10/2012-30/06/2013
Researcher
Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Education
19/08/2013-20/04/2018
PhD, Interdisciplinary Culture Studies
University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø, Norway
1/10/2010-3/07/2012
Master’s Degree, Sociology
AGH University of Science and Technology. Kraków, Poland
1/10/2007-10/07/2010
Bachelor’s Degree, Sociology
AGH University of Science and Technology. Kraków, Poland
Selected Received Grants
2022-2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Marie Curie Actions, Horizon Europe, grant agreement n° 101059766
2015-2016
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher fellowship
Integrim Programme, Marie Curie Actions, European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), grant agreement n° 316796 (www.integrim.eu)
2013-2018
Fully funded PhD scholarship
University of South-Eastern Norway
Academic Stays
05/2019
Visiting Scholar
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal
06-07/2017
Visiting Researcher
The Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute at the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Peer reviewed Journal Articles
Towards a transdimensional home: home-making in the narrations of Norwegians of Turkish descent
Journal of Housing and Built Environment
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2021)
Visualising transnationalism: Photography in analyses of migrants’ belonging
Urbanities – Journal of Urban Ethnography 10(2) (November 2020)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2020)
Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of migrant minorities
International Journal of Heritage Studies 25(11)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2019)
The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Development of the Sense of Belonging among Young Norwegian Turks: Boundary Making and Crossing
The Age of Human Rights Journal 7(2016)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2016)
Adaptation of Immigrant Children. Selected Aspects of Norwegian Immigration Policy Towards Children
Central and Eastern European Migration Review 5(1)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2016)
Meaning and Functions of Norwegian-Turkish Vernacular Space in Drammen, Norway
Border Crossing 6(2)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2016)
Między domem a szkołą. Dzieci migrantów w systemie edukacyjnym. Kontekst norweski (Migrant Children in Education System. Norwegian Case.)
Studia Migracyjne–Przegląd Polonijny 2(2014)
Slusarczyk, M. and Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2014)
Czlowiek-Kobieta-Zakonnica? Sposoby konstruowania kobiecosci przez siostry zakonne (Constructing Femininity. A Case of Polish Nuns)
Studia Humanistyczne AGH 12(3)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2013)
Migrant –widmo, czyli w poszukiwaniu miejsca kobiety w studiach nad migracjami (In Search of Woman’s Place in Migration Studies)
Societas Communitas 1(13)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2012)
Kobiecość, zasłona i patriarchat w demokratycznej Republice Tureckiej, czyli kim jest współczesna Turczynka? (Femininity, Veil and Patriarchy in the Democratic Republic of Turkey. Who Is a Modern Turkish Woman?)
Studia Humanistyczne AGH 11(2)
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2012)
Edited Volumes and Monographs
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: new possibilities, theoretical implications, and ethical questions
IMISCOE Book Series. Amsterdam: Springer
Nikielska-Sekula, K., and Desille, A. (2021)
Locating In-betweenness Belonging. Translocational Positionality, and the Cultural Heritage of Drammenian Turks
PhD Thesis, University of South-Eastern Norway
Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2018)
Other
Visual Methods in Migration Studies
Briefs on Methodological, Ethical and Epistemological Issues. IMISCOE and CrossMigration Project
Desille, A., Buhr, F., and Nikielska-Sekula, K. (2019)
Scientific Conference Proceedings
Imiscoe Annual Conference
Warsaw, July 2023. Paper: Theorising bodily-felt familiarity and difference in migration research
Multimodal Research and Publishing Workshop
ZOIS/DeZIM Berlin, 19-20 June 2023. Paper: “Embodying Transnational Belonging”
IMISCOE Annual Conference
Oslo. July 2022. Paper: “Sensing Belonging of Polish Labour Migrants in Norway”
IMISCOE Annual Conference
Digital. July 2021. Paper: “Transforming national heritage: participation of immigrant minorities in national day celebrations in Norway”
IMISCOE Annual Conference
Digital. July 2021. Paper: “To which extent can migrants’ participation in cultural heritage pave the way for a de-colonial cultural heritage?”
IVSA Annual Conference
Digital. July 2021. Paper: “Seen and unseen in migration experiences: Beyond ‘Visual Essentialism’” (co-authored with Amandine Desille)
IMISCOE Annual Conference
Digital, 2-3 July 2020. Paper: “Visual Methods in Migration Studies: new possibilities, theoretical implications, and ethical questions” (co-authored with Amandine Desille)
IMISCOE Annual Conference
Digital, 2-3 July 2020. Paper: “Everyday encounters with national day celebrations: the case of Turks in Norway”
The Migration Conference
Bari, June 2019. Paper: “Conceptualisations of home by Norwegians of Turkish descent”
HomING Symposium: displacement, suspension, projections and achievements in making home on the move
Trento, 3-4 June 2019. Paper: “Conceptualisations of home by Norwegians of Turkish descent”
IVSA Annual Conference
Paris-Evry, 25-28 June 2018. Paper: “Have you Just Taken a Picture of Me?: Visual ethnography as a tool in analysing a complex life situation of migrant minorities”
IMISCOE Annual Conference
Rotterdam, 28-30 June 2017. Paper: “Visualizing heterotopias: Norwegian-Turkish clubs in Drammen, Norway”
Third ISA Forum of Sociology
Vienna, Austria, 10-14 July 2016. Paper: “The Taste of the stranger. Performing Heritage in Language and Culture Festival in Norway”
Turkish Migration Conference
Vienna, Austria, 12-15 July 2016. Paper: “Meaning and Functions of Norwegian-Turkish Vernacular Space in Drammen, Norway” (awarded Runner up for Best Paper Prize)
INTEGRIM Final Conference
Bilbao, Spain, 6-8 July 2016. Paper: “Negotiations of belonging and home among young Norwegian Turks”
IVSA Annual Conference
Lillehammer, Norway, 22-24 June 2016. Paper: “From Norway to Turkey. Visualising Transnational Belonging”
Minor Culture Conference
Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 December 2015. Paper: “Turkish Vernacular Space in a Norwegian City”
INTEGRIM Annual Conference
Istanbul, Turkey, 18-20 November 2015. Paper: “Towards the signs of Turkish ethnic identity in a mid-sized Norwegian city”
MiReKoc Seminar Series
Istanbul, Turkey, 4 November 2015. Paper:”Mixing Cultural Practices During the Celebration of Norway`s Constitution Day”
Child Migrants and Third Culture Kids. Roots and Routes
Kraków, Poland, 7-9 June 2013. Paper: “Child Welfare? Polish children in the context of migration” (co-authored with Professor Krystyna Slany and Dr. Magdalena Ślusarczyk)
Nordic Migration Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark. 13-15 August 2014. Paper: “Reflection of the Body in Narratives of Four Female Turkish Immigrants in Norway”
Invited talks
European Pact for Integration (EPI), final conference
May 2022, Monza, Italy. Paper: Visual Representation of Migration in Times of Crises.
The Human Dimension of Heritage in the EU
Center for European Studies, University of Florida, 6.04.2021. Paper: “Inclusion without participation? Institutional attempts of minorities’ heritage incusion on the example of Norsk Folkemuseum”
Kulturrikets tilstand 2017
Oslo, 25/10/2017 Seminar for scholars and practitioners, Paper: “Is multiculturalism good enough today?”
Bruk av Kulturarv
Bø, Norway. 12/11/2014. Seminar for scholars and practitioners. Paper: “Boundaries of Ethnicity? Mixing the Cultural Practices of Immigrants and Ethnic Norwegians: A case of May 17”
Organisation of scientific meetings
Workshop organiser
IMISCOE Annual Conference 2023. Title: “Multisensorial research, migrations and inequalities – exploring new methodological pathways”
Workshop organiser
IMISCOE Annual Conference 2020. Title: “Connecting cultures, negotiating heritages: The role of cultural heritage in migrants´ integration and social cohesion”
Panel organiser
IMISCOE Annual Conference 2017. Title: “Visualizing immigration in the city: production, reproduction and contestation of the urban space”
Co-organiser of INTEGRIM Annual Conference (2015) in Istanbul, Turkey
Teaching and Supervising
1.10.2021-current
Teaching and Supervision (Languages: Polish and English)
Courses: Politics of Multiculturalism, Challenges of Cultural Diversity, Multicultural Turkey, Introduction to Culture Studies, Negotiations in a Multicultural Setting, Contemporary Norway: Culture and Society.
Supervising: International Culture Studies Programme (BA level)
Jagiellonian University
08/2018-31.07.2018
Course Leader, Lecturer, Supervisor (languages: Norwegian and English)
Courses: History and Social Geography, Social Sciences 1,2,3
Supervising: Human Rights and Multiculturalism Programme (MA level)
University of South-Eastern Norway
Membership in Academic Associations
2019-now
Norsk Nettverk for Migrasjonsforskning (Norwegian Network for Migration Research).
2017-now
The International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE) Network, Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change (DivCult) Standing Committee
2016-now
International Visual Sociology Association
2014-now
Marie Curie Alumni Association
2014-now
International Sociological Association (participation in ISA Visual Sociology Group’s Mentorship Programme – Mentor: Professor Jerome Krase, CUNY)
2014-now
Nordic Migration Research Network
Reviewing experience
Reviewer
Journals: Journal of Housing and Built Environment, Migration Studies, Studia Migracyjne-Przegląd Polonijny, Visual Studies, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Tourism Planning & Development, Border Crossings, Journal for Visual Literacy, Gender and Society, International Journal of Border and Migration Studies
Language skills
Polish (native), English (fluent-C2), Norwegian (fluent-C2), Spanish (Intermediate-B2), Turkish (communicative: A2/B1)