Dr Aneta Piekut

School of Education

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences

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Dr Aneta Piekut
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
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Understanding movement between boarders - Meet Dr Aneta Piekut

Dr Aneta Piekut joined the Sheffield Methods Institute in 2014. Before that she worked as a researcher at the Universities of Warsaw (the Centre of Migration Research, 2005-2009), Leeds and Sheffield (2010-2014). She completed her PhD studies at the University of Warsaw in 2009. 

Aneta is Co-Director of the Migration Research Group - an interdisciplinary research network in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

She is a mixed methods sociologist and her research spans disciplinary boundaries. Her research focuses on ethnic diversity, socio-spatial segregation and social cohesion, attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities, including their measurement and the problem of survey nonresponse. 

She published widely in leading academic journals on issues of migration, ethnicity and segregation (e.g. European Sociological Review, Sociology, Social Science Research, Social & Cultural Geography, International Sociology), and in 2017 she won the prestigious SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence awarded by the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) for a paper published in Sociology journal.

Publications

Books

  • Bell A, Hartman T, Piekut A, Rae A & Taylor M (2020) Making Sense of Data in the Media. Sage. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Brunarska Z, Kaczmarczyk P & Piekut A (2021) Postawy wobec imigrantów w „starych” i „nowych” krajach imigracyjnych. Czy historia imigracji ma znaczenie? In Sztabiński P, Przybysz D & Sztabiński F (Ed.), Polska - Europa. Wyniki Europejskiego Sondażu Społecznego 2002-2018/19 (pp. 92-113). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Filozofi i i Socjologii PAN. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A (2021) Re-Theorising Spatial Segregation: A European Perspective, The Urban Book Series (pp. 13-38). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2018) Kosmopolityczna Praga? W poszukiwaniu (nowej) tożsamości praskiej In Górny A, Toruńczyk-Ruiz S & Winiarska A (Ed.), Po sąsiedzku z różnorodnością. Interakcje w miejskich przestrzeniach lokalnych z perspektywy różnych grup mieszkańców (pp. 155-197). Warsaw: Scholar. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A & Grzymała-Kazłowska A (2018) Integracja migrantów w społeczeństwie przyjmującym In Lesińska M & Okólski M (Ed.), 25 wykładów o migracjach (pp. 178-195). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) Unpacking Prejudice: Narratives of Homophobia in Cross-National Context In Vieten UM & Valentine G (Ed.), Cartographies of Differences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 15-40). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A (2012) Visible and Invisible Ethnic ‘Others’ in Warsaw: Spaces of Encounter and Places of Exclusion In Grubbauer M & Kusiak J (Ed.), Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990 Campus Verlag RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A, Górny A & Stefańska R (2012) From (many) datasets to (one) integration monitoring system in Poland? In Bijn R & Verweij A (Ed.), Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant Integration in Europe. Integration Policies and Monitoring Efforts in 17 European Countries RIS download Bibtex download
  • Górny A, Kindler M, Stefańska R, Piekut A & Szulecka M (2010) Wybrane aspekty integracji imigrantów: w poszukiwaniu mechanizmów sprzyjających dalszemu napływowi cudzoziemców do Polski [Selected aspects of immigrant integration: Searching for mechanisms supporting further inflow of foreigners to Poland] In Górny A, Grabowska-Lusińska I, Lisińska M & Okólski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 188-231). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Biernath M, Górny A, Kępińska E, Kindler M, Piekut A, Stefańska R & Szulecka M (2010) Integration: A Supplementary Driver of Immigration? In Górny A, Grabowska-Lusińska I, Lesińska M & Okólski M (Ed.), Immigration to Poland: Policy – Labour Market – Integration (pp. 151-194). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A (2010) Społeczny wymiar integracji [The social dimension of integration] In Gorny A, Grabowska-Lusinska I, Lesinska M & Okolski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 202-216). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A (2008) Adaptacja imigrantów na lubelskim rynku pracy [Immigrant adaptation in Lublin city labour market] In Kaczmarczyk P (Ed.), Migracje zagraniczne a procesy rynku pracy – przypadek Lubelszczyzny (pp. 63-88). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut ANETA (2008) Wielość wymiarów – zatem jaka integracja? Przegląd tematyki i metod badań integracyjnych In Grzymala-Kazłowska A & Łodziński S (Ed.), Problemy integracji imigrantów koncepcje, badania, polityki Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • Piekut A (2014) Book review: "Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion. Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action" by Merlin Schaeffer, Ashgate, 2014. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 1(3), 137-140. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

Reports

Performances

  • Krasteva L, Uzma R, Gilbert C, Piekut A, Staples H, Rasool Z & Pryce G (2022, September 20) Blurring the Edges. Festival of the Mind 2022. RIS download Bibtex download

Exhibitions

  • Krasteva L, Rani L & Gilbert C (2024, April 1) Blurring the Edges. Festival of Dabate / Migration Matters Festival. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dawidek M, Korobkiewicz P & Kowalczyk S (2022, September 1) Spaces of (dis)connection: Migrant essential workers. Centrala, Birmigham / Clapham Library, London / Art27, Edinburgh. RIS download Bibtex download

Website content

  • Piekut A & Narkowicz K Polish key workers feel unwelcome in the UK thanks to Brexit plus COVID. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A Stopping segregation: it’s not just where you live, it’s the places you go that matter. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A You’re probably wrong, but there’s data to understand why. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A Using Eurovision to explain sampling bias. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Piekut A Revealed: the truth about ethnic diversity of neighbourhoods. RIS download Bibtex download

Working papers

  • Piekut A, Rees P, Valentine G & Kupiszewski M (2011) The tale of two cities: Diversity in Leeds and Warsaw. Working Paper of the University of Leeds, School of Geography, 11. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download

Datasets

Grants

Duration

Role

Project title

Awarding body

Funding amount

2024-2025 Co-Investigator Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place UKRI/ESRC £1,114,718
2024 Principal investigator Crossing the frontier: Exploring the potential of the Collective Mobile Method as a participatory research tool in Rotherham UKRI Research England £11,648

2023

Principal investigator Blurring the edges: social frontiers as places of encounter Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) £23,000

2022

Co-Investigator

Migrant essential workers in the UK - Portable multi-arts exhibition

ESRC Impact Accelerator Award

£20,000

2020-2022

Co-Investigator

Health, social, economic & cultural impacts of Covid-19 on migrant essential workers in the UK

UKRI/ESRC

£300,000

2020-2021

Fellowship

Project TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) Fellow

Project TIER

$5,000

2020-2023

Co-Director

Life at the Frontier: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants

Nordforsk/ESRC

£1M

2019-2023

Co-Investigator

Migration, Integration and Governance Research Centre (MIGREC)

H2020-WIDESPREAD

£710,000

2019

Principal investigator

Consultancy work for Work Package 6 on “Migration Flows in Europe”

Horizon2020 Cross-Migration

£5,000

2017-2019

Co-Investigator

Modern Poland: Migration and Transformations

Oxford Noble Foundation

£30,000

2014-2015

Coordinator

Research cluster “Diversity, Migration & Social Cohesion”

IMISCOE seed funding

€6,000

2010-2011

Principal investigator

Highly skilled immigrants from European Union in Warsaw

Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland

15,000 PLN

2007-2008

Principal investigator

Highly skilled workers of transnational corporations in Warsaw

Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland

20,000 PLN

Teaching interests

Methods are not neutral tools of data collection and analysis, so in her modules Aneta encourages students to critically reflect on why and how they apply them. As with other lecturers at SMI, Aneta's teaching is research-led, with substantial time devoted to hands-on practice with data.

In 2020/21 Aneta was awarded a TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) Project Fellowship in recognition of embedding principles of transparency and reproducibility in her teaching of quantitative social sciences. 

Aneta has been a certified Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) since 2017.

Teaching activities

Aneta has been teaching across a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the SMI . Currently she leads on:

  • SMI108 Survey Design and Data Collection 
  • SMI205 Intermediate Research Project in Quantitative Social Sciences (aka Replication project) 
  • SMI304 Doing Mixed Methods Research 

Together with colleagues from SMI Aneta developed a highly successful MOOC 'Making Sense of Data in the Media' - a massive, open, online course on - making sense of data in the media and beyond. It's available for free here.

Professional activities and memberships

Member of Polish Sociological Association (PTS), British Sociological Association (BSA) and European Survey Research Association (ESRA).

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD supervision:

Past PhD supervision:

  • Natalie Bennet, Social cohesion, ethnic diversity, and mental wellbeing (funded by NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR); co-supervision with prof. Sarah Salway)
  • Ben Gardner, Modelling of passenger clearance at the UK Border (funded by ESRC CDT Data Analytics & Society; co-supervision with prof. Gwilym Pryce & dr. Mauricio A. Alvarez)

Aneta is interested in supervising motivated research students in the following areas:

  • The relationship between ethnic diversity and social cohesion;
  • Consequences of international migration for local communities and everyday lives of migrants and non-migrants;
  • Spatial distribution and ethnic segregation;
  • Attitudes towards immigration, various immigrant groups and ethnic minorities;
  • Highly skilled migration and intra-EU mobility;
  • survey methodology, specifically item nonresponse, measurement, mixed-mode surveys;
  • Advanced quantitative and mixed methods research.