Research

Scope

Culture and cultural heritage in international relations and international law, interdisciplinary approach to intangible cultural heritage governance, institutional analysis and Elinor Ostrom’s methodology and concepts (polycentric governance, common-pool resources, collective action dilemmas), participation in global cultural governance, sociology and anthropology of international relations.

Current grants

The Living Heritage Journeys project (2024-)
  • Member of the Museum of Krakow team (contractor), supported via the Creative Europe Programme
  • Project explores and develops innovative methods to incorporate Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) into Cultural Heritage Tourism (CHT) experiences in sustainable and meaningful ways.
Between the heritage of the world and the heritage of humanity: researching international heritage regimes through the lens of Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework (2020-2024)
  • Individual research grant received from the National Science Council of Poland: SONATA 15, no 2019/35/D/HS5/04247
  • This research takes as a focal point the regimes of ‘world heritage’ and ‘intangible cultural heritage of humanity’. It then uses these cases as a basis for shedding light on the dynamic interplay between heritage regime organs, applied explicit and implicit rules, and the effects of heritage institutions on behaviours and outcomes achieved at the international level in diverse field settings (annual or biannual meetings of the statutory regime organs), through the lens of Ostrom’s IAD and Grammar of Institutions.


Legal forms of cultural heritage governance in Europe – a comparative law perspective (2020-2023)

  • Member of the team (contractor) of the grant received from the National Science Council of Poland: OPUS 18
  • Principal Investigator: dr Andrzej Jakubowski


Local experts in Polish and German World Heritage Cities: understanding their role in polycentric governance of heritage sites (2022-2024)

  • Mentor of the grant POLONEZ BIS
  • Principal Investigator: dr Iuliia Eremenko
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