Researchers

Helena Lipková focuses on interdisciplinary research in the field of information science, specifically on the transformation of end-users information behavior in virtual environments. Her main research theme is the credibility of information in its communication within society. She is the author of several studies dedicated to interdisciplinary research on the transformation of spirituality and religion in the digital environment. She is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Acta Oeconomia Pragensis. As an instructor, she specializes in courses related to change management and project management in traditional waterfall and agile methodologies and UX/UI design and testing.

Lipková, H., Jarolímková, A. (2023): Twist in Perception: Spiritual Needs and Technology in the Times of COVID-19. A Qualitative Research Study in the Czech Republic. Pastoral Psychol 72, 143–167.

Malita-Król, Joanna (2023): „Strategies of Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic among Contemporary Pagan Groups in Kraków, Poland,“ Nova Religio 27 (2): 29–47. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.29

Katarzyna Rabiej-Sienicka is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw and an Associate Editor at Taylor & Francis‘ Cogent Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the relationship between communities and change agents and their role in contemporary world challenges. She is currently engaged in the international project “ReCov-19,” where she examines the impact of the pandemic on churches and religious organizations in Poland. She is also the organiser of the Capturing Invisible Seminars on science, technology, and society (STS). She serves on the Board of the Sociology of Work Section of the Polish Sociological Association and is the Director at the Wojciech Jerzy Has Krakow Film School. She is the author of research such as “Coworking: Individualism in Community,” “Coworking Spaces: Solidary Community in Times of Plague,” and “Before the Destruction: From a Collective Workplace to an Urban System of Ideas.” Additionally, she was a member of the research team for “Tempus Fugit – Future Visions in Energy Policies in Poland” and is currently involved in “Energy for Security, Peace or War? Reflexive Public Reason Applied to the Israeli and Polish Energy Transition.”

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research focuses on mediatized religion, mediatization theory, video gaming, Christian traditions and ritual studies. She authored several articles and co-edited several volumes and special journal issues, including Minority Churches as Media Settlers Negotiating Deep Mediatization (Routledge 2023), the Handbook on Religion and Journalism (Routledge 2020), and Mediatized Religion in Asia (Routledge 2019). In the international research project “ReCov-19” (Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19), she is currently leading the sub project on churches and religious organizations in the course of the corona pandemic in Germany and the sub project on churches and religious organizations in the course of the corona pandemic in Belarus and Russia.