Graduated from: University of Warsaw (PhD in Economics), University College Dublin (MA in Economics), University of Wroclaw (MA in Sociology); the procedure of the professor of social sciences was conducted by Polish Academy of Sciences; she was awarded a scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science; she visited: Humboldt Universiät in Berlin (ERC grant), Utrecht University in the Netherlands (visiting professor), University College London (visiting scholar); she is a member of the Scientific Council of the Center for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw; she supervised 4 doctorates (another 3 are being completed) and over 70 MA theses; she published more than 50 publications in prestigious international and publishing houses; she obtained many prestigious research grants, including H2020 and the National Science Center: OPUS, Sonata Bis, Harmonia and KBM. Member of the international migration Research Network IMISCOE, Polish Sociological Society, British Sociological Association, European Sociological Association.
In 2005-2021 – assistant professor and university professor at the SWPS University of Social Science and Humanities; 2016-2021 director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of the SWPS University. In 2015-2019, she founded and managed the Młodzi research center in Centrum Lab / Youth Research Center and Mobility Research Group (2020-2021).

At Kozminski University, she is at the Department of Economics and she is the Director of Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH).

Her research agenda covers: human capital, international labor migrations, the labor market, and professional careers; her research shows the significance and impact of the experience of working abroad on human capital, with particular emphasis on social competences and the course of the process of non-material migration remittances; her works have been published in renowned scientific journals (including Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, International Migration, Social Policy and Society); her monographs have been published in key publishing houses: Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, UCL Press, Amsterdam University Press, Scholar.

Details of the research agenda and achievements can be found at: www.izabelagrabowska.com.

She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology (Market Research and Public Policy Analysis specialization) from the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University. She is currently a PhD Student of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. She is preparing a PhD dissertation on the impact of mobility trajectories on the socio-occupational sequences of young people. Her research interests concentrate on youth studies, career studies and mobility studies. She specializes in and conducts courses in the methodology of qualitative social research. She has published in renowned journals and publishing both international (Journal of Youth Studies, International Migration), and national (Studia Socjologiczne, Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej, Studia Migracyjne-Przegląd Polonijny). She is a laureate of numerous scholarships from the National Science Centre (SONATA BIS, OPUS) and Rector’s SWPS University scholarship.

She collaborates with the Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility​ (CRASH) at Kozminski University, where she is a researcher in “BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities” project (OPUS-19, National Science Center scholarship). She also works at the Institute of Social Sciences of the SWPS University, where she is involved in the Horizon 2020 research project “MIMY: Empowerment through liquid integration of migrant youth in vulnerable condition”. She is also coordinator of the “INSIMO: Work (in)stability and spatial (im)mobility from the perspective of young people on the move. Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic” project funded by the PRELUDIUM-20 program of the National Science Centre.

Conducts research on contemporary migration processes. Her research interests concern Ukrainian migration, political inclusion and participation of foreigners, migration and integration policies. She graduated MA studies at the Lesya Ukrainka East European National University (Faculty of History) and at the University of Warsaw (Centre for East European Studies). Currently, she is a PhD student at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. She is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the political rights of foreigners at the local government level. She is a social activist, since 2015 she has been collabrating with the “Our Choice” Foundation, where she coordinates the activities of Ukrainian House in Warsaw and conducts various research projects. At the Kozminski University she is a researcher in project “BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities” (2020/37/B/HS6/02342 OPUS), which is financed by Poland’s National Science Centre. She is also a researcher in project: “MIMY – Empowerment through liquid integration of migrant youth in vulnerable conditions” (funded by the European Commission; Call: H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2019) and prior to that she was a researcher in project: “The Impact of COVID 19 on Ukrainian Women Migrants in Poland” (financed by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Warsaw office – Poland).