I'm a Doctor of Earth Sciences and a graduate of the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw. I received two Master's degrees (geography and spatial management). In my doctoral thesis, defended in 2012, I examined immigrant integration policies conducted in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Since 2012 I have worked at University of Warsaw as a lecturer and researcher.
I was as a leader and team member in several research projects financed by, among others: National Science Center, University of Warsaw, 4EU+, and City of Warsaw.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Geography, Planning and Development, Urban Studies, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Demography
FUTURE PROJECTS
Residential multilocality and sustainable spatial management
Applications Invited
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Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Insight into practices of Warsaw’s multilocal residents: spatial and temporal arrangements, motives, types of residence and use of public services Barbara Jaczewska, Jan Szczepański Bulletin of Geography Socio Economic Series, 2025 The article aims to present the multilocal residence practices of Warsaw inhabitants by focusing on four key aspects: the distribution of living arrangements across space and time, the underlying motives, housing solutions, and patterns of use of public services. In this exploratory study, we describe selected results from the first ever analysis of multilocal residency in Poland, which was based on data obtained through a nationwide research panel carried out in 2023. Here, we focus on multilocal Varsovians (n=445). Analyses indicate that having two places of stay not far from each other was dominant among the group being researched. A concentration of places in the Mazovia Voivodeship was evident, as was the long duration for which multilocal residents had used both areas of stay....
Between two places of residence. Residential multilocality and its relation to place attachmenet and local engagement Barbara Jaczewska Przeglad Geograficzny, 2025 Artykuł podejmuje problematykę wielolokalności mieszkaniowej, skupiając się na relacji między zamieszkiwaniem w kilku miejscach a przywiązaniem do miejsca i zaangażowaniem w sprawy lokalne. W artykule przedstawiono teoretyczne ramy ujmowania wielolokalności jako dynamicznego procesu zamieszkiwania w kilku miejscach oraz alternatywy wobec migracji i codziennej mobilności. Poszukiwano odpowiedzi na pytanie, jak „poligamia miejsca” oraz czasowa obecność lub nieobecność osób mieszkających wielolokalnie wpływają na przywiązanie do miejsca zamieszkania i poziom zaangażowania społecznego. Analiza opiera się na wynikach badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w 2023 r. na grupie 996 osób prowadzących wielolokalny tryb życia w województwie mazowieckim. Wnioski wskazują, że praktyka wielolokalności nie wyklucza silnego przywiązania do jednego lub kilku miejsc zamieszkania, ale budowane są zróżnicowane więzi z poszczególnymi miejscami, często powiązane z funkcją, jaką pełnią. Wysoka mobilność i ograniczone zasoby czasowe negatywnie oddziaływują na zaangażowanie w sprawy lokalne. Artykuł kończy refleksja nad potrzebą rozszerzenia badań o perspektywę wielolokalnych rezydentów, gdyż brak danych statystycznych dotyczących osób wielolokalnych oraz niskie zaangażowanie w sprawy lokalne sprawia, że są oni podwójnie niewidoczni dla władz lokalnych.
Analysis of spatial and temporal organization practices and modes of inhabitation of “multi-local” Polish academics Barbara Jaczewska Prace I Studia Geograficzne, 2023 The aim of this article is to present the practices of spatial and temporal organization and modes of inhabitation of multi-local researchers and to show how scientists perceive their multi-local lifestyle. Materials obtained from semi-structured, problem-oriented interviews, conducted as part of the preliminary research in 2022, were used for the analysis in the article. The research focused on four aspects: spatial arrangements and time use (duration and rhythm), multi-local practices (with particular emphasis on work-related mobility practices and housing arrangements), and the construction of the meaning of multi-local arrangements. The article attempts to contextualize the practices of multilocal life in accordance with the assumption that people living in several places constantly create new spaces, not only expressed in terms of real, territorial space but also socially or culturally constructed space.
Multi-local Living in Mazowieckie Province: Specificity and Universality of an Underestimated Phenomenon Barbara Dominika Jaczewska Traditiones, 2023 This article examines the practices of multilocal residents of the Mazovian Voivodship. The research focuses on spatiotemporal arrangements, motives, activities, and the perceived influence of multilocal living arrangements. Analyses are based on selected materials obtained from semi-structured, problem-oriented interviews, which were conducted in 2022 as part of the preliminary research (n=11), and an online survey on a representative group of inhabitants of Mazovian Voivodship (n=996).
Residential segregation in Warsaw and its metropolitan area in the context of changing housing policy Anna Grzegorczyk, Barbara Jaczewska European Spatial Research and Policy, 2018 Warsaw and its metropolitan area seem an interesting testing ground for research on the phenomenon of residential segregation in the context of the evolution of housing policy, since the city has been subject to significant changes as a result of historical events. Each of these contributed to alterations in the level and the character of residential segregation. The goal of this article is to answer the following question: Was the changing housing policy in Warsaw and the surrounding metropolitan area during the transformation period and afterwards accompanied by a modification of the segregation structure and what differences can be noticed in the whole of the metropolitan area and in the city itself?
Residential Segregation at the Local Level in Poland. Case Studies for Praga Północ, Włochy and Ursynów Barbara Jaczewska, Anna Grzegorczyk Miscellanea Geographica, 2017 The aim of this article is to answer two questions concerning the scale and the pattern of residential segregation in Warsaw at the local level and the character of contemporary processes accompanying and modifying this phenomenon. While examining residential segregation we have applied a multidimensional approach to underline the complex nature of this phenomenon. We have focused on data concerning different demographic and socio-economic categories. Furthermore we indicate and describe three socio-spatial, contemporary processes that have accompanied an increase in social inequalities in Warsaw (the creation of enclaves of poverty and wealth and the process of gentrification). The research reveals increasing social inequalities at the local level that began in the socialist era and have strengthened during the transformation period, as well as the stability of the socio-spatial pattern in selected districts that influence their local specifics.
Residential segregation of metropolitan areas of Warsaw, Berlin and Paris Barbara Jaczewska, Anna Grzegorczyk Geographia Polonica, 2016 The aim of the work detailed in this article has been to indicate demographic and social categories to the greatest extent segregated in the three selected metropolitan areas of Warsaw, Berlin and Paris, by applying multidimensional analysis; as well as to answer a question as to whether these categories are similar or different, given the different circumstances underpinning the development of the areas under study. The metropolitan areas were selected from Central Europe (Warsaw), Western Europe (Paris), and from the area located in the borderland between these regions (Berlin). In the case of each area, typical categories were selected for analysis, and developed on the basis of accepted segregation indices (the dissimilarity index D, isolation index xPx, delta index DEL, absolute centralisation index ACE, spatial proximity index SP and modified location quotient LQp). The multidimensional and multifaceted analysis allowed the most segregated groups at municipality and district levels to be distinguished, and presented in the context of previous research.
The transformation of "gated communities": A case study of the "Kabaty" neighbourhood of Warsaw Suburbanization Versus Peripheral Sustainability of Rural Urban Areas Fringes, 2014
