Ahoj! Hello! Cześć!

I’m Karolina Kania

_I am a Polish Design Anthropologist and UX Researcher living in Prague. I have been involved in qualitative research for ten years. I hold a PhD in Ethnology and Social Anthropology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.

_Currently I am working as an Innovation Research Lead at Creative Dock in Prague, Czech Republic. I am also a Lecturer at Prague University of Economics and Business (I deliver UX Research course to graduate students).

_I have experience in project management, workshop design and facilitation, marketing and PR.

_I am a storyteller with an eye for identifying and explaining the important detail from a mass of unstructured data. I am passionate about understanding and designing thoughtful user experiences. I am also an inquisitive thinker, equally curious about human behaviour and how organizations can succeed by understanding it better.

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Karolina Kania
Photo by Mikołaj Góralik

Skills

Experience

Researcher

PSL Research University

2015-2018 | Paris (FR)

✏ Since 2014, I conduct anthropological research based on ethnographic fieldwork in New Caledonia;

✏ I am interested in anthropology of tourism and politics and consider tourism as a lense for analysis of socio-cultural relations in micro-island scale;

✏ In my ethnographic work I use a set of qualitative methods that focus on the observation of social practices and interactions related to conflicts in tourism development;

✏ I have experience in identification of research questions, determination of locations for research, observation and participation, In-Depth Interview, as well as in collection of archival data.

Social Media Manager

Film Festival Cinema on the Border

2019 | Cieszyn (PL) / Český Těšín (CZ)

✏ I worked as a Social Mendia Menager for 21st edition of Cinema on the Border Film Festival;

✏ I managed social media marketing throughout day-to-day activities on Facebook and Instagram;

✏ I deliberated planning, strategy and goal setting and was responsible for content management, such as Social Media and blog relevant, original, high-quality posts, and six VLOGs;

✏ I implemented a content editorial calendar in order to manage content and plan specific, timely marketing campaigns (before and during festival);

✏ If you are interested, ask me for a full report of my Social Media Manager work!

TV Producer and Coordinator

Film Festival Cinema on the Border

2011-2019 | Cieszyn (PL) / Český Těšín (CZ)

✏ I was a producer and coordinator of TV KnG/KnH during seven editions of Cinema on the Border Film Festival in Cieszyn / Český Těšín;

✏ I was responsible for project coordination, team management, supervision of the post-production process, as well as for interviews with the guests;

✏ Video materials of TV KnG/KnH were presented on festival's profiles on Facebook and YouTube.

Trainer in soft skills

AFS Intercultural Programs

2012-today | Worldwide

✏ As an AFS Intercultural Programs returnee and then volunteer, I gained new skills related to trainers experience;

✏ In 2013 I became a certified Trainer of intercultural education and member of EFIL European Pool of Trainers;

✏ I have experience in both session design and workshop facilitation;

✏ I've delivered numerous workshops and trainings among others in Czech Republic, France, Iceland and Poland.

Program Coordinator

AFS Poland

2015-2016 | Kraków (PL)

✏ Employed in the International Project Office of the Father Siemaszko Foundation I was a Program Coordinator of AFS Poland hosting programs;

✏ AFS Poland is the Polish partner of an international, volunteer-driven, non-profit organisation that creates social impact through student mobility and intercultural experiences.

✏ I was responsible for administering AFS' inbound programs, ensuring that participants, host families, volunteers and AFS partners experience high quality service;

✏ I worked closely with other members of AFS Poland Team and communicated regularly with volunteers and host families in Poland as well as AFS staff in other countries worldwide on a range of promotion, support and program administration matters.

Project Coordinator

Various institutions

2010-today

So far I have co-organized numerous projects on local, national and international level, such as:

✏ in progress_Why the World Needs Anthropologists: Mobilizing the Planet – Finance Lead;

✏ 2014_The Centennial and World Congress of AFS Intercultural Programs – Support Team;

✏ 2012-2014_ECTP Camp – Support and Trainers' Teams;

✏ 2012_The 1st edition of Ethnology without borders (the 8th edition took place in Nitra, Slovakia in November 2019) – Event Coordinator and Project Coordinator of the Visegrad Grant;

✏ 2010-2013_Numerous students events such as Juwenalia, Watch Docs Film Festival, local and national conferences.

Personal Assistant

EHESS

2015 | Paris (FR)

✏ Providing educational support and related services to Ethnology and Social Anthropology student with brain-related disorder.

Project Assistant

The Multicultural Center Prague

2013 | Praha (CZ)

✏ Participating in workshops on intercultural education for high school students in Czech Republic within « Stereotýpek v nás » program;

✏ Participating in different training events.

Blogger

www.ethnopassion.pl

2012-today

✏ For almost 8 years I have been writing a blog EthnoPassion about my trips and travels, mostly about city-breaks in Europe and my ethnological fieldwork in South Pacfic;

✏ EthnoPassion was made out of pure passion for conscious traveling, learning different cultures, people and sharing my intercultural experience.

✏ I have cooperated with various organizations and brands by preparing different type of content – articles with product placement, contests and presentations;

✏ Thanks to blogging I get technical knowledge (basic knowledge of HTML5 and CSS), SEO and marketing skilss, I also constantly improve my writing skills.

Lecturer

Various institutions

2015-today

✏ As a PhD Candidate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, I got teaching & lecturing experience;

✏ Lectures I gave were among others on the ethnographic methods of research, my field work in New Caledonia and space management on customary lands in Melanesia;

✏ I delivered lectures at EHESS in Paris, at Charles University in Prague, at University of Warsaw and University of Silesia in Katowice. I also presented my research during international conferences;

✏ I regularly perform at various festivals, mostly travel events. You can watch one of my performances in the Wrocław Opera during Wachlarz Festival organized by Outriders.

Designed & developed with passion by Karolina Kania | EthnoPassion 2020