Professor Marta Moskal
- Professor of Migration and Diversity (Education)
email:
Marta.Moskal@glasgow.ac.uk
St Andrews Building, 11, Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH
Biography
Marta Moskal joined the School of Education at Glasgow from Durham University (2017-20). She trained at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the University of Montpellier in geography, sociology and public policy and received a PhD from Jagiellonian in 2004. She then held Assistant Professor post at the Jagiellonian University, Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh (2006-07), Marie Skłodowska-Curie personal research fellowship at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh (2008-11), and Lord Kelvin Adam Smith personal research fellowship at the University of Glasgow (2012-16).
Her research explores how marginalisation in education and society can be understood and addressed. Her work demonstrates cultural and social diversity promotes optimal education and career outcomes. And how this knowledge can be translated into fair and inclusive policies and practices for migrant young people, students, workers, refugees and families to help them realise their best contribution, including the influx of international students to Higher Education in the UK.
Her research is funded by the European Commission, Economic and Social Research Council, Art and Humanities Research Council and British Academy. Her work is published in leading international journals, including International Migration Review, Global Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Educational Development, Globalisation Society and Education, Geoforum, Children's Geographies, Race, Ethnicity and Education and elsewhere.
She was UK lead for two projects funded by European Commission - Inter4Ref “Accreditation framework to up-skill interpreters to support social inclusion of refugees” and ReCulm “Resources for local and international intercultural mediators addressing the refugees’ needs”. She led design and delivery of the massive open online courses (MOOCs):
Interpreting for Refugees: Contexts, Practices and Ethics
Working Supportively with Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives
Research interests
- migration, refugees and education
- geographies of children, youth and families
- international student mobility
- university to work transitions
- ethnocultural diversity, identity, belonging
- education for sustainable development
Grants
SGSAH Precarious housing, precarious belonging: using arts-based participatory methods to explore the experiences and perspectives of young asylum seekers, Applied Collaborative PhD Studentship with Taulant Guma and MORE (October 2024-March 2028)
British Academy/Leverhulme Housing precarity in the social transitions of international students, Co-I with Ben Mulvey (September 2023 - June 2025)
Chancellor's Fund Internationalisation at home, PI (April 2022 - March 2024)
College Strategic Research Fund University to work transitions among international student graduates, PI (2022)
EC Erasmus+ Inter4Ref: CVET and accreditation framework to up-skill interpreters to support the social inclusion of refugees, UK PI with National Centre for Social Research Athens, Greece - Coordinator, University of Modena, Italy and University of Almeria, Spain, EOPPEP, Greece (October 2018 - August 2021)
AHRC GCRF BIPHEC Building an intercultural pedagogy for higher education in conditions of conflict and protracted crises, Co-I at University of Durham (lead), with University of Istanbul, Turkey, University of Gaza, Palestine and University of Los Andes, Columbia (January- December 2019)
ESRC Here To Stay? Identity, Belonging and Citizenship among Eastern European Settled Migrant Children in the UK, Co-I with Daniela Sime PI, University of Strathclyde and Naomi Tyrrell, University of Plymouth (January 2016 - January 2019)
EC Erasmus+ ReCulm: Resources for local and international intercultural mediators addressing the refugees’ needs, UK PI with National Centre for Social Research Athens, Greece - Coordinator, University of Modena, Italy and University of Almeria, Spain. Project won Erasmus+ Good Practice Award (October 2016 - September 2018)
ESRC IAA Racial Equality and Scottish School Education PI at Glasgow joint with Rowena Arshad, PI at Edinburgh (2016 -2017)
SUII Migrant Youth Identities in Post-Referendum Scotland Knowledge Exchange project, Co-I with University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh (2015)
British Academy/Leverhulme International student mobility, culture change and capacity building in sending countries, PI (January 2014 - June 2015)
Robertson Bequest + New Initiatives Fund, University of Glasgow 2014 Migration and Intimate Life, GRAMNet workshops 18 June and 14 November 2014 (with Francesca Stella)
Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn Fund International Students in UK Universities: Institutional Settings, Individual Life Projects and Identity Change (October 2012 -
EC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship MIGRATE: Post-enlargement Migration, Integration and Education: Polish Immigrants in Scotland at CES Edinburgh, Jenny Ozga - mentor (April 2008 - July 2010)
Royal Society of Edinburgh Families and children of Polish migrant workers in Scotland (2007-2008)
IASH Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by AHRC Migration, Identities and Diaspora programme, project Migration, identity dynamics and construction of social differences: Polish migrants in Scotland (October 2006 - June 2007)
Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) START competition Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher (2006)
Supervision
I am an experienced PhD supervisor. I welcome enquiries about doctoral supervision from students who share any of my research interests and who are keen on qualitative/ participatory/ art-based empirical studies or mixed methods research.
PhD currently supervised
- Izham, Nur Afzan Binti
KNOWLEDGE SHARING PRACTICES & INTERACTION PATTERNS AMONG ACADEMICIANS IN MALAYSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS - Jiang, Ruiqi
Exploring the concept of formal environmental education - KARAKUS, HATICE
Policy and political discourses - Nimyel, Adebolaji Kudirat
Pathway experiences to accessing, progressing, and completing higher education – a case study of refugees and asylum-seeking people in Scotland. - Nouraldeen, Munther
Refugee education in the UK: The case of Syrian children in Glasgow - Nygren, Lindsay Marie
The role of the university in international students’ employability in the UK - Yao, Chengzhe
Anxious Youth in Elite Universities of China
PhD Completed
Mei Hu Understanding of gendered, classed, and racialized inequalities in higher education through exploration of Chinese international students’ experiences in the UK
Gaston Esteban Bacquet Quiroga Decolonial perspectives on nonviolence: Building inclusive learning communities in Chile through a participatory approach
Ania Gruszczyńska-Thompson Immigrant-background young adults giving accounts of themselves: agentic and dialogic reframing of parental cultural heritage (ESRC scholarship)
Keyu Zhai Social mobility and international graduates in China (CSC-UG scholarship)
Sihui Wang International students' participation in intercultural classroom at a the UK university (CSC-UG scholarship)
Yun Yu Church participation as intercultural encounter in the experiences of Chinese international students in the UK (CSC-UG scholarship)
External PhD examination
The impacts of parental migration on left-behind children in the northern provinces of ViệtNam: From the child’s perspective, The Uniersity of New South Wales, Australia
A comparative study of Polish and Chinese student migrants in the UK motivation, integration and national identity, University College London
Students' Choice of Postgraduate Education at G University in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China University of Nottingham
Teaching
Current teaching
MSc Educational Studies programme:
- Sustainable Development and Education (course lead)
- Seminars in Contemporary Issues (course lead)
- Comparative Education (course lead)
Previous teaching
- International and Comparative Education (postgraduate/ course lead)
- Intercultural Communication and Education (podgraduate/ programme lead)
- Intercultural Communication (postgraduate/ course lead)
- International Development and Education (postgraduate)
- Education in a Global Age (3 level/ course lead)
- Race, Ethnicity, Migration (3 level/ guest lecturer)
- Advanced Research Methods (postgraduate)
- Applied Qualitative Methods (postgraduate)
- Introduction to Social and Educational Research (postgraduate)
- Social and Political Geography (1 level/ course lead)
- Social Demography (3 level/ course lead)
- BA - 6, MA - 12, MPhil - 4, MSc - 28 dissertations (supervisior)