MALGORZATA PATOK

A FEW WORDS FROM THE FOUNDER

 

Paris, the 15th of October 2020

 

During my professional career I had an opportunity to develop skills that build a bridge between the worlds of sociology, art and business.

Sociologist and political scientist, I dedicated my Ph.D. research to the issues regarding work and organisational transformations in the context of European Union policies, and more precisely those of the European single market.

My professional experience in prestigious Parisian fashion houses has led me to solve specific organisational and communicational issues in the innovative and international fashion industry. This precious practice has served me a lot in both my research and my academic teaching.

In addition, the artistic environment in which I have been involved from a young age, first as a graduate of the National Ballet School in Poland, then as a dancer in professional companies in France, taught me the value of hard work, attention to detail, creativity as well as team effort.

Teamwork requires being attentive to others, being spontaneous and the ability to adapt during live performances.

Having studied in multiple countries, I have always worked and evolved in an international environment. Consequently, I am constantly and actively interested in other cultures.

Through this research and consultancy firm, I would like to combine my interest in different forms of aesthetics, curiosity for the world, my analytical skills and knowledge of social mechanisms.

My ambition is to make the link between research and business worlds by proposing solutions to complex issues that emerge in our society. 

Malgorzata Patok

 

Publications

  • Diaspora, Smartphone and Tablette, in : Dictionnaire du temps présent, Y.C. Zarka and Ch. Godin (dir.), Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2022, p. 184-186, 546-547 and 573-574.

  • Free Movement of Workers and the Self-employment issue in France, in: Migratory Studies, Vol. XLIV, M. Nawojczyk (dir.), Varsovie, PAN, 2018, p. 59-66.

  • Role division within relationships of Polish Immigrants living in France after 2004, in: Adult Education Discourses, Vol. XVIII, E. Paprzycka (dir.), Zielona Góra, Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, 2017, p. 347-360.

  • Le stéréotype national: l’exemple de la peur du “plombier polonais” in: Identités, démocratie, frontières, G. Rouet & M. Stoicheva (dir.), Paris, L’Harmattan, 2017, p. 93-104.

  • L’impact de l’Union européenne sur le monde du travail: l’expérience vécue et les représentations sociales des travailleurs polonais en France vis-à-vis de l’intégration européenne, in: Les entreprises et l’intégration européenne, S. Raytcheva & G. Rouet (dir.), Paris, L’Harmattan, 2016, p. 181-197.

  • Economic Migration in the Context of the Internal Market of the EU: the Processes of Adaptation and Integration of Polish Workers in France, in: Pour une Europe forte, rénover les structures économiques, entrepreneuriales, politiques, territoriales et éducatives, C. Martin & J. Marasova (dir.), Bratislava, Wolters Kluwer, 2016, p. 239-250.

  • Stereotypy narodowe a normy i kontrola społeczna w środowisku polskich pracowników we Francji po 2004 roku, in: Normy, dewiacje i kontrola społeczna, Vol. XVI, J. Zamecka (dir.), Warsaw, IPSIR, 2015, p. 148-163.

  • Familles Autour du monde: Les Polonais, Revue Archives & Culture n°14, March/April 2015, Paris.

  • Wzajemne relacje w środowisku polskich pracowników we Francji po przystąpieniu

  • The Polish Worker in France in the Context of European Integration, Stereotypes of an Immigrant in France, Chapitre 20, in East-Central Europe in Exile, Patterns of Transatlantic Migrations, Vol. I, A. Mazurkiewicz (dir.), London, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, p. 326-340. (Oskar Halecki Prize)