Monika Gabriela Dąbrowska
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Biography
Monika has come to St Andrews after completing her initial studies in Poland. Having graduated from the University of Lodz with the degree of MA in International Relations, she pursued the academic career, completing the M.Litt course in International Security Studies and entering the PhD programme in the School of International Relations. Her fieldwork has been conducted in Glasgow, the Netherlands (Rotterdam, the Hague and Assen), England (Leicester, Reading, Leeds, Bradford and Bedford), Denmark (Copenhagen) and Poland (Katowice).
In 2005 she was awarded a scholarship in the Centre for Transatlantic Studies in Maastricht, the Netherlands. In 2007 she was admitted as an intern to the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence and in 2009 her work was recognized with the Russell Trust award.
Currently, she is a research assistant for ESYM project and pilots a research scheme for a group of first year undergraduate students aimed at enhancing their students experience through familiarizing them with practical aspects of the research project. She is also a part of Our Shared Europe project.
In 2011 Monika commences a research project for Scottish Prison Services on radicalisation of European converts to Islam.
Thesis Title
Exploring Potential Terrorist Threats of European Converts to Islam: Patterns of Radicalisation and Their Implications for Scotland and England
Supervisor
Dr Jeffrey Murer
Research Interests
European Islam, Converts, Societal Security, Identity, Religion in IR, Radicalisation, Political Violence and Terrorism.
Publications
Review of Olav F. Knudsen (ed.), Security Strategies, Power Disparity and Identity The Baltic Sea Region (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), CEU Political Science Journal. Vol. 5, No. 2
Review of Thad Dunning, Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008), CEU Political Science Journal. Vol. 5, No. 3
Review of Mohammad Mazher Idriss and Tahir Abbas (eds.), Honour, Violence, Women and Islam (Oxon: Routlege, 2011), forthcoming
Conferences
“Terrorism from a Multidisciplinary Perspective”, CSTPV workshop, St Andrews, 30th September 2009. Presented paper: Research Methods in Exploring Potential Terrorist Threats of European Converts to Islam.
“Bonds and Borders: Identity, Imagination, Transformation”: 8th Annual Conference of the Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities of the University of Glasgow, 4th June 2010.
Presented paper: The Bridge on the River. European Converts to Islam and the Murky Waters of Belonging.
6th European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Summer School, University of Sussex, 10th-11th June 2010.
Presented Paper: Researching the Invisible: Methodology and Ethics in Terrorism Studies.
Seminar on Islam and Radicalisation, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, 9th September 2010.
Presented Paper: Extremism of Belonging: Social Consequences of Religious Conversions.
Grants
Russell Trust Award 2009
Teaching
Monika has been tutoring the following modules:
- IR1005 Introduction to International Relations;
- IR1006 Foreign Policy and International Security;
- IR4520 Political Islam and International Relations.
Additionally as an Associate Researcher she has been delivering lectures to International Baccalaureate (IB) Sixth Form (S5 and S6) students at St Leonards School.
