Mayday, plastic threat! - Socio-environmental Research Team - Faculty of Biology

Mayday, plastic threat! - Integration of citizen science and science communication into solutions to Single-Use Plastic pollution at times of the COVID-19 pandemic

• NCN Opus 20, 2020/39/B/HS4/00264

• Principal investigator: Małgorzata Grodzińska-Jurczak

• Aim of the project: assessment the COVID-19 pandemic effect on perception of climate change emergency and attitudes towards SUP items among various stakeholders of the SUP circular economy (CE) and the general public

• Popular science project description: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/498201-en.pdf

Publications

Grodzińska-Jurczak, M., Krawczyk, A., Akhshik, A., Dedyk, Z., & Strzelecka, M. (2022). Contradictory or complementary? Stakeholders’ perceptions of a circular economy for single-use plastics. Waste Management, 142, 1-8.

Conceptual framework of the project: circular economy of single-use plastic

Krawczyk, A., Jaguszewska, N., Ziółkiewicz, W., Grodzińska-Jurczak, M. (2023). The ivory tower of academia in the era of climate change: European scientists’ engagement in science popularization related to single-use plastics. Environmental Science & Policy , 146, 185-202.

The research leaflet

Project dissemination

Photogallery from the seminar of the Institute of Environmental Sciences on 18.01.2024

- presentation by Aleksandra Krawczyk, MSc, entitled "Communicative constructions and the relational concept of space in a circular economy of single-use plastics".

Stopnie naukowe

On 4 April 2024, the defence of the project-based doctoral thesis by Aleksandra Krawczyk "Communicative constructions and the relational concept of space in a circular economy of single-use plastics" took place in Krakow. The Doctoral Committee unanimously adopted a resolution to apply to the Jagiellonian University's Discipline Council for "Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management" to award the doctoral degree. Congratulations! We invite you to view the photographic documentation of the ceremony (photogallery 2).

Photogallery(1)