Joanna Kostka, alumna of CEU's Department of Public Policy and currently Visiting Researcher at the Center for Policy Studies, has recently been selected for a lecturer position in Social Work at Lancaster University's Sociology Department in the United Kingdom. Kostka received her PhD (summa cum laude) from CEU in 2015, defending a thesis on 'Going beyond Political Commitments: Explaining Diverging Outputs in the Use of European Structural Funds for Roma Inclusion Strategies in Spain and Slovakia'. Kostka has worked with the Center for Policy Studies on a European Commission-funded research project Enhancing the EU's Transboundary Crisis Management Capacities.
For more information on the project please see: https://cps.ceu.edu/research/transcrisis