Henryk Jan Banaszak, PhD.

Dr Banaszak received his PhD from Warsaw University, Sociology Institute, in 1983, where he began his academic career and where he still works in the Statistics, Demography and Mathematical Sociology Department. From 1984 until1987 he served as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology and was responsible for the teaching programme. In 1996 he joined the Centre for Social Studies (CSS) as an Assistant Professor. Dr Banaszak teaches social statistics, advanced data analysis and survey methods. He also manages the CSS local computer network and a database of international survey research data.

His scientific interests include probabilistic models of social networks, measurement and scaling theory and empirical attitude studies. From 1978 until 1991 he conducted a series of surveys on changes in political attitudes before and after system transformation. The results were published in two volumes "W przededniu wielkiej zmiany" [The Day Before the Great Change] (1991) and "Pamięć, wiedza, wyobraźnia" [Memory, Knowledge, Imagination] (2002).

From the beginning of his academic career Dr Banaszak has been professionally active in the area of market and public opinion research. From 1992 until1994 he worked as a consultant and then as the Director of Research at the DEMOSKOP company (at present - the Polish IPSOS subsidiary). From 1995 he has been an independent statistical consultant for commercial institutions (GfK, Gallup, TNS OBOP, CBOS, and IQS Quant) as well as for academic research institutions (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw University, and Warsaw Agricultural University). He specializes in survey sampling.

Education

1980 - 13th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex.

1983 - Ph. D. in Sociology, December, University of Warsaw. Doctoral Dissertation: "Blockmodels of Sociometric Data".

Research experience

1978-1981 - Head of Research Group on Warsaw Students' Leisure Time, Warsaw Center of Students Scientific Movement, Warsaw.

1981-1983 - Member of Research Group on Value System in Polish Society. Head of the Group: Prof. Stefan Nowak, Warsaw University.

1984 - Statistical consultant of market and public opinion research companies, academic institutions; consultancy in survey sampling, statistical analysis, survey research methodology.

1987-1991 - Head of section. Project CPBP 08.18, Methodological Problems of Political Attitudes Research, Educational Department, Warsaw Univ.

1992-1994 - Director of Research, DEMOSKOP, Institute for Market and Public Opinion Research.

1995-1997 - Statistical consultant of GfK POLONIA, Institute for Market and Public Opinion Research.

Teaching experience

1974-1983 - Lecturer in Sociology, University of Warsaw. Courses taught: Social Statistics.

1984 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw. Courses taught: Social Statistics, Survey Methods, Unidimensional Scaling, Path Models, Social Network Analysis.

1984-1987 - Director for Teaching Program, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw and Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw.

1998-2002 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Central European University, Warsaw. Courses taught: Social Statistics, Survey Methods.

since 2002 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Centre for Social Studies, Warsaw. Courses taught: Social Statistics, Survey Methods.

2004 - Lecturer, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw. Courses taught: Sampling in Market Research.

Selected publications

1981 "Analiza wykorzystania czasu wolnego studentów Warszawy" ("Analysis of Warsaw Student's Leisure Time Usage"), mimeo. Warsaw Center of Student's Scientific Movement, Warsaw.

1983 "Technologia manipulacji. Polska prasa codzienna: lipiec - sierpień 1980" ("Technology of Manipulation. Polish Newspapers: July - August 1980"). In I. Krzeminski [ed.], "Polacy - Jesien 80" ("Poles - Autumn 80"): 435 -560. Warsaw University, Warsaw.

1984 "Statystyka. Materiały pomocnicze dla studentów pierwszego roku socjologii" ("Statistics. Support Materials for Students of First Year of Sociology"), with S. Nowotny. Warsaw University, Warsaw.

1985 "Identyfikacja struktury jako problem decyzyjny" ("Identification of Structure as a Decision Problem"). Prakseologia 3-4 (95-96): 239 - 258.

1989 "Postawy polityczne studentów Warszawy 1958-1988" ("Political Attitudes of Warsaw Students 1958-1988"). Kultura i Spoleczenstwo, XX.

1991 "W przededniu wielkiej zmiany. Młodzież Warszawy 1987-1988" ("The Day Before the Great Change. Warsaw Youth 1987-1988"), red. (with Leszek Rowicki).

2002 "Pamięć - Wiedza - Wyobraźnia" ("Memory-Knowledge-Imagination"), Oficyna Naukowa, 2002, Warszawa (with Leszek Rowicki).

2003 "Chory na AIDS w środowisku pracy" ("PLWHA in the Workplace") in: "HIV/AIDS, Prawa człowieka w miejscu pracy" ("HIV/AIDS, Human Rights in the Workplace"). UNDP, Polska.