Last week, Professor Anna Mierzecka took part in the international conference “Heritage in War and Peace: Technology and Heritage through Past, Present and Future”, held in Kaunas.

During the event, she delivered a keynote speech titled “Immersed In Experience: Cultural Heritage”, focusing on modern ways of experiencing and interpreting cultural heritage.

Her presentation received strong interest from participants and contributed an important voice to the discussion on the future of heritage research.

We are proud to announce that Journal of Media Business Studies has published an article co-authored by dr Karolina Brylska!

The publication is titled: Fear factor: a scoping study of the role of fear in news media management during crises.

Congratulations, and we warmly encourage you to read the full article.

Nel, F. P., Bernhard, M., Brylska, K., Waschková Císařová, L., & Sidyk-Furman, D. (2025). Fear factor: a scoping study of the role of fear in news media management during crises. Journal of Media Business Studies, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/16522354.2025.2593761

With great pleasure, we announce a competition as part of the project “Maintenance of an Integrated Research Infrastructure for Media and Behavioral Studies at the LBM UW” (No. 157/561556/SPUB/SP/2023).

Purpose of the competition: to involve employees of the University of Warsaw who wish to conduct research using biometric and behavioral measurement tools and to develop their scientific potential.

We invite all University of Warsaw employees to participate — including those who do not yet have experience with biometric measurements but understand their value and have ideas for their application. The LBM UW team will provide training in equipment operation as well as substantive and organizational support.

Please note – the regulations have been updated on 7 November 2025. This version should be regarded as the official one.

Attachments:

Annex No 1.docx

Annex No 2.docx

Competition Regulations - final version.docx

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Why do many Poles, despite holding strong views, hesitate to express their opinions publicly?

Prof. Tomasz Gackowski discusses the mechanisms of the spiral of silence, self-censorship, and their implications for public debate in interviews for the UW Science Service and Rzeczpospolita.

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