Dr Aneta Piekut

School of Education

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences

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Dr Aneta Piekut
School of Education
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Understanding movement between boarders - Meet Dr Aneta Piekut

Dr Aneta Piekut joined the Sheffield Methods Institute in 2014. Before that she worked as a researcher at the Universities of Warsaw (the Centre of Migration Research, 2005-2009), Leeds and Sheffield (2010-2014). She completed her PhD studies at the University of Warsaw in 2009. 

Aneta is Co-Director of the - an interdisciplinary research network in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

She is a mixed methods sociologist and her research spans disciplinary boundaries. Her research focuses on ethnic diversity, socio-spatial segregation and social cohesion, attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities, including their measurement and the problem of survey nonresponse. 

She published widely in leading academic journals on issues of migration, ethnicity and segregation (e.g. European Sociological Review, Sociology, Social Science Research, Social & Cultural Geography, International Sociology), and in 2017 she won the prestigious awarded by the British Sociological Association鈥檚 (BSA) for a paper published in Sociology journal.

Publications

Books

  • Bell A, Hartman T, Piekut A, Rae A & Taylor M (2020) . SAGE Publications Ltd.

Journal articles

  • Zhang ML, Piekut A, Rasool Z, Warden L, Staples H & Pryce G (2024) . PLOS ONE, 19(8).
  • Jabkowski P & Piekut A (2024) . Survey Research Methods, 18(2), 113-135.
  • Piekut A (2024) . Survey Methods - Insights from the Field, 2(2).
  • Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Piekut A, Trevena P & Wright S (2024) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(2), 442-460.
  • Jabkowski P & Piekut A (2023) . Field Methods, 36(3), 213-228.
  • Horton NJ, Alexander R, Parker M, Piekut A & Rundel C (2022) . Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 30(3), 207-208.
  • Ball R, Medeiros N, Bussberg NW & Piekut A (2022) . Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
  • Jabkowski P & Piekut A (2022) . Studia Socjologiczne, 2022(2), 165-189.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2021) . International Sociology, 36(6), 887-905.
  • Piekut A (2021) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(5), 1136-1161.
  • Kilkey M, Piekut A & Ryan L (2020) . Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 9(1), 5-12.
  • Piekut A, Pryce G & van Gent W (2019) . Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(3), 225-234.
  • Dean N, Dong G, Piekut A & Pryce GB (2019) . Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(3), 271-288.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) . Social Science Research.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) . European Sociological Review, 32(3), 339-354.
  • Harris C, Jackson L, Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) . Social and Cultural Geography, 1-18.
  • Valentine G, Piekut A, Winiarska A, Harris C & Jackson L (2015) . Ethnicities, 15(4), 568-585.
  • Piekut A, Mayblin L & Valentine G (2014) . Sociology.
  • Harris C, Jackson L, Mayblin, L, Piekut A & Valentine G (2014) . Qualitative Research.
  • Valentine G, Piekut A & Harris C (2014) . Geographical Journal.
  • Piekut A, Vieten UM & Valentine G (2014) Seeking 鈥榯he New Normal鈥? Troubled spaces of encountering visible differences in Warsaw. Polish Sociological Review, 4(188).
  • Piekut A (2014) Migration and modernisation - An alternative. polemic essay with Marek Ok贸lski's article "modernising impacts of emigration". Studia Socjologiczne(1), 157-169.
  • Piekut A (2013) You鈥檝e got Starbucks and Coffee Heaven... I Can Do This! Spaces of Social Adaptation of Highly Skilled Migrants in Warsaw. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 2(1).
  • Piekut A, Rees P, Valentine G & Kupiszewski M (2012) . Environment and Planning A, 44(12), 2988-3009.
  • Piekut A & Grzyma艂a-Kaz艂owska A (2007) Czy mamy juz w Polsce mala Ukraine i polskie Viettown? Spoleczno-przestrzenne wzory zamieszkiwania imigrant贸w w metropolii warszawskiej. Studia Lokalne i Regionalne, 4(30).
  • Toru艅czyk-Ruiz S, Brunarska Z & Piekut A () . Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Book chapters

  • Piekut A (2025) , Teaching Research Methods in Sociology (pp. 295-312). Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Grzyma艂a-Kaz艂owska A & Piekut A (2023) Integracja migrant贸w w spo艂ecze艅stwie przyjmujacym, 30 Wykladow O Migracjach (pp. 229-246).
  • Grzyma艂a-Kaz艂owska A & Piekut A (2023) , 30 wyk艂ad贸w o migracjach University of Warsaw Press
  • Brunarska Z, Kaczmarczyk P & Piekut A (2021) Postawy wobec imigrant贸w w 鈥瀞tarych鈥 i 鈥瀗owych鈥 krajach imigracyjnych. Czy historia imigracji ma znaczenie? In Sztabi艅ski P, Przybysz D & Sztabi艅ski F (Ed.), Polska - Europa. Wyniki Europejskiego Sonda偶u Spo艂ecznego 2002-2018/19 (pp. 92-113). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Filozofi i i Socjologii PAN.
  • Piekut A (2021) , The Urban Book Series (pp. 13-38). Springer International Publishing
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2018) Kosmopolityczna Praga? W poszukiwaniu (nowej) to偶samo艣ci praskiej In G贸rny A, Toru艅czyk-Ruiz S & Winiarska A (Ed.), Po s膮siedzku z r贸偶norodno艣ci膮. Interakcje w miejskich przestrzeniach lokalnych z perspektywy r贸偶nych grup mieszka艅c贸w (pp. 155-197). Warsaw: Scholar.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) Unpacking Prejudice: Narratives of Homophobia in Cross-National Context In Vieten UM & Valentine G (Ed.), Cartographies of Differences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 15-40). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang.
  • Piekut A (2012) Visible and Invisible Ethnic 鈥極thers鈥 in Warsaw: Spaces of Encounter and Places of Exclusion In Grubbauer M & Kusiak J (Ed.), Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990 Campus Verlag
  • Piekut A, G贸rny A & Stefa艅ska R (2012) From (many) datasets to (one) integration monitoring system in Poland? In Bijn R & Verweij A (Ed.), Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant Integration in Europe. Integration Policies and Monitoring Efforts in 17 European Countries
  • G贸rny A, Kindler M, Stefa艅ska R, Piekut A & Szulecka M (2010) Wybrane aspekty integracji imigrant贸w: w poszukiwaniu mechanizm贸w sprzyjaj膮cych dalszemu nap艂ywowi cudzoziemc贸w do Polski [Selected aspects of immigrant integration: Searching for mechanisms supporting further inflow of foreigners to Poland] In G贸rny A, Grabowska-Lusi艅ska I, Lisi艅ska M & Ok贸lski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 188-231).
  • Biernath M, G贸rny A, K臋pi艅ska E, Kindler M, Piekut A, Stefa艅ska R & Szulecka M (2010) Integration: A Supplementary Driver of Immigration? In G贸rny A, Grabowska-Lusi艅ska I, Lesi艅ska M & Ok贸lski M (Ed.), Immigration to Poland: Policy 鈥 Labour Market 鈥 Integration (pp. 151-194).
  • Piekut A (2010) Spo艂eczny wymiar integracji [The social dimension of integration] In Gorny A, Grabowska-Lusinska I, Lesinska M & Okolski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 202-216).
  • Piekut A (2008) Adaptacja imigrant贸w na lubelskim rynku pracy [Immigrant adaptation in Lublin city labour market] In Kaczmarczyk P (Ed.), Migracje zagraniczne a procesy rynku pracy 鈥 przypadek Lubelszczyzny (pp. 63-88).
  • Piekut ANETA (2008) Wielo艣膰 wymiar贸w 鈥 zatem jaka integracja? Przegl膮d tematyki i metod bada艅 integracyjnych In Grzymala-Kaz艂owska A & 艁odzi艅ski S (Ed.), Problemy integracji imigrant贸w koncepcje, badania, polityki Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Book reviews

  • Piekut A (2014) Book review: "Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion. Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action" by Merlin Schaeffer, Ashgate, 2014. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 3(1), 137-140.

Conference proceedings

  • Bennett NC, Salway S & Piekut A (2020) . Oral Presentations (pp A17.1-A17)

Reports

  • Jochymek A, Soborski R, Amanullah A, Arambepola C, Porter B & Piekut A (2025)
  • Staples H, Piekut A, Krasteva L, Rani U & Rasool Z (2024)
  • Piekut A, Staples H, Pryce G & Rasool Z (2024)

Performances

  • Krasteva L, Rani U, Gilbert C, Piekut A, Staples H, Rasool Z & Pryce G (2022, September 20) Blurring the Edges. Festival of the Mind 2022.

Exhibitions

  • Krasteva L, Rani U & Gilbert C (2024, April 1) Blurring the Edges. Festival of Dabate / Migration Matters Festival.
  • Dawidek M, Korobkiewicz P & Kowalczyk S (2022, September 1) Spaces of (dis)connection: Migrant essential workers. Centrala, Birmigham / Clapham Library, London / Art27, Edinburgh.

Digital content

  • Piekut A & Narkowicz K Polish key workers feel unwelcome in the UK thanks to Brexit plus COVID.
  • Piekut A Stopping segregation: it鈥檚 not just where you live, it鈥檚 the places you go that matter.
  • Piekut A You鈥檙e probably wrong, but there鈥檚 data to understand why.
  • Piekut A Using Eurovision to explain sampling bias.
  • Piekut A Revealed: the truth about ethnic diversity of neighbourhoods.

Working papers

  • Piekut A, Rees P, Valentine G & Kupiszewski M (2011) The tale of two cities: Diversity in Leeds and Warsaw. Working Paper of the University of Leeds, School of Geography, 11.

Datasets

  • Staples H, Piekut A, Rasool Z & Pryce G (2024) .
  • Zhang ML, Piekut A, Rasool Z, Warden L, Staples H & Pryce G (2024) .
  • Piekut A, Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Wright S, Trevena P & Le TPL (2023) .
  • Wright S, Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Piekut A & Trevena P (2023) .
Grants

Duration

Role

Project title

Awarding body

Funding amount
2024-2025 Co-Investigator UKRI/ESRC 拢1,114,718
2024 Principal investigator Crossing the frontier: Exploring the potential of the Collective Mobile Method as a participatory research tool in Rotherham UKRI Research England 拢11,648

2023

 Principal investigator Blurring the edges: social frontiers as places of encounter Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) 拢23,000

2022

Co-Investigator

Migrant essential workers in the UK - Portable multi-arts exhibition

ESRC Impact Accelerator Award

拢20,000

2020-2022

Co-Investigator

UKRI/ESRC

拢300,000

2020-2021

Fellowship

Project TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) Fellow

$5,000

2020-2023

Co-Director

: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants

Nordforsk/ESRC

拢1惭

2019-2023

Co-Investigator

Migration, Integration and Governance Research Centre ()

H2020-WIDESPREAD

拢710,000

2019

Principal investigator

Consultancy work for Work Package 6 on 鈥淢igration Flows in Europe鈥

Horizon2020 Cross-Migration

拢5,000

2017-2019

Co-Investigator

Modern Poland: Migration and Transformations

Oxford Noble Foundation

拢30,000

2014-2015

Coordinator

Research cluster 鈥淒iversity, Migration & Social Cohesion鈥

seed funding

鈧6,000

2010-2011

Principal investigator

Highly skilled immigrants from European Union in Warsaw

Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland

15,000 PLN

2007-2008

Principal investigator

Highly skilled workers of transnational corporations in Warsaw

Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland

20,000 PLN
Teaching interests

Methods are not neutral tools of data collection and analysis, so in her modules Aneta encourages students to critically reflect on why and how they apply them. As with other lecturers at SMI, Aneta's teaching is research-led, with substantial time devoted to hands-on practice with data.

In 2020/21 Aneta was awarded a in recognition of embedding principles of transparency and reproducibility in her teaching of quantitative social sciences. 

Aneta has been a certified Fellow of the (HEA) since 2017.

Teaching activities

Aneta has been teaching across a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the SMI . Currently she leads on:

  • SMI108 Survey Design and Data Collection 
  • SMI205 Intermediate Research Project in Quantitative Social Sciences (aka Replication project) 
  • SMI304 Doing Mixed Methods Research 

Together with colleagues from SMI Aneta developed a highly successful MOOC 'Making Sense of Data in the Media' - a massive, open, online course on - making sense of data in the media and beyond. It's available for free .

Professional activities and memberships
  • Co-Director of the , 爆料TV
  • Research Fellow of the , University of Warsaw (since 2005)
  • Executive Committee member of Project TIER -
  • Associate Editor of
  • Member of editorial board of
  • Member of editorial board of

Member of (PTS), (BSA) and (ESRA).

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD supervision:

  • Chandima Arambepola, Border struggles and 鈥榙oing family鈥 (, co-supervised with prof. Majella Kilkey)
  • Eleanor Bale, Social Frontiers in Residential Segregation: A Data Analytics Approach (funded by ESRC ; co-supervision with prof. Gwilym Pryce.

Past PhD supervision:

  • Natalie Bennet, Social cohesion, ethnic diversity, and mental wellbeing (funded by (SPHR); co-supervision with prof. Sarah Salway)
  • Ben Gardner, Modelling of passenger clearance at the UK Border (funded by ESRC ; co-supervision with prof. Gwilym Pryce & dr. Mauricio A. Alvarez)

Aneta is interested in supervising motivated research students in the following areas:

  • The relationship between ethnic diversity and social cohesion;
  • Consequences of international migration for local communities and everyday lives of migrants and non-migrants;
  • Spatial distribution and ethnic segregation;
  • Attitudes towards immigration, various immigrant groups and ethnic minorities;
  • Highly skilled migration and intra-EU mobility;
  • survey methodology, specifically item nonresponse, measurement, mixed-mode surveys;
  • Advanced quantitative and mixed methods research.