SOCIO-ECONOMIC SCIENCES

The Department of Regional and European Studies functions within the Humanities Faculty at the Koszalin University of Technology. It comprises scholars who focus their interests on areas of research such as: European integration, modern migrations, urban studies, new social movements, social security, cybersecurity, and regionalism. The Department tries to research the topics which are of importance for local issues. The topics are researched within the fields of political science, history, sociology, and media studies. The researchers either hold PhD diplomas or higher.

The Department of Economics and Accounting (DE&A) groups 9 scientists, including 2 professors and 7 Ph. D. Sc.

Scientific specialisation is spatial policy. The department conducts research into the economic, legal, environmental and urban conditions of spatial policy. spatial policy tools (e.g. spatial development plans) are studied and evaluated. Particular emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary determination of spatial policy objectives, and the implementation of these objectives in legal acts (at the national, regional and local levels). The Chair also works on comparing spatial planning systems in different countries.

The research team includes:
1)    Dr hab. Danuta Zawadzka, prof. PK. Field: economics and finance. Interests: corporate finance, farm finance, personal finance. Author or co-author of over 180 national and international scientific publications. Supervisor in 3 doctoral dissertations. Manager in 3 nationwide research projects and manager and contractor in numerous research projects financed from university funds.

Researcher at the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Management, Department of Finance and Banking at the University of Szczecin. Author of scientific publications, mainly related to the valuation of investments in high-risk conditions, the valuation of enterprises, the application of Monte Carlo simulation to the valuation of real options.  Speaker at national and international scientific conferences. 

The fields of expertise:
- financial accounting (measurement, accounting models for specific fields i.e. real estate development, housing cooperatives, housing communities, energy industry, maritime industry),
- cost and management accounting,
- financial and nonfinancial reporting (separate and consolidated financial statements, IFRS, CSR, financial analyses of various entities),
- business valuation and valuation of specific items, i.e. intangible assets,
- NGO’s accounting.

Members of the research team are competent in multi-stakeholder and network cooperation, and have experience in conducting scientific projects in the framework of international cooperation.
The research team in the Department of Management specializes in comprehensive research on farm economics, primarily dairy and beef livestock farms. The research focuses mainly on:
• evaluation of the impact of environmental changes on the conditions and productive-economic performance of farms;

The team members specialize in the use of quantitative methods supporting wide range of analyses, diagnoses and socio-economic forecasts. The conducted research concern the following main topics:  conducting surveys, modelling the distribution of socio-economic variables, analyzes of socio-economic development, economic forecasting and creating development scenarios, regional statistics, regional innovation systems, sustainability and social or environmental problems of regional space, innovation processes and assessment of effectiveness.

Our experience includes scientific analyses regarding:
- researching the local and regional development level in the area of entrepreneurship, socio-economic development, activity of regional financial institutions;
- public sector functioning and impact of legal regulations (particularly in the fiscal aspect) on the condition of self-government finances;
- measures taken by regional self-governments to mitigate negative socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 epidemic and their impact on the self-government’s finances.