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Iwona Parzyńska

Iwona Parzyńska
Member of the Board

Director's representative for persons with disabilities and accessibility coordinator at the National Museum in Krakow; MA in sociology from the Jagiellonian University, postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics – marketing analytics, member of the Polish Economic Society and the Polish Sociological Association – Disability Sociology Section. Since 2020, she has been lecturing at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication in the postgraduate programme ‘Culture Management’. Since 2023, she has been lecturing at the Faculty of Humanities at AGH University of Science and Technology in the postgraduate programme ‘Accessibility Coordinator and Auditor’. In 2022, she was a member of the Steering Committee of the National Centre for Culture's programme entitled ‘Accessible Culture’, and in 2022, she was a member of the NIMOZ team responsible for guidelines for museums concerning the Accessibility Plus Programme. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Council of the School Without Barriers Foundation for the Education of Children and Young People with Multiple Disabilities in Krakow. She is the author and co-author of publications on the social and professional activation of people with disabilities and their participation in culture.

Research experience:

  • Coordinator of the project ‘The Learning Museum – analysis of participation in culture and research into the needs of people with various types of disabilities on the example of the audience of the National Museum in Krakow’ (2019–2022), (new edition 2023–2025).
  • In 2022–2023, coordinator of the MNK project “A More Accessible Museum” (July 2022/June 2023), in which nearly 700 people with disabilities took part.
  • In 2020–2022, member of the team implementing the ‘Spectrum’ project for the participation of people on the autism spectrum in culture (as part of ‘Erasmus+ Youth. Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships’) in partnership with FARO. Vlaams Steunpunt Voor Cultureel Erfgoed VZW, Centre for Museum Education of the Roma Tre University, Roma Tre University, Universidad Nacional De Educacion a Distancia, Outside in Pathways
  • In 2022, member of the team conducting audience research for Brama Poznania on behalf of the Poznań Heritage Centre by the team of the Institute for Cultural Organisation Research – IBOK.
  • In 2022, she conducted an evaluation of the possibilities for supporting increased employment and entrepreneurship among young people with disabilities at the National Museum in Krakow as part of the YOUTH IMPACT project at FRDL (co-financed by the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment).
  • Member of the team conducting research on ‘Multimodality in making museum collections accessible to people with disabilities – evaluation of available solutions’ (2021–2022) – collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities at AGH University of Science and Technology
  • In 2017-2018, coordinator of the project entitled ‘Krakow's cultural audience’, carried out by the Department of Culture Management at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University, the Krakow Philharmonic, the Museum of Krakow and the National Museum in Krakow. As part of the project, over 3,000 questionnaire interviews were conducted on the cultural offer of 19 Krakow cultural institutions.

In PES pursues activities aimed at: expanding and strengthening PES's training activities, including the promotion and sale of training courses conducted by members of the Society and the organisation of internal training courses,

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