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The Institute of Spatial Management and Socio-Economic Geography has been in operation since 1 October 2019 and is made up of academic staff from the Faculty of Management and Economics of Services and the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the University of Szczecin, continuing the rich scientific traditions of both faculties. There are two departments within the Institute, with a total of 51 academic staff.
The research area includes issues related to the broadly understood spatial management and socio-economic geography to which they belong:

  • contemporary social and economic processes in the local and regional dimension;
  • the economic potential of metropolitan areas in national and international terms;
  • the impact of local and regional finances, including local government and EU programmes, on the functioning and development of regions;
  • planning, spatial modelling, shaping the spatial environment;
  • the use of quantitative methods in socio-economic analyses, diagnoses and forecasts;
  • marketing services in spatial terms;
  • branding and place marketing;
  • regional tourism economy in terms of both subjective and objective;
  • issues related to handling tourist traffic, research on tourist activity;
  • the issues of socio-economic policy, information economics and the information society;
  • the development and socio-economic impact of the use of information and communication technologies.

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  • Our Staff

    Department of Spatial Management and Tourism

    Head of the department: Assoc. Prof. Beata Meyer, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Team of Tourism and Spatial Design
    Team Leader: Assoc. Prof. Beata Meyer, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Dr Anna Gardzińska
    Dr Agnieszka Sawińska
    Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Brojak-Trzaskowska, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Kupiec Michał, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Zbigniew Głąbiński, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Dr Tomasz Duda
    Dr Daniel Szostak
    Dr Barbara Osóch
    MA Karina Tessar
     
    Team of City and Region Marketing
    Team Leader: Prof. Grażyna Rosa
    Assoc. Prof. Igor Kavetskyy, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Dr Anna Czaplińska
    Dr Izabela Ostrowska
    Dr Agnieszka Tomaszewicz
    Dr Leszek Gracz
    Dr Eng. Jacek Rudewicz

    Team of Regional Statistics and Economic Forecast
    Team Leader: Assoc. Prof. Rafał Klóska, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Dr Kamila Bednarz-Okrzyńska
    Dr Rafał Czyżycki
    Dr Piotr Szklarz
    Dr Anna Lewandowska
    Dr Elżbieta Mydłowska

    Team of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
    Team Leader: Assoc. Prof. Adam Stecyk. Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Dr Piotr Ładny
    Dr Tomasz Norek
    Dr Rafał Szymański

    Department of Economic Policy and Socio-Economic Geography

    Head of the Department:  Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Budziewicz-Guźlecka, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Local Government Finance Team
    Team Leader: Assoc. Prof. Przemysław Pluskota, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Prof. Krystyna Brzozowska
    Dr Małgorzata Gorzałczyńska-Koczkodaj
    Dr Eng. Elżbieta Ociepa-Kocińska
    Dr Monika Pettersen-Sobczyk

    Socio-Economic Geography and Infrastructure Policy Team
    Team Leader: Assoc. Prof. Jacek Buko, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Prof. Marek Dutkowski
    Prof. Juliusz Engelhardt
    Prof. Jolanta Zieziula
    Assoc. Prof. Izabela Bludnik, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Paweł Czapliński, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Ireneusz Jaźwiński,Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Dr Tadeusz Bocheński
    Dr Natalia Sypion
    Dr Mariam Pirveli
    Dr Tomasz Rydzewski
    Dr Małgorzata Ślusarczyk-Jurek

    Team of Digital Technology and Regions of the Future
    Team Leader:
     Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Budziewicz-Guźlecka, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Anna Drab-Kurowska, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Dr Marcin Janowski
    Assoc. Prof. Maciej Czaplewski, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Wiesław Maziarz, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Water Safety Team
    Team Leader: Dr Tomasz Zalewski
    MA Maria Adamczyk
    MA Apoloniusz Kurylczyk

  • Our Research

    Projects

    Implications of Sustainable Development in Spatial Management and E-Economy. E-Economy. E-Geography.

    • New technologies in social sphere and education
    • Regional Economic Policy
    • Electronic Communication Market
    • Digital infrastructure as regional and local development factor
    • Economic, social and spatial conditions and consequences of digital infrastructure operation and development
    • Digitalisation of public administration and services as a precondition for regional and local growth
    • Spatial diversity in society digitalisation – areas of digital prosperity and exclusion
    • Smart cities
    • CEP Market
    • Geography of cyberspace
    • Directions for the development of information civilisation

    The project team
    Prof. Grażyna Rosa; Assoc. Prof. Jacek Buko, Prof. Of the University of Szczecin; Assoc. Prof.  Agnieszka 
    Budziewicz-Guźlecka; dr hab. Assoc. Prof. Anna Drab-Kurowska; Assoc. Prof. Wiesław Maziarz, Prof. of the University of Szczecin; Assoc. Prof. Maciej Czaplewski, Prof. of the University of Szczecin


    Spatial differentiation of common crime in a big city as a result of the interaction of social areas and spatial determinants (Przestrzenne zróżnicowanie przestępczości pospolitej w wielkim mieście jako efekt współoddziaływania obszarów społecznych i determinant przestrzennych).
    The project leader: Dr Natalia Sypion-Dutkowska


    Polish sea ports in handling cargo turnover (Polskie porty morskie w obsłudze obrotów ładunkowych)
    The project leader: Dr Elżbieta Szaruga

    Research teams

    Spatial Management

    Scientific research carried out by the members of the Team and the analyses and reports applicable in the practice of business activity, concern, among others, such issues as: spatial planning and the conflicts that accompany it, shaping the spatial environment, including care for maintaining order in space, creating sustainable development in the country and local governments, regional analysis, building a knowledge-based economy of regions, creating the image of cities and regions, spatial modelling.

    Socio-Economic Geography

    The scientific interests of the Team include: contemporary social and economic processes in the local and regional dimension, spatial disproportions in social and economic development, development of cities and regions in neo-liberal conditions, regional and local implications of the development of Polish maritime economy, identification and shaping of tourism potential in various spatial scales, risk analysis and assessment of the state of water safety in Poland and worldwide.
    The research team leader: Assoc. Prof. Igor Kavetskyy, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Regional Statistics and Economic Forecasts

    The conducted research concerns, among others, such topics as: social and economic development, innovativeness of regions, economic forecasting, regional statistics, scenarios for the development of regional economy in the context of business efficiency and innovative activity of enterprises, as well as individual sectors of the economy, modelling of variables describing regional development, issues related to “weighing” the importance of individual diagnostic variables in regional development and procedures for measuring such development, contemporary economic, social and environmental problems of urban and regional space in the context of sustainable development, optimisation of economic models and extraction of knowledge from experimental data.
    The research team leader: Assoc. Prof. Rafał Klóska, Prof. of the University of Szczecin 

    Local and Regional Finance

    The research and scientific interests of the Group focus on problems related to the scope and consequences of decisions taken at various levels, affecting the potential and socio-economic development of regions and their spatial conditions. The group concentrates its analyses and research around the assumptions, construction, purposefulness and effects of the implementation of instruments stimulating regional development, with particular emphasis on the impact of the institutional and instrumental support used on the potential and development of municipalities and regions (including border regions).
    The research team leader: dr hab. Przemysław Pluskota, Prof. of the University of Szczecin  

    Regional Tourist Economy

    The research tasks focus on issues such as: entities of regional tourist economy and relations between them, the subject structure of regional tourist economy, tourist marketing of the region, factors shaping the regional tourist offer, determinants of tourism development in the region, sustainable development of tourism in the spatial aspect, contemporary problems of tourist economy in the region.
    The research team leader: Assoc. Prof. Beata Meyer, Prof. of the University of Szczecin 

    Tourism and Travel

    The objective of the Team is to carry out research on tourism and travel:

    • Identifying and developing tourism potential at local and regional level;
    • Detailed aspects of development and spatial diversification of cultural, natural and educational tourism;
    • Planning of tourist and socio-economic development of local government unit;
    • Spatial aspects of tourism development;
    • Tourist activity of selected social groups: participants of selected forms of tourism with cognitive motives and active and specialised tourism;
    • Organisation and management of a tourist enterprise: human resources management and development of soft skills; vocational guidance, academic entrepreneurship, job search methods and professional activation;
    • Analysis of issues related to tourism services: interpretation in cultural and natural tourism, mainly in the field of tourism guidance, its narrative forms, interpretation tools and application of storytelling in tourism education;
    • Tour and travel guidance –related issues;
    • The functioning of hotel companies.

    The research team leader: Dr Zbigniew Głąbiński 

    Marketing of Services in the European Space

    The research issues of the Team include:

    • services embedded in the broadly defined European space; regional and supra-regional medical, transport, tourism services; marketing of services in spatial terms (Internet, optical, transport, municipal, tourism);
    • negotiations and communication in international and intercultural terms; building relationships with stakeholders taking into account regional and cultural differences; consumer behaviour in the context of regional differences in Poland and worldwide; internet marketing in the European space;
    • international marketing; marketing of cities and regions;
    • marketing of local government units.

    The research team leader: Prof. Grażyna Rosa

    Place Marketing

    Implementation of scientific research and practical studies concerning the branding and marketing of places identified not only with territorial division units (marketing of a commune, city, voivodeship, region, state), but also with areas and points of non-formalized, often discretionary spatial range.

    • issues of national, national, state brand and its influence on the development of citizens’ views and attitudes, including entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviour, and their perception by foreigners;
    • developing tools for the promotion of places that can be used in marketing; evaluation of the exchange of information and emotions in relation to the place;
    • multi-criteria evaluation of visual identification systems of the place; communication between ideas and policies carried out by city authorities and residents; image of the place and its identity – contemporary relations and dependencies.

    The research team leader: Assoc. Prof. Paweł Czapliński, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Information and Society Ecosystem 5.0

    Research and scientific interests of the Group are focused on the convergence of communication systems, the information ecosystem in the context of sustainable development, including: sectoral regulations in the area of infrastructure markets, with particular emphasis on the telecommunications and postal markets, social exclusion with particular emphasis on digital exclusion, good regulation, economy 4.0, society 5.0 and digital competences.
    Research team members: Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Budziewicz-Guźlecka, Assoc. Prof. Anna Drab-Kurowska

    Information and communication technologies

    • information society; use of information and communication technologies in the economy, administration and education (e-learning);
    • the functioning of the information and communication technology (telecommunications and IT) sector, including problems relating to its regulation;
    • use of IT tools in business intelligence analyses; multi-criteria analyses; ICT security.

    The research team leader: Assoc. Prof. Adam Stecyk, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Metropolitan Areas

    The team will focus on problems related to the economic potential of metropolitan areas and their impact on local and regional development. Research is also carried out on the spatial distribution of border areas and their socio-economic processes.

    • the economic potential of border regions in Europe, the economic and economic potential of metropolitan areas with particular emphasis on the Szczecin Metropolitan Area,
    • sustainable development in metropolitan areas,
    • services in metropolitan areas, finances in metropolitan areas.

    Research team leader: Assoc. Prof. Przemysław Pluskota, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

     

  • Scientific Board

    tenure 2021-2024

    Chairperson: Assoc. Prof. Przemysław Pluskota, Prof. of the University of Szczecin

    Prof. Juliusz Engelhardt
    Prof. Grażyna Rosa
    Assoc. Prof. Izabela Bludnik, Prof. of the University of Szczecin 
    Assoc. Prof. Jacek Buko, Prof. of the University of Szczecin 
    Assoc. Prof. Ireneusz Jaźwiński, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Igor Kavetskyy, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Rafał Klóska, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Wiesław Maziarz, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Beata Meyer, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Adam Stecyk, Prof. of the University of Szczecin
    Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Brojak-Trzaskowska, Prof. of the University of Szczecin 
    Assoc. Prof. Maciej Czaplewski, Prof. of the University of Szczecin 
    Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Budziewicz-Guźlecka
    Assoc. Prof. Anna Drab-Kurowska
    Dr Rafał Czyżycki
    Dr Anna Landowska
    Dr Anna Gardzińska
    Dr Kamila Bednarz-Okrzyńska
    Dr Barbara Osóch
    Dr Marcin Janowski
    Dr Małgorzata Gorzałczyńska-Koczkodaj
    Dr Leszek Gracz
    Dr Rafał Szymański
    Dr Piotr Ładny
    Dr Piotr Szklarz
    Dr Tomasz Norek
    Dr Eng. Elżbieta Ociepa-Kicińska
    Dr Izabela Ostrowska
    Dr Agnieszka Sawińska

  • Scientific Papers

    1. Czynniki wpływające na aktywność turystyczną polskich seniorów w świetle opinii słuchaczy uniwersytetów trzeciego wieku, Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe Poznań 2020, Głąbiński Zbigniew. 

    2. Nowoczesny marketing kolejowych przewozów pasażerskich, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Rosa Grażyna. 

    3. Rynek usług kurierskich w Polsc,e Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020 Maziarz Wiesław, Janowski Marcin. 

    4. Usługi rynku telekomunikacyjnego w warunkach rosnącej roli internetu na przykładzie wybranych państw, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Czaplewski Maciej, Stecyk Adam. 

    5. Informatyzacja administracji publicznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Tomaszewicz Agnieszka. 

    6. Infrastruktura terminali intermodalnych w portach morskich, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Engelhardt Juliusz (red.). 

    7. Infrastruktura transportowa i cyfrowa jako czynnik regionalnego i lokalnego rozwoju gospodarczego, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Rafał Klóska (red.). 

    8. Cyfryzacja jako warunek rozwoju regionalneg,o Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Janowski Marcin (red.). 

    9. Inteligentne miasta Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Budziewicz-Guźlecka Agnieszka (red.). 

    10. Determinanty funkcjonowania i rozwoju przestrzeni społeczno-ekonomicznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Ociepa-Kicińska Elżbieta (red.). 

    11. Gospodarcze, społeczne i przestrzenne uwarunkowania oraz konsekwencje funkcjonowania i rozbudowy infrastruktury cyfrowej ,Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Drab-Kurowska Anna (red.). 

    12. Kierunki rozwoju cywilizacji informacyjnej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Wiesław Maziarz (red.). 

    13. Nowe technologie w sferze społecznej i gospodarczej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Jaźwiński Ireneusz (red.). 

    14. Nowoczesne systemy transportowe w przewozach intermodalnych, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Engelhardt Juliusz (red.). 

    15. Ośrodki wojewódzkie w Polsce: ujęcie alternatywne, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Bocheński Tadeusz (red.). 

    16. Ośrodki wojewódzkie w Polsce: ujęcie alternatywne, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Dutkowski Marek (red.). 

    17. Rozwój usług w ujęciu lokalnym i regionalnym, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Rosa Grażyna, Gracz Leszek (red.). 

    18. Strategie zarządzania przedsiębiorstwem i środowiskiem naturalnym, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2020, Rosa Grażyna, Agnieszka Smalec (red.). 

    19. Rynek usług telekomunikacyjnych jako obszar oddziaływania internetu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Czaplewski Maciej. 

    20. Oddziaływanie polityki społeczno-gospodarczej na zmiany polskiego rynku usług telekomunikacyjnych, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Budziewicz-Guźlecka Agnieszka. 

    21. Polityka konkurencji w obszarze rynku pocztowego Unii Europejskiej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Drab-Kurowska Anna. 

    22. Rozwój zrównoważony wielkich miast w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Rudewicz Jacek. 

    23. Środki finansowe Unii Europejskiej jako determinanta rozwoju regionów w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Czyżycki Rafał. 

    24. Trzy dekady samorządu terytorialnego w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Brzozowska Krystyna (red.). 

    25. Społeczno-gospodarcze otoczenie rozwoju lokalnego i regionalnego, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Brzozowska Krystyna ( red.). 

    26. Zarządzanie działalnością usługową w nowoczesnej gospodarce – perspektywa regionalna oraz ujęcie historyczne, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Szczeciński 2019, Ostrowska Izabela (red.). 

  • Contact information

    Agnieszka Łazar, MA 

    phone: +48 91 444 2165 

    e-mail: igpg@usz.edu.pl 

    University’s address book
    You may contact every staff member by writing to name.surname[at]usz.edu.pl

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