Aneta Piekut
Biographic Data
| ID | 155692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aneta Piekut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aneta |
| FAMILY NAME | Piekut |
| SIGNATURE | PIEKUT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3478-0354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Switching to self-completion protocols impacts item nonresponse patterns. Lessons from the European Social Survey rounds 9, 10 and 11
Surveys are pivoting from interviewer-assisted to self-completion protocols, yet the consequences for data quality remain unclear. Guided by the survey satisficing theory, this study examines the COVID–19 partial mode change to self-completion in the European Social Survey Round 10. Out of the 27 countries participating in ESS9, 10 and 11, eight transitioned to self-completion in ESS10, and nineteen maintained interviewer-assisted modes. All 27 c…
Beyond national identity: The positive role of local identity in shaping attitudes to international and internal migration
Research on the link between social identification and attitudes toward immigration has primarily focused on national identification and international migrants, often overlooking the local level. Combining social identity theory and a place identity perspective on intergroup dynamics, we examine national and local identification, as well as their interplay, as determinants of attitudes toward international and internal migration. Our analysis is …
Not Random and Not Ignorable. An Examination of Nonresponse to Income Question in the European Social Survey, 2008–2018
This study analyzes the consequences of item nonresponse to the question about a household’s total net income in the European Social Survey (2008–2018). We recognize two mechanisms in avoiding answering the income question: task complexity and question sensitivity, and apply multilevel logistic regressions to predict the probability of refusals or “Do not know” across respondents of different income levels. We find that the refusal to answer the …
They made bets that I'd die: Impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the UK’s socio-economic dependence on a chronically insecure migrant essential workforce. While risking their lives to offset the devastating effects of the pandemic, many migrant workers found themselves in precarious professional and personal circumstances (e.g. temporary zero-hours contracts, work exploitation, limited access to health and social services). This article explores the health, social, economic, and c…
Struktura gospodarstwa domowego a skłonność respondentów do uchylania się od odpowiedzi na pytanie o całkowity dochód netto w Europejskim Sondażu Społecznym, 2008–2018
Poza brakami danych, wynikającymi z niechęci ludzi do udziału w badaniu lub ich niedostępnością w trakcie badań terenowych, istotnym składnikiem całkowitego błędu pomiaru sondaży są braki danych będące efektem unikania przez respondentów odpowiedzi na niektóre pytania kwestionariuszowe. Wykorzystując dane Europejskiego Sondażu Społecznego z lat 2008–2018, analizujemy braki odpowiedzi na pytanie o całkowity dochód netto gospodarstwa domowego. Głów…
Generation-making narratives and responses to diversity in Poland
In this article, the authors move away from approaching generations as static categories and explore how ordinary people, as opposed to scholars, distinguish generations and justify their different responses to cultural diversity in terms of ethnicity, race and religion/belief. The analysis draws on 90 in-depth interviews with 30 residents in the Polish capital, Warsaw (2012–2013). Through approaching generation as an analytical category, the aut…
Survey nonresponse in attitudes towards immigration in Europe
Although immigration is one of key issues facing European societies today, many survey respondents do not reply to questions about immigration and ethnic minorities. Using data from the 2014 European Social Survey, this paper explores the characteristics of nonrespondents and the potential mechanisms which might lie behind their refraining from answering immigration-related questions. Item nonresponse to seven questions on the impact of immigrati…
Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions
Economic inequality, international migration and urban transformation have generated fresh interest in segregation and given new social significance to questions of socio‐spatial separation and interaction. At the same time, advances in data, methods and theory are opening up new avenues of inquiry that push the focus beyond simple measures of unevenness of residential patterns towards more nuanced analysis of spatial asymmetry, structure and sca…
Frontiers in Residential Segregation: Understanding Neighbourhood Boundaries and Their Impacts
‘Social frontiers’ – places of sharp difference in social/ethnic characteristics between neighbouring communities – have largely been overlooked in quantitative research. Advancing this nascent field first requires a way of identifying social frontiers in a robust way. Such frontiers may be ‘open’ – an area may contrast sharply with a neighbourhood in one direction, but blend smoothly into adjacent neighbourhoods in other directions. This poses s…
Spaces of encounter and attitudes towards difference: A comparative study of two European cities
Scholars have been increasingly interested in how everyday interactions in various places with people from different ethnic/religious background impact inter-group relations. Drawing on representative surveys in Leeds and Warsaw (2012), we examine whether encounters with ethnic and religious minorities in different type of space are associated with more tolerance towards them. We find that in Leeds, more favourable affective attitudes are associa…
Attitudes towards the 'stranger: Negotiating encounters with difference in the UK and Poland
Due to recent intensification in international mobility in Europe, its citizens are exposed to a much wider range of lifestyles and competing attitudes towards difference. Individuals are, therefore, increasingly likely to encounter 'strangers' and are, therefore, required to negotiate discontinuities and contradictions between the values that are transmitted through different sites. In response, the article explores the concept of the 'stranger'…
Other' Posts in 'Other' Places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens
Postcolonial theory has tended to focus on those spaces where European colonialism has had a territorial and political history. This is unsurprising, as much of the world is in this sense 'postcolonial'. But not all of it. This article focuses on Poland, often theorised as peripheral to 'old Europe', and explores the application of postcolonial analyses to this 'other' place. The article draws upon reflections arising from a study of responses to…
Perceived Diversity and Acceptance of Minority Ethnic Groups in Two Urban Contexts
This paper investigates the relationship between perceived ethnic diversity at the neighbourhood level and acceptance of minority ethnic groups. We draw on a representative survey conducted in two dissimilar diversity contexts-Leeds, UK and Warsaw, Poland. The results of multilevel models demonstrate that in both cities, an increase in perceived ethnic diversity in the neighbourhood is related to an increase in ethnic prejudice of White-British a…
Mapping the meaning of ‘difference’ in Europe: A social topography of prejudice
This paper draws on original empirical research to investigate popular understandings of prejudice in two national contexts: Poland and the United Kingdom. The paper demonstrates how common-sense meanings of prejudice are inflected by the specific histories and geographies of each place: framed in terms of ‘distance’ (Poland) and ‘proximity’ (United Kingdom), respectively. Yet, by treating these national contexts as nodes and linking them analyti…
Intimate encounters: The Negotiation of Difference Within the Family and Its Implications for Social Relations in Public Space
This paper focuses on the neglected issue of encounters with difference within the context of family life at a moment in time when families are increasingly characterised by dissimilarity as a product of mobility and individualisation. The study upon which this paper is based involved both a survey of social attitudes (survey n = 3021) and qualitative multi-stage research (n = 60). The evidence of the findings is that intra-familial diversity doe…
Big Brother welcomes you: Exploring Innovative Methods for Research With Children and Young People Outside of the Home and School Environments
This article discusses some of the challenges involved in conducting research with children and young people outside of the home and school environments. We respond to the need to develop new child-centred research techniques which move beyond existing power relations among children and adults by anchoring our approach in the idea of mystery. The paper reports on research utilising a mixed-method design which includes one new technique - the Big …
Multidimensional Diversity in Two European Cities: Thinking beyond Ethnicity
This paper shifts discussion on social diversity from ethnic diversity to broader social diversity. We explore spatial social diversity and assess opportunities to encounter diversity in an urban context. In doing so, we prepared a description of diversity in the residential communities of two cities, Leeds and Warsaw, using census data for small areas (UK 2001, Poland 2002). Selected variables were used to represent the key social dimensions of …
Other' Posts in 'Other' Places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens
Postcolonial theory has tended to focus on those spaces where European colonialism has had a territorial and political history. This is unsurprising, as much of the world is in this sense 'postcolonial'. But not all of it. This article focuses on Poland, often theorised as peripheral to 'old Europe', and explores the application of postcolonial analyses to this 'other' place. The article draws upon reflections arising from a study of responses to…
Spaces of encounter and attitudes towards difference: A comparative study of two European cities
Scholars have been increasingly interested in how everyday interactions in various places with people from different ethnic/religious background impact inter-group relations. Drawing on representative surveys in Leeds and Warsaw (2012), we examine whether encounters with ethnic and religious minorities in different type of space are associated with more tolerance towards them. We find that in Leeds, more favourable affective attitudes are associa…
Intimate encounters: The Negotiation of Difference Within the Family and Its Implications for Social Relations in Public Space
This paper focuses on the neglected issue of encounters with difference within the context of family life at a moment in time when families are increasingly characterised by dissimilarity as a product of mobility and individualisation. The study upon which this paper is based involved both a survey of social attitudes (survey n = 3021) and qualitative multi-stage research (n = 60). The evidence of the findings is that intra-familial diversity doe…
Mapping the meaning of ‘difference’ in Europe: A social topography of prejudice
This paper draws on original empirical research to investigate popular understandings of prejudice in two national contexts: Poland and the United Kingdom. The paper demonstrates how common-sense meanings of prejudice are inflected by the specific histories and geographies of each place: framed in terms of ‘distance’ (Poland) and ‘proximity’ (United Kingdom), respectively. Yet, by treating these national contexts as nodes and linking them analyti…
Multidimensional Diversity in Two European Cities: Thinking beyond Ethnicity
This paper shifts discussion on social diversity from ethnic diversity to broader social diversity. We explore spatial social diversity and assess opportunities to encounter diversity in an urban context. In doing so, we prepared a description of diversity in the residential communities of two cities, Leeds and Warsaw, using census data for small areas (UK 2001, Poland 2002). Selected variables were used to represent the key social dimensions of …
Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions
Economic inequality, international migration and urban transformation have generated fresh interest in segregation and given new social significance to questions of socio‐spatial separation and interaction. At the same time, advances in data, methods and theory are opening up new avenues of inquiry that push the focus beyond simple measures of unevenness of residential patterns towards more nuanced analysis of spatial asymmetry, structure and sca…
Perceived Diversity and Acceptance of Minority Ethnic Groups in Two Urban Contexts
This paper investigates the relationship between perceived ethnic diversity at the neighbourhood level and acceptance of minority ethnic groups. We draw on a representative survey conducted in two dissimilar diversity contexts-Leeds, UK and Warsaw, Poland. The results of multilevel models demonstrate that in both cities, an increase in perceived ethnic diversity in the neighbourhood is related to an increase in ethnic prejudice of White-British a…
Big Brother welcomes you: Exploring Innovative Methods for Research With Children and Young People Outside of the Home and School Environments
This article discusses some of the challenges involved in conducting research with children and young people outside of the home and school environments. We respond to the need to develop new child-centred research techniques which move beyond existing power relations among children and adults by anchoring our approach in the idea of mystery. The paper reports on research utilising a mixed-method design which includes one new technique - the Big …
Frontiers in Residential Segregation: Understanding Neighbourhood Boundaries and Their Impacts
‘Social frontiers’ – places of sharp difference in social/ethnic characteristics between neighbouring communities – have largely been overlooked in quantitative research. Advancing this nascent field first requires a way of identifying social frontiers in a robust way. Such frontiers may be ‘open’ – an area may contrast sharply with a neighbourhood in one direction, but blend smoothly into adjacent neighbourhoods in other directions. This poses s…
Attitudes towards the 'stranger: Negotiating encounters with difference in the UK and Poland
Due to recent intensification in international mobility in Europe, its citizens are exposed to a much wider range of lifestyles and competing attitudes towards difference. Individuals are, therefore, increasingly likely to encounter 'strangers' and are, therefore, required to negotiate discontinuities and contradictions between the values that are transmitted through different sites. In response, the article explores the concept of the 'stranger'…
Not Random and Not Ignorable. An Examination of Nonresponse to Income Question in the European Social Survey, 2008–2018
This study analyzes the consequences of item nonresponse to the question about a household’s total net income in the European Social Survey (2008–2018). We recognize two mechanisms in avoiding answering the income question: task complexity and question sensitivity, and apply multilevel logistic regressions to predict the probability of refusals or “Do not know” across respondents of different income levels. We find that the refusal to answer the …
Survey nonresponse in attitudes towards immigration in Europe
Although immigration is one of key issues facing European societies today, many survey respondents do not reply to questions about immigration and ethnic minorities. Using data from the 2014 European Social Survey, this paper explores the characteristics of nonrespondents and the potential mechanisms which might lie behind their refraining from answering immigration-related questions. Item nonresponse to seven questions on the impact of immigrati…
They made bets that I'd die: Impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the UK’s socio-economic dependence on a chronically insecure migrant essential workforce. While risking their lives to offset the devastating effects of the pandemic, many migrant workers found themselves in precarious professional and personal circumstances (e.g. temporary zero-hours contracts, work exploitation, limited access to health and social services). This article explores the health, social, economic, and c…
Generation-making narratives and responses to diversity in Poland
In this article, the authors move away from approaching generations as static categories and explore how ordinary people, as opposed to scholars, distinguish generations and justify their different responses to cultural diversity in terms of ethnicity, race and religion/belief. The analysis draws on 90 in-depth interviews with 30 residents in the Polish capital, Warsaw (2012–2013). Through approaching generation as an analytical category, the aut…
Multidimensional Diversity in Two European Cities: Thinking beyond Ethnicity
This paper shifts discussion on social diversity from ethnic diversity to broader social diversity. We explore spatial social diversity and assess opportunities to encounter diversity in an urban context. In doing so, we prepared a description of diversity in the residential communities of two cities, Leeds and Warsaw, using census data for small areas (UK 2001, Poland 2002). Selected variables were used to represent the key social dimensions of …
Mapping the meaning of ‘difference’ in Europe: A social topography of prejudice
This paper draws on original empirical research to investigate popular understandings of prejudice in two national contexts: Poland and the United Kingdom. The paper demonstrates how common-sense meanings of prejudice are inflected by the specific histories and geographies of each place: framed in terms of ‘distance’ (Poland) and ‘proximity’ (United Kingdom), respectively. Yet, by treating these national contexts as nodes and linking them analyti…
Intimate encounters: The Negotiation of Difference Within the Family and Its Implications for Social Relations in Public Space
This paper focuses on the neglected issue of encounters with difference within the context of family life at a moment in time when families are increasingly characterised by dissimilarity as a product of mobility and individualisation. The study upon which this paper is based involved both a survey of social attitudes (survey n = 3021) and qualitative multi-stage research (n = 60). The evidence of the findings is that intra-familial diversity doe…
Big Brother welcomes you: Exploring Innovative Methods for Research With Children and Young People Outside of the Home and School Environments
This article discusses some of the challenges involved in conducting research with children and young people outside of the home and school environments. We respond to the need to develop new child-centred research techniques which move beyond existing power relations among children and adults by anchoring our approach in the idea of mystery. The paper reports on research utilising a mixed-method design which includes one new technique - the Big …
Other' Posts in 'Other' Places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens
Postcolonial theory has tended to focus on those spaces where European colonialism has had a territorial and political history. This is unsurprising, as much of the world is in this sense 'postcolonial'. But not all of it. This article focuses on Poland, often theorised as peripheral to 'old Europe', and explores the application of postcolonial analyses to this 'other' place. The article draws upon reflections arising from a study of responses to…
Perceived Diversity and Acceptance of Minority Ethnic Groups in Two Urban Contexts
This paper investigates the relationship between perceived ethnic diversity at the neighbourhood level and acceptance of minority ethnic groups. We draw on a representative survey conducted in two dissimilar diversity contexts-Leeds, UK and Warsaw, Poland. The results of multilevel models demonstrate that in both cities, an increase in perceived ethnic diversity in the neighbourhood is related to an increase in ethnic prejudice of White-British a…
Spaces of encounter and attitudes towards difference: A comparative study of two European cities
Scholars have been increasingly interested in how everyday interactions in various places with people from different ethnic/religious background impact inter-group relations. Drawing on representative surveys in Leeds and Warsaw (2012), we examine whether encounters with ethnic and religious minorities in different type of space are associated with more tolerance towards them. We find that in Leeds, more favourable affective attitudes are associa…
Attitudes towards the 'stranger: Negotiating encounters with difference in the UK and Poland
Due to recent intensification in international mobility in Europe, its citizens are exposed to a much wider range of lifestyles and competing attitudes towards difference. Individuals are, therefore, increasingly likely to encounter 'strangers' and are, therefore, required to negotiate discontinuities and contradictions between the values that are transmitted through different sites. In response, the article explores the concept of the 'stranger'…
Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions
Economic inequality, international migration and urban transformation have generated fresh interest in segregation and given new social significance to questions of socio‐spatial separation and interaction. At the same time, advances in data, methods and theory are opening up new avenues of inquiry that push the focus beyond simple measures of unevenness of residential patterns towards more nuanced analysis of spatial asymmetry, structure and sca…
Frontiers in Residential Segregation: Understanding Neighbourhood Boundaries and Their Impacts
‘Social frontiers’ – places of sharp difference in social/ethnic characteristics between neighbouring communities – have largely been overlooked in quantitative research. Advancing this nascent field first requires a way of identifying social frontiers in a robust way. Such frontiers may be ‘open’ – an area may contrast sharply with a neighbourhood in one direction, but blend smoothly into adjacent neighbourhoods in other directions. This poses s…
Generation-making narratives and responses to diversity in Poland
In this article, the authors move away from approaching generations as static categories and explore how ordinary people, as opposed to scholars, distinguish generations and justify their different responses to cultural diversity in terms of ethnicity, race and religion/belief. The analysis draws on 90 in-depth interviews with 30 residents in the Polish capital, Warsaw (2012–2013). Through approaching generation as an analytical category, the aut…
Survey nonresponse in attitudes towards immigration in Europe
Although immigration is one of key issues facing European societies today, many survey respondents do not reply to questions about immigration and ethnic minorities. Using data from the 2014 European Social Survey, this paper explores the characteristics of nonrespondents and the potential mechanisms which might lie behind their refraining from answering immigration-related questions. Item nonresponse to seven questions on the impact of immigrati…
Struktura gospodarstwa domowego a skłonność respondentów do uchylania się od odpowiedzi na pytanie o całkowity dochód netto w Europejskim Sondażu Społecznym, 2008–2018
Poza brakami danych, wynikającymi z niechęci ludzi do udziału w badaniu lub ich niedostępnością w trakcie badań terenowych, istotnym składnikiem całkowitego błędu pomiaru sondaży są braki danych będące efektem unikania przez respondentów odpowiedzi na niektóre pytania kwestionariuszowe. Wykorzystując dane Europejskiego Sondażu Społecznego z lat 2008–2018, analizujemy braki odpowiedzi na pytanie o całkowity dochód netto gospodarstwa domowego. Głów…
Not Random and Not Ignorable. An Examination of Nonresponse to Income Question in the European Social Survey, 2008–2018
This study analyzes the consequences of item nonresponse to the question about a household’s total net income in the European Social Survey (2008–2018). We recognize two mechanisms in avoiding answering the income question: task complexity and question sensitivity, and apply multilevel logistic regressions to predict the probability of refusals or “Do not know” across respondents of different income levels. We find that the refusal to answer the …
They made bets that I'd die: Impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the UK’s socio-economic dependence on a chronically insecure migrant essential workforce. While risking their lives to offset the devastating effects of the pandemic, many migrant workers found themselves in precarious professional and personal circumstances (e.g. temporary zero-hours contracts, work exploitation, limited access to health and social services). This article explores the health, social, economic, and c…
Beyond national identity: The positive role of local identity in shaping attitudes to international and internal migration
Research on the link between social identification and attitudes toward immigration has primarily focused on national identification and international migrants, often overlooking the local level. Combining social identity theory and a place identity perspective on intergroup dynamics, we examine national and local identification, as well as their interplay, as determinants of attitudes toward international and internal migration. Our analysis is …
Switching to self-completion protocols impacts item nonresponse patterns. Lessons from the European Social Survey rounds 9, 10 and 11
Surveys are pivoting from interviewer-assisted to self-completion protocols, yet the consequences for data quality remain unclear. Guided by the survey satisficing theory, this study examines the COVID–19 partial mode change to self-completion in the European Social Survey Round 10. Out of the 27 countries participating in ESS9, 10 and 11, eight transitioned to self-completion in ESS10, and nineteen maintained interviewer-assisted modes. All 27 c…
Sociology (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Diversity (politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)