dr hab. Urszula Kinga Zawadzka-Pąk, prof. UwB

Scientific Interests

• Public Finances and Financial Law
• Financial Policy
• Financing of Social Policy
• Public Financial Management
• Budgetary Principles
• Accountability in Public Finance
• Participatory Budgeting
• Public Values
• Axiology of Financial Law
• Fiscal Rules
• Performance Management
• Financing of Mental Health

Education

• 2020  DSc in social sciences (legal science / financial law) given by the Faculty of Law, University of Białystok
  Habilitation Thesis (in Polish): Protecting the common good through a participatory (civic) budgeting. Axiological and legal study.
• 2013  PhD in legal sciences given by the Faculty of Law, University of Białystok
  Doctoral Thesis (in Polish): Legal Construction, Implementation and Realization of the Performance Budgeting in France and in Poland.
• 2007 – 2012   PhD studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok.
• 2009 – 2010   Master’s degree studies in Law and Management of Public Finance, the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
• 2006 – 2010  Master’s degree studies in the Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw.
• 2003 – 2006  Bachelor’s degree studies in the French Philology, University of Białystok.
• 2002 – 2007  Master’s degree studies in Law, University of Białystok.
• 1998 – 2002  VI High School in Białystok of King Sigismund Augustus.

Employment

• Since 2023   Associate professor in Department of Public Finance and Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Białystok.
• 2014 – 2023   Assistant professor in Department of Public Finance and Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Białystok.
• 2011 – 2014   Teaching assistant in Department of Public Finance and Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Białystok.
• 2011 – 2013   Training in performance budgeting for the managers and the executive staff of the local governments of Podlasie region organized by the Białystok Foundation for Professional Training financed from the European Social Fund.
• 2010 – 2012   Training in performance budgeting for managers of the City Hall of Białystok organized by the Białystok Local Government Academy (BAS) financed from the European Social Fund.
• 2010 – 2011   Training in public finance preparing for the exam for the appointed civil service officials organized by the Foundation for the Development of Local Democracy (FRDL) in Białystok.

Grants and Projects

• 7.08.2015 – 6.08.2019   Manager of project SONATA 8 Participatory Budgeting - Success or Crisis of Local Democracy? Comparative Legal Study (no 2014/15/D/HS5/02684), investigators: dr. Camila Baceti (Sao Paulo), dr. Eva Tomášková (Brno), dr. Ewa Lotko (Białystok), dr. Justyna E. Kulikowska-Kulesza (Białystok), dr. Dominik Kościuk (Białystok), Eugènie Monasterio (Paris).
• 8.04.2013 – 7.04.2016   Manager and investigator of PRELUDIUM 3 project Legal Instruments of Sustainability of Public Finances – Implications to Poland from Foreign Countries Experiences (no 2012/05/N/HS5/02527).
• XII.2011 – XII.2013   Investigator of OPUS 1 project Annual and Long-term in Public Finance (no 2011/01/B/HS5/03357) financed by the Polish National Science Center, Project manager: prof. Eugeniusz Ruśkowski, the remaining investigators: prof. Janusz Stankiewicz, dr. Marcin Tyniewicki.
• IV.2011 – X.2012   Principal investigator of the PhD Supervisor’s project Legal Construction, Implementation and Realization of Performance Budgeting in France and in Poland (no N N110 189240) financed by the Polish National Science Center, Project manager: prof. Eugeniusz Ruśkowski.
• IV.2009 – X.2010   Principal investigator of the project Legal Problems of Construction and Functioning of Performance Budgeting in France. Conclusions for Poland (no N N110 059436) financed by the Polish National Science Center, Project manager: prof. Eugeniusz Ruśkowski.

Awards and Distinctions

• 2023 Distinction of the Dean of the Faculty of Law of University of Białystok for special scientific achievements in the academic year 2022/2023.
• 2015 Distinction of the President of the University of Białystok for the highest number of points for publications in 2014 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok.
• 2014 Distinction of the President of the University of Białystok for the highest number of points for publications in 2013 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok.
• 2014 – 2017 Three-year Scholarship of the Ministry of the Science and the Higher Education for the outstanding young researchers.
• 2015 Annual Scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science for outstanding Young Scholars at the beginning of their scientific career.
• 2014 Annual Scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science for outstanding Young Scholars at the beginning of their scientific career.
• 2013 Award of the President of the University of Białystok for the scientific work.

Foreign Scholarships and Trainings

• Spring 2021 Course given at Masaryk University Faculty of Law. Public Finance and Budgetary Law in Comparative Perspective.
• 2009 – 2010   Scholarship of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
• 2005 – 2006   Scholarship of Socrates/Erasmus program for studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Languages

• Polish – native.
• English – advanced.
• French – advanced.
• German – intermediate.

Indexation of publications

• GoogleScholar.