Piotr Goldstein is a social scientist working at the intersection of social anthropology, sociology and political science. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester and holds a master’s in International Peace Work from the University of Trieste and a master’s in Philosophy from the University of Lodz. At ZOiS, he works in the team of the MOBILISE project, which aims to understand why in times of crisis some people protest while others migrate. Here, he is responsible for collating the qualitative data collected across project locations, and coordinating the qualitative work with migrants. Before joining ZOiS in June 2019, he held a Thomas Brown Assistant Professorship at Trinity College Dublin and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Manchester. During his fellowship, he researched various forms of donor-independent, informal, everyday activism, conducting fieldwork in Novi Sad (Serbia), Debrecen (Hungary), Lodz (Poland), Cádiz (Spain) and Manchester (UK). He is also a recipient of a Leverhulme/British Academy Small Research Grant, thanks to which he co-produced a 30-minute ethnographic documentary entitled  ‘Active (citizen)’.

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• Beyond NGOs and Protest Movements: Everyday Activism in Serbia, Poland, and Hungary
• Visualising the Invisible: Using Visual Ethnography to Explore Extra-Institutional Activism of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities
• Defining the Nation: Young Poles and their Sense of Identity

• Determinants of Mobilisation at Home and Abroad: Analysing the Micro-Foundations of Out-Migration & Mass Protest (MOBILISE)

• Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic, and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War (KonKoop)