Dr Aneta Piekut (she/her)

School of Education

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences

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Dr Aneta Piekut
School of Education
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Aneta joined the Sheffield Methods Institute in 2014. Before that she worked as a researcher at the Universities of Warsaw (the Centre of Migration Research, 2005-2009), Leeds and Sheffield (2010-2014). She completed her PhD studies at the University of Warsaw in 2009.
Aneta is an interdisciplinary scholar of migration studies, drawing on scholarship from sociology, human geography, and urban studies. Her research focuses on racialised hierarchies, socio-spatial segregation, and community cohesion, as well as attitudes towards immigration and racialised groups. She has specific expertise in survey methodology, particularly in the measurement of attitudes and the challenge of survey nonresponse. Combining technical expertise with a background in critical migration studies, her work is driven by a commitment to transformative scholarship.

She published widely in leading academic journals on issues of migration, ethnicity and segregation (e.g. European Sociological Review, Sociology, Social Science Research, Social & Cultural Geography, International Sociology), and in 2017 she won the prestigious awarded by the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) for a paper published in Sociology journal.

Publications

Books

  • Bell A, Hartman T, Piekut A, Rae A & Taylor M (2020) . SAGE Publications Ltd.

Journal articles

  • Narkowicz K & Piekut A (2026) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
  • Toruńczyk-Ruiz S, Brunarska Z & Piekut A (2026) . Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 29(2), 281-301.
  • Zhang ML, Piekut A, Rasool Z, Warden L, Staples H & Pryce G (2024) . PLOS ONE, 19(8).
  • Jabkowski P & Piekut A (2024) . Survey Research Methods, 18(2), 113-135.
  • Piekut A (2024) . Survey Methods - Insights from the Field, 2(2).
  • Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Piekut A, Trevena P & Wright S (2024) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(2), 442-460.
  • Jabkowski P & Piekut A (2023) . Field Methods, 36(3), 213-228.
  • Horton NJ, Alexander R, Parker M, Piekut A & Rundel C (2022) . Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 30(3), 207-208.
  • Ball R, Medeiros N, Bussberg NW & Piekut A (2022) . Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
  • Jabkowski P & Piekut A (2022) . Studia Socjologiczne, 2022(2), 165-189.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2021) . International Sociology, 36(6), 887-905.
  • Piekut A (2021) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(5), 1136-1161.
  • Kilkey M, Piekut A & Ryan L (2020) . Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 9(1), 5-12.
  • Piekut A, Pryce G & van Gent W (2019) . Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(3), 225-234.
  • Dean N, Dong G, Piekut A & Pryce GB (2019) . Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(3), 271-288.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) . Social Science Research.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) . European Sociological Review, 32(3), 339-354.
  • Harris C, Jackson L, Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) . Social and Cultural Geography, 1-18.
  • Valentine G, Piekut A, Winiarska A, Harris C & Jackson L (2015) . Ethnicities, 15(4), 568-585.
  • Piekut A, Mayblin L & Valentine G (2014) . Sociology.
  • Harris C, Jackson L, Mayblin, L, Piekut A & Valentine G (2014) . Qualitative Research.
  • Valentine G, Piekut A & Harris C (2014) . Geographical Journal.
  • Piekut A, Vieten UM & Valentine G (2014) Seeking ‘the New Normal’? Troubled spaces of encountering visible differences in Warsaw. Polish Sociological Review, 4(188).
  • Piekut A (2014) Migration and modernisation - An alternative. polemic essay with Marek Okólski's article "modernising impacts of emigration". Studia Socjologiczne(1), 157-169.
  • Piekut A (2013) You’ve got Starbucks and Coffee Heaven... I Can Do This! Spaces of Social Adaptation of Highly Skilled Migrants in Warsaw. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 2(1).
  • Piekut A, Rees P, Valentine G & Kupiszewski M (2012) . Environment and Planning A, 44(12), 2988-3009.
  • Piekut A & Grzymała-Kazłowska A (2007) Czy mamy juz w Polsce mala Ukraine i polskie Viettown? Spoleczno-przestrzenne wzory zamieszkiwania imigrantów w metropolii warszawskiej. Studia Lokalne i Regionalne, 4(30).
  • Gawlewicz A, Piekut A, Gilmour M & Wright S () . International Journal of Housing Policy.
  • Jabkowski P, Cichocki P & Piekut A () . International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

Book chapters

  • Piekut A (2025) , Teaching Research Methods in Sociology (pp. 295-312). Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Grzymała-Kazłowska A & Piekut A (2023) Integracja migrantów w społeczeństwie przyjmujacym, 30 Wykladow O Migracjach (pp. 229-246).
  • Grzymała-Kazłowska A & Piekut A (2023) , 30 wykładów o migracjach University of Warsaw Press
  • Brunarska Z, Kaczmarczyk P & Piekut A (2021) Postawy wobec imigrantów w „starych” i „nowych” krajach imigracyjnych. Czy historia imigracji ma znaczenie? In Sztabiński P, Przybysz D & Sztabiński F (Ed.), Polska - Europa. Wyniki Europejskiego Sondażu Społecznego 2002-2018/19 (pp. 92-113). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Filozofi i i Socjologii PAN.
  • Piekut A (2021) , The Urban Book Series (pp. 13-38). Springer International Publishing
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2018) Kosmopolityczna Praga? W poszukiwaniu (nowej) tożsamości praskiej In Górny A, Toruńczyk-Ruiz S & Winiarska A (Ed.), Po sąsiedzku z różnorodnością. Interakcje w miejskich przestrzeniach lokalnych z perspektywy różnych grup mieszkańców (pp. 155-197). Warsaw: Scholar.
  • Piekut A & Valentine G (2016) Unpacking Prejudice: Narratives of Homophobia in Cross-National Context In Vieten UM & Valentine G (Ed.), Cartographies of Differences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 15-40). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang.
  • Piekut A (2012) Visible and Invisible Ethnic ‘Others’ in Warsaw: Spaces of Encounter and Places of Exclusion In Grubbauer M & Kusiak J (Ed.), Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990 Campus Verlag
  • Piekut A, Górny A & Stefańska R (2012) From (many) datasets to (one) integration monitoring system in Poland? In Bijn R & Verweij A (Ed.), Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant Integration in Europe. Integration Policies and Monitoring Efforts in 17 European Countries
  • Górny A, Kindler M, Stefańska R, Piekut A & Szulecka M (2010) Wybrane aspekty integracji imigrantów: w poszukiwaniu mechanizmów sprzyjających dalszemu napływowi cudzoziemców do Polski [Selected aspects of immigrant integration: Searching for mechanisms supporting further inflow of foreigners to Poland] In Górny A, Grabowska-Lusińska I, Lisińska M & Okólski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 188-231).
  • Biernath M, Górny A, Kępińska E, Kindler M, Piekut A, Stefańska R & Szulecka M (2010) Integration: A Supplementary Driver of Immigration? In Górny A, Grabowska-Lusińska I, Lesińska M & Okólski M (Ed.), Immigration to Poland: Policy – Labour Market – Integration (pp. 151-194).
  • Piekut A (2010) Społeczny wymiar integracji [The social dimension of integration] In Gorny A, Grabowska-Lusinska I, Lesinska M & Okolski M (Ed.), Transformacja nieoczywista. Polska jako kraj imigracji (pp. 202-216).
  • Piekut A (2008) Adaptacja imigrantów na lubelskim rynku pracy [Immigrant adaptation in Lublin city labour market] In Kaczmarczyk P (Ed.), Migracje zagraniczne a procesy rynku pracy – przypadek Lubelszczyzny (pp. 63-88).
  • Piekut ANETA (2008) Wielość wymiarów – zatem jaka integracja? Przegląd tematyki i metod badań integracyjnych In Grzymala-Kazłowska A & Łodziński S (Ed.), Problemy integracji imigrantów koncepcje, badania, polityki Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Book reviews

  • Piekut A (2014) Book review: "Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion. Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action" by Merlin Schaeffer, Ashgate, 2014. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 3(1), 137-140.

Conference proceedings

  • Bennett NC, Salway S & Piekut A (2020) . Oral Presentations (pp A17.1-A17)

Reports

  • Jochymek A, Soborski R, Amanullah A, Arambepola C, Porter B & Piekut A (2025)
  • Staples H, Piekut A, Krasteva L, Rani U & Rasool Z (2024)
  • Piekut A, Staples H, Pryce G & Rasool Z (2024)

Performances

  • Krasteva L, Rani U, Gilbert C, Piekut A, Staples H, Rasool Z & Pryce G (2022, September 20) Blurring the Edges. Festival of the Mind 2022.

Exhibitions

  • Krasteva L, Rani U & Gilbert C (2024, April 1) Blurring the Edges. Festival of Dabate / Migration Matters Festival.
  • Dawidek M, Korobkiewicz P & Kowalczyk S (2022, September 1) Spaces of (dis)connection: Migrant essential workers. Centrala, Birmigham / Clapham Library, London / Art27, Edinburgh.

Digital content

  • Collinson J & Piekut A The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee inquiry into the Settlement, Citizenship and Integration.
  • Piekut A & Narkowicz K Polish key workers feel unwelcome in the UK thanks to Brexit plus COVID.
  • Piekut A Stopping segregation: it’s not just where you live, it’s the places you go that matter.
  • Piekut A You’re probably wrong, but there’s data to understand why.
  • Piekut A Using Eurovision to explain sampling bias.
  • Piekut A Revealed: the truth about ethnic diversity of neighbourhoods.

Working papers

  • Piekut A, Rees P, Valentine G & Kupiszewski M (2011) The tale of two cities: Diversity in Leeds and Warsaw. Working Paper of the University of Leeds, School of Geography, 11.

Datasets

  • Staples H, Piekut A, Rasool Z & Pryce G (2024) .
  • Zhang ML, Piekut A, Rasool Z, Warden L, Staples H & Pryce G (2024) .
  • Piekut A, Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Wright S, Trevena P & Le TPL (2023) .
  • Wright S, Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Piekut A & Trevena P (2023) .

Other

  • Piekut A, Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Wright S, Trevena P & Le TPL () .
  • Piekut A, Staples H, Pryce G & Rasool Z () .
  • Jochymek A, Soborski R, Amanullah P, Arambepola C, Porter B & Piekut A () .
  • Staples H, Piekut A, Krasteva L, Rani U & Rasool Z () .
Research group

Aneta is member of the Migration Research Group [] - an interdisciplinary research network in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Grants
DurationRoleProject titleAwarding bodyFunding amount
2024-2025Co-InvestigatorUKRI/ESRC£1,114,718
2024Principal investigatorCrossing the frontier: Exploring the potential of the Collective Mobile Method as a participatory research tool in RotherhamUKRI Research England£11,648
2023Principal investigatorBlurring the edges: social frontiers as places of encounterHigher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)£23,000
2022Co-InvestigatorMigrant essential workers in the UK - Portable multi-arts exhibitionESRC Impact Accelerator Award£20,000
2020-2022Co-InvestigatorUKRI/ESRC£300,000
2020-2021FellowshipProject TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) Fellow$5,000
2020-2023Co-Director: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of MigrantsNordforsk/ESRC£1
2019-2023Co-InvestigatorMigration, Integration and Governance Research Centre ()H2020-WIDESPREAD£710,000
2019Principal investigatorConsultancy work for Work Package 6 on “Migration Flows in Europe”Horizon2020 Cross-Migration£5,000
2017-2019Co-InvestigatorModern Poland: Migration and TransformationsOxford Noble Foundation£30,000
2014-2015CoordinatorResearch cluster “Diversity, Migration & Social Cohesion” seed funding€6,000
2010-2011Principal investigatorHighly skilled immigrants from European Union in WarsawMinistry of Science and Higher Education in Poland15,000 PLN
2007-2008Principal investigatorHighly skilled workers of transnational corporations in WarsawMinistry of Science and Higher Education in Poland20,000 PLN
Teaching interests

Methods are not neutral tools of data collection and analysis, so in her modules Aneta encourages students to critically reflect on why and how they apply them. As with other lecturers at SMI, Aneta's teaching is research-led, with substantial time devoted to hands-on practice with data.

In 2020/21 Aneta was awarded a in recognition of embedding principles of transparency and reproducibility in her teaching of quantitative social sciences. 

Aneta has been a certified Fellow of the (HEA) since 2017.

Teaching activities

Aneta has been teaching across a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the SMI . Currently she leads on:

  • EDC310 Doing Mixed Methods Research 

Together with colleagues from SMI Aneta developed a highly successful MOOC 'Making Sense of Data in the Media' - a massive, open, online course on - making sense of data in the media and beyond. It's available for free .

Professional activities and memberships
  • Co-Director of the , University of Sheffield
  • Research Fellow of the , University of Warsaw (since 2005)
  • Executive Committee member of Project TIER -
  • Associate Editor of
  • Member of editorial board of
  • Member of editorial board of

Member of (PTS), (BSA) and (ESRA).

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD supervision:

  • Chandima Arambepola, Border struggles and ‘doing family’ (, co-supervised with prof. Majella Kilkey)
  • Eleanor Bale, Social Frontiers in Residential Segregation: A Data Analytics Approach (funded by ESRC ; co-supervision with prof. Gwilym Pryce.

Past PhD supervision:

  • Natalie Bennet, Social cohesion, ethnic diversity, and mental wellbeing (funded by (SPHR); co-supervision with prof. Sarah Salway)
  • Ben Gardner, Modelling of passenger clearance at the UK Border (funded by ESRC ; co-supervision with prof. Gwilym Pryce & dr. Mauricio A. Alvarez)

Aneta is interested in supervising motivated research students in the following areas:

  • The relationship between ethnic diversity and social cohesion;
  • Consequences of international migration for local communities and everyday lives of migrants and non-migrants;
  • Spatial distribution and ethnic segregation;
  • Attitudes towards immigration, various immigrant groups and ethnic minorities;
  • Highly skilled migration and intra-EU mobility;
  • survey methodology, specifically item nonresponse, measurement, mixed-mode surveys;
  • Advanced quantitative and mixed methods research.