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Tamara Skalska
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Job description
assistant professor
assistant professor
Department of Theory of Upbringing, Faculty of Educational Sciences
Teaching and research position
Teaches courses in the following subjects: General Psychology; Developmental Psychology of Childhood
Bio
A graduate in psychology and cultural studies (specialising in film studies and media studies) from the University of Łódź. She was awarded a PhD in the humanities in 2015 as part of the Inter-Faculty Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme at the University of Łódź. Between 2008 and 2009, she studied at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki – at the Faculty of Education and Social Policy – as part of the Erasmus programme.
She combines psychological practice with teaching, research and social work. She has carried out educational, support and therapeutic, artistic, cultural and intercultural projects aimed at children and young people at risk of social exclusion, migrants, refugees and Holocaust survivors. She has collaborated with, amongst others, the Museum of Art in Łódź, the Marek Edelman Centre for Dialogue, the Działania Foundation, non-governmental organisations and cultural institutions in Poland and abroad. She is a lecturer at the Helena Kretz University of the Third Age in Łódź, where she leads her own series of lectures on world cinema.
In 2015, she designed and coordinated the first Polish edition of The Beit Project – an innovative educational project involving nomadic schools in urban spaces – and has been a member of the European team and an ambassador for the project ever since. She has run workshops and educational, social and artistic projects in Poland, Spain, France, China and Vietnam.
Since 2022, she has been working as a psychologist at the No. 3 Youth Sociotherapy Centre in Łódź, where she specialises in psychological assessment, counselling, family mediation and support for children and young people at risk of social maladjustment who have experienced violence, addiction and co-dependence, behavioural disorders, ADHD, neurodiversity and other disorders and difficulties occurring during the developmental years.
Since April 2025, she has been collaborating with the International Aid Association ‘Słyszę Serce’, providing psychological and diagnostic support to people with disabilities and their families, as well as participating in the activities of the supported housing support team. As a member of the international team on the Accessible Forest project, she designed and co-developed tools and practices for connecting with nature for people with disabilities.
Currently undertaking a four-year specialist training programme for medical staff in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, run by the Postgraduate Training Centre at the Specialist Psychiatric Healthcare Centre in Łódź.
Interests
clinical psychology of children and adolescents;
psychotherapy for children and adolescents;
diagnosis within the biopsychosocial model and functional diagnosis;
mental health and the prevention of mental health crises;
film and new media; popular culture
psychological aspects of the impact of new media
psychological representations of mental disorders in culture and cinema;
cultural memory and memory studies; post-memory
memory boom; amnesiaploitation; histotaiment
The affective turn; communities of affect in the media landscape
Education and new media; media ecology
cultural and film education;
communication and intercultural education; inclusive education
social and educational initiatives aimed at groups at risk of exclusion;
narrative techniques in psychology and therapy; art therapy
Achievements
Scholarships and artistic projects
Two-time recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the fields of film and literature, and a scholarship recipient from the City of Łódź
‘KINEMA’ (2022–2023)
A scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the field of film. The project involved biographical research, interviews, and the development of a feature film script inspired by the life of Arkadiusz Orłowski, a long-standing set manager and co-founder of Polish cinema.
Material presenting the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSQY65J7W4&t=32s
“Swoją Drogą” (2017–2021)
An original multimedia reportage project carried out while travelling through Southeast Asia, awarded a Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship in literature.
Project website:
“Kinema. A Screenplay Written by Life” (2023)
A biographical literary reportage produced as part of the City of Łódź Arts Scholarship.
Project website:
https://kinema.swojadroga.com.pl/
Educational and social projects
Accessible Forest (2023–2025)
The Beit Project (2015–2023)
Co-ordinator of the Polish edition, educator and ambassador for a European project on intercultural and civic education. She was responsible for programme development, building a network of partnerships, recruiting participants and implementing the project in Łódź. I took part in sessions in London (2015) and Barcelona (2016) – meetings of European teams – and in Brussels, where I presented the project’s implementation to representatives of the European Commission. I also contributed to the development of modifications to the project’s teaching tools during a meeting in Marseille in 2023.
Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKK2zB3wrE&t=339s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcXfFdwjIk&t=34s
“Galaxy of Genres” (2021–2022)
An original series of workshops carried out in collaboration with the Działania Foundation, combining science fiction, film education, screenwriting, and art therapy. The project resulted in the animated film “Visions of the Future”, produced in collaboration with young people at risk of social exclusion.
https://swietliceartystyczne.pl/warsztaty/galaktyka-gatunkow-lot-na-solaris/
“Help & Contact. Commitment to Survivors in Łódź, Poland” (2022–2024)
Psychological support for Holocaust and Second World War survivors, comprising individual consultations, group meetings and home visits.
https://hakoach.eu/pomoc-kontakt
"Get involved" – Networking, educating, communicating – participation of Łódź’s minority groups (2022–2023)
Running support groups, psychoeducational workshops, integration activities and art therapy sessions for migrants and war refugees.
All hands on deck! We’re all in the same boat’ (2023)
Co-creator of a social campaign carried out in collaboration with Łódź City Council, promoting tolerance, intercultural dialogue and the prevention of discrimination.
Selected academic publications:
https://unilodz.academia.edu/TamaraSkalska
“Between prosthetic memory and memory prostheses. Discourses of popular culture in the context of the ‘memory boom’”, T. Skalska, University of Łódź Press, Łódź, 2015
https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl:8443/xmlui/handle/11089/12197
THE ART OF CROSSING BORDERS. MUSEUM EDUCATION AND THE MIGRATION CRISIS. Leszek Karczewski, Tamara Skalska [in:] Muzealnictwo No. 58, 2017, published by the National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments
‘Prosthetic Memory’ [in:] Modi Memorandi. A Lexicon of Memory Cultures. Edited by M. Saryusz–Wolska and R. Traba, published by Scholar, Warsaw 2014
https://cbh.pan.pl/de/modi-memorandi-leksykon-kultury-pami%C4%99ci-0
Trans. M.B. Hansen ‘Schindler’s List is not the Shoah :(...)’ [in:] Theory – Literature – Life. Practising Theory in Contemporary Humanities (eds.) A. Legeżyńska; R. Nycz; Warsaw 2012, published by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ‘New Humanities’ series; pp. 173–202
‘Man, chicks are just different’ [in:] INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY POLITICAL AND CULTURAL JOURNAL, Vol. 13, No. 1/2011, published by the University of Łódź, pp. 131–136
I am seen and I see that I am seen. Heterogeneous and hybrid registers of the gaze. [in:] Culture under the Sign of Gender; (eds.) K. Kujawńska Courtney, M. Sosnowska, published by the University of Łódź, Łódź 2013, pp. 103–123
An analysis of the style of self-narrative and the need for cognitive closure in women in the context of gender role stereotyping [in:] The Many Faces of Women – ‘She’ in Texts Beyond the Medical Field. Edited by Przemysław Bury and Zbigniew Dziemianki, Poznań 2011, published by Maiuscula, pp. 285–308
The evil spirit of the image. Are we all Zeligs in the Matrix-reality? [in:] Evil in cinema. Characters, genres, filmmakers. ed. A. Drzał-Sierocka, Warsaw 2012, SWPS Publishing, pp. 91–108
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