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ABOUT ME

I work as a Senior Economic Research Specialist at Homes England. I have previously worked in academia as Senior Lecturer in Economics at Birmingham City University and as Lecturer in Economics at The Open University.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I completed my PhD in the Economics Division at the Leeds University Business School (supervised by Prof Gary Dymski, Prof Giuseppe Fontana and Dr Peter Phelps). I hold BSc Economics from SOAS, University of London (supervised by Prof Jan Toporowski) and MSc Economics from the University of Leeds (supervised by Prof Gary Dymski).

My research interests include income and wealth inequality, distributive impact of financial sector development, macroeconomic modelling (including stock-flow consistent models), econometrics, Kaleckian and Post-Keynesian economics, feminist economics, financial economics, development economics, and history of economic thought. I act as a referee for the following peer-reviewed journals: Cambridge Journal of Economics; World Development; Review of Political Economy; Review of Radical Political Economy; Feminist Economics; The Economic and Labour Relations Review; Financial Internet Quarterly.

I am a member of Reteaching Economics and I sit on the executive board of D-Econ, the Advisory Board of the Women’s Budget Group Early-Career Network, the Section Editors Board of E-Finanse Journal, and the Editorial Board of The Mint Magazine. I am also active in promoting economic pluralism in Poland as a committee member of the Edward Lipinski Foundation and the Polish Economic Network.

I was awarded the 2016 EAEPE-Simon young scholar prize for the best paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

I have been involved in working with the UK government as Assistant Economist in the Department of Health, Medicines and Pharmacy Directorate. I also contributed to policy reports, collaborating with Think-tank Action for Social Change.

I am passionate about public engagement. I am an invited expert in the Panel of Polish Economists, an invitation-only survey of economics experts on the ongoing economic policy issues in Poland. I have also communicated my expertise by writing blogs (including for The Conversation, The Platform UK, Developingeconomics.org, INET Blog), on social media platforms, and by giving media interviews, including a live video interview on BBC News World Business Report 23rd Nov 2022 and regular expert interviews at TOK.FM radio in Poland. In print, I was interviewed by leading journalists in Poland:

Mokrzycka, K. (2021) “Dług publiczny nie powinien ograniczać państwa przed bardziej hojnymi programami wsparcia obywateli. Wywiad z dr Hanną Szymborską”, 300gospodarka.pl, 7th October [in Polish];
Sroczyński, G. (2018) “Kapitalizm się chwieje. "Kolejny kryzys może być tak głęboki, że zatopi wszystkie łodzie"”, Gazeta.pl, 26th December [in Polish].