Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka

Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka,  works as a Full Professor and head of the Division of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Gender at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). Her main area of research and practice is cross-cultural psychology of gender and her special interests are social change and cultural cues fostering gender equality within societies across the world. Currently she is a PI in Towards Gender Harmony project, in which over 100 collaborators in 62 countries are testing the contemporary understanding of masculinity and femininity (http://towardsgenderharmony.ug.edu.pl) and EQUAMAN – project investigating the relationship between masculine norms and men’s well being.   She also applies her academic expertise into practitioners work as diversity & inclusion trainer. She is an active member and Regional Representative for Europe of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)  and European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Currently she is an active member of the organizing team of IACCP Culture & Psychology Summer School. She has organized 5 editions of this event.

As diversity expert she also co-authored several gender equality plans and the Integrative Model for Migrants for City of Gdańsk.