General tasks
Head of Digital Communication
Public Relations
Event Management (Ambassadors’ Talks, study trips)
Expertise
Globalisation and global history, democratisation and democratic backsliding, post-communist transformation in Poland, women’s studies, EU/V4-China relations, politics of memory, peace studies
Country expertise
Visegrad countries with focus on Poland
China
Language skills
Polish – mother tongue
English – proficient
German – fluent
Russian and French – basic
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
First professional experience gained through internships at the Polish Embassy in London, Delegation of the European Union to Ethiopia and the Polish
Permanent Representation to the UN in Vienna. Since 2011 volunteer translator at Amnesty International Poland.
Specialist for international cooperation at the Polish Academy of Sciences – Vienna Office (2014-2018), Public Diplomacy Officer at the Polish Embassy in Vienna (2018-2019).
Education
Magister in English Studies from the University of Łódź (Poland). European Joint Master in Global Studies and Global History from the University of Leipzig and University of Vienna.
Research and exchange semesters in China (Fudan University Shaghai), Ethiopia, Germany (University of Leipzig), Hungary (Eötvös-Loránd-Universität Budapest) and the United Kingdom.
Recipient of the OSCE/UNODA Scholarship for Peace and Security (2019), alumna of intensive summer trainings: 1. “How democracies emerge and survive” (2021) from the University of Oslo and 2. “Peace Research” (2022) from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)/University of Oslo.
Publications
“Solidarität auf dem Prüfstand?” Malwina Talik and Magdalena Baran Szoltys for DerStandard and Eastblog, 02.03.2023
Why does Poland welcome Ukrainian refugees but denies those from the Global South? Malwina Talik for Fair Observer, 03.01.2023
“Abtreibung ist okay! Aber nicht in Polen” (EN: Abortion is okay. But not in Poland), DerStandard and EastBlog, 22.10.2022.
“Endlich frei von der Ideologie werden!” (EN: To break free from an ideology!), IDM Info Europa 2/2022: “Aufbruch im Lokalen”, 07.07.2022
“Polen: RegierungskritikerInnen im Visier der Geheimdienste” (EN: Poland: government critics as targets of secret services), DerStandard and EastBlog, 02.05.2022
“Women’s Voices in Media: A look at Central Europe” with Sofiia Shevchuk, Linda Tothova, Zsofia Biro, Nikoleta Nemeckayova, 2022
“Polexit: Is Poland on the Way Out of the EU?” (with Jack Gill), Fair Observer, 30.11.2021
“The Migrant Crisis on Poland-Belarus Border“, Fair Observer, 15.11.2021
“Wie sich Regierungen und Oligarchen Medien kaufen” (EN: How Governments and Oligarchs Control Media, with Daniela Neubacher and Daniel Martinek), DerStandard and EastBlog, 03.05.2021
“Hate Speech in the Political Discourse in Austria” in US / THEM. Hate Speech at the Service of Politics 2021, Holdun M., European Liberal Forum (ELF) & Projekt: Polska, pp. 19-28. ISBN 978-83-936110-5-8
“The New Scramble for Africa” or “a Win-Win Partnership”? The Case of China’s Engagement in Ethiopia (based on author’s MA thesis), Saarbrücken AV Akademikerverlag, 2019, 104 pp, ISBN 9786202211734 6202211733
Media appearances
Malwina Talik about challenges and hopes of Austria and Poland in 2023, for radio RMF Classic, 10.01.2023
“Covid-19 situation in Austria”, a podcast interview for Gazeta Wyborcza/Radio Tok Fm, 21.04.2020
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