Dean of the Faculty of Media and Social Communication. Assistant professor at the Chair of Media, Journalism and Social Communication. Employed at the University of Information Technology and Management since 2008.
Ph.D. in social sciences in the field of political sciences (the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences, 2014), MA in cultural studies (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies, 2008), BA in political science (the University of Rzeszów, Faculty of Sociology and History, 2006 ), BA in journalism and social communication (the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Faculty of Administration and Information Technology, 2006).
Her research interests focus on the issues of contemporary migration and media, the presence of ethnic and national problems in the media, with an emphasis on new media and social networks, and the mediatization of migration.
Individual tutor in the School of Leaders and Masters of Didactics project. Research tutor for gifted students. Author of media courses and workshops, and – as vice-dean – of comprehensive study programs in media and communication. Supervisor of the „Marketing and Media” Science Club and Coordinator of the intro.media student editorial office (since 2013). An expert in the field of social media and contemporary communication. In 2006-2008, she was an associate of the newsroom of the Polish Radio Rzeszów, she also published in the local online press. Thematic editor of the journal „Social Communication. Online Journal”.
Participant of the international research team of 16 womxn researchers, studying the impact of the pandemic on the academic work of women and non-binary persons (read more on Covid G.A.P. project).
From 1.10.2023 Dean of the Faculty of Media and Social Communication. From 2015-2019, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences of UITM in the fields of Journalism and Social Communication as well as Digital Media and Branding; from 2015 to 2016 – also in Computer Graphics and Multimedia Production.
Vegetarian and cyclist, a fan of mobile photography and literature, painting, ethnic music and folk cultures, yoga and cats, nature, storms and heat, mountains and oceans, snowstorms and full moons, good food, and combat sports. Humanist.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-1209
- Struck-Peregończyk, M., & Leonowicz-Bukała, I. (2023). Zmiana narracji – kształtowanie własnego wizerunku w mediach społecznościowych przez osoby z niepełnosprawnościami. Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej, 19(3), 62–79. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.19.3.04
- Boutelier, S., Leonowicz-Bukała, I., Martínez-Suárez, A.A., Guta, H. & Lambrechts, A.A. (2023). Barefoot Strangers: Multinational Digital Epistemologies of Academic Moms, Mamás, Mamy, Umahat. In: Trocchio, S., Hanasono, L.K., Borchert, J.J., Dwyer, R., Harvie, J.Y. (eds) Academic Mothers Building Online Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26665-2_4
- Kurek-Ochmańska, O., Struck-Peregończyk, M., Leonowicz-Bukała, I., & Łuczaj, K. (2023). Lekarz potrzebny od zaraz? Wizerunek medialny zagranicznych medyków w polskiej prasie. Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny (XLIX), Nr 1 (187), p. 71-94. https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.22.006.15621.
- Łuczaj, K., Leonowicz-Bukała, I. & Kurek-Ochmańska, O. (2022). English as a lingua franca? The limits of everyday English-language communication in Polish academia. English for Specific Purposes 66, pp.6-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2021.11.002
- Łuczaj, K., Leonowicz-Bukała, I. & Kurek-Ochmańska, O. (2022). Creative Class in the Borderlands? The Case of Commuting Scholars in Poland. Creativity Studies, 15, 1; 246-262. ISSN 2345-0479
- Brown, K. S., Farwell, T.M., Bender, S., Martinez-Suarez, A. A., Boutelier, S., Lambrechts, A. A., Leonowicz-Bukala, I., & Larasatie, P. (2022). „Part of Something Larger than Myself”: Lessons Learned From a Multidisciplinary, Multicultural, and Multilingual International Research Team of Academic Women. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Volume 21, doi: 10.1177/16094069211073209
- Leonowicz-Bukała, I., Martens, A., & Przywara, B. (2021). Digital Natives Disconnected. The Qualitative Research on Mediatized Life of Polish and International Students in Rzeszow and Warsaw, Poland. Przegląd Badań Edukacyjnych (Educational Studies Review). Online. 16 December 2021. Vol. 2, no. 35, pp. 69-96. https://doi.org/10.12775/PBE.2021.032
- Lambrechts, A.A., Larasatie, P., Boulterier, S., Guta, H., Leonowicz-Bukała, I., Martines-Suarea, A., Prashad, S. (2020). A Qualitative Analysis of Global Experiences and Perceptions of Research Productivity during the Pandemic among Women in Academia. [manuscript sumbitted] – read more on https://covidgap.sites.adler.edu/research/
- Leonowicz-Bukała, I., Przywara, B. (2020). Bądźmy w kontakcie. Współczesna cyfrowa komunikacja permanentna, „Zeszyty Prasoznawcze”, 3 (243), 9-32. doi: 10.4467/22996362PZ.20.019.12090
- Struck-Peregończyk M., Leonowicz-Bukała I. (2018). Bezbronne ofiary czy dzielni bohaterowie: wizerunek osób niepełnosprawnych w polskiej prasie, „Studia de Cultura. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis”, 10(1), 148 – 164. doi: 10.24917/20837275.10.1.12
- Leonowicz-Bukała I. (2015). Polskie media w Wielkiej Brytanii na początku XXI wieku, WSIiZ – ASPRA-JR, Warszawa – Rzeszów.
Conducted courses:
Summer semester 2022/2023
- Seminars
- Proseminars
- Semiotics
- Research Methods
- Sources of Information and Web Research
Materials for students are available at the relevant courses at the Blackboard platform.
Contact data
Dr Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała
Chair of Media, Journalism and Social Communication / Institutional Review Board
e-mail: ileonowicz@wsiz.edu.pl
35-225 Rzeszów, ul. Sucharskiego 2,
p. RA 246
tel.: 17/866 14 63
Office hours
Thursdays, 10 am – 11:45 am, room RA246
