I'm currently researching two main topics: the causes and consequences of student funding policies, and organisational stratification in higher education. Additionally, I am developing the Student Support and Fees Dataset on a continuous basis.

In the current research project funded by FORTE, I study how student support and tuition fee systems in different countries are associated with student welfare, and whether this has consequences for higher education participation.

Additionally, I work on the topic of stratification of tertiary education in Europe, asking how and why institutions within countries differ in terms of funding and prestige. During my doctorate, I investigated inequalities in access to higher education in Poland and Australia, within the context of rising enrolments and system stratification.

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

• The financial dimension of organizational stratification in European higher education

  2024. Krzysztof Czarnecki, Petra Sauer. International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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  This article contributes to the knowledge on organizational stratification in higher education by exploring its financial dimension in 21 European countries over the period 2013–2017. Cross-country differences in the inequality of revenues among higher education institutions are considerable. Decomposing inequality indices shows that they are related to the various degrees of institutional diversity in size, research activity, and subject specialization. Financial stratification is higher in countries where revenues are more unequally distributed among universities involved in research, especially those with a broad disciplinary focus. This inequality is in turn driven by the role of third-party funding in higher education financing.

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