mgr Romana Paszkowska (associate teacher)

Roma Paszkowska is a senior lecturer and her interests include:

• the influence of culture on communication and learning processes,
• cultural and social aspects of management in international and family organizations,
• methods of developing intercultural competence of students, lecturers, managers and businessmen.

Over her professional career she has delivered courses in communication (in Polish and in English) in a very broad sense of the term: intercultural and international communication, business communication, communication in management, negotiations, marketing, education, in project management and public administration (for the Małopolska School of Public Administration).

In the past she used to teach Business English and Polish as a Foreign Language to multinational groups of foreign students. For many years she has cooperated with the Cracow School of Economics, where, since 2011 she has coordinated and taught the subject: Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Communication for the MBA CSB + MASTER program jointly ran with the Clark University (MA, US).

For a few years she simultaneously worked for the English Department of the Jagiellonian University where she co-designed the specialization  “Teaching English for Business Purposes” the goal of which was to educate teachers of  Business English. 

She was an active staff participant of several UE projects, such as INSIST and FAME concerning cultural and social aspects of succession in family firms, or TASKFORCOME that involved methods of professional immigrant activation. Earlier, she coordinated a few EU educational projects, including Erasmus short intensive summer courses in Poland and abroad.

In the years 2012-2022 she designed and delivered the „Methodology of Teaching”  course,  tailored for the students of international PhD studies at the Cracow University of Economics, and for the last few years she has delivered a methodological module for young academic teachers “Specificity of teaching multicultural student groups” within the School of Fundamentals of Academic Didactics.

Although she has recently retired, she still runs a few courses, because she finds her job satisfactory and feels she can still contribute to student competences development.

Since many years ago she graduated from a secondary music school in piano, she is interested in classical music and additionally in training rescue dogs in man- and animal-trailing.

Her motto derived from own life experiences: “Everything we learn, every skill we develop, even seemingly useless and unimportant one day turns out to be extremely useful and sometimes even crucial”.