- Chief of Sociology of Organization and Management Department, editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review ( www.qualitativesociologyreview.org ), chair of a section of Qualitative Sociology and Symbolic Interactionism of Polish Sociological Association. Vice - dean for Scientific Research, Faculty of Economy and Sociology (2016-2019)

- The President of Polish Sociological Association (2017-2023)

- The member of the Board of European Society for Study of Symbolic Interaction

- The member of the Executive Committee of European Sociological Association (2013 - 2015)

- The member of  the Board of Qualitative Methods Research Network of European Sociological Association.

- Member of the Board of Polish Sociological Association

- The member of Sociology Committee of Polish Academy of Science.

- The member of of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Mainstreaming Social Sciences (IJMSS)

- Editor - in - chief of Qualitative Sociology Review

- Associate Editor of International Journal of Mainstreaming Social Sciences (IJMSS)

 - The member of the Scientific Board of  Approches inductives, Univerrsitie du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres (since 2013r.)

- The member of Editorial Board, e-methodology (since 2014)

- The member of Scientifc Board of Problemy Zarządzania (Problems in Mangement) 

- Member of the scientific board of the editorial series Inferenze/Evidenze (Inferences/Evidences).

- Member of the Editorial Board in Polish Socjological Review.

- The member of Editorial Board of Lodz University Publications. 

- Reviewer of research projects to National Science Centre. 

Methodology of qualitative research, sociology of organization and management, sociology of interactions

Certified hatha-yoga instructor

Prof. Krzysztof Konecki – sociologist of many faces (Science and Scholarship in Poland)

ORCID

Sociology of interactions, Qualitative Methods of Research, Communication in Organizations, Organizational Culture of Japanese Enterprises, Human Resources Management, M.A. seminar, Ph. D. seminar, qualitative research seminar, lectures on human - animals relations, Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, Contemporary Sociological Theories; Contemplative Sociology. Experiencing Self, No-Self and the Life Word. 

Workshops: "Meditation for managers", "Hatha-yoga practice", "Techniques of stress reduction and coping with emotions", "Contemplative sociology and grounded theory. Towards contemplative grounded theory", "Phenomenological explication of experiencing of phenomena - on the base of auto-observation", "Visual Grounded Theory", "Intra-actions as social situations". 

Awarded Master Theses Promoted by prof. dr hab. K. T. Konecki

2021 - Prize of Stefan Nowak for achievements in the field of qualitative methodology and innovative qualitative social research. University of Warsaw. 

2019 - University of Lodz Rector's First Degree Award for the book: Advances in Contemplative Social Research, Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytet Lodzkiego / Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2018.

2014 - The prize of Rector of Lodz University for the book: Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna Kacperczyk, Piotr Chomczyński, Marco Albarracín (2013) The spirit of communitarianism and the cultural background of the Limoncocha community in the context of sustainable development and environmental protection. Quito: Universidad International SEK in Quito, Ecuador. [ISBN: 978-9942-930-06-4]

2013 - The prize of Rector of Lodz University for the book: Is the Body the Temple of the Soul? Modern Yoga Practice as a Psychosocial Phenomenon.Warszawa: Diffin.

2011 - Research Grant from the Universidad Internacional SEK (Quito, Ecuador) for interdysciplinary and community research in Limoncocha, Ecuadorian jungle: "La relacion entre los recurcos naturales de la laguna de Limoncocha (Integridad  ecosistema para actividades turisticas y pesquerias) y el desarollo socio-economico de la comunidad local (2011 - 2012). 

 Konecki, K.T. 2024.  "Phenomenological and Interactional Interpretations of Corporality and Intersubjectivity in Hatha Yoga", Denzin, N.K. and Chen, S.-L.S. (Ed.) Essential Issues in Symbolic Interaction (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 59), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 105-124. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620240000059006

 Grant, Alec & Krzysztof T. Konecki. 2024. „ How to Fragment and Unite: An Autoethnography of Collage and Poems.”AutoEthnographer. Vol.4, (4) September 2024, online Open Access Journal.

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2024. “Can you stop your mind and your daily activities? An analysis of meditation in yoga practice.” Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 68(3):169-203.

 Krzysztof T. Konecki. 2024. „Idea Towarzyskości i Nietowarzyskości. Kilka uwag o ładzie interakcyjnym we współczesnej Polsce.” W: Socjologiczna Agora. Wykłady mistrzowskie II., red. Kaja Gadowska, Warszawa: Scholar, s. 111-146.

 Krzysztof T. Konecki (2024) “Advances in contemplative Social Research. Inspirations from Phenomenology, Hatha Yoga, And Meditation Practice”, ed. Kerri Clough, in: Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies, London: Routledge.      Pp. 316-332.

Konecki, Krzysztof T., Aleksandra Płaczek, Dagmara Tarasiuk. 2024. Experiencing The Body in Yoga Practice. Meanings and knowledge transfer. New York: Routledge. 

 Konecki, Krzysztof T.2023. Walking in the City as an Experienced Practice, „Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej”, t. XIX, nr 4, s. 170–201.

 Konecki, Krzysztof T., Aleksandra Płaczek, Dagmara Tarasiuk. 2023. Experiencing The Body in Yoga Practice. Meanings and knowledge transfer. New York: Routledge. 

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2023. „Remarks About What Is Considered Important and Unimportant in Sociology.” In: Against the Background of Social RealityDefaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked, eds. Carmelo Lombardo, Lorenzo Sabetta, London: Routledge.

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2023. „Wittgenstein and Bauman: Creative Minds in the Lifeworld.” Symbolic Interaction, First published: 16 February 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.635

 Konecki, K. T. 2022. „Empathy! So What?” Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej, 18(4),194–233

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2022. “Who Am I When I Am Teaching? Self in Yoga Practice.” The Qualitative Report, 27(11), 2623-2658. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5469

 Konecki, K. T. 2022. „Lifeworld and Deathworld in Human and Nonhuman Animal Relationships.” Symbolic Interaction, early view online, https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.590

 Konecki, K. T. 2022. The Meaning of Contemplation for Social Qualitative Research. Applications and Examples. London: Routledge. 

 Konecki, K.T. 2021. “Deathworld of the City of Łódź: Insider Experience.” Pp. 27-45 in Deathworlds to Lifeworlds edited by V. M. Bentz & J. Marlatt. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

 Konecki, K. T. (2021). Distinctions and Something Between: An Inspection of Eviatar Zerubavel’s Concept Driven Sociology. The Qualitative Report, 26(4), 1150-1156. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/ 2021.4840 . 

 Konecki, K. T. 2021. Experiencing the space: Visiting cemeteries on All Saints’ Day and an ordinary day. The Qualitative Report, 26(3), 832-860. 

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2021. “Anselm L. Strauss and Kathy Charmaz Grounded Theory.” Pp. 95-106 in Dealing With Grounded Theory. Discussing, Learning, and Practice, edited by Irene Psaroudakis, Thaddeus Müller and Andrea Salvini, Pisa: Pisa University Press.=

 Konecki, K. T. 2021. The cognition of something in front and something in the background. Is “taken-for-granted reality” experienced? Władze Sądzenia, 19: 312-323.

 Konecki Krzysztof T, Anna Kacperczyk, red. 2020. Wizualizacje życia codziennego w badaniach interakcjonistycznych. Visualizations of everyday life in interactionist inquiry,Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.

 Konecki Krzysztof T, Anna Kacperczyk (2020) Symbolic Interactionism in Poland. Inspirations and Development, Qualitative Sociology Review, Volume XVI Issue 4: 8-34.

 Konecki Krzysztof T. (2020) An Introduction to the Special Issue of QSR: “Symbolic Interactionism in Poland”, Qualitative Sociology Review, Volume XVI Issue 4: 6-7.

 Konecki, K. T. (2020). Introduction of Plenary Session. History and Method of the ‘The Polish Peasant in Europe and America’. [Italian Sociological Review, 10 (2S), 327-328 Retrieved from [http://dx.doi.org/10.13136/isr.v10i2s.346]

 Konecki Krzysztof T. (2020) Sociological Experiencing and Reflecting – Contemplative Diary, The European Sociologist, Issue 45, Vol. 1 PANDEMIC (IM)POSSIBILITIES. https://www.europeansociologist.org/issue-45-pandemic-impossibilities-vol-1/sociological-experiencing-and-reflecting-%E2%80%93-contemplative

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. (2019) Visual Images and Grounded Theory Methodology. In: eds. Tony Bryant, Kathy Charmaz Current Developments in Grounded Theory, Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 352-373.

 Konecki, K.T. 2019. „Trust in Symbolic Interactionist Researchand in Phenomenological Investigation” Polish Sociological Review,        3(207):271-287.

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2019. “Creative Thinking in Qualitative Research and Analysis.” Qualitative Sociology Review 15(3):6-25. 

  Konecki Krzysztof T. (2018) Advances in Contemplative Social Research, Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego / Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagielonskiego. Pp.260

  Konecki Krzysztof (2018) Hatha-yoga in Higher Education, Roczniki Nauk Społecznych, Tom 10(46), numer 2: 109-130, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rns.2018.46.2-6

  Konecki Krzysztof T. (2018) The Problem of Ontological Insecurity. What Can We Learn from Sociology Today? Some Zen Buddhist Inspirations. „Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej”, t. 14, nr 2, s. 50–83.

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. (2018) Classic Grounded Theory—The Latest Version: Interpretation of Classic Grounded Theory as a Meta‐Theory for Research, Symbolic Interaction, 30 March 2018, early view, https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.361

 Konecki, Krzysztof T. (2017) Standing in Public Places: An Ethno-Zenic Experiment Aimed at Developing the Sociological Imagination and More Besides …, Czech Sociological Review, 6, 881-901.  

 Konecki, K. T. (2017). Contemplation for Economists. Towards a Social Economy Based on Empathy and Compassion. Economics and Sociology, 10(3), 11- 24. doi:10.14254/2071-789X.2017/10-3/1

 Konecki Krzysztof T. (2017) How the University Organizational Culture Is Being Experienced? Phenomenological Studies of Experiencingthe Here and Now of the Organization, Polish Sociological Review, 4(200): 485-504.

 Krzysztof T. Konecki (2017) Qualitative sociology, chapter 13, in: Kathleen Odell Korgen, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology. Core Areas in Sociology and the Development of the Discipline.Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 143-152.

Konecki, Krzysztof T. (2016)  Meditation as Epistemology: How Can Social Scientists Profit from Meditation?, chapter, In: eds. Valerie M. Bentz, Vincenzo M. B. Giorgino, Contemplative Social Research: Caring for Self, Being, and Lifeworld Paperback– Santa Barbara: Fielding University Press. December 13, 2016

Konecki, Krzysztof T. (2016) Is the Body the Temple of the Soul? Modern Yoga Practice as a Psychosocial Phenomenon. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press (Contents)

Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna Kacperczyk, Piotr Chomczyński, Marco Albarracín (2013) The spirit of communitarianism and the cultural background of the Limoncocha community in the context of sustainable development and environmental protection. Quito: Universidad International SEK in Quito, Ecuador. [ISBN: 978-9942-930-06-4]

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Konecki Krzysztof T., Piotr Chomczyński  (2012) Słownik Socjologii Jakościowej, Warszawa: Diffin. (Dictionary of Qualitative Sociology - in Polish)

Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2011. “Book Review: Yoga Body. The Origins Of Modern Posture Practice by Marc Singleton. Oxford University Press, 2010.” Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol. VII Issue 3.

Krzysztof T. Konecki (2011) "Visual Grounded Theory: A Methodological Outline and Examples from Empirical Work", Revija za sociologiju, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 131 - 160. DOI: 10.5613/rzs.41.2.1

 Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna Kacperczyk, eds  (2010)  "Identity Processes. Symbolic Interactionist dimension of social order and disorder construction." Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (in Polish). Contents.

Krzysztof T. Konecki (2009) "Teaching Visual Grounded Theory", w: Qualitative Sociology Review Vol. V, Issue 3.
Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anne Ryen (2009) Redakcja numeru Qualitative Sociology Review Editorial "Teaching Qualitative Methods" Qualitative Sociology Review Vol. V, Issue 3. 

 Konecki, Krzysztof Tomasz (2008) “Triangulation And Dealing With The Realness of Qualitative Research.” Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol. IV Issue 3. 

Krzysztof T. Konecki (2008) Touching and Gesture Exchange as an Element of Emotional Bond Construction. Application of Visual Sociology in the Research on Interaction between Humans and Animals [93 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008, 9(3), Art. 33.   translated to Spanish: “Intercambio De Contacto Físico Y Gestos Como Elementos Para La Construcción De Vínculos Emocionales.  Aplicación De La Sociología Visual A La Investigación De La Interacción Entre Humanos Y Animales”, Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Criticos Animales, Año IV | Volumen 1, Junio 2017. 

  Konecki, Krzysztof T. (2008) “Grounded Theory and Serendipity. Natural History of a Research.” Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol. IV Issue 1. 

Krzysztof T. Konecki (2008) Economic Sociology as a Sociology of Economic Action , in: Nowak Alojzy, Glinka Beata, Management: Qualitative And Quantitative Research. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2008

Employee participation in privatised and private firms: the Polish experience, in: . R. Markey, J. Monat: Innovation and Employee Participation Through Works Councils. International Case Studies. Aldershot: Avebury, pp. 231 - 242, 1997

 Qualitative studies of the organization and management during the time of transformation process and socio-economic changes. Adequate theoretical description, with J. Kulpinska,   Journal for East European Management Studies, Vol. 1, no 1, pp. 80-84, 1996

Enterprise Transformation And The Redefinition OF Organizational Realities In Poland, with J. Kulpinska, in: Dittrich E., Schmidt G. Whitley R. 'Industrial Transformation in Europe', Sage, London, 1995

 The Role of 'Agents' in the Process of the Adaptation of New Workers to the Work Situation, chapter in the book edited by  J. Kulpińska, Folia Sociologica, 22, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, pp. 23-43, 1991.

Paper 'Reproduction of Organizational Culture'. Presented on the conference 'Human Resources Developement', May, 2004, Limerick, Irlandia.

 Conference "Qualitative Transitions: Issues of Methodology in Central and South-East European Sociologies", Rijeka (Croatia), November 19-21, 2010, opening of conference speech  and presentation of the paper "Visual Grounded Theory. The Development of Grounded Theory in Poland"

 „The body is a temple of the soul – which is about the process of becoming hatha - yoga practitioner. Practical constructing of private and quasi – religion.”ESA Conference, 7 - 10.09.2011, Geneva,“Social Relations in Turbulent Times.” ESA Network 20, Qualitative Methods.

"Polish Qualitative Sociology. Insight into the future of postdisciplinary research”. DGS-Kongress 2014 "Routinen der Krise – Krise der Routinen" 6.-10. Oktober 2014 (Trier); 10/2014,

Paper: “Standing in the Public Places. Etno-Zenistic experiment.” The conference of  ESA, Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination, Prague, 2015, August.

 Presentation in plenary session  with Anna Kacperczyk Symbolic Interactionism in Poland, -  The VIIIth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Studying Everyday Life: Generic Dimensions of Interactionist Inquiry, Poland – Łódź, 4-8.07.2017 

 Paper: „Phenomenology and Grounded Theory.” –  ESSSI Conference, Couch-Stone meeting, Lancaster University, UK, “’Whose side are we on?’ Power, Stigma, Transgression and Exclusion in Everyday Life.” 4-6 July, 2018. 

 Plenary session presentation on International Workshop on Trust, Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan October, “Trust in Symbolic Interactionism and Phenomenological Investigation.” 5^th–6^th 2018. 

 Krzysztof T. Konecki, Presentation of a book; book session: “The meaning of contemplation for social qualitative research. Applications and examples” London: Routledge, Conference - Contemporary challenges for qualitative sociology: digital developments, ethical requirements, quality standards, Network 20, ESA, Copenhagen; VIVE, University of Copenhagen, 24-26.08.2022.

 Krzysztof T. Konecki, presentation of a paper - "Can you stop your mind and your daily activities? An analysis of meditation in yoga practice." Conference - Contemporary challenges for qualitative sociology: digital developments, ethical requirements, quality standards, Network 20, ESA, Copenhagen; VIVE, University of Copenhagen, 24-26.08.2022.