Katharina Storch has just finished her PhD in Dublin City University (DCU) that is entitled ‘Tracing the journey of cross-cultural adaptation of Polish migrant women in Ireland - a journey of creating home when home is away’. She holds an M.A. in Intercultural Studies from DCU and a Bachelor in International Marketing from Savonia Polytechnic, Varkaus in Finland. In DCU, she lectures ‘Intercultural Communicative Competence’. She also teaches English and German. As a research assistant, she has worked in an EU-funded research project in DCU, called the European Intercultural Workplace Project, that explores issues of diversity in workplaces across ten European countries. Her research interests are in migration and intercultural studies, with emphasis on Polish and Irish migration, as well as cross-cultural psychology and diversity in the intercultural workplace. She is an active member of the research network “European researcher of migration and ethnic studies”.
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