Prof. dr hab. Natalia Letki

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, AND CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW

Our paper received the Jeremy Richardson 2025 JEPP Best Paper Award! Available open access:

Letki, N., Walentek, D., Dinesen, P.T & Liebe, U. (2025). „Has the war in Ukraine changed Europeans’ preferences on refugee policy? Evidence from a panel experiment in Germany, Hungary and Poland.” Journal of European Public Policy 32(1), 1-25. 

For the Jury statement read here.

I trained as a sociologist, but my research falls at the intersection of sociology, political science and psychology, as I research policy preferences, attitudes and behaviour towards refugees, attitudes and behaviour towards public goods, including tax and pro-environmental behaviour and co-production, as well as social capital, social trust and corruption. I have an extensive experience in research on ethnic minorities, and party policy and electoral strategy in post-Communist countries. I am particularly interested in the conditioning effect of social and spatial context.
Methodologically, I specialize in quantitative survey research, including survey experiments. I am widely experienced in working with cross-national survey data, including survey design and implementation.

I hold a DPhil from Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2002), where I subsequently was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow (2002-2005). Since coming to Poland in 2005, I have  run numerous research projects, including NCN Opus „Valuing Refugee Policy” (PI, 2019-2024), ERC StG 240830 “Public Goods through Private Eyes. Exploring Citizens’ Attitudes to Public Goods and the State in Central Eastern Europe” (PI, 2009-2014), PROVIDE: PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry, Horizon2020 Programme (Country Coordinator for Poland, 2015 – 2018), Foundation for Polish Science ‘Idee dla Polski’ grant (PI, 2009 – 2014).