Agnieszka’s research interests lie in the areas of criminal justice, prisons and punishment, migration and human rights. With a combined academic background in both law and criminology, her research and publications often span those disciplines. Her PhD (at Ulster University, 2017) examined the experiences of male Polish prisoners incarcerated in Northern Ireland, while her LLM in Human Rights Law Master’s thesis (Queen’s University Belfast, 2004) explored the rights and the position of victims before international criminal tribunals.

In the past, she has written about youth justice, imprisonment, immigration detention and the rights and experiences of migrant workers. Her most recent research focused on the experiences of deportability of ‘foreign national’ prisoners in the UK and on deportability of EU nationals within the structures of the European Union. Agnieszka is currently a member of the Migration Working Group North West at Edge Hill University and, in the past, was a member of the North-South Immigration Forum (Belfast/Dublin) and led on migration and asylum research as an Assistant Director of the Institute for Conflict Research in Belfast. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Justice, Power and Resistance (a journal of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control published by Bristol University Press) and a member of the International Editorial Committee of Archiwum Kryminologii (Archives of Criminology), Poland's oldest criminological journal, published since 1960 by the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.