Vice-Dean for Student Affairs of the Faculty of Social Sciences, employee of the Centre for Student and Doctoral Activities, editor-in-chief of the journal 'Progress' - dr Dominik Bień combines many functions at the University of Gdańsk. Now he has been honoured with the Prime Minister's Award for 2023 in the category ‘For an outstanding doctoral dissertation’.

The doctoral thesis The Ideological Structure of the Workers' Defence Committee and the Social Self-Defence Committee 'KOR' is an analysis of the political thought of the KOR based on a reconstruction of the ideological pedigree of the organisation, documents signed with the organisation's signature and the views of the Committee's leaders (Jacek Kuroń, Jan Józef Lipski, Adam Michnik and Antoni Macierewicz). The political thought of the KOR is embedded in a broad ideological perspective outlined since the turn of the 20th century.

As we read in the recommendation of prof. dr hab. Andrzej Friszke, the work deserves to be distinguished for its ‘very mature analysis of ideological thought, based on a careful reading of numerous articles from the period, with reference to the tradition of Polish ideological thought’.

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Dominik Bień is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Theory of the UG Institute of Political Science. Since this academic year, he has been Vice-Dean for Student Affairs at the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal 'Progress'.

He holds a degree in sociology from the University of Gdańsk and his research interests include the political thought of the opposition in the People's Republic of Poland, the history of higher education in Gdańsk, and the history of small towns in the People's Republic of Poland.

In 2023, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences in the discipline of political science and administration on the basis of his doctoral thesis entitled Ideological Structure of the Workers' Defence Committee and the Social Self-Defence Committee 'KOR'. The thesis was supervised by dr hab. Jarosław Nocoń, prof. UG.