Prof. Urszula Doliwa – head of the Department of Journalism at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication. From 2019 to 2022, she served as Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Discipline of Social Communication and Media Science at the University of Warmia and Mazury. Graduate of journalism at the University of Warsaw. Author of of the books “Student radio in Poland” (2008), “Community radio – the third besides public and commercial radio sector” (2016), ”Pirate Waves: Polish Private Radio Broadcasting in the Period of Transformation 1989-1995” (2022). Since 2021, she has been a member of the Committee on Sciences of Social Communication and Media Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2014-19 she was the secretary, and in 2018-20 she served as vice president of the Community Media Forum Europe. Since 2022, she has been a member of the advisory board of Advisory Board of Prison Radio International. Since 2011, she has edited the journal “Media – Culture – Social Communication.” Her research interests are primarily related to with radio and sound art, civic media and prison media. Since 2013
together with Dr. Marta Więckiewicz-Archacka, she has been hosting a program on UWM FM Radio
dedicated to the media “Mediofon”. She is also developing skills in the art of filmmaking. Among other things, she took part in the New Horizons Summer Academy in 2019, as part of the which she prepared, together with Agata Rymaszewska, a short film etude “Dad”.

Currently, along with other prison media researchers around the world, is preparing the the first anthology of prison radio under the title “This is Prison Radio!” which will be published by Routledge in 2025.