Karolina is the Project and Engagement Manager for Smart Docklands, where she is in charge of their community engagement. She is passionate about finding compromises and solutions for better cities.

She has earned a double BSc degree – in Urban Management and in Real Estate and graduated from a master’s program in Spatial Management. During her studies, she held a position of a research assistant at the Department of Geography at the King’s College London and the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

She holds a PhD in Human Geography. During her PhD she was also a researcher in the Innovation Districts? Creative Industries and Urban Changes project. Before that she worked for a London based leading urban planning company specialising in community consultation and engagement.