Piotr joined HKUST in August 2021 and since then has been a staff member of the Center for Language Education. Prior to joining HKUST, Piotr worked at King’s College London – King’s Education, where he taught society and academic writing modules. His research at King’s was in line with King’s Vision 2029 and concerned research-inspired curriculum and assessment design. During his time at King’s Piotr’s students were nominated and won multiple awards including the best MA Thesis of 2020. Piotr himself was too nominated for various awards including Tutor of the Year 2019 and Best Colleague 2019.

Piotr also spent over five years working at Xi’an-Jiaotong University in China, where he designed and delivered English for Built Environment module. Another one of Piotr’s duties was internal moderation of year 1 modules and close liaison with UK based external moderators.  Piotr’s students were nominated for multiple awards and most notably finished second in E-Volo Architecture Competition 2019 and also second in Research-led Learning & Teaching Award 2018. During his time at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Piotr was heavily involved in designing Higher Education Comprehensive Evaluations Admissions for Jiangsu and Guandong provinces and he chaired an examination panel from 2015 to 2018. Piotr also had significant input in restructuring year 1 and year 2 programmes and introducing research-led components to summative assessment in year 2 modules.

Before his move to China, Piotr lived and worked in Derby in the United Kingdom, where he was employed both at Derby University – Institute of Education and Derby City Council- Education Department. Piotr’s work at both institutions resulted in changes of needs analysis and admissions of part-time students within the local authority’s education department and was highlighted in 2011 provider’s Ofsted inspection. Also, during his time in Derby an e-learning team Piotr was a member of was nominated and won 2011 TES E-learning Award for the use of Moodle and engaging with hard-to-reach communities.