Krystian Szadkowski, PhD is a researcher at the Scholarly Communication Research Group of Adam Mickiewicz University. His interests cover Marxist political economy and transformations of higher education systems in Central Eastern Europe, as well as the issues of the public and the common in higher education. He worked as a researcher for Education International (Brussels, Belgium). He was a visiting researcher at Centre for Global Higher Education, both at University College London and University of Oxford. He recently published Capital in Higher Education: A Critique of the Political Economy of the Sector (Palgrave MacMillan 2023).