Doctor of Economics, Assistant Professor in the Department of Socio-Economic Geography at the Cracow University of Economics. Her interests focus on territorial development, particularly factors of that development, strategies, programming, and statistical methods of measuring the level of territorial development. For the last few years, the research has mainly concentrated on rural areas development— institutional factors, barriers, social participation in the processes of programming local development, endogenous potentials of rural areas and their role in development processes, tourism development in rural areas, and innovations in rural areas.