Rate My Professor Victor Krawczyk

Dr Victor Krawczyk serves as a Casual Teaching Lecturer in the School of Management, College of Business and Law, at Adelaide University. He completed his doctoral studies focused on compassion afforded to animals within businesses and organizational contexts, complemented by an analysis of human attitudes toward animals spanning from the 18th century to the present. This research was supported by scholarships, awards, and grants that facilitated doctoral work in the United Kingdom and the United States. Krawczyk's scholarly pursuits are rooted in the humanistic social sciences, drawing on cultural analysis methodologies. As an interdisciplinary researcher, he explores translational research, health areas such as stroke, organizational studies, management, culture, and animal studies, unified by humanistic social science approaches. Presently, he leads two research projects: one funded by the Office of Ageing Well and the other by the Office of the Public Advocate. Previously, from 2023 to 2024, he acted as Program Support Coordinator for the Bachelor of Social Science (Human Services) and Bachelor of Social Science (Ageing and Disability) programs.

Krawczyk maintains an active teaching portfolio across human services, management, governmental policy, politics, health, and communications. In 2024 and 2025, his courses encompass COMM 1073 UO Introduction to Social Media, HUMS 3049 Power and Resistance: 1900 - Present, LANG 1054 Intercultural Communication, POLI 1008 Governance and Citizenship in Australia, POLI 2029 UO Australian Social Policy, WELF 3018 Social Analysis and the Human Services, BEHL 2009 Group Work, COMM 1072 UO Communication and Media, HLTH 1063 Aboriginal Health: Culture, Community and Country, and others including social work skills, ageing, disability, and policy practice. His key publications include 'Moral shocks to invoke compassion: depicting the suffering and death of animals in animal research and testing facilities' (Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 2025), 'Intersectionality on screen. A coloniality perspective to understand popular culture representations of intersecting oppressions at work' (Gender Work and Organization, 2022), 'The affordance of compassion for animals: a filmic exploration of industrial linear rhythms' (Culture and Organization, 2018), 'The origins of compassion for animals: legal privileging of non-wild animals in late Georgian Britain' (Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 2015), and 'Group organization and communities of practice in translational research: A case study of a research team' (SAGE Open, 2014).