[6] She began her studies in higher-education with the so-called Flying University (later Wyższe Kursy Naukowe), an underground institution of higher education in Russian-held Poland.

[7] She supported herself with a number of poorly paid jobs, as a teacher at Łabusiewiczówna Girls' School,[6] a secretary, and lady's companion.

[6] While battling an illness, she spent time in Zakopane where she went on to do work for the Pedological Society while writing Olek Niedziela, a novel for children centered around education.

[10][11] She continued her studies at the Faculty of Anthropology of the London School of Economics under Charles G. Seligman,[1] and at Somerville College, Oxford under R.R.

[13] In 1914, she became a member of the Royal Anthropological Society,[6] and was also involved with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, presenting research centered around the connection between religion and the environment in Siberia.

Czaplicka and Hall (accompanied by Michikha, a Tungus woman) spent the entire winter traveling along the shores of the Yenisei River via the Oryol:[15] more than 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) altogether.

[20] The overall results of the expedition were modest, something that historians have credited to the nature of the study and the many financial and political struggles faced by the team during the journey.

Her three-year fellowship at Oxford having expired in 1919, she obtained a temporary teaching position in anthropology in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Bristol.

[22] In a will written months before she died, Czaplicka left her notes and reports to her colleague Henry Usher Hall.

[25] After Hall died in 1944, some of Czaplicka's early papers were donated to the University of Pennsylvania Museum, but at least one report and a partial manuscript may be lost.

[26] In 2015, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford held a small exhibition entitled "My Siberian Year, 1914–1915" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Czaplicka's expedition to Siberia.