Dr Gabriela Borz
Senior Lecturer
Politics
Personal statement
Personal statement
I joined the School of Government and Public Policy as a Lecturer in September 2013. Previously I was a post-doctoral research fellow in an ESRC project analysing political representation in the European Union at University of Aberdeen. I received my MA and PhD in Political Science from the Central European University. I was a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Bradford, and held research and visiting fellowships at the University of Birmingham and Northwestern University.
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Prize And Awards
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Publications
- Digital technology and electoral democracy : introducing the DIGIEFFECT project
- Borz Gabriela, Mitrea Cristina, Longhini Anna, Montgomerie Thomas, Almodt Rémi, Jiglău George
- Open Access Government Vol April 2025, pp. 290-291 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.56367/oag-046-11926
- Digital political campaigning : contemporary challenges and regulation
- Borz Gabriela, De Francesco Fabrizio
- Policy Studies Vol 45, pp. 677-691 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2024.2384145
- The EU soft regulation of digital campaigning : regulatory effectiveness through platform compliance to the Code of Practice on Disinformation
- Borz Gabriela, De Francesco Fabrizio, Montgomerie Thomas L, Bellis Michael Peter
- Policy Studies Vol 45, pp. 709-729 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2024.2302448
- Digital political campaigning : platform compliance with EU law
- Borz Gabriela
- Research Features Vol 154 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.26904/RF-154-7290336456
- The impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European identity : a comparative analysis of EU regions
- Borz Gabriela, Brandenburg Heinz, Mendez Carlos
- European Union Politics Vol 23, pp. 259-281 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221076444
- The impact of legislative reforms on party system change
- Borz Gabriela, Jiglau George
- Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review Vol XXI, pp. 461-485 (2021)
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Teaching
I currently coordinate and contribute to teaching in the following courses:
Undergraduate
- L2102 - Politics: Concepts
- L2203 - Politics: Government and Governance
- L2204 - Comparative Politics
Postgraduate
- L2914 - European Governance
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Research Interests
I specialise in comparative politics, more specifically in the regulation and organisation of political parties, European Union governance, political behaviour and constitutionalism. My current research project DIGIEFFECT (www.digieffect.eu) investigates the risks associated with digital political campaigning in the European Union.
Professional Activities
- St Andrews Summit: The Geopolitics of Emerging Technologies in a Fragmented World
- Participant
- 24/3/2025
- New Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: trends, organisation and mobilisation strategies (New Bulgarian University)
- Invited speaker
- 15/1/2025
- Why digital electoral campaigning needs urgent regulation? (blog for the Loop)
- Contributor
- 8/1/2025
- EU AI Office Workshop: Evaluating General-Purpose AI Models with Systemic Risk
- Participant
- 13/12/2024
- Digital campaigning: practice, perceptions and regulatory instruments (Universita degli studi di Padova, Italy)
- Invited speaker
- 3/12/2024
- ECPR General Conference, University College Dublin
- Participant
- 14/8/2024
Projects
- Regaining linkage? Digital technologies improving civic engagement, political organisations and democracy
- Borz, Gabriela (Academic)
- The RELINK2 Action will intensify existing networking efforts of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries in the EU and beyond, to address two problems:
(1) How can democracies regain legitimacy and rebuild the link between representative institutions and citizens using the benefits of digital technologies?
(2) How can political organisations connect with digitally marginalised but politically active groups (the elderly) and with digitally active but politically marginalised ones (young citizens)?
The project will start in October 2024 and last till October 2028. RELINK 2 is hsted by Wroclaw University, Poland (professor Michal Jackunski) and is seconded by 30 academics from 18 countries.
Gabriela Borz acts as co-leader of Working Group 4 (Engagement and dissemination) and is a member of the RELINK2 management committee (UK). - 07-Jan-2024 - 07-Jan-2028
- Digital political campaigning: regulatory effectiveness through the eyes of citizens (Next Generation EU)
- Borz, Gabriela (Principal Investigator)
- DIGIEFFECT is a Next Generation EU grant (1,4 mil EUR), National Recovery and Resilience Plans. The primary goal of DIGIEFFECT is to assess the regulation of digital campaigning by focusing on citizens’ perceptions and evaluations. More specifically, the project investigates to what degree regulatory instruments adopted by the European Union, national governments and by the on-line corporations contribute to reducing on-line mis/dis/malinformation during electoral campaigns. The project is hosted by Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026
- The Impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identification (COHESIFY) H2020 SC6 Europe in a Changing World
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Borz, Gabriela (Co-investigator) Brandenburg, Heinz (Co-investigator) Ferry, Martin (Co-investigator) McMaster, Irene (Co-investigator) Mendez, Carlos (Co-investigator) van der Zwet, Arno (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2018