Introduction
Borbala is currently post-doc at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus Universitet (until February 2022) and part-time faculty member at the Department of Political Science, Babes-Bolyai University. She holds a PhD and MSc in social policy from the University of Oxford and a BA in political science from Babes-Bolyai University. She has published comparative work on tax policy and family policy change in Hungary, Lithuania and Romania and written extensively on the sociology of childcare, with a particular focus on Romania. Her work has also extended to the sharing economy and informality. She has extensive expertise in using (and teaching) interpretive qualitative research methods.
Expert
I have a background in qualitative research focusing on care-related household-level decisions, claims-making for welfare entitlements, engagement with street-level bureaucracies and their relevance for macro-social phenomena and outcomes, such as the take-up of family benefits. My research extends to vulnerable groups, especially impoverished - typically rural - Roma in the Romanian context. I also have extensive experience with using legislation as basis for analysing rules around income taxation and family support in different national contexts, including Romania, Hungary and more recently Lithuania. I have written, among other things, on the sociology of childcare, informality and the sharing economy, family policy, tax policy, socio-economic inequalities, gender dynamics in heterosexual couples with children, trust and street-level bureaucracies as well as civic participation and parenthood.
Fields of expertise: Evidence for policy / knowledge valorization, Gender equality, Policy design and delivery, Social policy, Social protection