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Team

Researchers in political science and communication studies, brought together by a shared agenda: democracy in the digital age.

CIDD brings together experienced researchers in political science and communication studies. All members of the center hold a PhD, and three of them are doctoral supervisors in Political Science.

Management Council

Marius-Ioan Tătar

Marius-Ioan Tătar

Associate Professor, PhD

Director

Coordinator of the Master’s programme in European Public Policies.

  • Elections and electoral behaviour
  • Political participation and social movements
  • Democratization, civil society and democratic governance
  • European integration and cohesion policy
  • Democratic innovation and digital media
Dan Apăteanu

Dan Apăteanu

Lecturer, PhD

Scientific Secretary

  • Social policy
  • Qualitative and quantitative research methods
  • Critical thinking
  • Political economy
Alina Brihan

Alina Brihan

Lecturer, PhD

Head of research group

Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “Raising Awareness and Strengthening the Use of Mechanisms for Influencing the EU Decision-Making” (2018–2022).

  • Public administration
  • Rule of law and European governance
  • EU decision-making
Carmen Ungur-Brehoi

Carmen Ungur-Brehoi

Lecturer, PhD

Head of research group

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Identity and Migration Studies; head of the e-Journalism Laboratory.

  • Mass media
  • Journalism
  • Censorship

Members

Gabriela Goudenhooft

Gabriela Goudenhooft

Professor, PhD, Habil.

Head of the Department of Political Science and Communication Sciences; doctoral supervisor.

  • Political legitimacy and the rule of law
  • Political institutions and European governance
  • Political discourse analysis
  • Migration, identity and diaspora
  • Public policy and democratic governance

SB

Sorin Borza

Professor, PhD, Habil.

Doctoral supervisor.

  • Political philosophy
  • History of political thought
  • Ethics and politics
Cristina Matiuța

Cristina Matiuța

Professor, PhD, Habil.

Doctoral supervisor; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Identity and Migration Studies.

  • Political parties and the Romanian political system
  • Civil society
  • European elections
  • Active citizenship in the EU
Ioana Albu

Ioana Albu

Associate Professor, PhD

  • Civil society
  • Education for democracy
  • Foreign languages in a European context
Simona Fer

Simona Fer

Associate Professor, PhD

  • Journalistic language and style
  • Political discourse analysis
  • Digital journalism and new media
  • Media content analysis
  • Media, identity and cultural diversity

Research groups

The center’s research activity is organised in two research groups, led by Lecturer Dr. Alina Brihan and Lecturer Dr. Carmen Ungur-Brehoi.

Associate members

CIDD works with associate members – doctoral and master’s students and external researchers – to support an interdisciplinary and internationally open approach. If you would like to join the center’s activities, get in touch.

Profiles, CVs and publication lists are taken from the Department of Political Science and Communication Sciences website (CVs may be in Romanian).