Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel
Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel
Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel, PhD, DSc, Associate Professor (UAM)
Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel is employed as an Associate Professor at the Collegium Polonicum of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She holds an MA in European Studies (Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2005), a PhD in Political Science (Jagiellonian University, 2012), and a DSc (habilitation) in Political Science and Public Administration (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2022).
Since 2022, she has been the Head of the Laboratory for Research on Digitalisation Policy and Governance at the Collegium Polonicum. She is also an Associate Member of the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and serves as the Programme Director of the MSc programme Master of Digital Entrepreneurship at the Collegium Polonicum.
Her research focuses on interest representation and political activity (lobbying) carried out by various actors (including civil society organisations and business interests) within the European Union, international institutions, and selected national contexts. She examines political participation and lobbying strategies in relation to their role in democracy, and more recently in the context of democratic backsliding. In addition, her research addresses how the ongoing digitalisation of the public sphere affects different actors and/or is used by them in political engagement and policymaking processes. Her further research interests include the development of selected sectoral policies, such as the EU Digital Single Market, copyright law, and media policy.
She is the author of two monographs (2014, 2020) and co-editor of another volume (2018). Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including Journal of European Integration, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Interest Groups & Advocacy, and Policy & Internet, as well as in edited volumes released by prestigious publishers such as Intersentia, Wolters Kluwer, Logos Verlag Berlin, Springer Nature, and Oxford University Press (forthcoming). Her research has been supported by grants from, among others, the Polish National Science Centre (2014-2020) and the German-Polish Science Foundation (2020-2022).
In addition to her academic career, she completed a traineeship at the European Commission (Directorate-General for Information Society and Media, Luxembourg) in 2007–2008. She subsequently worked at the Office of the Committee for European Integration (Department of Institutional Development Programmes, Warsaw) in 2008-2010, and later as a consultant on EU-funded projects (2010-2013). Since 2015, she has been a member of the Civic Legislative Forum of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw.
