Boróka Bó

About Boróka Bó

Boróka Bó is an assistant professor of Sociology at University College Dublin and a faculty fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Previously she worked as an assistant professor at the University of Essex.

Boróka Bó was born into the persecuted Hungarian minority in Communist Romania and emigrated with her family to the U.S. as political refugees when she was 14.

Boróka earned a double PhD in Sociology and in Demography from the University of California at Berkeley. She holds an MS in Chinese Medicine from Colorado Chinese Medicine University and a BA with distinction and honors in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Boróka's current research focuses on time availability as it shapes well-being. One area of her work explores how socioeconomic, cultural, and demographic characteristics affect the resource of time. A second area of her research examines the reciprocal relationship between the social experience of time and individual and collective emotions. The third area of her research situates the temporal perspectives, experiences, and decision-making processes of communities navigating environmental hazards in space and time. She is currently leading a collaborative research project studying how communities understand and cope with being out of time. This work builds on a successful 2022 UK Research and Innovation Impact grant, allowing her to form robust collaborations with local elected and community leaders, climate activists, artists, and oyster farmers.

Boróka plans a career in academic research, continuing to unpack the mechanisms connecting time and well-being. When not pondering the minutia of time, she can be found painting, traveling, studying internal martial arts, and playing her handpan and didgeridoos.