Dr Boroka Bo
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873572
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Location
5A.321, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
By Appointment
Profile
Biography
I am a sociologist of everyday life. I study how we can spend more of our time living. I am particularly interested in how structural inequalities can be addressed through socially responsible time use policies. My research interests focus on migration, sociotemporal disparities in well-being, eco-social determinants of health, and social demography. My work has been funded by the UKRI's Economic and Social Research Council, National Science Foundation, United States Agency for International Development, UC Berkeley's Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley's Social Sciences Data Laboratory, and by the Soros Fellowship for New Americans. I have collaborated with the Colchester Borough Council, the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society, Eurofound, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. When not pondering the minutia of time, I love traveling (preferably by motorcycle, boat, or train), photography (especially ephemeral street art), painting (mainly acrylic), studying internal martial arts (perpetual beginner in chen style tai chi, bagua, hsing-i), binge watching time travel movies (I know... just when you were starting to like me... well, no one's perfect) and playing my handpan and didgeridoos.
Qualifications
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PhD Sociology & Demography University of California, Berkeley, (2021)
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MA Sociology University of California, Berkeley, (2018)
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MA Demography University of California, Berkeley, (2015)
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BA Sociology University of Colorado Boulder, (2012)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Employability Development Co-Director, Sociology, University of Essex (1/9/2022 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Aging
Well-Being
Social Networks
Migration
Stratification
Ethnicity and Race
Education
Medical Sociology
Life Course
Time Use and Sociotemporal Disparities
Demography
Conferences and presentations
The Surprising Links Between Downtime and Well-Being
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Green Sabbath, Universität Potsdam, Germany, 16/1/2023
A Journey Toward Community-driven Adaptation & Mitigation
Invited presentation, 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Boroka Bo, 12/11/2022
Building with Nature for Ecosystem-Based Coastal Defence & Economic Resiliency
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Colchester Borough Council’s Environment and Sustainability Panel, Colchester, 10/11/2022
Socioeconomic Status, Time Scarcity and Well-Being in Retirement
Canadian Sociological Association, Edmonton, Canada, 1/1/2021
The Cultural Schemas and Temporal (Un)Knowns of Fatherhood
Invited presentation, Department of Demography Invited Talk Series, Berkeley, United States, 2021
Retiree Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Canadian Sociological Association, Edmonton, Canada, 1/1/2021
Social Psychology of Time, Space, and Social Context
Pacific Sociological Association, 1/1/2021
From Micro-Level Experiences to Macrostructural Encounters: Retiree Socioeconomic Status and the Socioemotional Experience of Pandemic Time
IV ISA Forum of Sociology. Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2021
Good Time, Bad Time: The Cultural Repertoires of Time Scarcity in Retirement
American Sociological Association, 1/1/2020
Beyond the Time Bind: Gender Inequality and the Tempo of Life in 87 Countries
International Association for Time Use Research, 1/11/2019
Bridging Gaps to Create Inclusive Societies
Invited presentation, 24/11/2018
Examining Residential Ethnic Segregation and Health: Considerations of Time Poverty and Physical Space
Population Association of America, 9/5/2018
Contextualizing Discrimination and the Internalization of Stereotypes through Socioeconomic and Demographic Processes
IUSSP, 15/11/2017
Identifying and Engaging with Hidden Populations through the use of 'Big Data', Demographic Forecasting Techniques and Qualitative Methods
Population Association of America, 26/5/2016
Opportunities and Constraints: A Situation Analysis with Area Based Socioeconomic and Demographic Measures of the Hungarian Roma Refugees of Toronto
Invited presentation, Munk School of Global Affairs, Toronto, Canada, 18/11/2015
Residential Proximity of Migrant Children and Intergenerational Temporal Support Exchanges in Romania
Population Association of America, 22/5/2014
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Researching Social Life I (SC101)
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The Sociological Imagination (SC111)
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Social Psychology (Sociology): Self and Interaction (SC213)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Bo, B., (2022). Time Availability as a Mediator between Socioeconomic Status and Health. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health. 19, 101238-101238
Bó, BB. and Dukhovnov, D., (2022). Tell me who's your neighbour and I'll tell you how much time you've got: The spatiotemporal consequences of residential segregation. Population, Space and Place. 28 (7), e2561-
Bó, B., (2022). Good Time, Bad Time: Socioeconomic Status, Time Scarcity, and Well-Being in Retirement. American Journal of Sociology. 128 (2), 323-364
Bó, BB., (2020). Beyond the time bind: Gender inequality and the tempo of life in 87 countries. Time & Society. 29 (3), 892-915
Bó, B., Zimmer, Z. and Rada, C., (2020). The structure and determinants of intergenerational support exchange flows in an eastern European setting. Research on aging. 42 (9-10), 262-271
Bó, BB., (2019). Structure versus agency: a cross-national examination of discrimination and the internalization of negative stereotypes. European Societies. 21 (3), 327-355
Bo, B., (2014). "Fragmented Histories, Fragmented Selves: Body Weight Preoccupation among Women in Post-Communist Romania". Journal of International Women's Studies. 15 (2), 33-45
Book chapters (1)
Wilkins, AC., Mollborn, S. and Bó, B., (2014). Constructing difference. In: Handbook of the social psychology of inequality. Springer. 125- 154. 9789401790017
Other (3)
Bo, B., (2022).How to spend time wisely – what young people can learn from retirees
Bo, B., (2022).Building with Nature: Oyster Reefs for Coastal Protection
Bò, B., (2009).Caviar. The Iowa Review. 39(1),Department of English and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at The …
Contact
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