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  5. Vasiliki Triga

Vasiliki Triga

Vasiliki Triga

Associate Professor

Department of Communication and Marketing

vasiliki.triga@cut.ac.cy

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Dr. Vasiliki Triga holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. From 2007 until 2011 she worked as a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (c2d) at the University of Zurich. She has been teaching as a temporary lecturer at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHz). Before, she has been a visiting fellow at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales (LAIOS) at the CNRS (Paris) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Psychology). Since 2021, she has [...]been appointed as an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Public Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research interests lie in the field of ICT/internet based political processes like Voting Advice Applications, Southern Politics and the Economic Crisis, Political Communication and European Referendums. She has published her research in various journals such as IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Southern European Society and Politics, Public Management Review, JCMS etc. She is co-author of the book Referendums and the European Union: A Comparative Inquiry, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. She is the Founder of the DigiPols Research Lab (https://digipols.cut.ac.cy/ ).


  • ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • EMPLOYMENT
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • RESEARCH
  • AWARDS
  • Teaching
  • ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • EMPLOYMENT
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • RESEARCH
  • AWARDS
  • Teaching

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Qualification

Year

Awarding Institution

Department

Thesis title (Optional Entry)

PhD

2007

European University Institute, Florence (Italy)

Social and Political Science

Europe beyond Brussels: An analysis of everyday discourses in the EU agencies

BSc

1998

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Psychology

 

 

EMPLOYMENT

Period of employment

Employer

Location

Position

From

To

2021

now

Cyprus University of Technology

Limassol, Cyprus

Associate Professor

2015

2021

Cyprus University of Technology

Limassol, Cyprus

Assistant Professor

2011

2015

Cyprus University of Technology

Limassol, Cyprus

Lecturer

 

PUBLICATIONS

Ref. Number

Year

Title

Other authors

Journal and Publisher /
Conference

Vol.

Pages

1

2024

The Waning of Ideology? Presidential elections in the Republic of Cyprus, 5 February 2023

Nikandros Ioannidis, Constantinos Djouvas

South European Society and Politics

28/2

 

2

2024

Creating public value in regional policy. Bringing citizens back in

Carlos Mendez, Andreja Pegan

Public Management Review

26

811-835

3

2021

Many losers– One winner? An examination of vote switching to the AfD in the 2017 German federal election using VAA data

L. Constantin Wurthmann, Stefan Marschall, Vasilis Manavopoulos

Party Politics

27(5)

870 –882

4

2020

EU Cohesion Policy under the Media Spotlight: Exploring Territorial and Temporal Patterns in News Coverage and Tone

Carlos Mendez, Fernando Mendez, Juan Miguel Carrascosa

Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS)

58(4)

1034–1055

5

2019

Does mode of administration impact the quality of data? Comparing a traditional survey versus an online survey via a Voting Advice Application

Vasilis Manavopoulos

Survey Research Methods

13

181-194

6

2019

The Impact of VAAs on (non-Voting) Aspects of Political Participation: Insights from Panel Data Collected During the 2017 German Federal Elections Campaign

Vasilis Manavopoulos, Stefan Marschall, Constantin Wurthmann

Statistics, Policy and Politics

9/2

 

7

2018

Post-crisis normalisation? The 2018 Presidential Elections

Fernando Mendez, Constantinos Djouvas

Southern European Society and Politics

24

103-127

8

2017

Parties and Change in Post-bailout Cyprus: The May 2016 Parliamentary Elections

 

Southern European Society and Politics

22

261-279

9

2014

Referendums and the European Union: A comparative inquiry

Fernando Mendez, Mario Mendez

Cambridge University Press

 

 

10

2012

'Neither agree, nor disagree': A critical analysis of the middle answer category in Voting Advice Applications

Aphrodite Baka, Lia Figgou

International Journal of Electronic Governance

5

244-263

 

RESEARCH

Ref. Number

Date

Title

Funded by

Project Role*

1

2021-2024

DEMOTEC: Democratising Territorial Cohesion: Experimenting with deliberative citizen engagement and participatory budgeting in European regional and urban policies (GA no. 962553)

Horizon 2020, SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies

Research Team Member

2

2023

choose4cyprus: A Voting Advice Application for the Presidential Elections in Cyprus

CUT (Research Fund by Principal Researcher)

Scientific Coordinator

3

2018-2021

RePast: Strengthening European integration through the Analysis of Conflict Discourses. Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the Future (G.A. no. 769252)

Horizon 2020, CULT-COOP-02-2017, European Commission

Research Team Member

4

2016-2018

COHESIFY: The impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identity (G.A. no. 693427)

Horizon 2020, REFLECTIVE-SOCIETY-2015, European Commission

 

 

Research Team Member - WP Coordinator (WP4)

5

2016-2018

NOTRE: Network for Social Computing Research (G.A. no. 692058)

Horizon 2020, TWIN-2015, European Commission

Research Team Member - WP Coordinator (WP7)

6

2014

EUVox2014: An EU-wide voting advice application (VAA) for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

Open Society Initiative for Europe & DG for Communication of the European Parliament (area of internet-based activities/online media)

Research Team Member - Country Coordinator (Cyprus)

7

2012-2013

ICTs and Social Movements: An interdisciplinary study of the organization, ideological positioning and rhetoric of online social movements

Start-up Fund, Cyprus University of Technology

Scientific Coordinator

8

2008-2010

Constitutional Conventions, Direct Democracy and Institutional Change

(No. 100015_120040)

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Research Team Member

9

2009-2010

European Referendums Revisited II

(No. 10015_124577)

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

 

Research Team Member

10

2007-2008

European Referendums Revisited I

(No. 100015_12477)

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Research Team Member

 

AWARDS

Ref. Number

Date

Title

Awarded by:

1

2012-2013

Start-up Research Grant

Cyprus University of Technology

2

2002-2003

Full-time scholarship for PhD studies at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy)

Italian Ministry of Education

3

2001-2002

Full-time scholarship in the frame of Inter-university post- graduate students' exchange program of the EUI, at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales (LAIOS), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

European University Institute

4

1999-2002

Full-time scholarship granting three-year PhD studies at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy)

National Organization of Social Security of Greece (YKI)

5

1999-2000

Grant awarded for membership and participation in the European Political-Economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC)

Targeted Socio-economic Research of the European Commission

6

1998

Honorary Award in the «International Ideas Competition: Architecture and the Eradication of Poverty (Lausanne)» for the research study “Investigation of the socio- economic and environmental characteristics of a homeless ROMA group: a Pilot Program in the Municipality of Menemeni”.

UIA in collaboration with the United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty.

 

Teaching

  • CIS 104 Social Psychology
  • CIS 208 Communication Research Methods II: Qualitative Analysis
  • CIS 314 Politics of the Internet
  • CIS 407 Research Design

 

Vasiliki Triga
Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου
Associate Professor

Dr. Vasiliki Triga holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. From 2007 until 2011 she worked as a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (c2d) at the University of Zurich. She has been teaching as a temporary lecturer at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHz). Before, she has been a visiting fellow at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales (LAIOS) at the CNRS (Paris) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Psychology). Since 2021, she has been appointed as an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Public Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research interests lie in the field of ICT/internet based political processes like Voting Advice Applications, Southern Politics and the Economic Crisis, Political Communication and European Referendums. She has published her research in various journals such as IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Southern European Society and Politics, Public Management Review, JCMS etc. She is co-author of the book Referendums and the European Union: A Comparative Inquiry, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. She is the Founder of the DigiPols Research Lab (https://digipols.cut.ac.cy/ ).

Κύπρος
vasiliki.triga@cut.ac.cy
2500 2140

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