Boróka Bó

University of Essex

Based in

United Kingdom
Europe

Boróka Bó’s active interdisciplinary research program is at the intersection between the eco-social determinants of health, the sociology of time, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Her work situates the temporal perspectives, experiences, and decision-making processes of individuals navigating environmental hazards in space and time. Dr. Bó is currently leading a collaborative research project studying coastal communities facing climate hazards. This work builds on a successful 2022 UK Research and Innovation Impact grant, supporting robust collaborations with local elected and community leaders, climate activists, artists, and oyster farmers. Her research contributes to sociological theory by uncovering some of the mechanisms linking sociotemporal disparities to eco-social inequalities in well-being. Her goal is to connect the individual-level subjective experience and social patterning of time with sociodemographic, institutional, and ecological factors, extending the literature on stratification and social inequality. To do this, Dr. Bó incorporates a mixed methods approach. She combines multiple qualitative methods (ethnography, in-depth and life story interviews) with demographic methods (surveys and statistical estimation techniques). Methodologically, by situating the resource of time in lived experience of climate change, her research informs the existing literature on measuring time scarcity and time poverty.