Dr hab. Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel, prof. UAM - is Associated Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (UAM). She holds M.A. in European Studies (Faculty of Law and Administration, UAM, 2005), PhD in political science (Jagiellonian University, 2012) and habilitation in political science and administration (UAM, 2022). Since 2022 she is Head of Research Unit of Politics and Governance of Digitalisation in Collegium Polonicum, UAM, and Associate Member of the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). She is also AMU Head of the Master of Digital Entrepreneurship study program in ENS/Collegium Polonicum.
Her research concentrates on interest representation and political activity (lobbying) of various actors (civil society, business) in the European Union, international institutions and (selected) states. She explores, among others, political participation and lobbying tactics of different actors in the context of their roles in democracy, and recently, also in the context of democratic backsliding. Besides, she is interested by how the increasing digitalisation processes in the public spheres affect, and/or are used by, different actors in terms of political engagement or policy development. Among other interests lay development of (selected) sectoral policies such as the EU digital single market, copyright law, media sector.
She is author of two monographs (2014, 2020) and co-editor of another one (2018). She has published in prominent journals such as Journal of European Integration, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Interest Groups & Advocacy, or Policy & Internet, as well as in edited volumes by Intersentia, Wolters Kluwer, Logos Verlag Berlin, Springer Nature, and Oxford University Press (forthcoming). Her work has been supported a.o. by grants of the National Science Centre Poland (2014-2020) and the German-Polish Science Foundation (2020-2022).
Besides academia, she was a stagiaire at the European Commission (DG Information Society and Media, Luxemburg), 2007-2008. Next, she worked in the Office of the Committee for European Integration (Department for Institution Building Programmes, Warsaw), 2008-2010 and continued as a consultant for EU-funded projects (2010-2013). Since 2015, she is a Member of the Civic Legislative Forum by the Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw.
Main recent publications:
Vetulani-Cęgiel A. & Albrecht N. 2026. New venue for new policy and actors? Tracing participation and debate on digital copyright and emerging technologies in WIPO and WTO, International Journal of Cultural Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2026.2615788.
Meyer T. & Vetulani-Cęgiel A. 2025. Transparency as an empty signifier? Assessing transparency in EU and platform initiatives on online political advertising and actors. Policy & Internet: 17(1):e417: 1‑21, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.417.
Cianciara A. K. & Vetulani-Cęgiel A. 2025. Lobbyists or policy advisers? Understanding role conceptions in influencing decision-making in Germany and Poland. Interest Groups & Advocacy, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41309-025-00248-8.
Vetulani-Cęgiel A. & Cianciara A. K. 2025. Informational lobbying in a Polish-German comparative perspective: uncovering perceptions of political relevance of expert knowledge and lobbying tactics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 33(4), 1349–1371, https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2025.2514849.
Pospieszna P. & Vetulani-Cęgiel A. 2021. Polish interest groups facing democratic backsliding. Interest Groups & Advocacy 10 (2): 158-180, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41309-021-00119-y.
Vetulani-Cęgiel A. & Meyer T. 2021. Power to the people? Evaluating the European Commission’s engagement efforts in EU copyright policy. Journal of European Integration 43 (8): 1025-1043, https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2020.1823382.
