Team

Anna MELICH-JUSTE

Public opinion research, political sociology, information and communication policies, value systems, identity building

Anna Melich, from Barcelona, Spain, holds a Licence en Sciences Politiques and obtained a PhD in  Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She also studied research methodology at the Universities of Essex (UK), Cologne (D) and Michigan (USA). She was a member of the academic staff of the University of Geneva until 1988, when she was appointed to the European Commission‘s Directorate General for Information and Communication. From 1994 she was responsible, as Head of Unit, for managing the different types of Eurobarometer surveys, monitoring public opinion on European integration and European Union policies, and analysing media trends.  From 2000 to 2004, she was the Head of the Commission’s Central Library, within the Directorate  General for Education and Culture.

She has participated in think-tanks on the future of the European Union and Governance, as a member of the “Social and Economic Cohesion” group for the creation of the “Scenarios Europe 2010”, piloted by the Forward Studies Unit, and was a member of its Steering Committee. She has carried out various studies for the Forward Studies Unit.  She was also a member of the group on “How to relaunch the debate on Europe”, within the framework of think-tank on Governance.

Within the Bureau of European Policy Advisers, she deals with issues relating to public opinion and on information and communication strategies in the framework of political decision-making.

Her published works include : 

• - Personal, Collective and National Identity and Modern Media, 1986;
• - Identité nationale et médias contemporains, 1990;
• - "Switzerland : To be or not to be in Europe", 1991;
• - Les Valeurs des Suisses (éd), 1991;
• - Public Opinion Measurement, A Method to Analyse Trends in International Media Coverage,  1997;
• - «Les enquêtes Eurobaromètre et la Construction européenne», 1998;
• - "La Opinió Pública Catalana i Europa", 2002; 
• - Are Europeans ready for a collective identity change ? Citizen’s opinion and media as European  socialization agents, 2002.

 

She has coordinated special opinion studies, including: 

• - L’opinion des Européens sur la réforme institutionnelle Vol I (1995), Vol. II (1996), Vol. III (1997);
• - L’opinion publique envers l’Union européenne (par régions) en  France; Allemagne; Royaume-Uni; Italie; Espagne; Portugal; Finlande  et Danemark (1996);
• - Opinion on needs and instruments for information about the EU (1997);
• - UE : les domaines qui intéressent l’opinion publique et ce que les Européens font pour s’informer sur son fonctionnement (1997);
• - Les enjeux de l’élargissement de l’UE dans l’opinion publique (1998);
• - European public opinion on the single currency from 1986 to 1999;
• - Knowledge of the European Union and support for EU membership. Is there a direct relationship or do other factors tell us more ? (July 1999);
• - L’impact de la crise institutionnelle européenne sur l’opinion publique (juillet 1999).