Her research interests include: Organizational change, organizational justice, international management, methodology, policing. Gabriele is leading since 2010 the EU-project COMPOSITE The project “Comparative Police Studies in the EU” (COMPOSITE) studies changes and their management in police forces in 10 different European countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, The Netherlands, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The project, which runs for 4 years till 2014, is executed by a consortium of 15 organisations, involving a total of 52 individuals in its combined research team. The project received a contribution of € 6.6 million from the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for R&D.