Call for Applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law (Budapest)
Institute for Legal Studies
Announcement
We inform our partners that due to a government decision, our research centre was integrated into ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As of 1 August 2025, our legal name is ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
Featured news
“The Enforcement of EU Law and Values” (eds. András Jakab and Dimitry Kochenov) has just been published
Institute for Legal Studies
Article of András Vörös in Social Networks
Centre for Social Sciences
Call for Papers :: Civil society and social movements in the changing democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
Institute for Sociology
Call for papers: Conference “Institutional Reforms in Ageing Societies”
Institute for Legal Studies
Space and society :: Special issue in English No. 4 (2016)
Institute for Sociology
Call for Contributions - Refugee protection and the European civil society Workshop and publication
Institute for Minority Studies
Paksi, V., Nagy, B., & Király, G. (2016) The timing of motherhood while earning a PhD in engineering
Institute for Sociology
International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 11, 285-304. Download here>>
Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?
Computational Social Science
Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?
We are happy to host visiting scholars who are working on the topics that match our interests in the research funded by an ERC Grant. We use various methods that include agent-based models, advanced models of network dynamics, and text analytics to study the relationship between gossip, reputation, and cooperation. Please consult our homepage for further information on the project.
Solidarity with refugees in the European civil society
Institute for Minority Studies
Workshop and closing event of the project Social conflicts and identity politics
Our results
Recently published: Dorottya Szikra et al: How Populists Governed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Identity, Belonging, and the Law. Edited by András László Pap et al.
New publication. We’re not heroes, we’re just doing our job: analysis of social workers’ discourses about their profession in online communities
New paper: Compromising Priests and Nuns Under State Socialism
Illiberal Social Policy in Europe. New paper by Dorottya Szikra
9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707
Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding
Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)
New book: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys
20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
WISE project and OTKA research: Collective for women for solidarity in energy and the energy crisis in Hungary
4 November, 2024