On March 15, 2025, Dr. István Stumpf was awarded the Széchenyi Prize. On behalf of the entire Institute, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our retired Senior Research Fellow!

Text as data. Eastern and Central European political discourses from the perspective of computational social science - Part 1

Messing Vera - Virág Tünde (2025). Doing and undoing communities Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse neighbourhood of Budapest.  In. Alexandrescu, Powell and Vilenaica (eds) Urban Marginality, Racialization, Interdependence. Learning from Eastern Europe. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. (pp 189-209) ISBN: 9781032588575. DOI: 10.4324/9781003451785

Hilbert, B. (2024). Exploring new dimensions of urban governance: The development of administrative systems in Trieste and Fiume (Rijeka) during the final decades of the Habsburg Empire (1850–1918). Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 73(4), 437-454. https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.73.4.6 (D1, IF:1,4)

Gabriella Szabó (HUN-REN TK PTI) and Lenka Vochocová (Charles University, Prague) are organising a panel discussion for the upcoming ECREA conference titled “Cringe Culture in Politics: Exploring Humour, Vulnerability, and Ridicule in the Digital Age.” The organisers are accepting applications for the panel discussion until March 14, 2025.

Tardos, K., Paksi, V. (2024). The precarity paradox: Experiences of female PhD holders across career stages in STEM fields (2024). Learning and Teaching, 17(3), 58-80., from https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2024.170304 (Q2)

Győri, Á., Perpék, É., & Ádám, S. (2024). Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health, Vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1407998  (Q1, IF: 3)

Ivett Szalma - Judit Takács (2025).The impact of political-demographic considerations on European attitudes towards parenting and adoption by same-sex couples. European Journal of Politics and Gender (published online ahead of print 2025). https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088Y2024D000000072 (Q1)

The special issue of Intersections titled Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and the European East/West Divisions was published.
Guest editors: Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik, and Jennifer Ramme.

Our Institute's research fellow presented about the good practices for tackling transport poverty in Hungary together with Lea Kőszeghy (CSS Institute for Sociology) on the 11th of December.