Research Interests

Lea Kőszeghy, PhD is a research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, Center for Social Sciences, Budapest. She holds a PhD from the Doctoral School of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University (2011). Her main research areas are housing inequalities, housing poverty and housing policies, the social disparities of energy use and its implications for sustainability, energy poverty, and the sociology of urban planning. Between 2003-11 she compiled reports for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on inequalities and discrimination in housing in Hungary. Having done research and advocacy for Habitat for Humanity Hungary (2010-2017) she also has NGO experience. In the Institute for Sociology, she was principal investigator in the research project “Societal challenges of energy use” (2017-19) and participates in several research projects, concerning sustainable energy and food consumption, urban planning, the impact of Covid-19 on housing and cities, as well as social integration. She is board member of the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning. Her publication list includes over 30 articles and book chapters.