Research Interests

Boldizsár Megyesi, PhD is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest. Presently he is one of the deputy-directors of the Institute for Sociology at the CSS. He earned his PhD at the Eötvös Loránd University in 2014. He has over 20 years’ of experience in empirical research on rural studies. His work focuses on rural restructuring: the changes of contemporary rural societies, sustainability issues of food production and consumption, rural development and related policies. Another focus of his research is on the social effects of climate change on (food) consumption, environmental attitudes and energy use. He participated in several EU funded research projects (CORASON, GILDED, PENNY, Ruralization), and led several Hungarian research projects on rural resilience, rural image and small-scale food production financed by the NKFIH (NRDIO). He gained the Bolyai plaque in 2019. He published numerous research articles and book chapters, among others in Sociologia Ruralis, Land Use Policy, Rural Sociology, Energies and Geoforum.