Research Interests

Vera Messing, PhD is a research professor at the Center of Social Sciences, Budapest. Presently she is the director of the Institute of Sociology at the CSS.  She earned her PhD at the Budapest Corvinus University in 2001. She has over 20 years’ of experience in empirical research on ethnicity, minorities, migration, social exclusion, media representation of vulnerable groups and ethnic conflicts as well as social science methodologies. Her work focuses on comparative understanding of different forms and intersections of social inequalities and ethnicity and their consequences in the field of education and labour market. She is specifically interested in policy and civil responses to ethnic diversity. Another focus of her research concerns social science methodology, validity and reliability of qualitative and quantitative data. She is the principal researcher of the European Social Survey (ERIC) since 2012 and partner to numerous European FP7 and Horizon research project (EDUMIGROM, RECWOWE, NEUJOBS, ESS SUSTAIN-2). Her publication list includes over 50 articles and book chapters in journals such as Identities; Ethnicities, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Intersections, Intercultural Education, Housing Studies, Social Sciences.