Research Interests

Veronika Paksi, PhD is a research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence). Her main research interests are gender (in)equality in Research&Development; women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); Gender Equality Plans; gender and precariry, obstacles to academic careers; work-life balance; childbearing. She is an adjunct professor at the Department for Sociology, University of Szeged; board member of the Association of Hungarian Women in Science (NaTE), and Co-Chair of the Section for the Sociology of Work and Social Inequality of the Hungarian Sociological Association. Currently works in the Gender and Precarity Working Group in ‘European Universities – Critical Futures. The Roles of Universities in European Integration’ project. She has participated in several domestic research projects, and also in a Horizon2020 (EFFORTI). Recently participates in two Horizon Europe projects (UNTWIST and AGRIGEP). Recent publication: Tardos, K. – Paksi, V. (2023) The role of the support of top management in gender equality outcomes in higher education and research. Feminismo/s, 43: 271-309.