Research Guide of Hungary

5. Social Sciences

5.1 Management and Business Administration
5.2 Economics
5.3 Law
5.4 Sociology
5.5 Political Science
5.6 Multidisciplinary Social Sciences

5.1 Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
(Gazdalkodas es Szervezestudomanyi Doktori Iskola, Budapesti Kozgazdasagtudomanyi es Allamigazgatasi Egyetem)

Contact:
Karoly Balaton
Director
Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration
Faculty of Business Administration
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
Fovam ter 8., H-1093 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 218 8076
kbalaton@zeus.bke.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
Basic and applied research in areas related to Business Administration. Decision Theory, Management and Organisation, Marketing, Accounting, Corporate Finance, Environmental Management, Information Management and Services Management.

The Institute welcomes Ph.D. students and young post-doctoral or senior researchers in the research fields of Business Administration, Decision Theory, Operations Management, Management and Organisation, Corporate Finance, Marketing, Accounting and Environmental Management for 6 months or 1 year. Knowledge of English or German is essential.

Faculty members would also like to participate in international Research and Development Projects.

5.1 Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration: Enterprise Theory and Practice, University of Miskolc
(Gazdalkodas es Szervezestudomanyok: Vallalkozaselmeleti es Gyakorlati Doktori Iskola, Miskolci Egyetem)

Contact:
Professor Laszlo TOTH
Deputy Head of the Ph.D. School, Head of Department
Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration: Enterprise Theory and Practice
Department of International Comparative Economics
University of Miskolc
H-3515 Miskolc-Egyetemvaros, HUNGARY
+36 46 565 194
gettothl@gold.uni-miskolc.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:

• Economic application of quantitative methods
• Business Economics
• Management
• Economics of the European Union
• International comparative investigations

The Institute welcomes PhD students, young pre- or post-doctoral researchers in Economic application of Quantitative Methods, Business Economics, Management, Economics of the European Union, International Comparative Investigations for 1 year. Knowledge of English is necessary .

The Ph.D. School would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.1 Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration, University of Veszprem
(Gazdalkodas- es Szervezestudomanyi Doktori Iskola, Veszpremi Egyetem)

Contact:
Ivan Major
Head, Ph.D. School
Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration
University of Veszprem
Egyetem u. 10., H-8200 Veszprem, Hungary
+36 88 422 022 ext. 4648
Majori@almos.vein.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
The Ph.D. School of Business Economics conducts research in three main areas: Agricultural Economics, Management Sciences and Economics. You can find more information about the School on its web-page, at www.vein.hu/doktori

The Institute welcomes Ph.D. students or post-doctoral and young and senior researchers for 1 year. Knowledge of English or German is necessary.

The Ph.D. School would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.1 Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration, University of Kaposvar
(Gazdalkodas- es Szervezestudomanyok Doktori Iskola, Kaposvari Egyetem)

Contact:
Zoltan Szakaly
Habil. Assistant Professor
Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration
Faculty of Animal Science
Institute of Economics and Organisation
Kaposvar University
Guba S. u. 40, .H-7400 Kaposvar, HUNGARY
+36 82 314 155
szakaly@mail.atk.u-kaposvar.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
We deal with the resources of agricultural enterprises, the macro- and microeconomic problems of production. Most important fields are:

• Economical Problems of Products of Animal Origin and Their Role in Nutrition,
• Marketing Research,
• Region and Rural Development,
• Regional Policy.

The Ph.D. School welcomes Ph.D. students, pre-and young post doctoral researchers in the fields of Economical Problems of Animal Husbandry and Its Production; the Dairy and Meat Economy; Marketing; Region and Rural Development for up to 6 months. Knowledge of English, German is necessary.

The Ph.D. School would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.1 Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
(Gazdalkoldasi- es Szervezestudomanyi Doktori Iskola, Budapeti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem)

Contact:
Gyorgy Kerekgyarto
Head, Ph.D. School
Ph.D. School for Management and Business Administration, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Department of Economics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Sztoczek u. 2., H-1111 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 463 2242
kerekgyarto@lucifer.kgt.bme.hu

The Institute welcomes post-doctoral and young and senior researchers from 6 months to 1 year. Knowledge of English is necessary.

The Ph.D. School would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.2 Institute for World Economics, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Vilaggazdasagi Kutatointezet)

Contact:
Eva Nagy
Managing Director
Institute for World Economics, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Orszaghaz u. 30., H-1014 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 224 6700
nagyeva@vki.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:

• Comprehensive assessment of the processes occurring in the world economy.
• Forecasting the changes and trends in the world economy to be expected in the medium and long term.
• Examining the enlarging and deepening processes in the EU, especially in relation to Hungary’s accession.
• Comparative study of the economic transformation in the Central and Eastern European countries since the change of system.
• Monitoring the trends, industries, countries and groups of countries decisive to the Hungarian economy.
• Analysis of the trends and the global and regional determinants and factors in international competitiveness.
• Examining the international competitiveness of the Hungarian economy, exploring ways of increasing it through global, regional and bilateral co-operation, and devising economic-policy measures to enhance it.

The Institute would like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.2 Ph.D. School for Economics, University of Szeged
(Kozgazdasagtudomanyi Doktori Iskola, Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem)

Contact:
Laszlo Garai
Head, Ph.D. School
Ph.D. School of Economics Department of Economic Psychology
University of Szeged
Honved ter 6., H-6722 Szeged, HUNGARY
+36 62 54 44 99
garai@eco.u-szeged.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
The Graduate School is involved in Identity Economics. The School deals with human resources (mental phenomena turned into economic factors), while distinguishing between two types thereof: technical dispositions of mastering attributes and social dispositions of mastering relations.

Psycho-social identity is not referred to attributes (whether represented by psychological characteristics of a person or sociological characteristics of his status) but to relations. Nor is the identity given by the latter in themselves but produced by their psycho-social elaboration.

The most powerful operation of these elaboration is social categorisation. It is from early childhood on, mediated by an unconscious process of semiosis in which the child's diffuse vocal, motor, postural, vaso-motor or other somatic, as well as developing behavioural, verbal, intellectual and affective manifestations are shaped, as signifying factors that are attached to simultaneously shaped social categories as their signified factors so that similar identity factors should be symbolised by similar, and different ones by different symbols. In adults this mechanism is a powerful one for diverting their economic behaviour from the rationality norms of economic man: these behaviour’s acts are assigned a symbolic value and, thus, their destiny is strongly influenced by that of the social identity they symbolise. At the same time, objects of economic behaviour are allocated, according to a territorial mechanism, to one or another social category (regardless of whether this is represented by a large or small group or just one person); possession enables owner(s) to and, respectively, disables others from well-defined economic activities.

The Institute welcomes Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral or senior researchers in Economic Psychology, Economic Sociology, Law and Economics research field for 6 months. Knowledge of English, French, Russian or Hungarian is essential.

The Ph.D. School would like to participate in international Research and Development Projects.

5.2 Research Group for Complex Futures Studies, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
(Komplex Jovokutatas Kutatocsoport, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia es Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem)

Contact:
Professor Erzsebet Novaky (and Bernadett Szel)
Head of the Research Group
Research Group for Complex Futures Studies, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
Fovam ter 8., H–1093 Budapest, Hungary
+36 1 216 2016>
erzsebet.novaky@jkut.bke.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
Distinguished fields of research:

• Developing Theories in Futures Studies (future images in philosophical theories; futures in economic theories; space and time in futures studies).
• Developing Methodologies and Methods in Futures Studies (what and how can we foresee now; complexity in futures studies; evolutionary modelling and evolutionary models; scenario building; reliability of forecasts).
• Hungary Beyond Tomorrow (the frames for Hungarian futures; acceptable future alternative images; applied strategic planning; cultural roots and information society).

The Institute welcomes Ph.D. students, pre- or post-doctoral and young and senior researchers in the fields of Futures Research, Futures Studies, Foresight, Scenario Building for stays of 6 months and less or 1 year and more. Knowledge of English is necessary.

The Research Group would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.3 Institute for Legal Studies, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Jogtudomanyi Intezete)

Contact:
Reka Vegvari
Researcher
Institute for Legal Studies, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Orszaghaz u. 30., H-1014 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 355 7384
lamm@jog.mta.hu, / sagi@jog.mta.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
Research at the Institute covers a wide range of legal topics, including Administrative Law, Civil Law, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, European Law, International Public and Private Law, Criminal Law, Philosophy of Law, Environmental Law. The main fields of research are European Law and the Hungarian legal system; currently issues concerning Business Law and Private Law; Environmental Law, rule of law and the Hungarian legal system; the European system of protection of Human rights and fundamental freedoms; and general questions pertaining to the theory of the legal system.

The Institute welcomes Ph.D. students and young post-doctoral or senior researchers in each field of the institute for less than 6 months. Knowledge of English or German is essential.

The Institute would also like to participate in international Research and Development Projects.

5.3 Ph.D. School for Law, University of Pecs
(Allam- es Jogtudomanyi Doktori Iskola, Pecsi Tudomanyegyetem)

Contact:
Ms. Zsuzsanna Horvath
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. School for Law
International and European Law Department
University of Pecs
48-as ter 1., H-7623 Pecs, HUNGARY
+36 72 211 433 ext. 3233, 3237
horvath@ajk.pte.hu

Research, a Short Introduction

• Place and Role of Lawmaking Under the Rule of Law
• Emergence and Operation of Local Governments
• Legislation
• The International Legal system of Space and Territory and the Environmental Protection
• Public Law Bases of the European Union and the European Communities
• The Development of International and European civil procedural law
• Legal and Non Legal Means of Fight Against Crime
• Constitution-making, Constitutional Institutions and the Protection of the Constitution
• Trends in the Development of Responsibility in Civil Law
• Legal Informatics
• Criminological Aspects of Fight and Crime Prevention
• Economic Crime and Criminal Acts
• Hungarian Labour Law in the Process of Approximation to the European Law

The Institute welcomes pre- and post-doctoral, young and senior researchers in the above mentioned research fields for up to 6 months. Knowledge of English, German or French is necessary.


The Ph.D. School would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.4 Minority Studies Institute, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Etnikai-nemzeti Kisebbsegkutato Intezet)

Contact:
Nora Kovacs
Scientific Secretary
Minority Studies Institute, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
P. O. Box 694/121., H-1399 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 224 6700 ext. 474
kovacs@MTAki.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
The main academic objective of the Institute is the study of the situation of ethnic minorities living in East Central Europe. The Institute is also involved in preparing alternatives for minority conflict management in the region. Research carried out within the Institute focuses on the history and situation of ethnic minorities in Hungary and of Hungarian minority groups abroad. Special attention has been paid to the situation of the Roma in Hungary and all over Europe.


The Institute welcomes PhD students in the Analysis of Ethnic Processes and Inter-ethnic Relations for less than 6 months. German and Knowledge of English is necessary.

The Institute would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.<

5.4 Ph.D. School for Sociology, the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Eotvos Lorand University
(Szociologiai Tudomanyok Doktori Iskola, Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem)

Contact:
Professor Denes Nemedi
Director, Ph.D. School
Ph.D. School for Sociology
Institute of Sociology and Social Policy
Eotvos Lorand University
Pazmany Peter setany 1/a, H-1117 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 3722 997
dnemedi@ludens.elte.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
The main areas of research at the Institute and the Ph.D. School are: Problems of social stratification and mobility; Cultural Sociology; Urban Sociology; Sociology of Communication; Discourse Analysis; Sociology of Family; History of Sociology and Social Thought; Ethnic and Minority Studies; Methodology of Social Research; Problems of Social Policy; Sociology of Health.

The Institute welcomes Ph.D. students and young post-doctoral or senior researchers in the fields given above for 1 year. Knowledge of English is essential; if possible some knowledge of Hungarian.

The Ph.D. School would also like to participate in international Research and Development Projects.

5.4 Ph.D. School for Sociology, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
(Szociologiai Tudomanyi Doktori Iskola, Budapesti Kozgazdasagtudomanyi es Allamigazgatasi Egyetem)

Contact:
Gyorgy Lengyel
Director, Ph.D. School
Ph.D. School for Sociology
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
Fovam ter 8., H-1093 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 2175 172
gyorgy.lengyel@soc.bke.hu

Contact:
Gabriella Ilonszki
Professor
Ph.D. School for Political Science
Department of Political Science
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
Fovam ter 8., H-1093 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 2188 049
gabriella.ilonszki@bkae.hu

Research, a Short Introduction: The Department of Political Science at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration Hungarian Academy of Sciences two major research areas: 1) the EU dimension, in which framework not only the EU environment and its potential impact on the Hungarian polity is investigated but also the Hungarian institutional and public policy framework as a prerequisite for the EU entry are placed in the focus. 2) the Hungarian and CEE institutions (first of all parliament and government) are examined.

The Institute welcomes Ph.D. students or pre-doctoral researchers in EU and the new entrants, CE and Hungary: new political challenges research field for less than 6 months or more than 1 year. Knowledge of English is essential.

The Ph.D. School would like to participate in international Research and Development Projects.

5.5 Research Group for "Together for Europe", the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
(Egyutt Europaert Kutatocsoport, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia es Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem)

Contact:
Attila Agh
Professor
Research Group for "Together for Europe", (Political Science)
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
Fovam ter 8., H-1093 Budapest, HUNGARY
+36 1 218 8049
attila.agh@bkae.hu

Research, a Short Introduction:
Together for Europe is a research group supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and attached to the Political Science Department of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. It conducts and organises research in the field of institutional transformation in Hungary as an accommodation to the EU in the process of accession and after. The research group is participating in a large international project called "Organising for Europe" in the Fifth Framework Program as well as in Hungarian projects and Hungarian Academy of Sciences matching funds for this research. Together for Europe is closely affiliated with the political science Ph.D. program of the Political Science Department led by Professor Attila Agh and organised by Associate Professor Gabriella Ilonszki.

The Institute welcomes researchers in the field of EU accession and institutional reforms for more than 1 year. Knowledge of English is essential.

The Research Group would also like to participate in international Research and Development Projects.

5.6 West-Hungarian Research Institute, Regional Studies Centre, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Nyugat-Magyarorszagi Tudomanyos Intezet, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Regionalis Kutatasok Kozpontja)

Contact:
Professor Janos Rechnitzer
Director
West-Hungarian Research Institute
Regional Studies Centre, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Liszt Ferenc u. 8. 9022-Gyor, HUNGARY
+36 96 516 570
rechnj@edo.rkk.hu, http://www.rkk.hu/nyuti

Research, a Short Introduction:
The institute was founded in 1986 as an organisational unit of HAS. Currently the institute employs 14 researchers and 4 administrative employees and maintains an office in Szekesfehervar.

• Research topics within the regional science include the institution and instrument system of regional policy and their applications. We have sound knowledge on the planning and programming systems of regions, microregions and settlements.
• The second segment of the research is the analysis of cross-border regional co-operations concerning the whole country. In the frame of this programme we examine the connections of different actors, the institution system, the development effects of planned and implemented programmes.
• The third element of our research is the analysis of the factors affecting regional development. Because of the political, economic transition new regional problems appeared, the analysis of these factors, compered with international (mainly European Union) experiences, gives useful information to the leaders of regional policy, and to the formation of regional science.

The Institute welcomes PhD students and pre-doctoral researchers in the fields of Transformation Theory, Regional Co-operations, Analysis and Modelling of Regional Economic Structure, Spatial Planning for 6 months and less. English or German language knowledge is necessary for the research work.

The Institute would also like to take part in international Research and Development Projects.

5.6 Transdanubian Research Institute, the Centre for Regional Studies, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Regionalis Kutatasok Kozpontjanak Dunantuli Tudomanyos Intezete)

Contact:
Zoltan Hajdu
Scientific Adviser
Transdanubian Research Institute
Centre for Regional Studies, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
P. O. Box 199, H-7601 Pecs, HUNGARY
+36 72 212 755
hajdu@dti.rkk.hu
http://www.dti.rkk.hu