People

Bori Simonovits

senior researcher
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Areas of expertise

sharing economy, labour market, informal education, trust, discrimination, international migration, and field experiments

Work experience

August, 2022    Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, (ELTE) Budapest, Faculty of Education and Psychology Institute of Intercultural Psychology and Education

2018-2022    Assistant professor, Eötvös Loránd University, (ELTE) Budapest, Faculty of Education and Psychology Institute of Intercultural Psychology and Education

2001-2018    Junior Researcher, Researcher, Senior Researcher, TÁRKI Social Research Institute

2005-2017    Lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University, (ELTE) Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Minority Studies

2003-2007    Member of the Hungarian National Focal Point of the EUMC (European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia), Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities at the Hungarian Academic of Sciences.

Education

2012    PhD in Sociology (title of the dissertation: Measuring discrimination, with a special focus on the method of controlled experiment), Eötvös Loránd University, (ELTE) Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences

2003    A.M.A. in Social Policy Analysis (main subjects: Programme Evaluation, European Welfare Models,  Social Policy Schemes in Europe), Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

2002    M.A in Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, (ELTE) Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences (http://tatk.elte.hu/en)

2016-2019   Post Doctorate Research Grant (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2011    The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff), The Tokyo Foundation (http://www.tokyofoundation.org/sylff/)

Publications
Váradi, L;  Szilasi, B; Kende, A.; Braverman, J.; Simonovits, G.;  Simonovits, B.  (2023).“Personally, I feel sorry, but professionally, I don't have a choice.” Understanding the drivers of anti-Roma discrimination on the rental housing market. Frontiers in Sociology, 8  https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1223205
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