Research Interests

Karolina Balogh, Phd, is a junior Research Fellow at the at the Institute of Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences. She defended her doctoral thesis "The possibilities of juvenile delinquency prevention in the Hungarian child protection system" in 2024 at the Criminology Programme of the Doctoral School of Law of Eötvös Loránd University. Her main research interests are child protection and children's rights, but she also focuses on social inequalities, social mobility and social inclusion. In 2019, she received a research fellowship from the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2022, the New National Excellence Programme (ÚNKP).

Selected Publications

Czibere, I., Balogh, K., Kovách, I., & Nemes-Zámbó, G. (2024). Exclusionary Mechanisms of Social Policy Redistribution in Hungary. Social Policy and Society, 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746424000149

Győri, Ágnes –  Huszár, Ákos – Balogh, Karolina (2022). Resistance to Change: Intergenerational Class Mobility in Hungary, 1973–2018. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804221084727

Balogh Karolina (2022). Szubjektív jóllét és szabadidő – A 15–17 évesek szabadidős tevékenységeinek és az élettel való elégedettségüknek összefüggései. Esély. 33(2) 65-82. https://doi.org/10.48007/esely.2022.2.4

Győri, Ágnes –  Huszár, Ákos – Balogh, Karolina (2021). Differences in the Domestic Energy Consumption in Hungary: Trends between 2006–2017. Energies, 14 (20), 6718. (IF: 3,004) https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206718

Balogh, Karolina –  Gregorits, Péter –  Rácz, Andrea (2018). The Situation of the Child Welfare System in Hungary,  In: MIRDEC-10th International Academic Conference Global and Contemporary Trends in Social Science : (Global Meeting of Social Science Community) Barcelona, Spanyolország: Masters International Research& Development Center, pp. 87-96.

Research Projects

Crises, challenges and adaptation in contemporary Hungarian society, NKFIH K147304, (PI: Kovách Imre), participating researcher

COVID epidemic - social inequalities and integration, MTA (PI: Kovách Imre), participating researcher

To help or to be helped? Professional working conditions, mental health and mobility in the social sector, NKFIH FK138315, (PI: Győri Ágnes), participating researcher

Child Protection In Schools: The Factors Driving School Personnel's Reporting Behaviour, NKFIH K_143593 (PI: Kopasz Marianna) participating researcher