Research staff

Balogh, Anikó researcher
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Anikó Bernát, researcher
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Blanka Páthy-Dencső, researcher
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Márton Medgyesi
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Tamás Keller
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Bori Simonovits, researcher
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TÁRKI Social Research Inc. is an independent, employee-owned research organisation that specialises in policy research in the fields of social policy and the social consequences of economic policies. This includes related data-collection, archiving and statistical activities. We recently increased our involvement in the areas of strategic market research and health policy analysis. In addition, we regularly contribute to basic research, in the areas of social stratification and inequality, and to the methodology of empirical social research.

Board of Directors

Tamás Kolosi, founder and president of TÁRKI
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Tamás Rudas, academic director of TÁRKI
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István György Tóth, C.E.O. of TÁRKI
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Senior Staff

Zoltán Fábián, director of Data Archive and IT
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András Gábos, senior researcher
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Róbert Iván Gál, senior researcher
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Péter Róbert, senior researcher
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Matild Sági, senior researcher
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Endre Sik, senior researcher
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Péter Szivós, managing director
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Bori Simonovits - researcher

Bori Simonovits (MA in Sociology, AMA in Social Policy Analysis) is researcher at TÁRKI since 2001, with research experience on the fields of discrimination, xenophobia, international migration and prejudice. Besides, she has teaching experiences at the university of ELTE (Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest) in the field of discrimination, migration and methodolgy. Currently she is a PhD applicant at the university of ELTE, working on her dissertation in the field of empirical research of discrimination. She is a member of the Hungarian National Focal Point of the EUMC (European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia) at the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities at the Hungarian Academic of Sciences.

Main references:

• Project leader of the empirical research project entitled "Comparative Study of Stop and Search Practices in Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain", carried out by TÁRKI Ltd. between 2005 and 2006. The empirical comparative research, conducted on behalf of the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), aims at examining stop and search procedures by the police.
• Researcher in the project titled as "Measuring Labour Market Discrimination: Methodological and Pilot Study in the Hungarian Labour Market, being conducted during the year of 2006.

Academic background:

• Since 2004: PhD applicant at the university of ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences (Topic of dissertation: How to measure discrimination? Methodological and Pilot Study)
• 2002-2003: International AMA degree of the University of Leuven (IMPALLA program: International Master in Social Policy Analysis by Luxembourg, Leuven and Associate Institutes)
• 1996-2002: Sociology, University of ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences

English Publication:
"The Labour Market and Migration: Threat or Opportunity?" In: Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth and György Vukovich. (eds.) Social Report 2004. Budapest: TÁRKI. pp. 261-278. (With co-authors: Ágnes Hárs and Endre Sik)