Curriculum Vitae Personal information First name/surname, PhD Address TÁRKI Social Research Institute Budaörsi u. 45, Budapest 1112 Telephone +361 309 7690 E-mail simonovits@tarki.hu Nationality Hungarian Date of birth 10 September 1977 Gender female Relevant Professional Experience Occupation or position held Name of employer June 2001 present Senior Researcher TÁRKI Social Research Institute Description of tasks Leading researches, project-management and supervising interns Research: Applied social science research in sociology and social policy experience since 2001 (for major project see: list in major research projects section) Main research topics: attitudes towards minorities, discrimination and international migration, vulnerable groups (such as Roma, disabled, youth and migrants), methodology (especially experimental designs) Occupation or position held Name of employer Description of tasks 2005-present Lecturer Eötvös Loránd University, (ELTE) Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Minority Studies Teaching: Methodology courses (Qualitative Research and Experiments) Theories of Migration; Labour Market, Segregation and Discrimination, Measuring Discrimination and Research Seminars 2003-2007 Occupation or position held Member of the Hungarian National Focal Point of the EUMC (European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia) Name of employer Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities at the Hungarian Academic of Sciences. Description of tasks Responsible for Hungarian data collection and reporting on Racism and Xenophobia Education and training 2012 Title of qualification awarded PhD in Sociology (title of the dissertation: Measuring discrimination, with a special focus on the method of controlled experiment) Organisation providing education Eötvös Loránd University, (ELTE) Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences 2003 Title of qualification awarded A.M.A. in Social Policy Analysis (main subjects: Programme evaluation, European Welfare Models, Social Policy Schemes in Europe) Organisation providing education Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium page 1 of 5
Title of qualification awarded Organisation providing education Scholarships Organisation providing education 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/) Mother tongue Hungarian Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C 1 Proficient French B 1 Independe nt B1 Independ ent Additional Information 2015- ongoing 2010-2015 2005-2008 Trainer at Haver Informal Jewish Educational Benefit Foundation (holding trainings for the volunteers) (http://haver.hu/english/) Member of the Board of Trustees of Eötvös Károly Institute/Eötvös Károly Intézet (EKINT) (http://www.ekint.org/ekint/ekint_angol.head.page?nodeid=27) Trainer in the field of anti-discrimination organised by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (http://www.helsinki.hu/en/) Driving licence: YES Client & Date Post Doctorate Research Research Grant provided by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2016-2019) Asian European Foundation, ASEF (2016) Title and brief description of the relevant studies or tasks A Meta Analysis of Intergroup Contact Theory Based on Surveys, Controlled Experiments and Case Studies with a Special Focus on Immigrants Living in Europe" The Impact of Labour Migration Policies on Migrants Socio-Economic Welfare: Improving Practice in Asia and Europe Project evaluator (qualitative) of the project titled as A Triple Win in Migration: Ensuring Migrant Workers Rights to Protect All Workers. http://www.asef.org/pubs/asef-publications/3390-a-triple-win-in-migration-ensuringmigrant-workers-rights-to-protect-all-workers Analyst, Social Situation Monitor (SSM): A comparative analysis on the Quality of life indicators of the European Youth http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catid=1049& page 2 of 5
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (2016 ongoing) Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE) (2015-2016) The Social Aspects of the 2015 Migration Crisis in Hungary Project leader: responsible for the implementation of the fieldwork (combining qualitative and quantitative research techniques) and writing up the final report. see: http://www.tarki.hu/en/news/2016/items/20160330_refugee_en.html EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, FRA (since 2014) FRANET Hungarian team Social field expert. Designing and implementing various research projects related to migration, equality, situation of minority groups and fundamental rights. SIMS (Social Innovation and Mutual learning on Micro-Savings) project Evaluating the micro-credit programmes (called IDA and Chace Bank) run by Autonómia Foundation between 2008-2012. Evaluator, applied methods: interviews and focus groups with the main stakeholders. See more on the programme: http://autonomia.hu/en/programs/ida-housing-programme and http://autonomia.hu/en/programs/pilot-project-chance-bank UNHCR Regional Representation for Central Europe (2013) UNHCR Regional Representation for Central Europe (2013) European Integration Fund (EIF) (2011-2012) Attitudes towards asylum seekers and migrants in four Central-Eastern European countries (quantitative research project in four selected CEE countries) Methodological expert and researcher. Developed a detailed methodology (based on vignette technique) to measure attitudes towards asylum seekers) Attitudes towards asylum seekers and migrants in Hungary (qualitative research project in Hungary, based on focus groups) Project leader: responsible for the fieldwork and writing up the final report Concordia Discors an interdisciplinary, comparative and participatory research project on integration among groups of different origins, in European neighbourhoods Researcher: responsible for conducting interviews and neighbourhood forums Migrants chances and opportunities in Hungary Researcher: responsible for the quantitative research design and implementation Full reference of the most important publications. In English: Realistic and Symbolic Threats. The Social Basis of Mass-Migration Related Fear in Contemporary Hungary. Review of Sociology. 2016/4. Vol. 4. pp. 53-74. What does it mean to live on the poverty threshold? Lessons from reference budget research with (co-authors: Goedemé, T., Penne, T., Hufkens, T., Kanavitsa, E., Karakitsios, A., Matsaganis, M., Alvarez, E.C., Cussó Parcerisas, I., Bernát, A., Kopasz, M., Szivós, P. Mäkinen, L., Ritakallio, V. M., Arlotti, M., Kazepov, Y., Van den Bosch, K., and Storms, B.) Oxford University Press (Forthcoming) page 3 of 5
The Social Aspects of the 2015 Migration Crisis in Hungary. Simonovits, Bori and Bernát, Anikó (ed). Budapest, TÁRKI. pp. 155. http://www.tarki.hu/hu/news/2016/kitekint/20160330_refugees.pdf Attitudes towards refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. TARKI Social Research Institute, Budapest. 2015 (with co-authors: Anikó Bernát, Endre Sik and Blanka Szeitl) Available: http://www.tarki.hu/hu/news/2015/kitekint/20151203_refugee.pdf Measuring Discrimination: Questionnaires and tests. In focus. The Hungarian Labour Market (2010) Edited by: Károly Fazekas, Anna Lovász, Álmos Telegdy. MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet és Országos Foglalkoztatási Közalapítvány. pp. 121-134. (with co-author: Endre Sik) Patterns of Work Flexibility in Typical Jobs in Eastern and Western Europe. Three Roads to Comparative Research: Analytical, Visual and Morphological. (2009) Vol. 8. of the series: Complexity, Design, Society, Vienna. (with coauthors: Claire Wallace and Endre Sik) pp. 33-55. Racism and Police Stops: Adapting US and British Debates to Continental Europe. European Journal of Criminology 2008/5. pp. 161-191 (with co-authors: Joel Miller, Philip Gounev, András L. Pap, Dani Wagman, Anna Balogi, Tihomir Bezlov, and Lili Vargha) 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) In Hungarian: As editor: Migráns esélyek és tapasztalatok. (Migrants Chances and opportunities) (coeditor: Sik Endre) Budapest, 2012: Tárki. available: http://www.tarki.hu/hu/research/migrans/tarki_eia_tanulmanyok_2011.pdf A diszkrimináció mérése. (Measuring discrimination) e-book. (co-editor: Sik Endre) Budapest, 2011 ELTE. available: http://www.tarki.hu/hu/about/staff/sb/diszkriminacio_merese.pdf As author: Az idegenellenesség alakulása és a bevándorlással kapcsolatos félelmek Magyarországon és a visegrádi országokban (társzerzőkkel: Sik Endre és Szeitl Blanka) Régió. 24. Évf. 2016/2. http://regio.tk.mta.hu/index.php/regio/article/view/114 Menekültekkel és migrációs politikával kapcsolatos attitűdök Magyarországon és nemzetközi összehasonlításban (társzerző: Szeitl Blanka) In: Tamás Kolosi and István György Tóth (ed): Társadalmi Riport 2016. TARKI, Budapest, 2016 p. 420-440. http://www.tarki.hu/hu/publications/sr/2016/20simonovits.pdf A háztartások fogyasztásának alakulása a válság idején és ma. (Szivos Péterrel) In: Tamás Kolosi and István György Tóth (ed): Társadalmi Riport 2016. TARKI, Budapest, 2016 p. 193-216. http://www.tarki.hu/hu/publications/sr/2016/10simonovits.pdf Fogyatékossággal élő emberek életminősége Magyarországon az intézménytelenítési folyamat küszöbén (társszerzőkkel: Kopasz Marianna, page 4 of 5
Bernát Anikó, Kozma Ágnes) In: Tamás Kolosi and István György Tóth (ed): Társadalmi Riport 2016. TARKI, Budapest, 2016 p. 376-396. http://www.tarki.hu/hu/publications/sr/2016/18kopasz.pdf Nemzeti identititás, kisebbségek és társadalmi konfliktusok. A magyar társadalom attitűdjeinek alakulása 1992 és 2014 között. (National identity, minorities and social conflicts. Shift in the attitudes in Hungary between 1992 and 2014) In: Tamás Kolosi and István György Tóth (ed): Social Report 2014. TARKI, Budapest, 2014 p. 404-431 http://www.tarki.hu/adatbank-h/kutjel/pdf/b339.pdf Idegenellenesség és diszkrimináció a mai Magyarországon. (Xenophobia and discrimination in contemporary Hungary) Magyar Tudomány Budapest (2013), 251-262. (co-author: Szalai Boglárka) http://www.matud.iif.hu/2013/03/03.htm Elutasítók és elutasítottak (Being refused and those who refuse) In: Sik Endre Simonovits Bori (ed.): Migráns esélyek és tapasztalatok. Budapest: (2012) TÁRKI, 118 159. http://www.tarki.hu/hu/research/migrans/tarki_eia_tanulmanyok_2011.pdf page 5 of 5