PERSONAL INFORMATION Réka Geambașu 2 Ugocsa St, 1126 Budapest (Hungary) +36-70-4152793 geambasureka@gmail.com, geambasureka@hetfa.hu Sex Female Date of birth 16 October 1979 Nationality Romanian WORK EXPERIENCE 25/11/2013 present 1/10/2007 present research fellow Hétfa Research Institute www.hetfa.hu teaching assistant 1/10/2010 15/11/2011 research fellow 1/10/2003 30/9/2007 PhD-student http://socasis.ubbcluj.ro HCSO Demographic Research Institute http://www.demografia.hu http://socasis.ubbcluj.ro 1/6/2003 8/2003 international relations officer Babeș-Bolyai IUniversity, International Relations Office http://www.cci.ubbcluj.ro/ EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2003 2013 PhD studies 2006 2007 postgraduate research scholarship University of Oxford - OSI/FCO/Chevening Scholarship Scheme, Oxford (Great Britain) 2002 2003 MA in Anthropology (Cultural Anthropology and Multicultural Studies) Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies 2002 2003 MA in Sociology (The Management of Regional and Community Problems) 1998 2002 BA in Sociology PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue(s) Hungarian Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING 16.2.14 European Union, 2002-2013 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 1 / 7
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production Romanian C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 English C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 Cambridge Advanced English Test German B2 B2 B1 B1 B2 French A1 A2 A1 A1 A1 Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Computer skills MS Office, SPSS, Atlas.ti ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Research projects and individual scholarships November 2013 February 2014 Project title: SEEMIG (Managing Migration and its Effects in South-East Europe) Institutional framework: Hungarian Central Statistical Office Demographic Research Institute, Budapest Tasks: participant of international research project (coordinator of a WP); foresight scenario in Hungary January 2013 January 2014 Project title: The comparative analysis of women s employment in Romania and Hungary Financial support: ERSTE Stiftung, Vienna Tasks: interview based study in Romania and Hungary, analysis, research report February November 2012 Project title: The evaluation of Hungarian policies targeting the improvement of employment Institutional framework: Hétfa Research Institute, Budapest, financial support: National Development Agency Tasks: coordination of survey, data analysis, research report 2009 2013 Project title: Researchers' Night Hungary Financial support: EU FP7 (coordinated and hosted by BZAKA, Hétfa Research Institute) Tasks: social impact assessment (survey, focus group interviews) March May 2012 Project title: The role of retail franchise networks in improving employment possibilities of the low educated population Institutional framework: Hétfa Research Institute Tasks: coordination of the survey, research report January July 2010 Project title: Kárpát Panel survey Institutional framework: Max Weber Foundation for Social Research Tasks: participation at the coordination of the survey, research report February July 2010 Project title: The effects of the Bologna reform upon the MA-programs of the universities of Cluj Institutional framework: The Association of Hungarian PhD students and Young Researchers from Romania Tasks: participation at the coordination of the survey, coordination of the focus group research, research report writing December 2009 September 2011 Project title: Trade Union Revitalisation Strategies in Poland, Slovenia, Estonia and Romania Financial support: Project HOM/2009/8B), University of Wroclaw (dr. Adam Mrozowicki) Tasks: carrying out the Romanian case study (automotive industry and retail sector): desk research, interviews, research report writing September 2009 November 2010 Project title: BELAmI project The acceptance of AAL-applications by the elderly Institutional framework: Bay Zoltán Applied Research Institute IKTI, dr. Kardon Béla Tasks: conducting Hungarian case study, end user interviews, analysis September 2003 November 2004 Project title: Teaching Anthropology - Means and Meanings Institutional framework: Financial support: Higher Education Support Programme (Open Society Institute, Budapest) 16.2.14 European Union, 2002-2013 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 2 / 7
Tasks: building university curricula, field research November 2001 September 2002 Project title: First generation rural immigrants in Cluj (team leader: dr. Neményi Ágnes) Financial support: Sapientia Foundation Institute for Research Programs Tasks: interview based research, writing research report February July 2001 Project title: The Hungarian youth of Romania structural integration? (team leader: dr. Horváth István) Financial support: Sapientia Foundation Institute for Research Programs Tasks: interview based research, writing research report Membership in professional organisations International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA) (from 2005) President of t The Association of Hungarian PhD students and Young Researchers from Romania (2004-2006) Member of the board of the Max Weber Sociological Foundation (from 2004) Membership in editorial boards: WEB (2003-2008), Háló (Szociális Szakmai Szövetség, Budapest) (2009-2010), Erdélyi Társadalom (from 2009) Conferences September 23 28, 2013, Turin Workshop title: ERSTE Autumn School Paper presented: Part-time work among women in Romania and Hungary May 23 24, 2011 Budapest Conference title: GGP: First User Conference. Demographic and Social Challenges in an Aging Europe Paper presented: Pathways to and Positions on the Labour Market. Working and Homemaking Young Women in Romania and Hungary May 5 7, 2011, Wroclaw Conference title: Trade Union Revitalisation Paper presented: Revitalisation from Bottom-Up? (co-authors: Adam Mrozowicki, Tatiana Bajuk-Sencar) April 28 30, 2011, Tallinn Conference title: TransEurope Workshop. Women s Employment in an Enlarged Europe Paper presented: Female Employment from a Comparative Perspective: Romania and Hungary September 7 10, 2011, Geneva Conference title: Social Relations in turbulent times (European Sociological Association) Paper presented: The Role of Ambient Intelligence in the Home-Based Care of the Elderly. Results of a research (co-authors: Eszter Kelemen, Boldizsár Megyesi) December 2 4, 2010, Cluj Conference title: Remaking the Social. New Risks and Solidarities (The first international conference of the Romanian Association for Sociology) Paper presented: Patriarchy Between and Beyond the Household Walls December 2 4, 2010, Cluj Conference title: Remaking the Social. New Risks and Solidarities (The first international conference of the Romanian Association for Sociology) Paper presented: Bologna Process from Below. Reshaping the Meanings of Higher Education in Students' Perceptions (co-authors: Ágnes Pakot, Júlia Szabó) January 23 24, 2009, Cluj Conference title: Social Change. Minorities from Transylvania in the Context of Romania s EU-accession (Academic Committee from Cluj) Paper presented: Gender Inequalities Among the Population aged 20 45 in Transylvania August 25 29, 2008, Nagykanizsa Conference title: The Summer School of the European Society for Rural Sociology Paper presented: The Community of Rural Immigrants in Cluj October 25 27, 2007, Berlin Workshop title: Migration into cities: patterns, processes and regulation (Irmgard Coninx Foundation - Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University) Paper presented: Rural-Urban Migration and the Creation of The New Socialist Man in the Communist Romania June 7, 2007, Oxford Workshop title: Work-in-Progress (Centre on Migration Policy and Society, University of Oxford) Paper presented: Building Socialism and The New Socialist Man. Some Aspects of the Romanian 16.2.14 European Union, 2002-2013 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 3 / 7
Socialist Urbanisation. The Case of Cluj/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg February 23 25, 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Conference title: Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia: Defining Ourselves and Being Defined: Globalization, Regionalism and Multiculturalism (Center for Russian and East European Studies, Graduate Student Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia) Paper presented: The Urban-Rural Divide. Rural Immigrants in Romanian Cities January 26, 2007, London Workshop title: Romanian and Moldovan Research Group (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London) Paper presented: Rural-Urban Migration in Romania: Changes in the Population of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1948 2002 July 20 22, 2006, Warsaw Conference title: Warsaw East European Conference. Second Annual Session Paper presented: Rural-Urban Migration in Romania May 26 29, 2005, Belgrade Conference title: Urban Life and Culture in Southeast Europe (InASEA) Paper presented: The Dynanimcs of Social Network Management among Rural Immigrants January 27 29, 2005, Thessaloniki Workshop title: Gender, Diversity and (Urban) Space (ATHENA) Paper presented: The Target Group. Students about the Gender Issue May 7 8, 2004, Cluj Conference title: Social Romania. The Annual Conference of the Romanian Association of Sociology Paper presented: The Influence of Social Capital on Subjective Assessment of Personal Economic Well- Being Among Rural Immigrants June 18 20, 2003, Cluj Conference title: Renegotiating Socio-Cultural Identities in the Post-Socialist Eastern Europe (Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies, Desiré Foundation) Paper presented: Rethinking Rural Immigrant Culture April 14, 2003, Debrecen Conference title: OTDK Paper presented: Nőiesség-értelmezések (Interpretations of femininity) April 11 12, 2003 Cluj Conference title: RODOSZ Annual Conference Paper presented: The First Generation Rural Immigrants of Cluj March 22 23, 2002, Cluj Conference title: RODOSZ Annual Conference Paper presented: Femininity. Feminine Roles. Deconstructable Categories? September 26 27, 2002, Budapest Conference title: Annual Conference of the Teleki László Institute Paper presented: The Political Values of Hungarian Students of Cluj (co-author: Gyöngyi Pásztor) List of publications Books 2013 Thirst for science? Social conceptions of the research activity, the factor influencing career choices and the social impacts of Researchers Nights 2004 Co-authors: Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják, Boldizsár G. Megyesi, Béla Kardon Publisher: Hétfa Research Institute - RCISD, Budapest A rurális bevándorlók. Az elsőgenerációs kolozsvári városlakók társadalma [The Rural Immigrants. The Society of First Generation Urban Inhabitants in Cluj] Co-authors: Krisztina Csedő, Kálmán Ercsei, Gyöngyi Pásztor Publisher: Scientia, Cluj Articles published in edited volumes 2012 Az állam redisztributív szerepével kapcsolatos attitűdök összehasonlító vizsgálata Európa államaiban. [The Comparative Analysis of Popular Attitudes towards States Redistributive Role in European Countries] In: Közösségi viszonyulásaink. A családdal, az állammal és a gazdasággal kapcsolatos 16.2.14 European Union, 2002-2013 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 4 / 7
társadalmi attitűdök, értékek európai összehasonlításban [Social Attitudes and Values Regarding Family, the State and Economy] (coord. Vera Messing, Bence Ságvári), p. 7 29. Co-authors: Borbála Bányai, Anna Légmán, Boldizsár G. Megyesi Publisher: MTA Institute of Sociology, Budapest Erdélyi magyar feminizmus: érdeklődés hiányában elmarad? [Hungarian Feminism of Transylvania: Postponed Due to Lack of Interest?] In: Szociológiai mintázatok. Erdélyi magyarok a Kárpát Panel vizsgálatai alapján [Sociological Patterns. Understanding Hungarians from Transylvania Based on the Kárpát Panel Survey] (coord. Valér Veres, Attila Z. Papp), p. 117 140 2011 Publisher: Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Max Weber Foundation for Social Research, Cluj Paths and detours to the labour market. Working and homemaking of young adult women in Hungary and Romania from a comparative perspective 2009 Publisher: European Science Foundation, TransEurope Working Paper 32. Nemek közötti egyenlőtlenségek Erdélyben és Magyarországon a 21 44 év közötti népesség körében [Gender Inequalities Among the Population aged 20 45 in Transylvania]. In: Párhuzamok. Anyaországi és erdélyi magyarok a századfordulón [Parallels. Hungarians from Hungary and from Transylvania at the Turn of the Century] (coord. Zsolt Spéder), Research Reports 86., p. 243 274. 2008 Publisher: HCSO DRI, Budapest Durkheim hatása Radcliffe-Brownra a brit strukturalista-funkcionalista iskola kontextusában [Durkheim s Influences on Radcliffe-Brown in the Context of the British Structuralist-Functionalist School]. In: Anthropo Lenyomatok. Amprente. Imprints (coord. Hajnalka Harbula, Enikő Magyari- Vincze), p. 317 326. 2004 Publisher: EFES BBU Cluj Rethinking Rural Immigrant Culture. In: Performing Identities. Renegotiating Socio-Cultural Identities in the Post-socialist Eastern Europe (coord. Enikő Magyari-Vincze, Mândruț Petruța), p. 243-264 Publisher: EFES BBU Cluj A kolozsvári elsőgenerációs városlakók életmódmintái [The Lifestyle of Rural Immigrants from Cluj]. In: RODOSZ Conference Volume (coord. Valér Veres) 2003 Publisher: Kriterion, Cluj A női kérdés lehetséges megközelítéseiről való gondolkodás terminusai [The Terms of Thought On the Feminine Issue]. In: RODOSZ Conference Volumes III. (szerk. Valér Veres, Zsolt Gyarmati), p. 75 100. Publisher: Kriterion, Cluj Egyetemisták és politikai értékek. [Students and Political Values] In: Etnopolitika. A közösségi-, magánés nemzetközi érdekek viszonyrendszere Közép-Európában [Ethnopolitics. Communitarian, Provate and International Relation in Central Europe] (coord. Nándor Bárdi, Csilla Fedinec) Co-author: Gyöngyi Pásztor Publisher: Teleki László Foundation, Budapest A Babeș-Bolyai Tudományegyetem romákra vonatkozó pozitív diszkriminációs oktatáspolitikájának lehetséges értelmezései. [Possible Interpretations of the Positive Discrimination Targeting Roma Students at the Babeș-Bolyai University] In: Szociológiai tanulmányok erdélyi fiatalokról. Sapientia Könyvek [Sociological Studies of the Youth of Transylvania. Sapientia Books] (coord. Sorbán Angella) Publisher: Akadémia Publishing House, Cluj-Budapest Papers published in journals 2011 16.2.14 European Union, 2002-2013 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 5 / 7
Women's Work: Female Labour Practices and their Normative Context among Ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania. Romanian Journal of Population Studies, Vol. V, No. 1, 2011, 53 82. 2008 Patriarchátus a háztartás falain belül és kívül. Nemi egyenlőtlenségek az erdélyi munkaerőpiacon. [ Patriarchy Between and Beyond the Household Walls. Gender Inequalities on the Transylvanian Labour Market] Erdélyi Társadalom VI. 1-2. 117 146. 2005 Vitalitatea şcolii de la Chicago. [The Vitality of the Chicago School] Sociologie Românească Vol. III. Nr. 1., 110 127. 2004 Co-authors: Petru Iluț, Laura Nistor A tusványosi táborlakók ifjúsági státusának és politikai beállítottságának vizsgálata. [Youth Status and Political Orientation Among the Campers of Tusványos ] Erdélyi Társadalom 2., 113 131. Co-authors: Kálmán Ercsei Imigranţii rurali: capital material şi reţele sociale. [Rural Immigrants: Material Capital and Social Networks] Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai 1. Hová lett a szocialista család? Átstrukturálódó rokoni viszonyok. [Where Has the Socialist Family Disappear? Restructuring Kinship Networks] Korunk 2004/3., 26 40. 2003 A kolozsvári elsőgenerációs városlakók. [Rural Immigrants from Cluj] Erdélyi Társadalom 2003/2, 67 84. Co-authors: Krisztina Csedő, Kálmán Ercsei, Gyöngyi Pásztor A kolozsvári roma elit kialakulásának társadalmi folyamata. [The Formation of the Roma Elite in Cluj] Erdélyi Társadalom, 1/2003, 67 86. Dekonstrukció és intézménylétesítés. [Deconstruction and Institutionalisation] Erdélyi Társadalom, 1/2003, 147 153. Szociálpolitika Romániában a szocialista és a piacgazdaságra való átmenet időszakában. [Social Policy in Romania during Socialism and in the Transition to Capitalism] WEB 11/2003 2002 Politikai beállítottság a kolozsvári Báthory Líceum végzős diákjai körében. [Political Orientations Among the Students of the Báthory Highschool in Cluj ] WEB 10/2002 Reviews 2010 Lalive, R. Zweimüller, J.: How Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return to Work? Evidence From Two Natural Experiments. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. August 2009, 1363 1402. Štastna, A., Sobotka, T.: Changing Parental Leave and Shifts in Second and Third-Birth Rates in Austria. Working Papers, Vienna Institute of Demography 7/2009, 1 28. Demográfia 2010/1, 109-112. 2002 A teljesség igényével. A Központi Statisztikai Hivatal Népességtudományi Kutatóintézetének 2000. és 2001. évi Történeti Demográfiai Évkönyvének recenziója. [Offering a Holistic Perspective. Review of the 2000 and 2001 Annual of the Hungarian Statistical Institute] Korunk 2002/2 2001 A demográfiai átmenet elméleti kerete és romániai sajátosságaicornelia Mureşan: Evoluţia demografică a României. Tendinţe vechi, schimbări recente, perspective (1870-2030) c. tanulmánya alapján [The Theoretical Framework of the Demographical Transition. The Case of Romania. Book 16.2.14 European Union, 2002-2013 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 6 / 7
Review: Mureşan, Cornelia: The Demographical Evolution of Romania. Old Tendencies, Recent Changes, Perspectives [1870-2030]]. Demográfia 2001/1-2. Volume editing 2005 RODOSZ Conference Volume III. Social sciences and humanities Publisher: Kriterion, Cluj Translations 2003 Gabriel Troc A blokkok mögött avagy a posztkommunista munkásnegyedek jelenlegi állapotáról. [Behind the Blocks or About the Present State of Worker Neighbourhoods ]WEB 2003/11 2001 D. J. van de Kaa Europe s Second Demographic Transition, WEB 8-9/2001 (with Zsuzsa Plainer) 16.2.14 European Union, 2002-2013 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 7 / 7