Researchers

Veronika Paksi

Research Fellow

Institute for Sociology

Research Department for Social and Public Policy

paksi (dot) veronika (at) tk (dot) hun-ren (dot) hu

+36 1 2246700

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Title: Research Fellow

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Veronika Paksi, PhD is a research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence). Her main research interests are gender (in)equality in Research&Development; women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); Gender Equality Plans; gender and precariry, obstacles to academic careers; work-life balance; childbearing. She is an adjunct professor at the Department for Sociology, University of Szeged; board member of the Association of Hungarian Women in Science (NaTE), and Co-Chair of the Section for the Sociology of Work and Social Inequality of the Hungarian Sociological Association. Currently works in the Gender and Precarity Working Group in ‘European Universities – Critical Futures. The Roles of Universities in European Integration’ project. She has participated in several domestic research projects, and also in a Horizon2020 (EFFORTI). Most recent publication: Morris, C., Parada, F., Moreau, M-P., Paksi, V., Read, B., Sautier, M., Tardos, K. (2024). Gender Inequity and Precarity in European Neoliberal Academia. Centre for Higher Education Futures, Aarhus University: Working Papers on University Reform. Forthcoming thematic issue: Tardos, K., Paksi, V., Takács, J, Bencivenga, R. (2025) (Eds.): Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations. Social Inclusion, 13.