Boldizsár Megyesi

Boldizsár Megyesi
Senior Research Fellow (MTA TK SZI)
Department: Research Department for Social Integration and Social
Policy
Academic Title: PhD
Email: megyesi.boldizsar@tk.mta.hu
Phone: +36 1 2246700 / 402
Research Interests
Rural studies, Rural Sociology, social capital, Environment and Society
Selected Publications
Csurgó Bernadett – Megyesi Gergely Boldizsár (2015) Local food production and local identity:
interdependency of development tools and results. In: SOCIO.HU 2015:(1) pp. 167-182
Megyesi Boldizsár (2014) Romania In: Meredith Stephen, Willer Helga (szerk.) Organic in Europe:
Prospects and development. Brüsszel: International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
(IFOAM), 2014. pp. 75-79. (ISBN:978-3-03736-261-7)
Megyesi Boldizsár (2012) Institutions and networks in rural development: two case studies from Hungary
In: Stefan Sjöblom, Kjell Andersson, Terry Marsden, Sarah Skerratt (szerk.) Sustainability and Short-term
Policies: Improving Governance in Spatial Policy Interventions Surrey: Ashgate, 2012. pp. 217-244.
(Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)
Anke Fischer, Vera Peters, Jan Vávra, Mirjam Neebe, Antoinette Kriel, Miloslav Lapka, Megyesi Boldizsár
(2012) Climate Change? No, Wise Resource Use is the Issue: Social Representations of Energy, Climate
Change and the Future. In: Environmental Policy and Governance, doi:10.1002/eet.1585
Megyesi Boldizsár – Kelemen Eszter – Markus Schermer (2011) Social capital as a Success Factor for
Collective Marketing Initiatives In: International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Vol. 18/1
p.89-103
Csurgó Bernadett – Megyesi Boldizsár (2011) Elit-meghatározások és elitcsoportok – a 2009-es
magyarországi elitfelvételek fogalmi-mintavételi háttere In: Kovách Imre (szerk.) Elitek a válság korában.
Magyarországi elitek, kisebbségi magyar elitek. Argumentum-MTAPTI, Budapest pp 143-176.
Kelemen Eszter – Megyesi Boldizsár – Nagy-Kalamász Ildikó (2008) Knowledge Dynamics and
Sustainability in Rural Livelihood Strategies: Two Case Studies from Hungary, In: Sociologia Ruralis, 48/3
p. 257–273.
Research Projects
The effect of agricultural and rural development policy on local small-scale agrifood production (OTKA
PD)
Living from the Land – Research financed by the Hungarian Science Foundation (OTKA) Principal
investigator: Kovács Katalin (MTA KRTK), Kovách Imre (MTA TK).
GILDED – Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand: European Post-Carbon
Communities. Coordinator: Macaulay Institute dr. Nick Gotts. www.gildedeu.org;
RURBAN – Building New Relationships in Rural Areas under Urban Pressure. Wageningen University
Greet Overbeek. www.rural-urban.org
CORASON – A Cognitive Approach to Rural Sustainable Development – it is an EU FP6 research project.
Trinity College Dublin, dr. Hilary Tovey. www.corason.hu
COFAMI – Collective Farmers Marketing Initiatives – it is also an EU FP6 research project. Wageningen
University; dr. Henk Renting. www.cofami.org
Academic Career
2011 research fellow of the Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
2009 research fellow at the Hétfa Research Institute.
2004 - 2011 research fellow of the Institute for Political Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Education
2014 Ph. D. in Sociology at the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences. The title of the Ph.D dissetation: Actors
of rural development in rural Hungary.
2005 graduate at the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences.
2001 graduate at the Szent István University, Faculty of Horticulture. Thesis on organic farming.
1999 guest student at the TU-München, Faculty of Agriculture
Membership in Academic and Professional Organisations; Editorial Board Membership
2013- editor of the socio.hu Hungarian Sociological Association, secretary of the Space, Settlement, Society Section;
Member of the European Society for Rural Sociology
Selected conferences and workshops
1. New models to conserve traditional practices: changes of farm-structure and land use in Hungary, a
qualitative analysis. In: ESRS Congress Places of possibility? Rural Societies in a Neoliberal World 18 –
21 August 2015, Aberdeen, Scotland
2. Local food production and local identity: inter-dependency of development tools and results. (Csurgó
Bernadettel) In: ESRS Congress Places of possibility? Rural Societies in a Neoliberal World 18 – 21
August 2015, Aberdeen, Scotland
3. Local food production and local identity: inter-dependency of development tools and results. (Csurgó
Bernadettel) In: Conference on Global Sustainability and Local Foods. Organized by the American
University of Rome (AUR) and the American Academy in Rome (AAR), in collaboration with the
Economics, Management and Institutions Department of the University of Naples Federico II the
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Pisa University. Rome, 2 October 2015.
4. Regional food and identity: two sides of the same coin. (Csurgó Bernadettel) In: The social meaning of
food. Workshop organised by socio.hu and Institute for Sociology CSS HAS. Budapest, 16–17 June, 2015
5. Agri-food networks in a Hungarian micro-region: Factors influencing farmers’ practices. 2014. május
21-24. Párizs, Franciaország. System Innovation towards Sustainable Agriculture International
Workshop; INRA SAD, France, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Wageningen University and
Research Centre, The Netherlands.
6. The Long, Long Transition to Self-Governance How two Hungarian communities of food producers are
learning to govern themselves. Paper prepared for UCSIA International Workshop COLLECTIVE
DECISION MAKING IN COMPLEX MATTERS. University of Antwerp, 12-14 November 2014
7. The role of development policies in agricultural restructuring: the case of a Western Hungarian small
town. In: Raluca Pernes (szerk.) 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY FOR
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY NOVEMBER 21ST-22ND / CLUJ: Panel 17. New Forms of
Land Enclosures and Land Grabbing. Cluj; Klausenburg; Kolozsvár, Románia, 2014.11.20-2014.11.21.p. -.
1 p. (ISBN:-)
Awards and Honours
Bolyai János Research Scholarship
Teaching Experience
Course: Introduction in Sociology, at ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, in
2006/2007 Autumn Semester.
Rural Sociology – seminar at College Széchenyi István, Corvinus University, Budapest. 2010/2011
Autumn Semester
Rural Sociology – research seminar at College Széchenyi István, Corvinus University, Budapest.
2011/2012 Autumn and Spring Semester
The Sociology of Rural Development, University of Babes-Bolyai Institute of Sociology and Social Work.
2012/13 Spring Semester, 2013/14 Spring Semester, 2014/15 Spring Semester
Rural sociology and sociography, University of Debrecen Faculty of Arts, Institute for Political Sciences,
and Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Policy. Autumn Semester, 2014/15
Languages
English (Proficient)
Italian (Intermediate)
German (Intermediate)