Faculty

Dr. habil. Lajos Bálint 

Assistant Professor

📧 balint.lajos@pte.hu  📍   A 327  📞 +36308931076 🔎 Spatial and social differences in mortality. Mortality table-based analyses, suicide, alcohol-related mortality, Spatial models, multilevel modelsy

Lajos Bálint graduated in social policy (2000) and in sociology (2001) at the University of Pécs. He defended his PhD thesis in 2009 (Title: The development of Regional Mortality Differences in Hungary 1980-2006). Between 2000 and 2010 he worked at the Central Statistical Office in Pécs, since 2011 he has been a research fellow at the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute in Budapest, and since 2007 he has been a senior research fellow. Member of the editorial board of the journals Területi Statisztika and Demográfia. He has substantial experience in quantitative methods (Life table analysis, multivariate statistics, multilevel modelling, spatial analysis).

Dr. habil. Viktor Berger

Associate Professor and Director of Institute of Social and Media Studies

Academic Secretary of Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology

📧 berger.viktor@pte.hu  📍   A 334  📞  +36308930435 🔎  sociology of online phenomena, sociological theories of space, sociological theory

Viktor Berger has a Ph.D. degree in sociology obtained 2016 at the Eötvös Loránd University. He is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pécs. He was editor of the Hungarian sociological journal Replika from 2009 to 2020. His research interests include phenomenology of the online world, sociological theories of space and history of sociological thought.

Dr. Adrienn Bognár

Assistant Professor

📧 bognar.adrienn@pte.hu  📍   A 337  📞 +36308931583 🔎 Sociology of youth, political socialisation, research methodology

Adrienn Bognár is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pécs. She graduated as a Sociologist and she obtained a Phd degree at the University of Pécs Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She also has an MBA grade in the field of marketing and a degree in bibliotherapy. Her research interests include political socialization, youth sociology, climate anxiety,  quantitative and qualitative methods.

Dr. Eszter Bucher

Assistant Professor

📧 bucher.eszter@pte.hu  📍   A 310  📞 +36303932196 🔎  non-profit organisations, social innovation, disadvantaged settlements, women in disadvantaged settlements

Eszter Bucher graduated as a teacher in Geography in 2002 and as a sociologist in 2003. In 2011, she obtained her Phd degree at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences. Her research area: non-profit organizations, social innovations, women in disadvantaged settlements.

Dr. Dávid Erát

Assistant Professor

📧 erat.david@pte.hu  📍   A 327  📞 +36308908465 🔎  partnership forms, divorce, quantitative methods

Dávid Erát obtained a BA and masters in Sociology. He earned his PhD from the Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology where he completed the demography program. His main areas of research intrest are quantitative methods, romantic relationship and partnership dissolution. Dávid Erát acts as the program coordinator for Data Analytics Track in the Master in Sociology Program.

Dr. Tamás Ragadics

Assistant Professor

📧 ragadics.tamas@pte.hu   📍   A 336  📞 +36305575052 🔎  rural sociology, problems of disadvantaged areas, social changes in 20th century Hungary, social role of churches

Tamás Ragadics is a sociologist and religion teacher. He is an assistant professor at the University of Pécs, Department of Sociology. 
His research interests include the problems and challenges related to the social transformation of rural areas.

Prof. Dr. Zsolt Spéder

Professor

Head of Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology

📧 speder.zsolt@pte.hu  📍   A 333  📞 +36308933865 🔎  fertility, partnership forms, poverty, inequalities

Zsolt Spéder is a sociologist and a demographer. He leads the Program in Demography at the Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology.

His areas of research interest are: Family formation and fertility; Attitudes and values towards the family; Social inequalities and poverty; International comparisons. Previously, Zsolt Spéder taught at the Corvinus University of Budapest and conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock; the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg; the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe; the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB); and Collegium Budapest - Institute of Advanced Study. Currently, he holds the positions of: Professor at the University of Pécs, Department of Sociology; Head of Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology at University of Pécs; Chief Scientific Advisor at the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute (former Director from 1999 until his resignation in 2023); Honorary President of the European Association for Population Studies Council.

Dr. habil. Kyra Tomay

Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department

Head of Local Society Research Center

📧 tomay.kyra@pte.hu  📍   A 335  📞 +36308908438 🔎  urban and rural sociology, spatial social inequalities, gentrification, suburbanisation, rural entrepreneurs

Kyra Tomay is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pécs, Department of Sociology. She holds degrees in Sociology (MA, PhD) from ELTE University, Budapest. After graduation she taught urban sociology and research methods at ELTE University, Budapest. Between 2008-2012 she worked as a planner-analyst at the VÁTI Spatial Planning and Evaluation Directorate, a policy background institute. After 5 years of childcare leave, she has been teaching and doing research at the Department of Sociology, University of Pécs since 2017.  

Bence Völgyi

Assistant Lecturer

📧 volgyi.bence@pte.hu  📍   A 337  📞 +36303223369 🔎 Digital inequalities, subcultures, sociology of art, gentrification

Bence Völgyi serves as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Pécs in the Department of Sociology. He earned his bachelor's degree in Social Studies and went on to obtain a master's degree in Sociology, both from the University of Pécs, Hungary. Following his graduation, Bence gained experience as a research assistant and worked as a publication and research support assistant. He actively participates in Higher Education Social Media Marketing, as well as in innovation and enterprise development. His doctoral research focuses on the digital divide in Europe. His academic pursuits extend to areas such as subcultural studies, urban and rural sociology, as well as the sociology of art.