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Curriculum Vitae of Judit Takács

Research Chair at the Institute of , Centre for Social (formerly belonging to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; MTA TK)

Email address: [email protected] Home page: http://www.tk.mta.hu/en/researcher/takacs-judit Citizenship: Hungarian List of publications: http://www.policy.hu/takacs/publications.php Academia.edu: https://mta.academia.edu/JuditTakacs Scopus ID: 8962889600 Researcher-ID : K-4759-2013 Google Scholar ID: RWEq_u8AAAAJ ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7509-0739

Academic Qualifications & Titles

2019 Doctor of (Doctor Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae) (DSc) – Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2011 Diploma Habilitationis in Sociology (Dr. habil) – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2002 Ph.D. in Sociology – Budapest University of Economic Sciences

1995 University diploma (M.A.) in Cultural – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

1994 M.A. in Social Sciences – University of (UvA)

1992 University diploma (M.A.) in combined with Hungarian Language & – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Research Experience

2020 Social Surveillance of Same-Sex Bodies and Intimacies in 20th Century Hungary – Academy in Exile research fellow

2013-2017 Families and Societies (FP7) – Principal Investigator in the Hungarian team

2013-2017 Social History of Homosexuality in 20th Century Hungary before 1990 (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – 105414) – Principal Investigator

2015-2017 LGBT Space (MTA TK) – Team leader

2012-2015 Multiple Discrimination: Individual and Institutional Perceptions, Effects and Actions (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – 101468) – Researcher

2013-2014 GAP Work: Improving Gender-Related Violence Intervention and Referral through Youth Practitioner Training (Daphne) – Associate partner

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2010–2013 Equal Treatment Awareness in Hungary (Hungarian research project commissioned by the Equal Treatment Authority) – Researcher responsible for LGBT issues

2007–2012 HIV Prevention within High-Risk Social Networks – International Social Network Study II. (Led by CAIR, Medical College of Wisconsin; sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA) – Principal Investigator of the Hungarian site

2010–2011 Citizens in Diversity: A Four-Nation Study on Homophobia and Fundamental Rights (EC Fundamental Rights and Citizenship project – JLS/2008/FRAC/AG/1334) – Principal Investigator in the Hungarian team

AHEAD: Against Homophobia. European Local Administration Devices (EC Fundamental Rights and Citizenship project – JLS/2008/FRAC/AG/1334) – Partner

2006–2011 RECWOWE: Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe (FP6- 2004-Citizens-4 European Network of Excellence, NoE) – Principal Investigator in the Hungarian team

2008 Study on Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the EU (Danish Institute for Human Rights; Agency for Fundamental Rights) – Author of the Hungarian country report

2007 Social exclusion of LGBT people in Hungary (Hungarian research project, sponsored by the Hungarian Ministry of Labour) – Principal Investigator

2007 Role of district nurses in increasing fathers’ involvement in child-care (Hungarian research project of MONA, Foundation for the Women in Hungary) – Researcher

2006 Social Exclusion of LGBT Youth in Europe (ILGA-Europe; IGLYO) – Researcher

2005–2007 Genderwise: The role of men as agents of change in reconciling work and family life (European Commission Grant VS/2005/0338) – Local Coordinator

2003–2007 HIV Prevention within High-Risk Social Networks – International Social Network Study I. (Led by CAIR, Medical College of Wisconsin; sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, USA) – Principal Investigator of the Hungarian site

2003–2004 Transsexuals in the Hungarian Social and Health Care System (Hungarian research project, sponsored by the Hungarian Ministry of Health) – Researcher

2002–2004 Family and Policy (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) –

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Researcher

Political and Human Rights of the Hungarian Roma (Hungarian NKFP research project) – Coordinator

2002 Sexual minority media (Research grant by the Slovenian Peace Institute) – Researcher

2000–2003 IPROSEC: Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio- Economic Challenges – Changing Family Structures, Policy and Practice (FP5 project within Key Action Improving the Socio- Economic Knowledge Base) – Researcher

Awards and Honors

2020 Academy in Exile Fellowship – Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI), Essen, Germany

2018 Best Article Award by the Gender and Sexuality Research Network (GSRN) of the Council for European Studies (CES) for the “Trans* citizenship in postsocialist societies” article (with R. Kuhar & S. Monro)

2015 Publication Award of the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Best International Publication

2014 New Central Europe Distinguished Senior Researcher Scholarship

2013 Háttér (NGO) Award

2012 Publication Award of the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Best International Publication

2005–2008 Bolyai Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for three years independent research on Changing role of fathers in Hungary

2004–2005 International Policy Fellowship (Open Society Institute): How to put equality into practice: Anti-discrimination and equal treatment policies and LGBT people

2002 Young Scientists’ Prize for Outstanding Achievement by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1997–1998 Research Support Scheme Grant (Open Society Institute) for ten months independent research on Gay Identity Formation in Hungary

Other professional experience

2016 Feb. – 2020 Jan. National Expert on Secondment – at the Country Preparedness Support (CPS) Section, Public Health Capacity

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and Communication (PHC) Unit, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

2015 Guest lectures at the of Technology (March), University of Amsterdam (April)

Editor of the Szexualitás a társadalomban (Sexuality in society) special issue of Socio.hu Review (2015/1.)

2014– Research Chair at the Institute of Sociology, CSS, HAS

2014–2015 Member of the Bolyai Evaluation Board of the and Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2014 Feb. – 2015 Apr. Consultancy work for the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, including the preparation of a report on Homophobia and genderphobia in the European Union: Policy contexts and empirical evidence

2013 Feb. – 2016 Jan. Chair of the Board of Evaluators, Sociology/Demography Panel, Hungarian Scientific Research Fund

2013 Guest lectures at the – May, 2013

2011–2013 Head of Department at the Institute of Sociology, CSS, HAS

2012 Oct. – 2013 June Consultancy work for the International Labour Organization (ILO) within the “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: Promoting Rights, Diversity and Equality in the World of Work (PRIDE)” project regarding the preparation of a Hungarian research report

2012 Guest lectures at UQAM, Montreal (CA) and at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (USA) – March, 2012

2011 Scientific Deputy Director at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Organised a dissemination conference within the Citizens in Diversity: A Four-Nation Study on Homophobia and Fundamental Rights project at Budapest

Participated in the organisation of the Homophobia in Schools in Eastern Europe international conference at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

2010– Hungarian Programme Director of the annual International Spring School in Sex Research (Groznjan, Croatia) – organised by the

2010 Prepared a Hungarian country report (with I. Szalma) for the RECWOWE Task on “Fertility, (female) labour force participation and reconciliation policies: A comparative approach”

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Organised the Childbearing and work-family balance in Hungary and Europe RECWOWE dissemination conference

2009 Participated in the organisation of The Evolution of Day Care Provision for Children under 4 in Visegrad Countries international workshop

Participated in the organisation of the LGBT Families: The New Minority? International conference at Ljubljana, Slovenia

2008 Conducted a work-life balance (WLB) survey with working parents, in cooperation with within the RECWOWE FP6 European Network of Excellence project

2006 Jan. – Apr. Consultancy work for ILGA-Europe regarding research and production of a comprehensive report on Social Exclusion of LGBT Youth in the European Union

2005 Participated in the organisation of the Intimate/Sexual Citizenship international conference at Ljubljana, Slovenia

2004 Guest lecturer at CAIR, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA – June 2004

2002 Organised a panel on homosexuality at the Nő és férfi, férfi és nő. Magyarország 2002 (Women and men, men and women – Hungary 2002) conference in Budapest

1999–present Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (renamed as Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences in 2012)

Editorial/Advisory Board Membership

2019– Social Inclusion (Editorial Team member) 2019– Palgrave Communications (Editorial Board member) 2017– Demográfia (Hungary) 2016– Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (Hungary – member of the Advisory Board) 2013–2014 Journal of LGBT Youth (Routledge) 2012– Družboslovne razprave (Slovenia) 2012–2014 Journal of Lesbian Studies (Routledge) 2011– Socio.hu Social Science Review (Hungary – editor)

Editorial reviews in peer-reviewed journals (since 2010):

Archives of Sexual Behavior; Community, Work & Family; Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy; Cultural and Social History; Culture, Health and Sexuality; Current ; Demográfia; Družboslovne razprave; Europe Asia Studies; European Journal of Women Studies; European Review; European Societies; European Sociological Review; Gender and History; Gender, Place & Culture; Gender. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft; Health; Human Organisation; Intersections; International Journal of

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Public Opinion Research; International Journal of STD and AIDS; International Sociology; Journal of Civil Society; Journal of Family Issues; Journal of Family Studies; Journal of Homosexuality; Journal of LGBT Youth; Mentálhigiéné és Pszichoszomatika; Organizacija; Palgrave Communications; Population Research and Policy Review; Revija za Sociologiju; Sexualities; Sexuality and Culture; Sexuality Research and Social Policy; Social Indicators Research; Social Politics; Sociologie Romaneasca; Szociológiai Szemle

Teaching experience

2011–2016 Presented courses annually on Critical Studies of Sexualities within the Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Programme of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Presented courses annually on Social Structure and Social Processes (with A. Bartha) within the Sociology PhD Programme of the Corvinus University of Budapest

2012 Participation in the Qualitative Research Methods: New Developments curriculum development session organised by the Curriculum Resource Center at the Central European University (CEU)

1999–2009 Presented courses annually on Gender Issues in Eastern Europe within the Study Year Abroad Program of the University of California at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2007 Presented the course Studying Women at the Sociology Institute of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

1999–2006 Presented Introduction to Sociology courses annually at the International Studies Center of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences

2004 Presented the course Studying Women at the Sociology Institute of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2002 Participation in the Queer Studies curriculum development session organised by the CEU Curriculum Resource Center

1998–2005 Part-time lecturer of sociology at the International School, Budapest

1998 Presented the Gender Issues in a Minority Context course in the ELTE-UNESCO Ethnic and Minority Studies M.A. Programme at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Educational background

1998–1999 Ten-month participation in the Doctoral Support Program of the Program on Gender and Culture at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest

1997 Five-month study trip to the (RUG), NL

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1996 Three-month study trip to the University of Groningen (RUG) and four-month study trip to the University of Amsterdam (UvA)

1993 Participation in the Polymorphology: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities in Cultural Praxis four-week interdisciplinary programme organised by the University of Amsterdam

1992–1994 Participation in the Amsterdam Centre for Comparative Social Studies M.A. programme at the University of Amsterdam

1989 Six months study trip to the USA

1987–1995 Student at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest – majoring History; Hungarian Language & Literature; and Cultural Anthropology

1987 Completed the ELTE Apáczai Csere János Practice School, Budapest

Volunteer work & NGO experience

Volunteer work (mainly HIV/AIDS prevention related) in several Hungarian and European NGOs, including ILGA-Europe and Háttér Society for LGBT People in Hungary; Member of the Hungarian Europe Society (https://www.europesociety.hu/en).

Membership in professional networks

Member of the Hungarian Sociological Association, the Hungarian Social History Association, the European Sociological Association, the Council for European Studies, and a former member (2011-2018) of the International Academy of Sex Research

Language skills

Hungarian – Mother tongue; English – Proficient user; Dutch – Basic user; Swedish – Beginner

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