Research Interests

Karolina Balogh is a junior Research Fellow at the at the Center of Social Sciences, Budapest. She is pursuing her PhD studies in the Criminology Programme of the Doctoral School of Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of law. Her PhD research focuses on the role and potential of the child protection system in the prevention of juvenile delinquency. Her main research interests also focus on child protection and children's rights, but she is also interested in social inequalities, social mobility and social integration. In 2019, she was awarded the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2022, she received a research fellowship from the New National Excellence Programme (ÚNKP).