Research Interests

Katalin Tardos (PhD) is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology. She earned her PhD in Sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Her research topics include gender equality and women in science, gender and precarity, social inclusion and exclusion in the labour market, different forms of employment discrimination, workplace equality and diversity management practices, work-life balance and family-friendly practices, and age diversity in the labour market. She is the co-founder and co-chair of the Section for the Sociology of Work and Social Inequality of the Hungarian Sociological Association. Katalin has led several research projects funded by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund on multiple discrimination and innovations in human resource management, as well as on career models and inequalities of women in science and higher education. She participated in a number of international comparative research on employers’ recruitment decisions (FP6 RECWOWE) and industrial relations in the context of subcontracting, digitalisation, and teleworking (EC - Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG). At present she is the principal investigator for the research project UNTWIST (Horizon Europe). Katalin has published over 50 articles and books on topics related to discrimination in the labour market, workplace equality and diversity, and gender equality in academia.