Research Interests

Social policy, social work, child welfare, child protection, public policy making process, populism

Selected Publications

Husz, I., Kopasz, M. and Medgyesi, M. (2022). Social Workers’ Causal Attributions for Poverty: Does the Level of Spatial Concentration of Disadvantages Matter? Social Indicators Research, 162, 1069–1091, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-021-02868-4

Hermann, Z. and Kopasz, M. (2021). Educational policies and the gender gap in test scores: a cross-country analysis. Research Papers in Education, 36: 4, 461–482. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02671522.2019.1678065

Kopasz, M. (2021). „Van, amikor szakad a cérna”. Demenciával élő idősek családi gondozóinak terhelődése egy kvalitatív vizsgálat tükrében. Socio.hu: Társadalomtudományi Szemle, 11: 4, 47–68. https://socio.hu/index.php/so/article/view/904/896

Goedemé, T, Penne, T, Hufkens, T. … Kopasz, M. et al. (2018). What Does It Mean to Live on the Poverty Threshold? Lessons From Reference Budgets. In: Cantillon, B., Goedemé, T. and Hills, J. (eds.) Decent incomes for all: Improving policies in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 13-33.

Kopasz, M. and Gábos, A. (2018). A szociális segélyezési rendszer 2015. márciusi átalakításának hatása a települési önkormányzatok magatartására. In: Kolosi, T. és Tóth, I. Gy. (szerk.) Társadalmi Riport 2018, Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 328-349.

Fábián, Z., Gábos, A., Kopasz, M., Medgyesi, M., Szivós, P. and Tóth, I. Gy. (2014). Hungary: A Country Caught In Its Own Trap. In: Nolan, B. et al. (eds.) Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries’ Experiences, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 322-345.

Hermann, Z. and Kopasz, M. (2011). The effects of social capital on wage income: a multi-country analysis. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2: 3-26. http://unipub.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/3137/1/hermann_zoltan.pdf

Kopasz, M. (2007). A vállalkozói potenciál területi különbségeinek magyarázata. A történeti-kulturális és társadalmi tényezők szerepe, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

Research Projects

National Research, Development and Innovation Fund under Grant No. 143593 – ’Child protection in schools: the factors driving school personnel's reporting behaviour’ project, 2022-2024: principal investigator

Hungarian Academy of Sciences Post-Covid Research Grant – Understanding vaccination intention in various social contexts, 2022-2024: researcher

DEMOS – ’Democratic efficacy and the varieties of populism in Europe', H2020 RIA project, 2019-2020: researcher

InGRID-2 – ’Integrating Research Infrastructure for European expertise on Inclusive Growth from data to policy’, H2020 project, 2017-2021: researcher

Progress Programme: New Dimension in Social Protection towards Community Based Living VP/2013/013/0057, 2015-2016: principal investigator

Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion: ’Children First – pilot local consultation platforms on child poverty in Belgium’, 2014-2015: thematic expert

InGRID – ’Integrating Expertise in Inclusive Growth’ FP7 project, 2013-2015: researcher

ImPRovE – ’Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social policy and innovation’, 2012-2016: national expert

Child poverty and child well-being in the EU, 2008-2009: researcher