Research Interests

social policy, social work, child welfare, child protection, public policy-making

Selected Publications

Kopasz, M., Bartus, T. and Husz, I. (2024). The role of the family’s ethnicity and correlates in social workers’ risk perceptions: Evidence from a vignette study in Hungary, Children and Youth Services Review, 166. 

Kopasz, M., Győri, Á., Husz, I. and Medgyesi, M. (2024). Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?, European Journal of Social Work, pp. 1–16. 

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.

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), pp. 461–482. 

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.

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.

Research Projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

2013-2015 – InGRID – ’Integrating Expertise in Inclusive Growth’ FP7 project – Researcher

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

2008-2009 – Child poverty and child well-being in the EU – Researcher