Research Interests
Gergely Horzsa, PhD is a research fellow of the Centre of Social Sciences in Budapest. He earned an M.A. degree in sociology at ELTE University of Budapest in 2013 and his Ph.D at Corvinus University of Budapest in 2022. In his dissertation, he assessed impacts of rural development programmes. His research interests include rural sociology, migration, development, entrepreneurship, sustainability and energy transition as well as scientific methodology. In particular, he is interested in the future of survey methodology, which he also focuses on through his polling company in the private sphere. Currently, he participates in research projects at CSS focusing on questions of rural restructuring, sustainability, social structure, methodology. He is a member of the Hungarian team for European Social Survey. His teaching expertise at Corvinus and ELTE universities include qualitative research techniques, social network analysis as well as rural-urban and environmental sociology. His findings were published in international conferences as well as Hungarian and international journals (so far around 40 publications). His research were also acknowledged and sponsored by awards of the Hungarian New National Excellence Programme and by a 4-month research scholarship at Indiana University, U.S., by Julius Rezler Foundation. Since 2024, he is an editor of the Hungarian Review of Sociology
Selected Publications
Horzsa, G. (2026). Rural development and (im)mobility: assessing the out-migration effects of EAFRD subsidies in rural Hungary (2007–2013). Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2026.2657565 (Q1)
Horzsa, G. (2024) Perceptions of Change and Migration Aspirations: A qualitative study on the intertwined nature of rural development and outwards mobility aspirations in the Hungarian countryside, in. European Countryside 16/3 https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2024-0020
Csurgó, B. ; Horzsa, G. ; Kiss, M.; Megyesi, B; Szabolcsi, Zs. (2023) Place Naming and Place Making: The Social Construction of Rural Landscape, in. Land 12/8 https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081528 (Q1)
Horzsa, G. (2023) “What Would You Do If You Were to Win the Lottery?” A Qualitative Tool for Overcoming Agency-Structure Issues in Migration Research, in. Qualitative Sociology Review 19/2 https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.19.2.05
Horzsa, G. (2021) ‘Rural Development and Migration: Effects of Rural Development Projects on Internal Migration and Migration Aspirations of Rural Dwellers in Hungary’, in. Corvinus University of Budapest. Available at: http://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/1187/1/Horzsa_Gergely_den.pdf.
Győri, Á., Czakó, Á., Horzsa, G. (2019) Innovation, Financial Culture, and the Social-Economic Environment of SMEs in Hungary, in. East European Politics and Societies 33/4 https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325419844828
