Research Interests

Sociology of education, Ethnography of education, Roma education, policy sociology

Selected Publications

Eszter Neumann (2022) Education for a Christian nation: Religion and nationalism in the Hungarian education policy discourse, European Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.1177/14749041211072691

Feischmidt, Margit; Neumann, Eszter (2022)The Political Aspects of Solidarity Mobilizations in the Context of Shrinking Civil Society During the First Wave of COVID-19, European Societies. pp. 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2022.2100443

Eszter Neumann (2019) Setting by numbers: datafication processes and ability grouping in an English secondary school, Journal of Education Policy, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2019.1646322

Eszter Neumann, Sharon Gewirtz, Meg Maguire & Emma Towers (2020) Neoconservative education policy and the case of the English Baccalaureate, Journal of Curriculum Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2019.1708466

Neumann, Eszter ; Mészáros, György (2019) From Public Education to National Public Upbringing: The Neoconservative Turn of Hungarian Education After 2010 In: Kenneth, Jones; Anna, Traianou - Austerity and the Remaking of European Education London, Egyesült Királyság / Anglia : Bloomsbury Publishing, (2019) pp. 117-146. 30 p.

Eszter Neumann (2017) ‘Fast and violent integration’: school desegregation in a Hungarian town, Race Ethnicity and Education, 20:5, 579-594, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1191696

Neumann, Eszter, Adél Kiss, Ildikó Fejes, Iván Bajomi, Eszter Berényi, Zoltán A. Biró, and Júlia Vida. “The Hard Work of Interpretation: The National Politics of PISA Reception in Hungary and Romania.” European Educational Research Journal 11, no. 2 (June 2012): 227–42. DOI:10.2304/eerj.2012.11.2.227.

Research Projects

Current projects

The growing role of the churches in public education and educatin policy-making (2020-24), principal investigator: Eszter Neumann 

Helping Displaced People from Ukraine: Collective Forms and Social Contexts of solidarity (2022-), principal investigator: Margit Feischmidt

Finished projects

The School is not an Island (2016-21), principal investigator: Attila Papp Z.

Changing state-church relations in Hungarian public education (2019-20), principal investigator: Eszter Neumann 

Solidarity as an answer to the crisis caused by the pandemic: actions and discourses (2020-22), principal investigator: Margit Feischmidt

Hungarian students in the UK (2018-19), within Mobility Research Centre (principal investigator: Imre Kovách), responsible for subprogramme: Eszter Neumann