Dr RITA HORDOSY's Outputs (33)

Why sociology? – Comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary, and England (2025)
Journal Article
Hordosy, R., Yasdiman, M. B., & Norris, J. (in press). Why sociology? – Comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary, and England. Educational Review,

This paper pinpoints the driving forces behind university degree choice in social sciences in three European countries. Using an international comparative design, the paper draws on both administrative secondary data to explore enrolment patterns in... Read More about Why sociology? – Comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary, and England.

How 'international' are sociology journals? Analysis of stated aims and editorial board networks (2025)
Journal Article
Brown, E., Vega Castillo, M. A., & Hordósy, R. (2025). How 'international' are sociology journals? Analysis of stated aims and editorial board networks. Sociological Research Online, https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804241281455

This article analyses leading international sociology journals regarding the global relations as observed within their aims and editorial boards. As such, it explores the geographies and power relations of knowledge production in the context of socio... Read More about How 'international' are sociology journals? Analysis of stated aims and editorial board networks.

What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves (2024)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., Yasdiman, M. B., & Lee, G. C.-Y. (2025). What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 46(1), 132-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2024.2431274

This paper explores how sociology undergraduate and postgraduate students understand and discuss their possible (sociological) futures in three national contexts of Norway, England, and Hungary. Using an international comparative design based on a to... Read More about What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves.

Possible future sociological selves – A Comparative Study of Sociology Students’ Perceptions in Norway, England and Hungary (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORDOSY, R., Yasdiman, M. B., & Lee, G. (2024, September). Possible future sociological selves – A Comparative Study of Sociology Students’ Perceptions in Norway, England and Hungary. Presented at British Educational Research Association Conference, Manchester

In light of Burawoy's assertion that sociology carries a moral purpose (Burawoy et al., 2005), this paper explores how undergraduate and postgraduate students of the discipline understand and discuss their possible sociological futures in the three n... Read More about Possible future sociological selves – A Comparative Study of Sociology Students’ Perceptions in Norway, England and Hungary.

What is sociological research? Exploring Norwegian, Hungarian and English student and staff views, and curriculum documents (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORDOSY, R., Yasdiman, M. B., & Lashari, A. (2024, March). What is sociological research? Exploring Norwegian, Hungarian and English student and staff views, and curriculum documents. Presented at Educational Research Seminar - University of Lancaster, Lancaster / Online

This talk explores sociology through a mixture of curriculum document analysis and interviews with sociology students and staff in three European countries. An overview and comparison of curriculum documents from Hungary, England and Norway explores... Read More about What is sociological research? Exploring Norwegian, Hungarian and English student and staff views, and curriculum documents.

Enabling transformative university transitions: becoming a student and a graduate (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R. (2023, December). Enabling transformative university transitions: becoming a student and a graduate. Paper presented at Society for Research in Higher Education Annual Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non... Read More about Enabling transformative university transitions: becoming a student and a graduate.

From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORDOSY, R. (2023, December). From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions. Paper presented at SRHE International Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK

Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non... Read More about From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions.

Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R., Brown, E., Vega Castillo, M. A., & Lee, G. (2023, December). Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals. Paper presented at SRHE International Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK

This paper aims to analyse leading international sociology journals regarding the interplay of the centre-periphery relations as observed within their aims, editorial boards and author networks. As such, it explores the geographies of knowledge in th... Read More about Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals.

Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R., Yasdiman, M. B., & Lashari, A. (2023, December). Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students. Paper presented at 2023 SRHE Conference, Birmingham, UK

Over the past few decades, there have been increased discussions on the relationships between research and teaching in higher education, subject to influence from a variety of structural and agentical factors that change over time. This paper is base... Read More about Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students.

The degree generation: the making of unequal graduate lives, by N. Ingram, A.-M. Bathmaker, J. Abrahams, L. Bentley, H. Bradley, T. Hoare, V. Papafilippou, and R. Waller, 2023, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, GPB 14.99, 212 p, ISBN 978-1529208856 (2023)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R. (2023). The degree generation: the making of unequal graduate lives, by N. Ingram, A.-M. Bathmaker, J. Abrahams, L. Bentley, H. Bradley, T. Hoare, V. Papafilippou, and R. Waller, 2023, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, GPB 14.99, 212 p, ISBN 978-1529208856. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(7), 1229-1237. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2023.2269504

How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brown, E., Vega Castillo, M. A., Lee, G., & Hordosy, R. (2023, June). How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship. Presented at Department of Sociology Seminar, Durham, UK

A knowledge hierarchy has long been present within the academic community dominated by producers, publishers and journals from western countries (Heilbron, 2014), whilst inequalities in who gets to edit and author have prompted calls for more inclusi... Read More about How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship.

How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORDOSY, R., Brown, E., & Vega Castillo, M. A. (2023, April). How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks. Presented at British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Manchester

Academic prestige is conceptualised differently based on national context; yet internationally, the notion of "excellence" permeates the global discourse on knowledge production. A knowledge hierarchy has long been present within the academic communi... Read More about How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks.

Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R., & Norris, J. (2023, April). Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis. Presented at BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester, UK

This paper looks at how sociology students at several different universities in three countries see their discipline and themselves within it. It draws on the Bernstein’s notion of powerful knowledge that disrupts inequalities, as well as Burawoy’s u... Read More about Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis.

Az oktatás/kutatás viszonya a magyar szociológiában – hallgatói és oktatói tapasztalatok összehasonlítása (2022)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., & Norris, J. (2022). Az oktatás/kutatás viszonya a magyar szociológiában – hallgatói és oktatói tapasztalatok összehasonlítása. Educatio, 31(2), 249-263. https://doi.org/10.1556/2063.31.2022.2.6

Az oktatás/kutatás viszonya a magyar szociológiában-hallgatói és oktatói tapasztalatok összehasonlítása HOR DÓSY R ITA*-JEN NIFER NOR R IS University of Nottingham (Egyesült Királyság) Beérkezett: 2021. szeptember 20., elfogadva: 2022. április 9. E t... Read More about Az oktatás/kutatás viszonya a magyar szociológiában – hallgatói és oktatói tapasztalatok összehasonlítása.

The future of the research and teaching nexus in a post-pandemic world (2022)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., & McLean, M. (2022). The future of the research and teaching nexus in a post-pandemic world. Educational Review, 74(3), 378-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.2014786

Vaccines and treatments produced during the global coronavirus crisis demonstrated the importance of university research and teaching. There was widespread celebration of university–industry partnerships and collaborations across disciplines and geog... Read More about The future of the research and teaching nexus in a post-pandemic world.

International comparisons at the crossroads of policy, practice and research: The case of school leavers' and graduates' information systems (2022)
Book Chapter
Hordósy, R. (2022). International comparisons at the crossroads of policy, practice and research: The case of school leavers' and graduates' information systems. In N. Siddiqui, & S. Gorard (Eds.), Making Your Doctoral Research Project Ambitious: Developing Large-Scale Studies with Real-World Impact (221-230). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003201366-20

This chapter introduces an internationally comparative study of school leavers’ and graduates’ datasets, looking at how they are produced and used in educational policy planning, institutional decision-making and informing students. The research cont... Read More about International comparisons at the crossroads of policy, practice and research: The case of school leavers' and graduates' information systems.

‘I’ve changed in every possible way someone could change’–transformative university transitions (2021)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R. (2023). ‘I’ve changed in every possible way someone could change’–transformative university transitions. Research Papers in Education, 38(2), 187-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2021.1961296

Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non... Read More about ‘I’ve changed in every possible way someone could change’–transformative university transitions.

Career decisions of further education college students: where does higher education 'fit in'? (2021)
Journal Article
Quyoum, A., Hordósy, R., Mittelmeier, J., Jones, S., & McCaldin, T. (2021). Career decisions of further education college students: where does higher education 'fit in'?. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 23(1), 54-78. https://doi.org/10.5456/wpll.23.1.54

In the context of a proliferation of post-16 options, the need for substantial individual financial investment in university education, and uncertainties of employment outcomes, this paper explores student agency and structural constraints around car... Read More about Career decisions of further education college students: where does higher education 'fit in'?.

‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Hordósy, R., Mittelmeier, J., Quyoum, A., & McCaldin, T. (2022). ‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university. Research Papers in Education, 37(6), 757-772. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2020.1864765

© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper reports on a project in the North of England that looks at the college-to-university decision-making processes of non-traditional students through the conceptual lens of ‘Poss... Read More about ‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university.

Moving Through and Moving Away: (Higher) Education Strategies of Hungarian Students (2020)
Journal Article
Hordosy, R., & Szanyi-F., E. (2021). Moving Through and Moving Away: (Higher) Education Strategies of Hungarian Students. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 6(4), 34-62. https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v6i4.600

© 2020, INTERSECTIONS. EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS. All Rights Reserved The existence of persistent and entrenched inequalities within the Hungarian education system is revealed in international comparison, thereby highlighting the... Read More about Moving Through and Moving Away: (Higher) Education Strategies of Hungarian Students.