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Type of expert: Individual
First Name Tamás
Last Name Kiss
Sector of Activity Public Sector
Primary Field of Expertise National minorities, inter-ethnic reconciliation
Years of Expertise
  • >7
Employment Availability
  • Part-time
  • Collaboration
  • Consultancy
Duration
  • Short-term
  • Medium term
  • Long-term
Geographic Experience / Focus
  • Romania only
  • Europe
Gender Male
Second and Third Field
  • Equal rights and anti-discrimination
National minorities and inter-ethnic reconciliation
  • National minorities and inter-ethnic reconciliation
Equal rights and anti-discrimination
  • Roma
Countries you have worked in Romania, Hungary, Croatia
Job Title Sociologist
Employer Romanian Institute for research on National Minorities
Sector of Activity Public Sector
Other Languages
  • English
  • German
English Professional Fluency
German Limited Knowledge
Papers / Articles Published

"Increasing marginality, ethnic parallelism and asymmetric accommodation. Social and political processes concerning the Hungarian community of Transylvania. Minority Studies, 18

Shifting Linkages in Ethnic Mobilization: The Case of RMDSZ and the Hungarians in Transylvania. Nationalities Papers (forthcoming)"
Flagship Projects

Integro. Ethno-cultural Diversity Research Center. Coordinator of a qualitative and quantitative research on the labor market participation, demographic behavior and ethnic categorization of Transylvanian Roma. The project is financed by the EU Structural Founds (POSDRU)

Developmental Idealism, Global and Internal Hierarchies in Romania. RIRNM in cooperation with the Developmental Idealism Studies network (http://developmentalidealism.org/). Design of a survey representative for Romania on the effect of global hierarchies and developmental idealism

Citizenship Policies in Eastern Europe. RIRNM. Project coordinator, design of surveys (representative for Romania and Transylvania’s ethnic Hungarians) on perceptions of citizenship policies and national identity formation, building of a transnational research network on the sociological impacts of citizenship policies

SEEMIG – Managing Migration and its Effects in South Eastern Europe. Transnational project financed by EU – South Eastern Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme. Thematic expert for Romania (RIRNM)

Electoral and Political Behavior of the Transylvanian Hungarians in Eastern European context. RIRMN. Quantitative and qualitative research, secondary analysis of surveys and electoral macro-data
Blog / Website https://gov-ro.academia.edu/KissTam%C3%A1s
Additional info about your experience and skills

I have expertise in quantitative and qualitative research.
- moderator of more than 100 focus groups in Hungarian and Romanian
- coordinator of more than 50 representative surveys (many of them on minority samples) in Romania, Hungary and Croatia
- expertise in demographic research (demographic projection of minority populations)
- expertise in census identity campaigns (Hungarian and Roma identity campaigns in 2011)
- Political analyst and expertise in electoral campaigns
Managerial Experience Yes
Years of Managerial Experience 5
Degree Awarded Doctoral
Area of Study Cultural Studies
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