Lecturers (courses) and supervisors (research topics)

Lecturers and supervisors of the Doctoral School

a) Lecturers and courses

Curriculun (Training Programme) of the Doctoral School of Public Administration Sciences 2022

Curriculun (Training Programme) of the Doctoral School of Public Administration Sciences 2024

Semester 1: Academic requirements 

• Compulsory courses
  • Academic writing (lecturer: Márton Demeter)
  • Publication strategies and methods (lecturer:DR. Péter Sasvári)
  • Quantitative-empirical research practice (lecturer: Tamás Kaiser)
  • Research_Databases (lecturer:Tamás Szádeczky)

Semester 2: Academic requirements

• Compulsory courses
  • Science of public administration (lecturer:Dr. András Patyi)
  • Research-presentation practice, teaching methodology, science communications (lecturer: Ágnes Veszelszky)
  • History of science, theory of science, ethics of science (lecturer: Dr. Norbert Kis)

Semester 3: Academic requirements

• Compulsory courses
  • International and European Studies (lecture: Dr. Zuszsanna Fejes)
  • Legal Sciences (lecture: Dr. András Téglási)
  • International and European studies (lecture: Dr. Csaba Lentner)

Semester 4: Academic requirements

• Compulsory courses
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Public governance ( lecture: Dr. Iván Halász)
  • History of state and public administration( lecture: Dr. Attila Horváth)

The list of lecturers and their professional CVs can be found on the website of the National Doctoral Council here.

b) Supervisors

01. History of state and public administration

02. Legal studies

1. Institutions and the legal basis for the supervision of public administration, basic issues and system of administrative jurisdiction, and the dogmatics of administrative procedure
Supervisor: Dr. András Patyi PhD, Head of DS, professor (Patyi.Andras@uni-nke.hu)

2. Current challenges in Hungarian company law, especially in regard to legislative amendments
Supervisor: Dr. Tekla Papp DSc, Head of Dept, professor (Papp.Tekla@uni-nke.hu)

3. System and hierarchy of fundamental rights; collision of fundamental rights
Supervisor: Dr. György Kiss DSc, professor emeritus, MHASC (Kiss.Gyorgy@uni-nke.hu)

4. The Regulation and Financing of Political Parties in Hungary and Europe
Supervisor:Dr. Péter Smuk PhD, professor (Smuk.Peter@uni-nke.hu)

5. The EU and domestic competition law aspects of state aid, intellectual property, anti-competitive behavior
Supervisor: Dr. Judit Barta PhD, professor (Barta.Judit@uni-nke.hu)

6. Space Law
Supervisor: Dr. Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy PhD, Head of Dept, associate professor (Bartoki-Gonczy.Balazs@uni-nke.hu)

7. Business and labour rights as human rights
Supervisor: Dr. Attila Kun PhD, professor (Kun.AttilaSandor@uni-nke.hu)

8. Regulation of platforms
Supervisor: Dr. Ződi Zsolt PhD, senior research fellow (Zodi.Zsolt@uni-nke.hu)

9. Challenges of the codification of administrative procedural law - the relation between the general and the special procedural institutions
Supervisor: Dr. Pollák Kitti PhD, assistant professor (Pollak.Kitti@uni-nke.hu)

10. Modernization of administrative procedural law, tools for increasing its efficiency
Supervisor: Dr. Pollák Kitti PhD, assistant professor (Pollak.Kitti@uni-nke.hu)

03. Public management and sociology

1. Organizational development in governance
Supervisor: Dr. Péter Koronváry PhD, associate professor (Koronvary.Peter@uni-nke.hu)

2. The modernisation of public administration: eGovernment
Supervisor: Dr. Balázs Budai PhD, Head of Dept, associate professor (Budai.BalazsBenjamin@uni-nke.hu)

3. Quality management methods in the service of the public sector
Supervisor: Dr. László Berényi PhD, associate professor (Berenyi.Laszlo@uni-nke.hu)

4. Automation/Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (Special Focus on the Workplace Innovation)
Supervisor: Dr. Csaba Makó DSc, professor emeritus (Mako.Csaba@uni-nke.hu)

5. Learning Economy and Organizational Innovations
Supervisor: Dr. Csaba Makó DSc, professor emeritus (Mako.Csaba@uni-nke.hu)

6. Recent crisis management experience in Hungary and/or in any other country of interest
Supervisor: Dr. Márton Gellén PhD, associate professor (Gellen.Marton@uni-nke.hu)

7. Servitization of Public Services
Supervisor: Dr. Gyula Vastag PhD, professor emeritus (Vastag.Gyula@uni-nke.hu)

8. Media use in public administration
Supervisor: Dr. Gábor Kovács PhD, associate professor (Kovacs.Gabor.Istvan@uni-nke.hu)

9. The communication aspects of cyberspace
Supervisor: Dr. Edina Kriskó PhD, associate professor (Krisko.Edina@uni-nke.hu)

10. Organisational communication in public sector
Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Bajnok PhD, associate professor (Bajnok.Andrea@uni-nke.hu)

11. The impact of artificial intelligence on administrative communication
Supervisor: Dr. Ágnes Veszelszki PhD, Head of Dept, associate professor (Veszelszki.Agnes@uni-nke.hu)

12. Security environment, critical infrastructure protection and its impact on the public
administration system
Supervisor Dr. Tibor Babos PhD, associate professor(ÓE) (babos.tibor@uni-mate.hu)

13. Global knowledge-industry, media science
Supervisor: Dr. Márton Demeter PhD, professor (Demeter.Marton@uni-nke.hu)

14. Trends and socio-cultural effects of synthetic, virtual and AI-driven media
Supervisor: Dr. Katalin Fehér PhD, associate professor (Feher.Katalin@uni-nke.hu)

15. Social integration of diaspores
Supervisor: Dr. Dániel Gazsó PhD, senior research fellow (Gazso.Daniel@uni-nke.hu)

04. Economics

1. Economic Relations of Technological Development
Supervisor: Dr. Péter Halmai, DSc, professor, MHASC (Halmai.Peter@uni-nke.hu)

2. Economic impact of free trade and trade war in the 21st century
Supervisor: Dr. Gábor Kutasi, PhD, Head of Dept, associate professor (Kutasi.Gabor@uni-nke.hu)

3. Guns or butter: Fiscal analysis of trade-off between defense and welfare spending
Supervisor: Dr. Gábor Kutasi, PhD, Head of Dept, associate professor (Kutasi.Gabor@uni-nke.hu)

4. Economic and financial changes in the Subsahara region
Supervisor: Dr. Szabolcs Pásztor, PhD, associate professor (Pasztor.Szabolcs@uni-nke.hu)

5. Current challenges of labour market
Supervisor: Dr. Arnold Tóth, PhD, associate professor (Toth.Arnold@uni-nke.hu)

6. National Competitiveness Strategies in the Age of Rapid Changes
Supervisor: Dr. Magdolna Csath DSc, research professor (PPKE) (Csath.Magdolna@uni-nke.hu)

7. Innovation dynamism and resilience
Supervisor: Dr. Olivér Kovács PhD, senior research fellow (Kovacs.Oliver.Istvan@uni-nke.hu)

8. International and national innovation systems, innovation strategies
Supervisor: Dr. Magdolna Csath DSc, research professor (PPKE) (Csath.Magdolna@uni-nke.hu)

05. Public governance and political science

1. Self-governance as an organization, public tasks and finances
Supervisor: Dr. László Vértesy PhD, associate professor (Vertesy.Laszlo@uni-nke.hu)

2. Financial and Economic Governance
Supervisor: Dr. László Vértesy PhD, associate professor (Vertesy.Laszlo@uni-nke.hu)

3. State-Church Relations in Western Political Systems
Supervisor: Dr. Tamás Nyirkos PhD, senior research fellow (Nyirkos.Tamas@uni-nke.hu)

4. Automatization and the use of Artificial Intelligence at the Public Administration
Supervisor: Dr. Zsolt Ződi PhD, senior research fellow (Zodi.Zsolt@uni-nke.hu)

5. Comparative Constitutionalism
Supervisor: Dr. Gergely Deli PhD, rector, professor (Deli.Gergely@uni-nke.hu)

6. Conceptual and justificatory issues of paternalistic state interventions
Supervisor: Dr. Antal Szerletics PhD, associate professor (Szerletics.Antal@uni-nke.hu)

7. Challenges of government systems in the 21st century: presidentialization
Supervisor: Dr. Fanni Tanács-Mandák PhD, assistant professor (Tanacs-Mandak.Fanni@uni-nke.hu)

8. Government Policies and Sustainable Development
Supervisor: Dr. Norbert Kis PhD, professor (Kis.Norbert@uni-nke.hu)

9. Critical analysis of the concept and practical application of integrated water resources management
Supervisor: Dr. János József Bogárdi PhD, research professor (Bogardi.Janos@uni-nke.hu)

10. Sustainability policies in water, energy and climate governance
Supervisor: Dr. Tamás Pálvölgyi PhD, Head of Dept, associate professor (Palvolgyi.Tamas@uni-nke.hu)

06. International and European studies

1. Euroscepticism, future scenarios, multi-speed Europe and differentiated integration
in the European Union
Supervisor: Dr. Boglárka Koller PhD, professor (Koller.Boglarka@uni-nke.hu)

2. The challenges of identity, migration and multiculturalism in the European Union
Supervisor: Dr. Boglárka Koller PhD, professor (Koller.Boglarka@uni-nke.hu)

3. The political and security challenges of Africa in the 21st century
Supervisor: Dr. Viktor Marsai PhD, associate professor (Marsai.Viktor@uni-nke.hu)

4. Language rights, language policy
Supervisor: Dr. Noémi Nagy PhD, associate professor (NagyNoemi@uni-nke.hu)

5. Challenges of the international protection of human rights, minority rights, and the rights of indigenous peoples
Supervisor: Dr. Noémi Nagy PhD, associate professor (NagyNoemi@uni-nke.hu)

6. The changing power relations in the Middle East
Supervisor: Dr. Erzsébet Nagyné Rózsa DSc, professor (Nagyne.Rozsa.Erzsebet@uni-nke.hu)

7. The role and status of European agencies
Supervisor: Dr. László Szegedi PhD, associate professor (Szegedi.Laszlo@uni-nke.hu)

8. Self-determination of peoples and sovereignty today
Supervisor: Dr. Balázs Vizi PhD, associate professor (Vizi.BalazsZoltan@uni-nke.hu)

9. Human rights and identity issues in international law
Supervisor: Dr. Balázs Vizi PhD, associate professor (Vizi.BalazsZoltan@uni-nke.hu)

10. Theory and Ethics of International Relations: Liberalism, Realism and Conservativism (Communal Callings)
Supervisor: Dr. Mihály Boda PhD, associate professor (Boda.Mihaly@uni-nke.hu)

11. Application and challenges of rules of international humanitarian law (law of war), humanitarian considerations in international law
Supervisor: Dr. Réka Varga PhD, dean, Head of Dept, associate professor (Varga.Reka@uni-nke.hu)

12. European Space Policy
Supervisor: Dr. Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy PhD, Head pf Dept, associate professor (Bartoki-Gonczy.Balazs@uni-nke.hu)

13. Democracy and legitimacy in the EU
Supervisor: Dr. András Varga PhD, assistant professor (VargaAndras@uni-nke.hu)

14. Enviroment policy in the EU
Supervisor: Dr. András Varga PhD, assistant professor (VargaAndras@uni-nke.hu)

15. Global knowledge-industry, media science
Supervisor: Dr. Márton Demeter PhD, professor (Demeter.Marton@uni-nke.hu)

16. Trends and socio-cultural effects of synthetic, virtual and AI-driven media
Supervisor: Dr. Katalin Fehér PhD, associate professor (Feher.Katalin@uni-nke.hu)

17. International Political Discourse Analysis
Supervisor: Éva Jakusné Dr. Harnos, associate professor (Jakusne.Harnos.Eva@uni-nke.hu)

18. International water conflicts: political, legal and institutional aspects
Supervisor: Dr. Gábor Baranyai PhD, assistant professor (Baranyai.Gabor@uni-nke.hu)

07. Human resources and public administration

1. Leadership development and talent management in public administration
Supervisor: Dr. Edit Kajtár PhD, associate professor (Kajtar.Edit@uni-nke.hu)

2. Fighting Corruption and Building Integrity in International Context
Supervisor: Dr. Péter Klotz PhD, associate professor (Klotz.Peter@uni-nke.hu)

3. Further training, leadership development, dilemmas of efficiency analysis
Supervisor Dr. Csilla Paksi-Petró PhD, associate professor (Petro.Csilla@uni-nke.hu)

4. Civil service human resource management practices for managing workforce problems
Supervisor: Dr. Csilla Paksi-Petró PhD, associate professor (Petro.Csilla@uni-nke.hu)

5. Personnel Development Models and their adaptations
Supervisor: Dr. Emese Belényesi PhD, associate professor (Belenyesi.Emese@uni-nke.hu)

The list of supervisors and their professional CVs can be found on the website of the National Doctoral Council here.