Rita Hordósy
@rhordosy.bsky.social
Sociologist | Higher education | Research/teaching nexus | HE transitions and widening access | International comparative education | Associate Professor at UONottingham | Sheffield-based | Views my own https://www.rhordosy.com/
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Rita Hordósy
@rhordosy.bsky.social
· Nov 27
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What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves
😀Many congratulations! @rhordosy.bsky.social Meryem Betül Yasdiman & Gabriel Chun-Yeung Lee
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves
😀Many congratulations! @rhordosy.bsky.social Meryem Betül Yasdiman & Gabriel Chun-Yeung Lee
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves
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. Us...
www.tandfonline.com
✨📝New open access paper in which we explore Norwegian, Hungarian and English sociology students' views of the possible roles, audiences, outputs, and organisational settings of a future sociologist. Long time in the making, but superb collab with Betül and Gabriel
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
A great discussion with amazing colleagues; catching up with @pallavibanerjee.bsky.social was the icing on the cake. We have superb seminars planned for @srhe.bsky.social #SAEN for 2026, watch this space!
Say hi at the SRHE conference in Nottingham next month! srhe.ac.uk/internationa...
Say hi at the SRHE conference in Nottingham next month! srhe.ac.uk/internationa...
Was part of a panel with @rhordosy.bsky.social , @mannymadriaga.bsky.social and @soniailie.bsky.social as @srhe.bsky.social network convenors talking about wider widening participation dynamics for Cambridge Faculty of Education's new THRiVE research group.
www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/gro...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A great discussion with amazing colleagues; catching up with @pallavibanerjee.bsky.social was the icing on the cake. We have superb seminars planned for @srhe.bsky.social #SAEN for 2026, watch this space!
Say hi at the SRHE conference in Nottingham next month! srhe.ac.uk/internationa...
Say hi at the SRHE conference in Nottingham next month! srhe.ac.uk/internationa...
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@mannymadriaga.bsky.social is leading a #ESRC funded project drawing on Black, mad and disability studies to explore and enhance the mental health of Black students in four English universities.
Project details: bit.ly/3KZOBk4
Project details: bit.ly/3KZOBk4
Amplifying the mental health of Black university students: A Black, Mad and Disability Studies Intersectional Inquiry - The University of Nottingham
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October 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
@mannymadriaga.bsky.social is leading a #ESRC funded project drawing on Black, mad and disability studies to explore and enhance the mental health of Black students in four English universities.
Project details: bit.ly/3KZOBk4
Project details: bit.ly/3KZOBk4
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Darker times ahead
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Darker times ahead
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Are you a graduate who started their university journey in the first years of the 9K fees? If so, please consider contributing to this important research project lead by my colleague Farhana Ghaffar
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Are you a graduate who started their university journey in the first years of the 9K fees? If so, please consider contributing to this important research project lead by my colleague Farhana Ghaffar
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
I can't quite believe that @seatsixtyone.bsky.social was on the same Eurostar and sat next to us in the bar in Brussels before boarding different night trains.
July 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I can't quite believe that @seatsixtyone.bsky.social was on the same Eurostar and sat next to us in the bar in Brussels before boarding different night trains.
Going to work after a lovely weekend. Glad S. doesn't know this was left in my coat pocket by accident...
July 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Going to work after a lovely weekend. Glad S. doesn't know this was left in my coat pocket by accident...
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JOB : Join RoRI as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Metascience
https://researchonresearch.org/join-rori-as-a-research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-in-metascience/
Closing 9th of July, based in London/hybrid. Full time, fixed term until 31/12/2027
(apologies for late notice, full […]
https://researchonresearch.org/join-rori-as-a-research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-in-metascience/
Closing 9th of July, based in London/hybrid. Full time, fixed term until 31/12/2027
(apologies for late notice, full […]
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July 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
JOB : Join RoRI as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Metascience
https://researchonresearch.org/join-rori-as-a-research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-in-metascience/
Closing 9th of July, based in London/hybrid. Full time, fixed term until 31/12/2027
(apologies for late notice, full […]
https://researchonresearch.org/join-rori-as-a-research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-in-metascience/
Closing 9th of July, based in London/hybrid. Full time, fixed term until 31/12/2027
(apologies for late notice, full […]
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Our ballot results are in!
-63% of members voted
-84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike
-72% of voting members said YES to strike action
Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!
-63% of members voted
-84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike
-72% of voting members said YES to strike action
Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!
July 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Our ballot results are in!
-63% of members voted
-84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike
-72% of voting members said YES to strike action
Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!
-63% of members voted
-84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike
-72% of voting members said YES to strike action
Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!
Thanks to Fidesz banning Pride, the 30th seems to have become the biggest celebration to date 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
444.hu/kepek/2025/0...
444.hu/kepek/2025/0...
Így nézett ki a Budapest Pride-os tömeg az Erzsébet hídon
Itt és így ment át Budára a százezres tömeg a Szabadság híd helyett.
444.hu
June 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks to Fidesz banning Pride, the 30th seems to have become the biggest celebration to date 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
444.hu/kepek/2025/0...
444.hu/kepek/2025/0...
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Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies.
Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated.
People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated.
People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...
zenodo.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies.
Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated.
People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated.
People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
Fabulous week and a bit in Scotland, visiting our lovely friends along the way. First time S. has been and we managed to see dolphins too 🐬
June 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fabulous week and a bit in Scotland, visiting our lovely friends along the way. First time S. has been and we managed to see dolphins too 🐬
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#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: to be or not to be
the "be" verb is never straightforward, just look at the unbearable lightness of being in english, i can "am", you can "are", and he can "is", but not only do they not look like they're the same word, they definitely don't look anything like "be"
the "be" verb is never straightforward, just look at the unbearable lightness of being in english, i can "am", you can "are", and he can "is", but not only do they not look like they're the same word, they definitely don't look anything like "be"
May 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: to be or not to be
the "be" verb is never straightforward, just look at the unbearable lightness of being in english, i can "am", you can "are", and he can "is", but not only do they not look like they're the same word, they definitely don't look anything like "be"
the "be" verb is never straightforward, just look at the unbearable lightness of being in english, i can "am", you can "are", and he can "is", but not only do they not look like they're the same word, they definitely don't look anything like "be"
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You are warmly invited to join us in Nottingham to discuss internationalisation of higher education in challenging times; with an amazing line up of speakers 👇🏼 attendance is free with lunch provided. but please register for catering purpose: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio... @m
May 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
You are warmly invited to join us in Nottingham to discuss internationalisation of higher education in challenging times; with an amazing line up of speakers 👇🏼 attendance is free with lunch provided. but please register for catering purpose: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio... @m
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This really is the 'high point' of the neoliberal experiment, where everything is reduced to income streams and the public good aspects of a university, such its anchoring role in local regions, are no longer considered important if they don't make money.
And the government does/says nothing.
And the government does/says nothing.
Being considered for redundancies:
- 63 senior lecturer
- 17 associate professors
- 11 lecturers
- one research assistant, one senior research fellow, one reader
'Jobs are being sacrificed as DMU is asset stripped for Dubai and London franchises.'
#UKHE
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...
- 63 senior lecturer
- 17 associate professors
- 11 lecturers
- one research assistant, one senior research fellow, one reader
'Jobs are being sacrificed as DMU is asset stripped for Dubai and London franchises.'
#UKHE
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...
94 jobs at risk at Leicester university amid redundancy threat
One department could be hit by a 45 per cent reduction in staff
www.leicestermercury.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This really is the 'high point' of the neoliberal experiment, where everything is reduced to income streams and the public good aspects of a university, such its anchoring role in local regions, are no longer considered important if they don't make money.
And the government does/says nothing.
And the government does/says nothing.
Superb days in Hungary with colleagues, friends, and most importantly, family. Probably the longest time I have spent away from S., and can't wait for a hug now...
Otthon / Itthon
Otthon / Itthon
May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Superb days in Hungary with colleagues, friends, and most importantly, family. Probably the longest time I have spent away from S., and can't wait for a hug now...
Otthon / Itthon
Otthon / Itthon
Legislating away independent media is apparently the next on the to-do list...
insighthungary.444.hu/2025/05/14/o...
insighthungary.444.hu/2025/05/14/o...
Orban's promised spring cleaning: New bill targets NGOs and the free press - InsightHungary
In March, Orbán held a speech about a “shadow army” of critics supposedly funded by foreign powers, pledging to do a “spring cleaning” before the elections
insighthungary.444.hu
May 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Legislating away independent media is apparently the next on the to-do list...
insighthungary.444.hu/2025/05/14/o...
insighthungary.444.hu/2025/05/14/o...
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Great piece from @sallygimson.bsky.social highlighting the conflict of interests between @timeshighered.bsky.social ‘s reporting & ranking functions in view of their contract with the Hungarian government to get a university into the top 100 by 2030. www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/05/hung...
Uniting in Budapest to cleanse the image of Hungarian universities - Index on Censorship
Hungary's approach to academic freedom is being rewritten with the help of a prominent British educational magazine, argues Sally Gimson
www.indexoncensorship.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Great piece from @sallygimson.bsky.social highlighting the conflict of interests between @timeshighered.bsky.social ‘s reporting & ranking functions in view of their contract with the Hungarian government to get a university into the top 100 by 2030. www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/05/hung...
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And because it's bad and wrong to treat people like threats just because they're foreign. We could lead with that occasionally.
Reducing international student numbers ‘would make UK poorer’.
The government has been warned not to “make the UK poorer by curtailing international student migration” after an analysis identified HE as the country’s most widespread export.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
The government has been warned not to “make the UK poorer by curtailing international student migration” after an analysis identified HE as the country’s most widespread export.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Reducing international student numbers ‘would make UK poorer’ - Research Professional News
Higher education export value “tops £20bn” and is “more widespread” than pharmaceuticals and car manufacturing
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
And because it's bad and wrong to treat people like threats just because they're foreign. We could lead with that occasionally.
It's been a pleasure to work with Zihao throughout these years and amazing to have witnessed a supportive viva discussing his research. Congrats! 🎓
May 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's been a pleasure to work with Zihao throughout these years and amazing to have witnessed a supportive viva discussing his research. Congrats! 🎓
... poverty didn't exist in the socialist era either, just ask SZETA. The weaponisation of admin data; as seen elsewhere, the next step is to just stop collecting info
‼️🤯 Astonishing: Viktor Orbán’s gov’t very likely manipulated Hungary’s income stats in the late 2010s–early 2020s by inflating the number of households just above the poverty line, Valasz Online reveals.
The goal: make living standards look better than they were: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/05/06/h...
The goal: make living standards look better than they were: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/05/06/h...
May 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
... poverty didn't exist in the socialist era either, just ask SZETA. The weaponisation of admin data; as seen elsewhere, the next step is to just stop collecting info