Employment History
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2024: Head of Institute / Corvinus University / HU
2022-25: Head of Department / Corvinus University / HU
2021-: Associate Professor / Corvinus University / HU
2013-21: Lecturer / Newcastle University / UK
2010-13: Lecturer / Northumbria University / UK
2007-9: Marie Curie Fellow / Uni of Amsterdam / NL
2006-7: Jean Monnet Fellow / European Univ. Institute / IT
2002-5: PhD in Sociology / Corvinus University / HU
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Head of the Institute of Social & Political Sciences
Associate Professor with Habilitation
Corvinus University of Budapest 
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Adél Pásztor is an Associate Professor of Sociology (with Habilitation) and Head of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at Corvinus University of Budapest. She rejoined her alma mater in 2021, bringing with her a distinguished international academic track record that spans Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK.

Dr. Pásztor earned her PhD in Sociology from Corvinus University in 2005, during which she was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford under the mentorship of Professor Anthony Heath, then Head of the Department of Sociology. Following her doctorate, she was awarded two prestigious postdoctoral fellowships: first, as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European Forum 2006-7), and subsequently as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2007-9), where she was part of the TIES ("The European Second Generation") project.

In 2010, she relocated to the UK to take up a permanent lectureship at Northumbria University, where she taught across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and contributed to departmental research and ethics committees. From 2013 to 2021, she held a faculty position at Newcastle University. There, she served as Admissions Tutor for Sociology (2017–2020), convened the Power, Inequality, and Citizenship research cluster (2015–2017), and was recognized with the NUSU Teaching Excellence Award (Taught Supervisor of the Year, 2017).

Since returning to Corvinus, she has served as Head of the Department of Sociology (2022-25) and has been actively involved in institutional governance—as an elected member of the University Senate, a member of the Institute Council, and a member of the Academic Tenure and Promotion Subcommittee. She convened the Global Mobility research group and also led the Strategic Working Group on Faculty & Staff Wellbeing and Community, underscoring her ongoing commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive academic environment. As of December 16, 2024, she was appointed Acting Head of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, and as of July 2025, she has been serving as Head of the Institute for a four-year term.

Externally, Dr Pásztor is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (since 2011) and a longstanding member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education (since 2017). From January 2026 onward, she will serve as Executive Editor of BJSE. She is an active peer reviewer for top-tier journals such as American Sociological Review, Sociological Perspectives, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education. She also reviews book proposals for leading academic publishers (Palgrave Macmillan, SAGE, Polity, Routledge) and grant applications for major funding bodies including the ESRC, AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, and UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships and the MSCA doctoral network.

​A strong advocate for early-career scholars, Dr Pásztor is a founding member of the EducEight Group, which has organised numerous international workshops and conferences for PhD students and early-career researchers since 2007. She has also played a leading role in the Marie Curie Alumni Association, where she chaired the Career Development Working Group.