Andrea Rajkó

Assistant Professor

⌂ 1111 Budapest, Egry J. u. 1. E.711 ☎ +36 1 463-2657 ✉ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

MTMT

Assistant professor, sociologist, taboo researcher. She completed a PhD programme at the Corvinus University of Budapest: PhD in Social Communication. She wrote her thesis on social mechanisms of creating modern taboos. Research areas: social functions of taboo and secret, communication in arts, means of visual expression, as well as poising career and private life in corporate cultures, especially in case of female executives and top managers.

Education
1996	University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts: Sociology
1997	University of Szeged, Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Studies: Social Worker
1998	University of Theatre and Film Arts: Theory of Motion Picture
1999	ELTE BTK Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities: Media Studies
2015	Corvinus University of Budapest: PhD in Social Communication
Qualification
2009	PhD absolutorium – University of Miskolc
2016	PhD - Corvinus University of Budapest
Language Skills
	German
	English
Research topics
	communication
	visual communication
	sociology of arts
	communication of arts
	women in society
	taboos in society
Courses
	Business and organisational communication
	Arts communication
	Arts history
	Taboos in society
	Communication skills development
Tuition elsewhere
1996-1997	Semmelweis University: Medical sociology
1997-1998	University of Miskolc: Sociology of the family
2000 –	University of Pannonia: Sociology; Communication
Assignments at BMEGTK
	Internship
	Project coordination
Recognition
1992	’Haza és Haladás’ Foundation, 1st prize
1993	OTDK (National Scientific Students' Associations Conference) Keszthely, Special prize
1995	OTDK Esztergom, 3rd prize
1997	OTDK Eger, 1st prize
1998	Pro Scientia Gold Medal
1999	Fáy András Certificate of Merit
Tenders
1994	University of Vienna International Summer Program, Austria, scholarship
1995-1997	’Mozgókép és Befogadás’ Foundation, scholarship
1997-2001	Soros Foundation, Visual Education – Visual Communication
Researches
1996-2001	Visual culture - visual education – media pedagogy
1996-1999	History of the Hungarian Sociology of Arts
2000	Women in technical professions – a survey of qualitative interviews
2000	BME Code of Ethics
2000	Pilot survey for the Institutional Development Plan of BME
2001	OKTK (Public Foundation for Education): Women in technical professions
2001	Publishing and supply of textbooks for higher education. An experiment of online textbooks for higher education. MEH IKB
2001	Visual culture - visual education – media pedagogy. Soros Foundation
2002-2003	Demography and creation of a human environment. NKFP
Participation in national and international conferences
1994	Liberalismus in Europe, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
1997	Bescheffigungs und Sozialpolitk, Berlin
1997	Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
1998	Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Szeged, Hungary – lecturing in the Sociology of Arts section
2000	’Still-life’ conference for PhD students, University of Miskolc, Hungary
2000	’Observed Watching’ professional conference in the art movie Örökmozgó, in Budapest (supported by the Soros Foundation)
2000	Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, a professional conference for social workers, sociologists, psychologists – lecturing (title of the lecture: ’Women in the 21st Century’)
2000	Conference of the Ministry of Social and Family Protection, Budapest, Hungary – lecturing (title of the lecture: ’Women in Technical Professions’
2000	Soros Foundation – lecturing (title of the lecture: ’Visual Education –Media Pedagogy’)
2006	Values and Norms. An Interdisciplinary Approach. ’Values and norms in culture, in education and in the health care system’ section. BME
2015	’IRI Social Sciences Conference’, 26th April 2015, Párkány, Hungary – lecturing (title of the lecture: ’Taboo – The Black Sheep of Our Social Code System’)
2016	’Past and Present of Family’ Conference of the National Rabbinical Seminary and Jewish University, Budapest, 26-27 May 2016 – lecturing (title of the lecture: ’Educational Traditions of Jewish Families – in the Light of Anthropological Research’ by A. Rajkó – A. A. Gergely)
Scientific and public activities, memberships
	Hungarian Sociological Association
	Hungarian Amateur Film Association
	Professional Committee of the Social Sciences section of OTDK (National Scientific Students' Associations Conference)
	Association of Pro Scientia Gold Medalists
	Communicatio Alumni Association
	Hungarian Communication Science Association