For me the research and practice are strongly related to each other. I like to gain the research inspiration from the social groups I am entering. In my spare time I like to do social activism and excange knowledge on local, national and international level as well.
Doing so by being part of the organization of the local short food supply chain, or by the development of the institutional group of our trade union; taking part in the discussion on the cooperative forum of the public service trade unions in Hungary and representing the confederation in the international arena as well.
Facing the emerging natural and social changes in the context of climate change, I find even more important to search for the new and existing democratic decision making institutions and practices, to restructure the way we act upon this crisis.
In my research I would like to discribe how the differences in the evaluated values and attributed functions of the trade union can modify the way members and non-members make representation of the crisis; which aspect they find more important, and how they imagine the way of coping or acting on it as part of a group.
In another ongoing study I would like to have a closer look on how the position to crisis modifies the way people judje thhe role of their communities in theire life.
On the other way around I would also like to see how the judgment of their communities in the first place influences the way they think about the crisis they face. In both cases I use questionnaire metodology, including free association task, open ended questions and scales.
Although in my later researces I want to combine these with more enthnometodological elements. The main aims are to empasize how the macrosocial and microcultural narratives narrows the imagination about the crisis management, at the same time how the community level and other solutions based on social values could be empowered effectively.