Research Interests

Sociology of education, Ethnography of education, Roma education, policy sociology

Selected Publications

Neumann, Eszter; Ildikó Zakariás, Margit Feischmidt; Viola Zentai & Csilla Zsigmond (2025). The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2565338

Neumann, Eszter (2024). How churches make education policy: the churchification of Hungarian education and the social question under religious populism. Religion, State and Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2024.2399452

Neumann, Eszter & Pawel Rudnicki (2023). Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2211935

Neumann, Eszter (2022) Education for a Christian nation: Religion and nationalism in the Hungarian education policy discourse, European Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.1177/14749041211072691

Feischmidt, Margit & Eszter Neumann (2022) The Political Aspects of Solidarity Mobilizations in the Context of Shrinking Civil Society During the First Wave of COVID-19, European Societies. pp. 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2022.2100443

Neumann, Eszter, Sharon Gewirtz, Meg Maguire & Emma Towers (2020) Neoconservative education policy and the case of the English Baccalaureate, Journal of Curriculum Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2019.1708466

Neumann, Eszter (2019) Setting by numbers: datafication processes and ability grouping in an English secondary school, Journal of Education Policy, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2019.1646322

Neumann, Eszter (2017) ‘Fast and violent integration’: school desegregation in a Hungarian town, Race Ethnicity and Education, 20:5, 579-594, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1191696

Research Projects

Current projects

Ecologies of Higher Education EHEI MSCA Staff Exchanges (2025-29), PI: Eszter Neumann

Church Education Policies, Transforming Education Spaces (2024-26) MTA Bolyai János Research Fellowship

Finished projects

The growing role of the churches in public education and educatin policy-making (2020-24), PI: Eszter Neumann 

Helping Displaced People from Ukraine: Collective Forms and Social Contexts of solidarity (2022-), PI: Margit Feischmidt

The School is not an Island (2016-21), PI: Attila Papp Z.

Changing state-church relations in Hungarian public education (2019-20), PI: Eszter Neumann 

Solidarity as an answer to the crisis caused by the pandemic: actions and discourses (2020-22), PI: Margit Feischmidt

Hungarian students in the UK (2018-19), within Mobility Research Centre (principal investigator: Imre Kovách), responsible for subprogramme: Eszter Neumann