Our PhD Program “Interdisciplinary Social Sciences” is one of the programs (No. 4/3.) at the PhD School of Semmelweis University and it is administered by staff members at the Institute of Mental Health. The language of instruction in the program is Hungarian. The program focuses on individuals, families and communities with successful life strategies and problem-solving skills, and it applies mental health aspects and an interdisciplinary research approach.

Our Hungarian website: https://semmelweis.hu/mental/doktori-kepzes/ 

The PhD Program is co-ordinated by Prof. Beáta DÁVID. The research topics and focus areas of the program are as follows:

  • factors contributing to the physical and mental well-being of individuals, couples, families and communities
  • mobilising social and community relationships,
  • value systems and symbolic capital (e.g. ideologies, religion),
  • maintaining and developing individual resources,
  • institutional forms of promoting physical and mental well-being.

Supervisors and proposed research topics in the PhD Program:

  • FRUZSINA ALBERT : The analysis of interpersonal relationships and physical/mental health from a sociological perspective 
  • GERGŐ BARANYI: The impact of air pollution and other environmental factors on early childhood development
  • VERONIKA BÓNÉ : The relationship between having children and mental health; the social context of having children
  • ILDIKÓ DANIS: The impact of early experiences, parenting and family relationships on early childhood and later life development and mental health
  • BEÁTA DÁVID : Mental health and social capital: psycho-social resources of individual, family and community
  • PÉTER GAÁL: The function and significance of the human and social capital  in the healthcare system
  • ÉVA HUSZTI: The Role of Social Support in Quality of Life
  • TAMÁS JOÓ: Digital healthcare and data-driven solutions in the 21st century
  • MÁTÉ JOÓB: The relationship between religiosity and forgiveness; examining forgiveness as a prosocial change
  • JUDIT LÁM: Patient safety – health and social context
  • ANETT MÁRIA LELESZI-TRÓBERT: Individual and social dimensions of active ageing and care
  • TAMÁS MARTOS : The role of personal goals and life goals in positive mental health: individual, social and societal approaches
  • BALÁZS MATUSZKA: A multilevel examination of the psychosocial determinants of physical and mental health
  • ENDRE NAGY : Social and Religious Theories on Normal and Pathologic Behaviours
  • ZSUZSANNA PAPP : Examination of the psychosocial well-being of children, young people and their families living with chronic illness
  • MELINDA PÉNZES : Health security challenges related to smoking and other behavioural risk factors for major health loss and health cybersecurity
  • ATTILA PILINSZKI : Family Well-being in the 21st Century
  • PÉTER POLLNER : Data-based disease burden studies
  • GABRIELLA PUSZTAI: Theoritical and empirical application of social capital concept in investigation of religious communities
  • MIKLÓS SZÓCSKA: Impact of eHealth solutions on the health care system and the shortage of health care workers
  • ÉVA SZTÁRAY KÉZDY: Changing parental roles in Hungary today
  • SZABOLCS TÖRÖK: Mental health and social aspects of preventive health care
  • PÁL PÉTER TÓTH: Social and mental health aspects of preventive approach to health protection
  • IBOLYA TÚRI: Individual, community and social determinants of the well-being and quality of life of people with disabilities

The English website of the PhD School of the University can be accessed here: http://phd.semmelweis.hu/en/