Dr. Pal Tamas

VITA SYNOPSIS

Pal TAMAS PhD

Director

Professor of Communication

Institute of Sociology,

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Budapest

EDUCATION:

M.A. Kiev Institute of Technology, Kiev, USSR, Electric Engineering and
Computer Science, 1971.

Dr.oec. Karl Marx University, Budapest, Macroeconomics and Economic Planning,
1977.

Ph.D. Hungarian Academy Sciences, Budapest, Sociology, 1981.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1972-74 Research Fellow, Bureau for Research, International Organization
of Journalists, Budapest

1974-78 Scientific Secretary and Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

1978- Senior Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

1983 Visiting Fellow: British Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities, London, UK

1985 American Studies Fellow, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

1989-1991 Director of Research - Hungarian Institute for Public Opinion Research, Budapest

1991 Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA

1991-1992 Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Qc, Canada

1995-1996 Guest Scientist, WZB, Berlin

1991-1998 Director, Institute of Social Conflict Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

1998- Director, Institut of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1976-81 Hungarian School of Journalism, Budapest (part-time)

1984-91 Graduate School of Applied Art and Design, Budapest Associate Professor

1992-98 Eötvös Loránd University, Institute for Sociology; Post-Graduate Center for Journalism, Budapest, Co-Director

1992-95 graduete courses, Eötvös Lorand University, Institute of Sociology, Budapest

1993-98 Graduate School of Architecture, Budapest Technical University

1998-2002 Széchenyi Professor of Communication, Budapest University of Economics

1999- Budapest Technical University, PhD Program on Science Policy Studies

Other Courses:

1991-1992 Central European University, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Political Technology of Reforms in Eastern Europe, I, II, III

1991 Weslayan University, Middletown, CT, USA

Soviet Politics

Society and Politics in Eastern Europe

1992 Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

East European Politics

1992 Concordia University, Montreal, Qc, Canada

Social Forecasting and Mass Communication

Soviet and East European Social and Political Transformation

1995-1996 Frei Universität, Berlin,

Comparative Studies of the Post-Socialist Transformation

1996-1998 Techical University of Vienna, Austria

Introduction to Technology Policy Studies

1997- Academia Istropolitana Nova, Bratislava, Slovakia- comparative course on Post-communist transiton

1992-2002 St.Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences, International Summer School on the Sociology of Science

MAJOR EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS:

1. Methodology of Social Forecasting, 1972-73

2. Science-Technology Interactions in the Chemical Industry of Hungary, 1972-74

3. Regional Science Policy Models (West Hungarian Regional Applications), 1974-75

4. Social Parameters of Computer Applications in Large Organizations (Hungarian Oil and Gas Industry), 1975-79

5. COMECON Engineers & Scientists Survey (Hungary-GDR-Bulgaria), 1979-80

6. Soviet-Hungarian Environmental Policy Project, 1981-83

7. R&D Policy Issues in the Information Technology (National Policy Making in Hungary and Eastern Europe), 1981-84

8. Hungarian National Program on Social Impact of Information Technologies (Main Coordinator of the Program), 1986-90

9. Social and Political Considerations of Rebirth of the Modern Hungarian Sociology, 1987-90

10. Media Elites in the East European Transformation, 1990-91 [UNESCO]

11. Transborder environmental conflict-Solving (EU Project), 1993-95

12. The East-European Brain Drain-Forecasting and Evaluation (CEU Project), 1994-95

13. The Changing Hungarian Political Culture after 1989. Longitudinal Survey, 1990-94

14. Intellectual Elites in the EE Transformation (Budapest-Warsaw-St.Petersburg), 1994-96

15. Social space for church policies (Hungarian Survey) 1995, 1997,2000

16. Business Elites in the EE Transformation 1996-97

17. Small European Nations in the Information Society, 1998-99 [EU Tempus]

18. Social Perception of Science and Technology in Hungary- National survey 1998-99

19. Innovation Chusters in the Transformation Economics, 1998-99 [OECD]

20. Networks of Innovation and the Knowledge Elites in Hungary, 1998-99 [EU ACE]

21. Weltanschauung and Enviromental visions of national elites in Hungary –survey 2000

22. Intercultural Differences in Disasters [the 1999 Flood in Hungary and the Ukraine]

23. The TISZA Project [Nature, Modernization, Social Capital and the State along the Tisza River] -2002 survey

24. State and modernization in the perception of local elites –survey in Hungary and Romania -2002

25. Sustainable Hungary Task Force- co-ordination and research [National Council of Environment]- 2001-2002

26. Nuclear Risk Perception in Hungary –local and national surveys- 2001

ACTUAL PROJECTS:

1. Postdisciplinary Knowledge Production- Social Impacts and Expert Strategies- OTKA project 2003-2005

2. Mobility of highly skilled manpower and the EU Eastern Enlargement- Ministry of Labour, 2003

3. Social Communication Networks and Telecommunication Strategies in a Large city [Szonda-Ipsos survey]- 2003

4. Public perception of the EU- national survey 2003 [Foreign Ministry]

5. European Co-operative Networks in the Hungarian R+D system [survey, 2003- Ministry of Education]

6. Risk perception and natural disasters- NATO CCMS Project-2003

7. the Transeuropean Civil Society- EU V. Framework project-2003-2004

8. Social Science Conceptual Networks in Europe- EU V. Framework project 2003-2004

9. Labour policy-skill network- EU V. Framework project- 2003-2004

AWARDS:

1982 Erdei Ferenc Award of the Hungarian Sociological Association

1985 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

1988 National Award for Education of the Youth (Hungary)

1990 Award of the Hungarian Broadcasting Corporation (Rádió nivódíj)

1998-2002 Széchenyi Professorship

1998- Hungarian Academy of Engineering, Member

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, AFFILIATIONS:

1. JEL-KÉP (Sign), Hungarian Communications' Quarterly - Editor -1988-91, Member of the Board - 1992-

2. International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociology of Science - Board Member 1986-1994

3. International Sociological Association, Working Group on Environment and Society - Board Member 1990-1994

4. International Council for Science Policy Studies - Board Member, 1993-2001

5. Hungarian Sociological Association - Secretary of the Sociology of Science Section 1986-1994

6. Culture and Society of East-Central Europe Program
Dubrovnik Inter-University Centre for Post-graduate Studies - Director of Courses 1988-1990 and 1999-2002

7. KUTATÁS-FEJLESZTÉS (R&D), Hungarian Bi-Monthly - Member of the Editorial Board, 1989-1994

8. VENGERSZKIJ MERIDIAN (Hungarian Social Science Magazine in Russian) - Member of the Editorial Board, 1989-91

9. TÁRSADALOMKUTATAS (Social Research) - member of the Editorial Board, 1995-

10. Informationszentrum für Sozialwissenschaften- GESIS, Bonn - Member of the Beirat 1995-2002

11. Hungarian National Science Foundation, Social Science Board 1995-1998

12. Stanford Institute for Advanced Studies, Member of the East European Advisory Board 1995-1996

13. St. Petersburg Summer School for Social Studies of Science, Russia, Board Member 1992-

14. Hungarian Sociological Association, President, 1997-1999

15. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Sociology Board- 1992-

16. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, General Assembly- member -1997-

17. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Social Science Center, Board member-2000-

18. SZOCIOLÓGIAI SZEMLE [Hungarian Sociological Review]- quarterly- member of the Advisory Board- 2000-

19. EUROPA 2002 Quarterly – member of the Editorial Board- 1999-

20. European Consortium for Media Research- Trustee 2002-

21. International Network on Critical Sociology –Senior Member- 2002-

ADVISORY POSITIONS:

1. Advisory Group on Science Policy, Hungarian Government - Permanent Member, 1987-89

2. UNESCO Science Policy Division, Ad-hoc Group, 1983

3. United Nations University, Tokyo, Ad-hoc Group, 1988-89

4. COMECON Science Policy Divisions, Ad-hoc Groups, 1972-89

5. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Evaluation Board - Member, 1986-1996

6. Hungarian State Committee of Technical Development, Ad-hoc Study Groups, 1972-2002

7. Ministry of Environment, Advisor of the Minister, Budapest, 1994-

8. Media Reform Communitte (RAK-Bizottság) - Hungarian Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-1997

9. Hungarian National Comission of UNESCO, Vice President, 1997-2002

10. Foreign Ministry, European Enlargement Task Force, Member, 1996-1998

11. HIF Hungarian Telecommunication Authority, Presidential Advisor, 1998-2001

12. Hungarian Communication Authority, Program Committee, 1996-2000

PUBLIC POSITIONS

Free Press Foundation- 1995- curator
Jozsef Attila Foundation of Culture- 1995- curator
Ombudswomen Feminist Foundation- 1994- curator
Bolyai National Science Award Foundation -1998-2001 – curator
Europe 2002 Foundation – 1998- curator
Vodaphone Social Foundation- 2002- curator

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Hungarian, English, Russian, German, French, Polish, other Slavic languages

PERSONAL DATA:

Office Address: Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1014 Budapest, Úri u. 49.

Home Address: 1061 Budapest, Király utca 18, III. 7.

Telephones: (361) 224-6740 (office)

(361) 268-9730 (home)

Fax: (361) 224-6741

Date of Birth: October 25, 1948

Citizenship: Hungarian