Professor Erzsébet Bukodi

Erzsébet Bukodi is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, The Oxford Martin School. She joined the Department as Associate Professor in Quantitive Social Policy in January 2012 and was appointed full professor in 2020. Erzsébet previously worked as Research Director of the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London. Prior to this, she was a senior research fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany, a Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and was Head of Section of Social Stratification in the Department of Social Statistics of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Budapest. 

She has been Principle Investigator of an ESRC research project on the role of education in intergenerational social mobility in the UK. Currently she is Principle Investigator of a University of Oxford Fell Fund project on changing role of social origins in educational attainment in Europe from a historical and comparative perspective and a Nuffield Foundation project on social origins, cognitive ability and educational attainment from a birth cohort and life-course perspective.