Public Lecture of Professor Martin Kreidl

Its most recent incarnation was scheduled to commence in Czechia in October 2020, i.e. the plan (which was developed 3 years earlier) overlapped with a peaking COVID pandemics. In his lecture, Prof. Kreidl will provide a methodological overview of the fieldwork including several major modifications that were introduced in response to the pandemics. He will also provide empirical data to assess each of these steps. Based on this experience, Prof. Kreidl will draw general conclusions regarding the future practice of survey data collection. He will argue that the pandemics only speeded up societal processes that had been ongoing for a long time. I will propose several steps that are needed for surveys to remain a central and reliable data source in social science.

Prof. Martin Kreidl is a social demographer affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the Office for Population Studies at Masaryk University. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005. His research focuses on social inequality and demography in a comparative perspective. He is especially interested in issues related to intergenerational status inheritance, intragenerational labor market mobility, family formation and dissolution, household composition, and patterns of intergenerational exchange.

The event is organized by the Doctoral School of Sociology at ELTE.

_{The lecture is supported by the EU-funded Hungarian grant EFOP-3.6.3.-VEKOP-16-2017-00007.}