Practical information

Meetings of the Faculty Doctoral Council (TTDT)

TTDT next meeting session (September 27, 2024)

Requests can be sent before September 19, 2024 to the Faculty Doctoral Council if, for instance, students need to change their research topics, supervisors, or need to find a co-supervisor. Those, who are uncertain whether their case is a subject of consideration for the TTDT, please contact us via email at doktori@tatk.elte.hu

• General request form for the TTDT

Information on and minutes of the Public discussion of the first full draft of the dissertation

Prior to the submission of the doctoral dissertation, students need to organise the public discussion of the first full draft of their dissertation. The opinions of two opponents (suggested and invited by the student’s supervisor) holding academic degrees shall be sought for the discussion. The department in charge of the relevant academic field (the department of the student’s supervisor) shall help the student organise the event, i.e., invite the lecturers contributing to the doctoral programme, core members and topic supervisors researching the given topic at other universities and notable academic experts in the given field.

• Minutes of the Public Discussion of the first full draft of the dissertation

Information on and forms for the Public Defence

• Application for initiating the critique procedure
• The public defence procedure
• Formal requirements of the dissertation
• Declaration form for disclosure of a doctoral dissertation
• Minutes of the public defence

Other information

Information on the recognition of teaching and scientific credits

Since September 2021, some of the duties formerly performed by the doctoral administration have been transferred to the Academic Registrar’s Office. From now on, with issues concerning registration, the course registration, the recognition of credits in the Electronic Registration System (Neptun), the student’s register and the operation of the Electronic Registration System students should contact the Academic Registrar’s Office instead of the doctoral administrators.

A request for the acceptance of credits for scientific and teaching modules can be submitted 4 times per academic year (it will be possible to do so twice a semester) as follows:

Deadline for submission via Neptun: September 30, December 31, March 31, May 31.

Deadline for decision on the request: October 31, January 31, April 30, June 30.

Information on the submission deadline of doctoral theses

The basis of calculating the deadline of submitting the dissertation is the successful comprehensive examination (complex exam).

For those students who passed their complex exam before the end of the 1st semester of the academic year 2017/2018 (that is until January 31, 2018) the deadline is 3 calendar years + 211 days from the date of the complex exam.

For those students who passed their complex exam between February 1, 2018 and May 10, 2021 the deadline is 4 academic years counted from the date of the complex exam. (The end of the academic year is always August 31.)

Based on the above

Those who passed the complex exam in the 2nd semester of 2017/2018 (between February 1, 2018 and August 31, 2018) must submit their dissertation until August 31, 2022;

Those who passed the complex exam in the academic year 2018/2019 (between September 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019) must submit their dissertation until August 31, 2023;

Those who passed the complex exam in the academic year 2019/2020 (between September 1, 2019 and August 31, 2020) must submit their dissertation until August 31, 2024;

Those who passed the complex exam in the academic year 2020/2021 (between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021) must submit their dissertation until August 31, 2025.

For students who passed their complex exam after May 10, 2021 the deadline is 3 academic years from the date of the complex exam. The deadline of submitting the dissertation in their case is August 31, 2024.

Please note, that passive semesters DO NOT PROLONG the above deadlines.

• Information on available subsidies

Guidelines

• Requirements concerning the use of literary sources and references at ELTE TáTK 
• Information about predatory conferences and journals 

Dear Colleagues, dear Students,

The so-called anti-paedophilia law passed by the Hungarian parliament yesterday blurs the distinction between paedophilia (when minors become victims of sexual violence) with homosexuality and the personal choice or definition of gender (where it is about mutual agreement in two people’s partner selection or a person’s right to self-determination and there are no victims). The law is therefore suitable for stigmatizing and inducing hatred against social groups. We know from historical experience the dire consequences of hatred exacerbated by political-legal means against an identifiable group of the country's inhabitants.

We also know from historical experience how quickly stigma, exclusion, and hatred induced in society — especially when the school system and media are also used as means to promote them — can infiltrate the field of social sciences.

Therefore, as the leaders of one of the largest Hungarian doctoral schools training social scientists, university lecturers and experts, we would like to make it clear that this will not happen in our doctoral school. As before, we continue to welcome all students, faculty members and supervisors, whether or not they belong to the LGBTQI community, and we shall not apply any preferences or dispreferences as to the choice of LGBTQI research topics.

Budapest, June 16, 2021

Tamás Rudas
Head of the Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

Éva Orosz
Head of the Social Policy Doctoral Programme

Antal Örkény
Head of the Sociology Doctoral Programme

György Csepeli
Head of the Interdisciplinary Social Research Doctoral Programme

Balázs Majtényi
Head of the International Studies Doctoral Programme