Dr. habil. Kinga Szabó-Tóth studied sociology, community development, coaching and social research methodology at different universities including the University of Miskolc [Hungary], University of Manchester [UK], obtained her PhD at the Corvinus University of Budapest [Hungary], and also has a habilitation degree from the University of Debrecen ([Hungary]. Since 2008, she is associate professor and also the director of Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Miskolc, Hungary, also teaching at several universities in Hungary. Previously, Szabó-Tóth held Marie Curie fellowship at the CCSR, University of Manchester, and has been a visiting lecturer in several European universities under the Erasmus mobility programme. Szabó-Tóth is a member of the Board of the Hungarian Sociological Association, and also is a member of the Public Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as well as the member of the Sociological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her previous books include BUILDING FROM SCARCITY. Applied sociology research on disadvantage and disadvantage compensation, University of Miskolc, 2023 and IDENTITY OF SUCCESSFUL GYPSIES IN ENGLAND AND HUNGARY, L'Harmattan Publisher, 2008. Her papers have been published by, among other outlets SZELLEM ÉS TUDOMÁNY, SZOCIOLÓGIAI SZEMLE, and SZÁZADVÉG.