Karmen Svastics
Karmen Svastics
Assistant Professor
Full Member
Contact details
Address
1097 Budapest, Ecseri út 3.
Room
B/307
Phone/Extension
5520
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  • 5. Social sciences
    • 5.2 Economics and Business
      • Business and Management
    • 5.9 Other social sciences
      • interdisciplinary
entrepreneurs with disabilities and work inclusion

The Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Research Group at the Budapest Business School started its work in 2018. First the motivation, barriers and supportive factors were in the focus of  exploratory research, especially regarding the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Later the topic of freedom and the effects of ableism on the labour market became aspects of research analysis. 

Further information in Hungarian: https://budapestlab.hu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Working-Paper-Series-12-2020.pdf

   

disability discourses on the labour market

In my doctoral research, I am studying the labour market discourse(s) on people with disabilities, in particular in the human resources consulting master's degree programmes. Measures, initiatives, public policy or scientific arguments based on obvious employment disadvantages, aimed at the participation of people with disabilities in the labour market, sometimes form a parallel or even contradictory stream of speeches, which can be called, on the whole, labour market integration discourse. Domestic employment policy and training of HR professionals based on different approaches or principles, in many cases based on different definitions or changing conceptual categories, are also likely to be linked to the low level of effectiveness of labour market programmes using traditional methods.

disability in the media

The media have traditionally portrayed disability in a negative light, along many stereotypes. According to this, people with disabilities have characteristics such as 'pathetic', 'victim of violence', 'evil', 'object of ridicule' or 'burden to society', while the goal is (would) be a humane, human-centered, balanced representation where their stories, narratives and agency are also present, in addition to a respectful language. The aim of the research is to explore negative (and positive) portrayals of disability, as well as discourses that portray people with disabilities as inferior, inadequate and incomplete.    

  • 2023 – Hidegh, Anna Laura; Svastics, C.; Csillag, S.; Győri, Z. – The intersectional identity work of entrepreneurs with disabilities: constructing difference through disability, gender, and entrepreneurship – mtmt.hu
  • 2025 – Svastics, Carmen; Kóródi, Edit; Győri, Zsuzsanna; Csillag, Sára; Hidegh, Anna Laura – A tudás megszerzése a fogyatékossággal élő vállalkozók esetében: a formális és informális tanulás szerepe – mtmt.hu
  • 2025 – Csillag, Sára; Svastics, Carmen; Hidegh, Anna Laura; Győri, Zsuzsanna – Pushed to the Edge? Entrepreneurs with Disabilities and the Post-socialist Experience of Ableism – mtmt.hu
  • 2025 – Csillag, Sára; Svastics, Carmen; Győri, Zsuzsanna; Hidegh, Anna Laura – A tökéletes test mítosza: Az épségizmus mint a fogyatékossággal élő emberek munkaerőpiaci marginalizációját erősítő ideológia – mtmt.hu
  • 2025 – Svastics, Carmen; Petri, Gabor; Kozma, Agnes; Bernát, Anikó – Victims or Heroes?—Disability Representations in a Hungarian Online News Media Portal – mtmt.hu