The Head of the Research Group - Dr. habil. Klára Tarkó
Klára Tarkó, PhD. habil. is a College Professor, Head of the
Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Environmental Education and
the Department of Health Sociology and Lifestyle, Juhász Gyula
Faculty of Education, University of Szeged. She is Vice-Dean for
Education and Innovation at the Faculty (2020-2025). She received
her secondary-school teacher of Physics and English degree at the
József Attila University of Szeged in 1995, and in 2007 she received
her Sociology Master’s degree from Eötvös Loránd University. Between
1995 and 1998 she was a full-time PhD student in the Doctoral School
of the Department of Education, Development of Cognitive Competence
Programme at József Attila University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts.
She defended her dissertation titled ‘The connection between text
comprehension, learning from written texts and metacognition in
school years” written in English in 2000. She habilitated in 2014 at
the Doctoral School of Education, Faculty of Arts, University of
Szeged, in the topic of ‘Lifestyle – Choice’.
Her main research fields are the unequal health opportunities of minorities and healthy lifestyle. She is member of several national and international scientific committees, between 2014 and 2018 she was Vice-President at Large of the Sociology of Leisure Research Group of the International Sociological Association, where she is a Board Member now. Since 2019 she is president of the Health Promotion Workgroup within the Szeged Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Medical Committee. She is editor or member of the editorial board of several national and international journals. She is co-director and active researcher of the Health Promotion Research Group in Szeged, fulfilled project coordination tasks in case of several national and international projects. She is professional leader of the project No. EFOP-3.4.3-16-2016-00014 at the University of Szeged (2017 – 2021). She is supervisor at the Doctoral School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Szeged.