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Dr Zsofia Boda

Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dr Zsofia Boda
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  • Location

    Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    By appointment -- please email me to set up a meeting.

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Researching Social Life (SC101)

  • Advanced Quantitative Analysis: Models for Cause and Effect (SC968)

Publications

Journal articles (24)

Christodoulou, A., Konstantinou, P., Antoniou, Z., Boda, Z., Iasonides, M., Kyprianidou, M., McHugh, L., Michaelides, MP., Karekla, M. and Kassianos, AP., A Protocol of a Pilot Experimental Study Using Social Network Interventions to Examine the Social Contagion of Attitudes Towards Childhood Vaccination in Parental Social Networks. Health Psychology Bulletin. 6

Walter, S., Kinski, L. and Boda, Z., (2023). Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament. European Union Politics. 24 (2), 410-423

Oczlon, S., Boda, Z., Schwab, S., Bardach, L., Lehofer, M. and Lüftenegger, M., (2023). Ethnic In-and Out-Group Friendships Going Into Early Adolescence: Prevalence, Quality, Stability, and the Role of the Network Structure. The Journal of Early Adolescence. 43 (7), 867-907

Boda, Z., Lorenz, G., Jansen, M., Stanat, P. and Edele, A., (2023). Ethnic diversity fosters the social integration of refugee students. Nature Human Behaviour. 7 (6), 881-891

(2023). Social integration of refugee adolescents is encouraged by diversity. Nature Human Behaviour. 7 (6), 847-848

Jansen, M., Boda, Z. and Lorenz, G., (2022). Social comparison effects on academic self-concepts-Which peers matter most?. Developmental Psychology. 58 (8), 1541-1556

Hassani, S., Schwab, S. and Boda, Z., (2022). Primary school students’ attitudes towards peers displaying hyperactivity: Examining impacts of homophily and inter‐group contact on students’ social inclusion. Social Development. 31 (3), 765-781

Vörös, A., Boda, Z., Elmer, T., Hoffman, M., Mepham, K., Raabe, IJ. and Stadtfeld, C., (2022). Reprint of: The Swiss StudentLife Study: Investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data. Social Networks. 69, 180-193

Vörös, A., Boda, Z., Elmer, T., Hoffman, M., Mepham, K., Raabe, IJ. and Stadtfeld, C., (2021). The Swiss StudentLife Study: Investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data. Social Networks. 65, 71-84

Lorenz, G., Boda, Z. and Salikutluk, Z., (2021). Oppositional culture revisited. Friendship dynamics and the creation of social capital among Turkish minority adolescents in Germany. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 47 (17), 3986-4005

Lorenz, G., Salikutluk, Z., Boda, Z., Jansen, M. and Hewstone, M., (2021). The Link between Social and Structural Integration: Co- and Interethnic Friendship Selection and Social Influence within Adolescent Social Networks. Sociological Science. 8, 371-396

Boda, Z., Néray, B. and Snijders, TAB., (2020). The Dynamics of Interethnic Friendships and Negative Ties in Secondary School: The Role of Peer-Perceived Ethnicity. Social Psychology Quarterly. 83 (4), 342-362

Ortega, L., Boda, Z., Treviño, E., Arriagada, V., Gelber, D. and Escribano, MDR., (2020). The centrality of immigrant students within teacher-student interaction networks: A relational approach to educational inclusion. Teaching and Teacher Education. 95, 103126-103126

Lorenz, G., Boda, Z., Salikutluk, Z. and Jansen, M., (2020). Social influence or selection? Peer effects on the development of adolescents’ educational expectations in Germany. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 41 (5), 643-669

Boda, Z., Elmer, T., Vörös, A. and Stadtfeld, C., (2020). Short-term and long-term effects of a social network intervention on friendships among university students. Scientific Reports. 10 (1), 2889-

Ortega, L., Boda, Z., Thompson, I. and Daniels, H., (2020). Understanding the structure of school staff advice relations: An inferential social network perspective. International Journal of Educational Research. 99, 101517-101517

Kisfalusi, D., Pál, J. and Boda, Z., (2020). Bullying and victimization among majority and minority students: The role of peers’ ethnic perceptions. Social Networks. 60, 48-60

Vörös, A., Block, P. and Boda, Z., (2019). Limits to inferring status from friendship relations. Social Networks. 59, 77-97

Boda, Z., (2019). Friendship Bias in Ethnic Categorization. European Sociological Review. 35 (4), 567-581

Raabe, IJ., Boda, Z. and Stadtfeld, C., (2019). The Social Pipeline: How Friend Influence and Peer Exposure Widen the STEM Gender Gap. Sociology of Education. 92 (2), 105-123

Stadtfeld, C., Vörös, A., Elmer, T., Boda, Z. and Raabe, IJ., (2019). Integration in emerging social networks explains academic failure and success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (3), 792-797

Boda, Z., (2018). Social Influence on Observed Race. Sociological Science. 5, 29-57

ELMER, T., BODA, Z. and STADTFELD, C., (2017). The co-evolution of emotional well-being with weak and strong friendship ties. Network Science. 5 (3), 278-307

Boda, Z. and Néray, B., (2015). Inter-ethnic friendship and negative ties in secondary school. Social Networks. 43, 57-72

Book chapters (2)

Boda, Z., (2021). Where does ethnic segregation start? Interethnic differences in friendship, positive affection, and time spent together. In: Friendship in Cultural and Personality Psychology. Editors: Altmann, T., . Nova Science Publishers. 395- 407. 978-1-53619-891-1

Boda, Z., (2021). Ethnic segregation due to opportunities or preferences? Interethnic differences in friendship, positive affection, and time spent together. In: Friendship in Cultural and Personality Psychology: International Perspectives. 385- 407. 9781536199420

Contact

zsofia.boda@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

By appointment -- please email me to set up a meeting.

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