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Fanni Gyurko

Postdoctoral Researcher
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Other affiliations

Center for Socio-Legal Studies Oxford (15th Dec) & Maison Française Oxford (16th Dec).

Biography

Fanni is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the project No-Fault Compensation Schemes for Covid-19 vaccines led by Sonia Macleod.

Fanni’s research interest lies at the intersection of law, access to justice, and migration. More broadly she has a strong interest in exploring the relationship between law and society, focusing on the social norms that drive people’s interactions. Her PhD explored how migrants experience ‘law’ (both legal norms and non-state norms) when they are moving into a new social context (University of Glasgow). Fanni has a Master’s degree in Sociology of Law from Lund University (Sweden) and a Master’s degree in Law and Political sciences from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest).

She has previously worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (teaching Jurisprudence and EU law) and Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow. In addition to her PhD studies and teaching, Fanni also worked for NGOs such as Transparency International Hungary and Migration Policy Scotland.

Publications

Journal articles:

  • Gyurko, F. (under review) Developing a new legal consciousness through people’s lived experiences of ‘getting things done’ - a study of informal practices from British migrants’ point of view in post-socialist Hungary. International Journal of Law in Context.
  • Gyurko, F. (under review) Clashes of moral economies: a case study of Hungarian migrant workers navigating the moral economy of workplaces in Glasgow - a search for meaningful work and life. Economic and Industrial Democracy. (Special Issue: 'Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Science: Finding Customs in Common').
  • Gyurko, F. (2024). Living law, normative pluralism and ‘fare dodging’ on public transport in Budapest. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, 1-20.
  • Gyurko, F. (2023). What does legal consciousness teach us about the Hungarian governments’ failure in eliminating informal payments from formal state-funded health care? Recht der Werkelijkheid/Journal of Empirical Research on Law in Action, 43(2), 105-123.
  • Kerr, J., Dale, V. H., & Gyurko, F. (2019). Evaluation of a MOOC design mapping framework (MDMF): experiences of academics and learning technologists. Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 17(1), 38-51.

Book chapters:

  • Gyurko, F. (2019). ‘Stealing from the State Is Not Stealing Really, It Is a National Sport’: A Study of Informal Economic Practices and Low-Level Corruption in Hungary. Governance Beyond the Law: The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal, Palgrave Macmillan,209-226.

Conference papers and presentations:

  • Gyurko, F. (2024). Understanding the processes of ‘learning’ legal consciousness: an exploration of Hungarian migrants’ ‘second-order legal consciousness’ in Scotland - Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2024, Portsmouth.
  • Gyurko, F. (2023). How Hungarian migrant workers navigate the moral economy of workplaces in Glasgow - a search for meaningful work and life - Moral Economy at the Crossroads, University of Strathclyde.
  • Gyurko, F. (2023). Learning legal consciousness through people’s lived experiences of ‘getting things done’ - a study of informal practices from British migrants’ point of view in post-socialist Hungary - Law in Context Early Career Workshop 2023, Oxford, Wolfson College.
  • Gyurko, F. (2020). The application of Ehrlich’s ‘living law’ theory to an empirical research study on everyday corruption in a contemporary context – Socio-Legal Studies Associations’ Annual Conference 2021, Cardiff.
  • Gyurko, F. (2019). A socio-legal explanation of everyday corruption practices in the Hungarian context: new trends vs the relevance of a post-socialist past – Association for the Study of Nationalities’ Annual World Convention 2019, New York.
  • Gyurko, F. (2018). Who would be a whistle-blower in Hungary, when ‘the less said the better’? Considering European Union anti-corruption policies in a post-socialist social setting – University Association for Contemporary European Studies’ Annual Conference 2018, Bath.
  • Gyurko, F. (2017). “Stealing from the state? It is not stealing really, it is a national sport in Hungary” - A study of informal economic practices and low-level corruption in Hungary – European Workshops in International Studies 2017, Cardiff.
  • Gyurko, F. (2017). Exploring the socio-legal aspects of low-level corruption: A study of informal economic transactions of Hungarian migrants in Scotland- Data Analysis Strategy – British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies’ Annual Conference 2017, Cambridge.

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