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Curriculum Vitae

1. Personal details

Surname: Fellegi
First name: Borbala
Date of Birth: 19 May 1979
Place of Birth: Budapest
Nationality: Hungarian
Mobile: +36 70 365 0630

2. Education

2002 - Present	PhD studies in social policy at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute and Graduate School of Sociology and Social Policy, Budapest, Hungary
2003 - 2004	Masters of Philosophy in Criminology - Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom – College: Trinity Hall
1997 – 2002	Masters in Social Policy -- Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute and Graduate School of Sociology and Social Policy, Budapest, Hungary
1993 – 1997	Secondary school -- Városmajor Secondary School, Budapest

3. Other trainings

July 2005: Exploring the Potential of Restorative Justice – Summer University by the Central European University, Budapest and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (NY) and Hamline University School of Law (MN), USA; (trainers: Professors Howard J. Vogel and Olga Botcharova); the course is accredited by the American Bar Association
November 2002: Trainer’s Training in Real Justice and in Facilitation (trainer: Dr Éva Győrfi)
March 2001: 'Training the Trainers' – New challenges for NGOs in the European Union after accession (trainer: Dr László Benedek)
June 2001: Facilitator training in Real Justice about the restorative techniques of conflict resolution (trainer: Dr Éva Győrfi)
May 2001: training in Family Group Conferencing (trainer: Dr Charles Barton)
February 2002 to June 2001: Gordon training (trainer: Ildikó Somorjai)
March 2000: Training in Mediation (trainer: Dr Zsuzsa Lovas and Kata Tóth)

4. Languages

English – Advanced (TOEFL score: 260/300; highest level national certification)
French – Intermediate level (level “Threshold” according to the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

5. Work experience

6. Research

From September 2003	Doctoral research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE University about the implementation of restorative justice in Hungary
From April 2007	AGIS-funded research in cooperation with the Family, Child, Youth Association on the attitudes towards restorative justice, particularly in the field of child- and juvenile offences and domestic violence Project coordinator: Dr. Éva Győrfi
November 2006 – March 2007	EQUAL–funded research as researcher of the Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS): “Linking services for Black, Asian, minority and ethnic homeless individuals"
March – April 2006	Restorative Justice research trip to England and to the USA to study the different ways of applying restorative justice in different settings
From January 2006	Consultant for the research on “The Meaning of Violence and Crime in an Ethnic Albanian Context”, funded by the Global Development Network (GDN) Project co-ordinator: Jana Arsovska, Euro-Atlantic Club of Macedonia ( Skopje)
From October 2005	Chair of the Research Committee of the European Forum for Restorative Justice
October 2003 – June 2004	“Attitudes of offenders towards restoration” – survey with 69 inmates in English prisons within the framework of the MPhil studies in Criminology at the University of Cambridge Supervisor: Dr Nathan Harris
From November 2002	Coordinating an international research as the Hungarian member of the Management Committee of the COST Action (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) A21 on 'Restorative Justice Developments in Europe' Ongoing research projects: 1. “Training of legal practitioners in the field of restorative justice” 2. “Restoring justice after large-scale violent conflicts“ – case studies on the conflicts in Kosovo, in Kongo and in Israel and Palestine Chair: Prof Dr Ivo Aertsen
From September 2002	Research on the status of ‘Rights of Students with Disadvantageous Background in the Public Education System’ requested by the Ministry of Education, in cooperation with the ELTE University Institution of Social Sciences and the Kurt Lewin Foundation Research coordinator: Dr György Ligeti
From September 2002	Participation in the research programme of the ELTE Faculty of Law, focusing on ‘The possibilities of the restorative justice in the criminal justice system’ (financed by the Hungarian Research Fund, “OTKA”) Research coordinator: Dr Klára Kerezsi
September 2001 – September 2002	Action research on "Conflict Resolution Face to Face' in a high-school, called Zöld Kakas (the school is specialised for dropped-out students aged between 15 and 26). This course is the first pilot programme in Hungary based on restorative method and techniques.
October 2000 - March 2001	Survey research on the attitudes of sociological, social policy, social worker and criminology students, and of professionals working in the field of child and youth offenders, towards the severity of punishment and victim-offender mediation
September 2000 - June 2001	National survey on the rights of high-school students within the Kurt Lewin Foundation requested by the Ministry of Education Research director : Dr György Ligeti
June 1999 – October 1999	Participation in an international research programme on drug-users' practices and on evaluating the effects of the international AIDS-preventing programme, called “Changing of hyping needle”

7. Scholarships and awards

June 2007	Scholarship by the Julius Rézler Foundation provided for the research on the attitudes of Hungarian judges and prosecutors towards restorative justice (Є 1800)
March 2006	Scholarship for a Short Term Scientific Mission to England by the COST Action A21 (Є 1 000)
October 2003	Scholarship by the Hungarian Scholarship Committee and the Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap for a three months research project at the University of Leuven between June - September 2004 - Є 2070
September 2003	Scholarship by the Cambridge Overseas Trust (Є 6 700) and the Trinity Hall (Є 6 700) for the MPhil studies in Criminology, University of Cambridge
September 2003	Scholarship by the Kurt Lewin Foundation (Є 2 000) for the MPhil studies in Criminology at the University of Cambridge
September 2002	“Doctoral State Scholarship” Є 330/month for 36 months
September 2001	“Scholarship of the Republic” - a scholarship given by the Minister of Education to the top 1% of the university students for their excellent results achieved in their studies and also in their professional activities (The amount of the prize is Є 134/month for 12 months)
May 2001	“Prize for Publication” given by the Committee of Students of the Institute of Sociology, ELTE for the publication, called Mutilation of a Cross, Mutilation of the justice - The History Of The Regnum Marianum Cross' Demolishing and the Sociological Dilemmas Raised by it based on an interview with the headmaster of the Berzsenyi High-School and on the events of the trial on 18 th April, 2001 (The amount of the prize was 6 000 HUF (approximately Є24)
May 2001	2 nd prize at a Competition, called “Asztalfioka” (Young of the Desk) organised by the Faculty of Social Psychology in the Institute of Sociology, ELTE with the thesis, called The implementation and institutionalisation of Restorative Justice in Hungary connected to the child- and youth offenders (The amount of the prize is 20 000 HUF (approximately Є80)
February 2001	“Scientific Research Fund” given by the Committee of Students of the Institute of Sociology, ELTE for the research plan about The implementation and institutionalisation of Restorative Justice in Hungary connected to the child- and youth offenders (The amount of the prize was 6000 HUF (approximately Є24)

8. Comupter skills

Word
Excel
Access
SPSS
HTML

9. References

Referee	Institution	Telephone	E-mail
Prof. Dr. Ivo Aertsen	Catholic University of Leuven, Department of Criminology	+32 16 325302
Ms. Valérie Cosyns	Service de Médiation Pénal, (Maison de Justice, Bruxelles)	+32 2 519 89 87
Dr. Erzsébet Hatvani	Central Office of Justice	+36 1 460 4700	partfogo@im.hu
Dr. Nathan Harris	University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology	+44 1223·335360
Dr. Mária Herczog	Family, Child, Youth Association	+36 1 225 3525	herczog@mail.datanet.hu
Dr. Klára Kerezsi	National Institute of Criminology	+36 1 356 7566
Dr. György Ligeti	Kurt Lewin Foundation	+36 30 2125 426
Ms. Rita Szikulai	National Probation Service	+36 1 327 7230