Krisztina Konya

Research interest

• Social perception from the individual perspective in crowds
• Characteristics of anonymity in urban environment
• Behaviour and social relations in public space
• Sociology of the body

Project related work

• CroMa – Crowd Management in Transport Infrastructure

Methods

• Quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (interviews, videography) methods of empirical social research
• Trajectory analysis
• Socio-psychological experiments

Education

• PhD in sociology, Ruhr-University Bochum, expected thesis defense in summer 2024, title of the thesis: Anonymous sociality – Approaches to the phenomenon of the crowd
• M.A. degree in Urban and Regional Development, University of Bremen, 2015
• Diploma in sociology, University of Pécs, 2005

Research positions

• Since 2022: Researcher at IAS-7 as a member of the division “Pedestrian Dynamics - Social Psychology”
• 2018-2022: Researcher in the project CroMa
• 2011-2018: Researcher at the Institute for Educational Monitoring in Hamburg

Publication highlights

• Konya, Krisztina; Sieben, Anna (2023): Waiting and walking with strangers: a socio-psychological pedestrian experiment on joint action in anonymous situations, R. Soc. Open Sci.10221601221601
• Konya, Krisztina; Sieben, Anna (Ed.) (2022): Körperliche/leibliche Nähe, Journal für Psychology, 30/2