"Therapy of the soul": learning how to participate in minoritized language research Petteri Laihonen, Judit Gáspár, Carina Fazakas-Timaru, Csanád Bodó Multilingua, 2026 This article analyses the participatory dynamics and methodological challenges of engaging the Moldavian Csángó community in co-created linguistic research through the “Therapy of the soul” project. Using participatory research as a framework, the study explores how storytelling and memory-sharing in a non-hierarchical setting fostered collaboration among researchers and local participants. The Csángó community, often portrayed through essentialist narratives of linguistic and cultural “relics”, actively redefined their identity through shared emotional experiences. We highlight how the Therapy of the soul project navigated the tension between participatory ideals and implicit hierarchies in research, with researchers balancing roles as facilitators, co-participants, and vulnerable contributors. The findings underscore the transformative potential of participatory research in creating methodologically rich points that illuminate power dynamics, language ideologies, and identity construction. Ultimately, the Therapy of the soul project provides a novel perspective on participatory research as an emotional, community-based practice fostering mutual discovery and support.
Enhancing professional development for Third Space roles: reflections on the added value of Learning Circles Linde Moriau, Réka Matolay, Emma McKenna, Andrea Toarniczky, Judit Gáspár, et al. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2025 This paper explores how Learning Circles can support higher education staff in navigating the complexities of contemporary educational landscapes with greater confidence, creativity, and efficacy. It presents qualitative research rooted in the three-year Erasmus+ project CIRCLET, involving five European universities. Learning Circles were implemented as a core component of professional development programmes, aiming to foster quality integration of Community Engaged Research and Learning (CERL) in academic practice. Drawing on a collaborative autoethnographic research design, we reflected on our experiences as Learning Circle designers, facilitators, and participants to identify manifestations of professional growth emanating from our project activities. We build on four different Learning Circle examples, analysing their features through a Third Spaces lens. We demonstrate that Learning Circles have the potential to create agentic, distributed, and adaptive professional learning spaces, enabling participating staff in reimagining their professional space, so that they feel better prepared to assume the hybrid roles and responsibilities that practices of engagement typically entail. We put forward a number of guiding principles for Learning Circle facilitators, emphasising the importance of promoting inquiry-led approaches, embedded in day-to-day practice, fostering active participation and critical reflection on one’s positionality.
Participation in sociolinguistic research Csanád Bodó, Blanka Barabás, Noémi Fazakas, Judit Gáspár, Bernadett Jani‐Demetriou, et al. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2022
The future of business in visegrad region Anna Sacio-Szymańska, Anna Kononiuk, Stefano Tommei, Ondrej Valenta, Éva Hideg, et al. European Journal of Futures Research, 2016
“Therapy of the soul”: learning how to participate in minoritized language research P Laihonen, J Gáspár, C Fazakas-Timaru, Csercsetáre-Invitees, C Bodó Multilingua 45 (1), 63-88 , 2026 2026
Fostering Spiritual Growth in the Classroom and Beyond J Chrenóczy-Nagy, J Gáspár Sustainability in Education: Strategies, Practices and Perspectives, 83 , 2026 2026
Responsible organizational transformation: Social and systemic challenges, and the role of foresight Á Nagy, J Gáspár Sustainable Futures 10, 101325 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
How to promote energy-saving attitudes with nudges: Evidence from Hungary R Szántó, B Szüle, J Gáspár Sustainable Futures 10, 101085 , 2025 2025
Fathoming AI’s Place in Project Work: A Qualitative Study of Student Practices and Perceptions ÁB Csapó, A Sudár, J Gáspár, J Kiss, N Krátki, V Koltai, ... 2025 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications … , 2025 2025
The case of Decision Techniques course: a combination of flipped classroom, experiential learning, and community-engaged learning in one course G Kiss, J Gáspár, V Lajos, M Frigyik Flipping the Classroom with Experiential and Community-Engaged Learning in … , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Participatory sociolinguistics across researchers’ and participants’ language ideologies C Bodó, B Barabás, I Botezatu, N Fazakas, J Gáspár, JI Heltai, ... Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 22 (2), 109-127 , 2025 2025 Citations: 9
Seeing from the North: a Critical Family Language Policy study of a peripheral European minority community P Laihonen, C Bodó, J Gáspár, B Jani-Demetriou, C Fazakas-Timaru International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 28 (3), 292-307 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Post-growth Futures Report J Gáspár, A Köves, T Hirvillami, É Hideg, J Ding, A Márton, A Szathmári, ... Corvinus University of Budapest , 2025 2025
Családi nyelvpolitika moldvai többnyelvű falvakban P Laihonen, C Bodó, J Gáspár, B Jani-Demetriou Budapest , 2025 2025
Enhancing professional development for Third Space roles: reflections on the added value of Learning Circles L Moriau, R Matolay, E McKenna, A Toarniczky, J Gáspár, M Frigyik, ... Technological University Dublin , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Human-centred decision support for the common good: a combination of participatory foresight methods A Szathmári, A Köves, J Gáspár Journal of Decision Systems 33 (sup1), 154-168 , 2024 2024 Citations: 8
Trends shaping sustainable post-pandemic development of the V4 region in turbulent times until 2030 J Gáspár, K Gubová, E Hideg, MP Jagaciak, L Mackova, A Márton, ... foresight 25 (6), 861-877 , 2023 2023 Citations: 4
Adopting learning circle approaches to equip academic staff for community engaged research and learning practices L Moriau, R Matolay, E McKenna, A Toarniczky, J Gáspár, M Frigyik, ... 9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd 2023, 255-262 , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
CIRCLET Guide for Facilitators: Learning Circles for Community Engaged Research R Matolay, M Frigyik, J Gáspár, A Toarnickzy 2022
Participation in sociolinguistic research C Bodó, B Barabás, N Fazakas, J Gáspár, B Jani‐Demetriou, P Laihonen, ... Language and Linguistics Compass 16 (4), e12451 , 2022 2022 Citations: 46
Participation in sociolinguistic research. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16 (4) C Bodó, B Barabás, N Fazakas, J Gáspár, B Jani‐Demetriou, P Laihonen, ... 2022 Citations: 5
Hol vannak a kutatás határai? Világkávézó a részvételi szociolingvisztikáról [Where are the boundaries of research? World Café on Participatory Sociolinguistics] B Barabás, C Bartha, C Bodó, N Fazakas, JI Heltai, J Gáspár, I Jánk, ... Termini Egyesület , 2022 2022
CIRCLET Guide for Lecturers: Resources to Implement Community Engaged Research and Learning in University Teaching and Pedagogy E McKenna, C Bates, A Creus, M Frigyik, N Gmelch, R Matolay, ... 2022
CIRCLET Guide for Facilitators: Learning Circles for Community Engaged Research and Learning R Matolay, M Frigyik, C Bates, AS Creus, J Gaspar, N Gmelch, S McCann, ... Technological University Dublin , 2022 2022
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
How do companies envisage the future?: Functional foresight approaches A Kononiuk, A Sacio-Szymańska, J Gáspár Engineering Management in Production and Services 9 (4), 21-33 , 2017 2017 Citations: 68
Participation in sociolinguistic research C Bodó, B Barabás, N Fazakas, J Gáspár, B Jani‐Demetriou, P Laihonen, ... Language and Linguistics Compass 16 (4), e12451 , 2022 2022 Citations: 46
Responsive higher education through transformational practices–The case of a Hungarian business school A Toarniczky, R Matolay, J Gáspár Futures 111, 181-193 , 2019 2019 Citations: 30
Assessment in horizon scanning by various stakeholder groups using Osgood’s semantic differential scale–a methodological development É Hideg, B Mihók, J Gáspár, P Schmidt, A Márton, A Báldi Futures 126, 102677 , 2021 2021 Citations: 20
The future of business in Visegrad region A Sacio-Szymańska, A Kononiuk, S Tommei, O Valenta, É Hideg, ... European Journal of Futures Research 4 (1), 26 , 2016 2016 Citations: 20
Future in the present: Participatory futures research methods in economic higher education–the development of future competencies J Gáspár, É Hideg, A Köves Journal of Futures Studies 26 (2), 1-18 , 2021 2021 Citations: 17
Környezeti jövőkutatás É Hideg, B Mihók, J Gáspár, P Schmidt, A Márton, A Báldi Magyar Tudomány 179 (5), 714-728 , 2018 2018 Citations: 17
Conservation biology research priorities for 2050: a Central-Eastern European perspective E Csákvári, V Fabók, S Bartha, Z Barta, P Batáry, G Borics, Z Botta-Dukát, ... Biological Conservation 264, 109396 , 2021 2021 Citations: 14
Participatory sociolinguistics across researchers’ and participants’ language ideologies C Bodó, B Barabás, I Botezatu, N Fazakas, J Gáspár, JI Heltai, ... Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 22 (2), 109-127 , 2025 2025 Citations: 9
Művészet és társadalomtudomány együttműködése a posztnormál tudományfelfogás keretein belül: backcasting kutatási eredmények egy interaktív színházi kalandjátékban A Köves, J Gáspár, R Matolay Magyar Tudomány 181 (2), 210-221 , 2020 2020 Citations: 9
Human-centred decision support for the common good: a combination of participatory foresight methods A Szathmári, A Köves, J Gáspár Journal of Decision Systems 33 (sup1), 154-168 , 2024 2024 Citations: 8
Taking care of each other: Solid economic base for living together J Balázs, J Gáspár Futures 42 (1), 69-74 , 2010 2010 Citations: 8
Vallalatok nemzetkozive valasa es a versenykepesseg E Czako, J Gaspar Vallalati Strategia. Budapest: Alinea Kiado , 2007 2007 Citations: 8
Magyarország autóiparának helyzetéről az Európai Unióhoz való csatlakozást megelőzően-a csatlakozás okán várható változások-----Its title in English: The situation of the … E Czakó, J Gáspár, I Jenei, G Martits, A Németh, A Pintér, R Szántó Vállalatgazdaságtan Tanszék , 2003 2003 Citations: 8
Conceptualizing cuvée organizations: Characteristics leading towards sustainable decision-making practices A Köves, T Veress, J Gáspár, R Matolay Sustainability 13 (24), 13672 , 2021 2021 Citations: 7
Corporate foresight potential in Visegrad (V4) countries A Sacio-Szymańska Radom, Poland: Institute for Sustainable Technologies–National Research … , 2016 2016 Citations: 7
A vállalati foresight helyzete Magyarországon É Hideg, J Gáspár, T Demus, M Sugár, G Tyukodi Vezetéstudomány-Budapest Management Review 48 (6-7), 57-63 , 2017 2017 Citations: 6
Participation in sociolinguistic research. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16 (4) C Bodó, B Barabás, N Fazakas, J Gáspár, B Jani‐Demetriou, P Laihonen, ... 2022 Citations: 5
Foresight as a key enabler of innovation in the economy. Introduction to the topical collection A Sacio-Szymańska, G Fantoni, C Daheim European Journal of Futures Research 4 (1), 20 , 2016 2016 Citations: 5
Idő-és jövőértelmezés a stratégiakutatásban és a tudatos jövőalkotás (előretekintés–foresight) vállalati gyakorlata J Gáspár Vezetéstudomány-Budapest Management Review 46 (7), 63-74 , 2015 2015 Citations: 5