Mgr. Ivan Petrúšek, Ph.D.

Education

2023, Ph.D., Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

2014, M.A., Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

2010, B.A., Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Focus

My research focuses on political participation and political inequality, attitudes towards economic inequalities and income redistribution (in the Czech Republic and Europe). My primary methodological interest lies in missing data and their analysis in social surveys.

Teaching Activities

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Institute of Sociological Studies, instructor (the course is in Czech): Introduction to Logic and Mathematics (winter semesters: 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21)

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Institute of Sociological Studies, instructor (the course is in Czech): Introduction to Statistics (summer semester: 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21)

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Institute of Sociological Studies, instructor: Statistics in SPSS (summer semesters: 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2017/18, 2016/17, 2015/16, 2014/15, 2013/14)

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Institute of International Studies, instructor: Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences (summer semesters: 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18)

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Institute of Sociological Studies, teaching assistant:

• Introduction to Logic and Mathematics (summer semester 2015/16)
• Statistics I (winter semester 2015/16)
• Statistics II (winter semester 2011/12)
• Analysis of Quantitative Data and SPSS (summer semester 2011/12)

Foreign Study Visits and Internships

3rd September – 20th September 2021, Research visit at the Department of Sociology, Umeå University. The research visit was funded by the ECSR Visitor Grant.

1st October 2019 – 31st January 2020, Research stay at the Institute Economics of Inequality (INEQ), Vienna University of Economics and Business. The research project was funded by the AKTION scholarship provided by OeAD-GmbH. Project title: Attitudes towards income redistribution and their contextual determinants in Europe, 2002-2016.

6th – 17th August 2018, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis (attended course:  Pooled Time Series Cross-Sectional Analysis), University of Essex.

October 2016 – February 2017,  Department of Sociology, University of Vienna.

8th – 19th August 2016, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis (attended course: Hierarchical Models), University of Essex.

5th January – 14th February 2015, Chair of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research, University of Mannheim.

5th – 16th August 2013, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection (attended course: Data Analysis and Programming with R), University of Essex.