Finished projects

Social aspects of housing and its change during the transition in the Czech Republic in context with the adjustment to the EU standards

The first object of the project lies in multidimensional description of current housing problems and their changes during the transition in the Czech Republic by means of large analysis of housing expenditures from 1989 to 2000 and by reali…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Pragmatic Socioeconomics: a New Bridge between Sociology and Economics in Housing Studies

Housing price trends and their volatility have become one of the major determinants of wealth and social inequalities, and one of the major factors influencing sustainable economic growth. Despite this, mainstream housing economics has so f…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Economy, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

The Role of Religion in Shaping Identities – Identity Politics and Security Risks

Part of the AV21 Strategy Programme Identities in a World of Wars and Crises, in which research is conducted on religion of contemporary immigrants from Eastern Europe, especially from Ukraine, and its security risks. The research has stert…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Kateřina Horská, Ph.D.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Smart(ening up the Modern) Home: Redesigning Power Dynamics through Domestic Space Digitalisation

Home has long been positioned by means of particular dichotomies such as outside and inside, public and private, work and care, masculine and feminine, human and non-human. The digital transformation of home challenges these dichotomies a…

Principal Investigator:

Petr Gibas, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Digitalization, Gender, Technology and society

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment

The CESCAME research endeavour focuses on cities as sites where innovations in knowledge and agency originate. It looks at the coping strategies of people concerning everyday tasks of dealing with the material environment, including fo…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

City and Village, Environment

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Sociální a prostorová dostupnost středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

The project focused on secondary education in the Karlovy Vary region, which is one of the regions with a relatively low socio-economic status of pupils and a number of socially excluded localities. In addition, part of its territory is rep…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Education

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

This project contributes to the recent political and scholarly debate on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities. Growing inter-regional disparities within EU countries have been described as a risk to social cohesion,…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

This project contributes to the recent political and scholarly debate on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities. Growing inter-regional disparities within EU countries have been described as a risk to social cohesion,…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

TANDEM – Contested energy transitions. Conflicts and social innovations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, and France

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has induced energy security challenges. The goal of the European Green Deal (2019) to reach climate neutrality by 2050 remains, however, the target. Achieving it implies an increase in low-carbon sources and c…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Topics:

Energy, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

GENDERACTIONplus

The Horizon Europe project GENDERACTIONplus (GENDer equality in the ERA Community To Innovate policy implementatiON plus), which runs between 2022 and 2024, aims to deepen European cooperation and contribute to greater coordination in the f…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

There are grave socio-economic inequalities among regions in the European Union, inter-regional disparities within countries are on the rise. The priject concentrates on an exploration of the social and political consequences of spatial ine…

Principal Investigator:

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Social and political consequences of spatial inequalities

In the European Union, there are significant and in many cases growing socio-economic inequalities between regions. Increasingly, arguments are emerging that understand regional inequalities as a risk to social cohesion, a cause of social a…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

International Project

Income poverty: Household expenses and indebtedness in European countries

Complex studies on the theoretical, methodological and empirical issues of income poverty in relation to household expenses and liabilities are generally lacking in European research. The missing dimensions of housing costs, regular expendi…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Martina Mysíková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

European Union, Housing, Debts, Research Methodology, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Consumption, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gendered Innovation Living Labs (GILL)

Funded by the European Union (GILL, 101094812). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the E…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Work

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & sociologie

ECOSENS - Economic and Societal Considerations for the Future of Nuclear Energy in Society

Using a deliberative approach, ECOSENS will analyse citizens’ views and risk perceptions, benefits and potentials of current and new nuclear technologies in the context of major societal challenges (climate crisis, sustainable energy poli…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Topics:

Energy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks (SYRI)

Project The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks (SYRI) was supported by the program EXCELES.No: LX22NPO5101The project focuses on social science and related disciplines specifically t…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Petra Guasti, Ph.D., Dr. Habil.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Research centre for domestic and gender-based violence (ReCeGe)

The project Research centre for domestic and gender-based violence (ReCeGe) will start in January 2022 and end at the end of December 2023. Its core focus is on the establishment of the Research centre for domestic and gender-based violence…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Blanka Nyklová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Petr Kodenko Kubala, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Interpersonal Relations

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Digitalisation in the Labour Market: Challenges, Opportunities and Inequalities for Older Workers

The gradual digitalisation of the economy and the inception of Industry 4.0 eliminate routine jobs at the expense of more flexible and creative positions. However, these processes towards the digital economy make new demands on workers, who…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Diversity of childcare attitudes and parenting practices: Their sources and outcomes

This project systematically explores a variation in attitudes to childcare and parental practices in the Czech Republic, with a comparative perspective. In contemporary developed societies, an ‘intensive parenting’ model, which places h…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jana Klímová Chaloupková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Comparative multilevel analysis of relations between perceived quality and trust in government, and attitudes towards governmental spending on welfare: The mediating effect of corruption perceptions and experience

This comparative research project will examine the associations between attitudes towards governmental spending on welfare, perceived quality of government, trust in government, and citizens’ perceptions and experience of corruption. The …

Principal Investigator:

Kristýna Bašná, MSc., Ph.D.

Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion, Value Orientations, Corruption, Social Policy

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Department:

Hodnoty a politika

Inconspicuous innovations and resilience in the urban context: Researching global questions through Central and Eastern European cities

This project is supported by the 2020 Lumina Quaeruntur award of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It establishes a new research team - The Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment (CESCAME) based at the Institute of …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Globalization, Climate Change, City and Village, Sociological Theory, Consumption, Transformation, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

RESISTIRÉ (RESpondIng to outbreakS through co-creaTIve inclusive equality stRatEgies)

Project aimThe aim of RESISTIRÉ is to 1) understand the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on behavioural, social and economic inequalities in the EU27, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, and the UK on the basis of a conceptual gender+ framework, a…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Roberto Cibin, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Vanda Černohorská, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.
Agnieszka Kolasińska, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Civil Society, Work, Parenting, Social Inequalities, Public Policy, Public health

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

The History and Future of Czech Housing Estates

Post-war housing estates (HEs) represent an important part of the housing stock in postsocialist countries and their development over the past decades is often discussed. Yet, in spite of relatively rich research evidence based on case stud…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Jana Kočková

Topics:

Housing, City and Village

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Supporting transparency of the mortgage market in the Czech Republic by extension of the database for residential property value appraisal

The general goal of the project is to support transparency of the mortgage market and reduction of potential systemic risks in the financial sector by: (1) the comparison and evaluation of the deviations between appraisal prices and market …

Principal Investigator:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department: