Finished projects

Trust and European Integration – a Comparison between Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

Czech- Bulgarian Joint Research Project (PPP project), together with Institute for the Research of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.2011 - 2013.Czech Coordinator: PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldova, CSc Bulgarian Coordina…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

European Union

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

Czech sociology has been through enormous development since 1989, when it was freed from the constraints of ideology, and it is now gradually returning to the international stage. Persecuted and exiled scholars were able to rejoin the ac…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Historical Sociology

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

European Political Elites in Comparison: the Long Road to Convergence

ESF Scientific Network Project, co-ordinated by Heinrich Best (University of Jena) and Maurizio Cotta (University of Siena).…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

The CR Parliament Representatives 1996. The second Stage of Research. GA CR No. 403/96/0388 (1996-1997). Participant

InTune - Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an ‘ever closer Europe’

INTUNE is a research project whose aim is to study the changes in the scope, nature and characteristics of citizenship that result from the process of the deepening and enlargement of the European Union. Its focus is on how integration and …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

The Europeanization of the Political Representation in the Czech Republic (2007-2009), head of the project. GA ČR, reg. č. 407/07/1395.

Social capital as a factor influencing regional disparities and regional development

The object of the research is disclosing of the basic features of regional disparities with regard to the role and importance of social and human capital in the regional development. The project testifies the hypotheses expressing the relat…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Economy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Parenthood after Partners Break Up – Parental Roles and the Identity of Divorced Mothers and Fathers

The subject of the project is a sociological study of parenthood in the Czech Republic after partners break up as experienced on the one hand by the mothers who have been granted custody of the child (children) and on the other hand by the …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

CESSDA.CZ The CESSDA Project: Building a CESSDA-ERIC focal point in the Czech Republic and integrating it into the large pan-European research infrastructure of data services for socio-economic research

The main objective of this project is to build the Czech node of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and to ensure Czech participation in the establishment and operation of this European distributed research inf…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Topics:

Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

The Application of Sociological Methods to Detect Housing Market Disequilibrium. Critical & Context-Sensitive Housing Research Methodology

A particular goal of the project is to make more effective use of sociological theory and methods in the analysis of housing demand. As the global economic crisis showed, the housing market has the potential to undermine the stability of th…

Principal Investigator:

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

Topics:

Housing, Research Methodology

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

SUREURO - NAS

SUREURO (Sustainable Refurbishment Europe) was an acronym for one of the largest research projects supported under the 5th Framework Programme by the European Comission. Its main objective was the development of metodical and operative tool…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

The analysis of housing policy tools aiming to support the labour flexibility in the Czech Republic

The main goal of the project was to analyze the significance of the relation between housing tenure, existing and potential housing policy tools including rent regulation, on one side, and labour mobility, on the second side, in the Czech R…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre, Project supported by Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2004). Participant.

Detraditionalization and individualization of religion in the Czech Republic and their socio-political and socio-economic consequences

The project aims to analyze processes of detraditionalization, individualization and privatization of religious values and forms of religious life in contemporary Czech society, including implicit ones and their functional equivalents. Alth…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Etnologický výzkum drogové závislosti v soudobé české společnosti – Turnerovská perspektiva (GAČR)

WS Debate - Stimulating Policy Debate on Women and Science Issues in Central Europe

The WS DEBATE project is a Specific Support Action in the EU 7th Framework Programme. Its overall objective of is the stimulation of policy and public debate on the situation and perspectives of women in science, in order to bridge the gap …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Changes in the Structure of Gender Roles in the Family: Men’s Participation in the Family and Household after Returning to Work from Parental Leave

The project focuses on monitoring the participation of fathers in the family and household, both during their parental leave and after they return to the labour market, with the objective of understanding the behaviour of fathers and identi…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Maříková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Regional Identity of the Population of the Nisa Euroregion

In the territory, called for working purposes the Nisa Euroregion, there live all together 1.5 mil of Czech, German and Polish citizens. Co-existence of people here was largely affected by the post-war compulsory transfer of Germans from t…

Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Environmental Values, Beliefs and Behavior in the Czech Republic in Historical and Cross-National Perspective

This project analyzes environmental values and behavior in the Czech Republic in both historical and comparative perspective. The project seeks to make a major contribution to environmental sociology by focusing on four research themes. Fir…

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic.

Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years”, Projekt supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, head of the Project Lubomír Brokl. (2002-2004). participant.

The Role of Economic and Political Elites in Transformation of the Czech Society

According to the knowledge acquired in the research, the genesis of the new elite in the transformation process proceeded in three modes: firstly, as reproduction and more or less fluent adaptation of the old state socialist elite to the …

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Analysis of Occurrence of Harassment of Women and Men on the Grounds of Sex and Sexual Harassment at Workplace

MPSV ČR, 2004 - 2005…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

HELPS - Housing and Home-care for the Elderly and vulnerable people and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European cities

The general objective of theProject is to promote development strategies and practices to improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups,with a strategic focus on elderly and people with disabilities, in urban areas in Central Europe. I…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Intergenerational Relations, Care, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department: