Finished projects

Parental Desires and Intentions of Czech Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Men and Women

The project will study parental desires and intentions among LGB individuals from a non-heteronormative standpoint, an under-researched topic in the Czech Republic. A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods will help us explain the fact…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Maříková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Care, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda 2017-2020

The National Contact Centre for Gender and Science is a unique initiative in the Central European region and serves as the national contact point for gender equality and gender mainstreaming in European research. It provides specific expert…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. et Mgr. Timea Crofony, MPA
Pavla Rypáčková, M.A.
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová
Kristýna Veitová, MA. et MA.

Topics:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Priority půdně biologického výzkumu, průnik vědy a veřejného zájmu (Priorities of soil biological research, intersection of science and public interest)

This project was solved within the framework of the AV21 Strategy in the program: Diversity of Life and Health of Ecosystems (ROZE). Activity Priorities of soil biological research, intersection of science and public interest were solved in…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Topics:

Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Forest as a part of the landscape and a source of knowledge, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2017)

The aim of the project was to involve experts in the public forestry debate and on the basis of scientific knowledge to prepare proposals for the necessary changes to the legislation responding to this new knowledge. The Institute of Sociol…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Environment

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Department:

Local response to climate change in the Czech Republic: a sociological perspective

The purpose of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of mechanisms, barriers to and potential for introducing new policy instruments for enviromental governance in the Czech Republic, explicating the subjective perception a…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Public Administration, Environment

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

GENDer equality in the ERA Community To Innovate policy implementatiON (GENDERACTION, Horizon 2020)

Gender equality is one of the five priorities of the European Research Area. It is today recognized that actions and policies must focus on legislative and especially institutional levels (cultural and institutional change) rather than seei…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Martina Fucimanová
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová

Topics:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges

Research programme within Strategy AV21 focuses on global conflicts and their local interactions which present important cultural and social challenges in the 21st century. It analyses cultural and social transformations with regard to inte…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Marek Hrubec, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Other

CSDA Research - Výzkumný program Českého sociálněvědního datového archivu: Česká republika v Mezinárodním programu sociálních šetření ISSP, výzkum kvality dat a zdrojů dat

Duration: 2017 - 2020 Principal investigator: Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, PhD. Contracting authority: MŠMT, reg. number CZ.02.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001796 Program: Operational Programme Research Development and Education Th…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

History of Sociology, Value Orientations, Research Methodology, Religion and religiosity, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Childlessness and one-child families: explaining the low fertility rate in the Czech Republic

No.: 17-04465SAbstract: The project aims to contribute to the knowledge on the causes, experience and mechanisms that underpin sub-replacement fertility in the Czech Republic. In particular, childlessness and one-child families will be stud…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Care arrangements and work-life reconciliation strategies of migrants in the Czech Republic

Aim of the project is to develop conceptualisation of transnational families in Czech sociology and apply in research of work–life reconciliation strategies of third country nationals and their families living in the Czech Republic. In …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Migration and Mobility, Care, Work, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Ochrana biodiverzity – význam pro českou veřejnost a skupiny zabývající se životním prostředím ((Biodiversity conservation - importance for the Czech public and groups interested in nature and environment)

This project was solved within the framework of the AV21 Strategy in the program: Diversity of Life and Health of Ecosystems (ROZE). The aim of the activity was to map out the value orientations, attitudes, motivations and behavior of sele…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Topics:

Globalization, City and Village, Regions, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

EUENGAGE - Bridging the Gap between Public Opinion and European Leadership: Engaging a Dialogue on the Future Path of Europe

The aim of the project is to investigate the views of European political representatives on the current state of European integration. The survey focuses in particular on the views of members of national parliaments such as you on the abili…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Elites, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Governments in Europe – Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies

The project examines the formation of coalition governments, coalition forms, and coalition governance in the ten new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland , …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Volunteering in the Pardubice county

Volunteering is a form of civic engagement in which volunteers devote their time without claiming remuneration to community service or other people. Volunteering involves a large number of informal and activities involving various forms of …

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

RNDr. Mgr. Renáta Mikešová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Civil Society

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

TEACHENER - Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities into Teaching about Energy

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences is one of the seven partners in TEACHENER, a project co-financed by the Erasmus+ strategic partnerships programme of the European Commission, which aims to integrate social sciences an…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Sociology of Sciences, Education

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Leisure in Contemporary Society

The project was carried out within the Programme of Support of Perspective Human Resources of the Czech Academy of Sciences.…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Topics:

Culture, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

SERISS, Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences

Europe is facing huge socio-economic challenges: an economic crisis with a young generation in search of jobs, population ageing potentially straining inclusion and innovation of our societies, climate change with its pressures to redesign …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

CESSDA SaW, Strengthening and Widening the European Infrastructure for sSocial Science Data Archives

The project follows up a succesful launch of the CESSDA project and concentrates on the sustainability for the widened network and its full European coverage. Coordination, networking activities, and stakeholder forums will be delivered and…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

CSDA, Czech Social Science Data Archive

The principal goal of the project is twofold: (1) to support the operation and development of the social science research data infrastructure provided by the Czech Social Science Data Archive (CSDA), and (2) to ensure Czech participation in…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Market Failure in the Context of Social Housing Provision as a Service of General Economic Interest

The project aims to develop a certified method serving for identification of local housing market failure and its quantification. The method will be applied in municipal applications for state subsidies on social housing investments as…

Principal Investigator:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Between Home and Nature: Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening in Post-socialist City and Its Urban Impacts

The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of…

Principal Investigator:

Petr Gibas, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Ing. arch. Irena Boumová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Tomáš Hoření Samec, Ph.D.

Topics:

Housing, City and Village, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Changes in the Perception of the Role of Government After the Crisis. The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The project offers a comparative perspective of changes in perception of the role of the state and form of responsible governance in the Czech Republic after the financial and economic crisis, which in addition to changing redistributive ex…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Legitimacy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Housing Based Welfare: Risks and Implications of Release of Housing Wealth to Support Retirement Income

The project focuses on the future role of housing as an asset for supplementing retirement income, sometimes called asset- (housing-) based welfare (ABW). The interest in this subject is motivated by the process of population ageing. The pa…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Ladislav Kážmér, Ph.D.
Mgr. Martina Mikeszová, Ph.D.
Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing, Economy, Social Inequalities, Social Policy, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Social Networks and Spatial Mobility of Homeless Persons

Program podpory perspektivních lidských zdrojů AV ČR.…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Petr Vašát, Ph.D.

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Social Capital, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department: