Finished projects

Medicine Multiple: Ethnography of the interfaces between biomedical and alternative therapeutic practices

The project is concerned with the integrations of, and conflicts and passages between biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Drawing upon medical anthropology, science and technology studies and the sociology of medic…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Themes:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Socio-spatial disadvantage of inhabitants in peripheral rural regions

The project addresses the issue of social disadvantage of inhabitants of peripheral rural regions.Social disadvantage usually entails a spatial component. The spatial concentration of social disadvantage, exclusion and deprivation and the s…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Themes:

City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

We Defend Women's Rights in the Czech Republic

The aim of the project was to advance gender equality at the institutional level, in the labour market, in the family and in society. The Centre's activities focused primarily on the establishment and functioning of the Gender Expert Chambe…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Themes:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Other

CCK_ODDELENI:

Equilibrium between Women and Men

Project reacts to discrimination of women in their access to decision-making and to inadequate reflection of their needs (gender mainstreaming). The project will explore link between both problems. The aim of the project is a system chang…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Themes:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic Impacts of Motherhood from a Lifelong Perspective

Quantification of lifelong economic impacts of motherhood on women and identification of their causes will lead to revision of relevant public policies and employer practices. Recommendations will be targeted at decision-makers and the publ…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Themes:

Economy, Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Changes of working life quality

AnotationThe project is focused on the analysis of changes in the quality of working life, and on the implementation of an already developed methodology of its continuous observation. Outputs: 1. A publication analyzing the state and trends…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Themes:

Work, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research

TRIGGER has been designed with the general aim of consolidating the many and valuable results of the process initiated by the EC since more than ten years now in the domain of gender and science, and contributing to take this same process o…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Hana Víznerová
PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Kateřina Cidlinská
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová
Mgr. Blanka Nyklová, Ph.D.

Themes:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Strengtheninng the European dimension of Czech research through representing the CR in ERA related expert groups and through a transformation of research organization to achieve gender balance

The "structural change" component of the project aims to implement cultural and institutional change at the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague (ICT). The ICT is a higher education institution with a highly developed international coo…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Hana Víznerová

Themes:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Support for international cooperation in mentoring: networking and research

Building on a mentoring project for secondary school female students focused on de-stereotyping fields of research, carried out by the National Contact Centre for Women and Science since 2009, the goal of the present project is to create a …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Kateřina Cidlinská
Mgr. Martina Fucimanová

Themes:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Protestors in Context: An Integrated and Comparative Analysis of democratic citizenship in the Czech Republic

De Tocqueville (1835) theorised that the exercise of citizen power in democracies depends fundamentally on both equality and active participation in public affairs. Consequently, political inequality will arise from differences in participa…

Principal Investigator:

Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Themes:

Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Dynamics of change in Czech society

Project summary:This project will examine the Dynamics of Change in Czech Society using a household panel survey research design. Applying insights from sociology, economics and politics this study will examine five themes: Family life, ti…

Principal Investigator:

Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Members of the project team:

Themes:

Housing, Politics and Political Attitudes, Work, Family, Social Inequalities, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic

Around the world there are various branches of socio-economic research that make work and jobs their focus object of study. This interest has been heightened by the current economic recession, which has increased the risk of unemployment an…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Themes:

Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita, Work, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Methodology of diversity management and reconciliation of work and private life in the workplace

The aim of the project is creation of certified methodology of diversity management and reconciliation of work and private life in the workplace, which will be usable directly by employers and organizations. This is an innovative interconne…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Themes:

Gender, Care, Work

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Social communication and trust building in the process of selecting a site for a geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste

The aim of the project is to develop and systemize empirical findings and create applicable results that in the form of practical principles and procedures of social communication and participative decision-making will contribute to non-con…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Themes:

Public Administration, Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Well-being and the satisfaction of households in CEE countries: linking objective and subjective indicators

The project aims to analyse the links between living conditions and their perceptions in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak households. After the trends in aggregate indicators of socio-economic development are identified, questions will b…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Themes:

Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

PLATENSO - Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe

The objective of PLATENSO is to provide a proposal towards establishing the legal base for a European Entity on Socio-Economic matters linked to nuclear technology and to develop recommendations for research strategies in PLATENSO countries…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Themes:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Data sources, research on data quality, standards, and methods of data harmonisation for the purposes of international comparative social research and integration into the CESSDA network

This project aims to strengthen the database and methodological platform of cross-national empirical research in the social sciences. To achieve this aim, the project will (1) ensure the acquisition, expert processing and archiving of data …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Themes:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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

CCK_ODDELENI:

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

CCK_ODDELENI:

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.

Themes:

European Union

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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

CCK_ODDELENI:

Citizens and the State in the Czech Republic:The Impact and Legacy of the Prague Spring 1968-2008

This project examines the nature of citizenship in the Czech Republic and the legacy of the Prague Spring 1968. In early May 1968 a mass survey undertaken for the communist party leadership investigated public attitudes toward democratisati…

Principal Investigator:

Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

CCK_ODDELENI:

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…

Themes:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI: