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13 Projects

A Mobile Society: Opportunities and Risks of New Forms of Mobility for Czech Society and Economy

 Program: Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (P JAC), call: Social Sciences and Humanities: Man and Humanity in the Global Challenges of Today Acronym: AMOS No: CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008717 Three research institutions coope…

Topics:

Economy, Gender, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Work, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Project Duration:

2025 - 2028

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Inequalities in the settings, use and discourses of parental leave policies from a social sustainability perspective

The project develops research on paid parental leave (PPL) arrangements from a social sustainability perspective. We enrich knowledge of social inequalities related to institutional settings, discursive framing, access and use of PPL arrang…

Topics:

Gender, Parenting, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2023 - 2026

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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…

Topics:

Gender, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2021 - 2024

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Gendering the pandemic: redefinition of care as a consequence of the COVID-19 crisis?

The measures to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the economic “freezing” and recession of the global economy afterwards incur important social and economic costs that are distributed unequally among different soc…

Topics:

Gender, Care, Parenting, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2021 - 2023

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The European Family Support Network - Eurofamnet

This Action builds collaborative pathways between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, children and families, public and private agencies, and general society to create the necessary framework that allows informing family policies and…

Topics:

Care, Family, Social Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2019 - 2023

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Who cares in Europe?

COST Action Who Cares in Europe? aims to define and develop an emerging research field that explores the relationships among voluntary associations, families and states in the creation of social welfare in Europe. It focuses on the questio…

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Topics:

Care, Parenting

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2019 - 2023

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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…

Topics:

Gender, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2017 - 2019

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Configurations of Elderly Care in the CR: Labour, love and money

The project examines the changing understanding of the responsibility for care and the impact this has on the current configurations of elderly care in the Czech Republic. It aims to analyse the forms and implications of monetary transfers …

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Topics:

Gender, Care, Family, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2015 - 2017

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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…

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Topics:

Economy, Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

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Obstacles and opportunities for implementing flexible working arrangements in the Czech Republic

The aim of the research project is to analyze all types of factors influencing the implementation of flexible working arrangements in the Czech Republic. In the analysis we research the flexible working arrangements in the international co…

Principal Investigator:

  • Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.

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Topics:

Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2011 - 2012

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The Context of Changes in the Labour Market and Forms of Private, Family and Partner Life in Czech Society

The objective of the project is to identify the main changes in the labour market and to study their context and impact on the organisation of private life among Czech people. The project focuses on the changing forms of partner and family …

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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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:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2006

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Discursive framing and day-to-day experience of elderly care in the Czech Republic

Demographic transformations currently taking place in European societies, including the Czech Republic, lead to a de cit of available care for the elderly. Eldercare is currently provided mainly in the informal sector, and more often by wom…

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Topics:

Gender, Intergenerational Relations, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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