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9 Projects

Technocultures of extended metabolism

This project examines the social and cultural implications of recent advances in biomedical research and clinical practice relating to the human metabolism. These advances underscore the complexity and malleability of metabolisms and in fac…

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences, Public health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2024 - 2026

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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…

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

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2021 - 2023

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Mikrobiologické občanství mezi antibiotickým a probiotickým režimem

The research project is concerned with trajectories of human-microbial coexistence in the Czech Republic. It builds on three key theoretical concepts of microbiopolitics, (micro)biological citizenship, and situated biologies. It investigate…

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Topics:

Sociology of Sciences, Public health, Environment

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2020 - 2022

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Data collection and research services on fundamental human rights issue – FRANET, Lot 3 – Czech Republic (FRA)

FRANET is the Agency’s multidisciplinary research network. It is composed of contractors in each EU Member State who, upon request, provide relevant data to FRA on fundamental rights issues, to facilitate the Agency’s comparative analys…

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Trust/Social Cohesion, Gender, Identity, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Social Policy, Public health

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2018 - 2026

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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…

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Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2015 - 2017

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Tracing knowledges between science and society

In this project I focus on the study of production, use and translation of social science knowledge on its travels between science and society. I aim at understanding the differences between knowledge regimes in areas of natural and technic…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

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Articulations of science policies in research practice and academic path

Science and research are increasingly becoming subject to managerial visions and procedures. Building on an international research project Knowledge, institutions and gender: an East–West comparative study (FP 6, 2006–2008, EC) this pro…

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Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2010

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Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West comparative study – KNOWING

Building on scholarship in feminist philosophy and social studies of science, the project will examine the role of gender in the production of knowledge contexts and cultures in an East-West perspective in two scientific fields (sociology a…

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Topics:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

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Mass higher education in institutional settings: ethnography of academic departments in the Czech Republic

Higher education is becoming increasingly important in knowledge societies and, simultaneously, undergoing a rapid and profound change. The present project explores contemporary transformations of higher education from below through ethno…

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Topics:

Public Policy, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2011 - 2013

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