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14 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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Cultivating (relationships, environment and conditions) medicine (KULTIMED)

The aim is to increase the resilience and sustainability of the Czech healthcare in response of staffing crisis, manifested by the outflow of skilled workers abroad or from the sector. We believe that non-ideal interpersonal relations cause…

Topics:

Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Work, Public health

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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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Working time options over the life course

The project´s goal was to compare working time options over the life course in several European countries: Germany, Norway, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands and Sweden. …

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Topics:

Gender, Care, Work, Parenting, Social Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

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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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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…

Topics:

Gender, Care, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2018 - 2020

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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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EU Enlargement, Gender and Political Power: The Civic and Political Participation of Women and the Representation of Women’s Interests in EU Candidate Countries

The research project focuses on the study of the political and civic participation of women in Central and Eastern Europe. It analyses the range and strategies of women’s involvement in political parties, NGOs, trade unions and social mov…

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Topics:

European Union, Gender, Civil Society

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2003 - 2006

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Changes in partnership and family forms and arrangements from the life course perspective

In the last two decades, there have been major changes in the forms of private (partnership and family) life in the Czech Republic (CR). Several research projects focused on their patterns we will add a life course perspective to perform th…

Principal Investigator:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

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FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movement

While several social movements have contributed to social change in Europe during the last four decades, the goal of FEMCIT is to investigate the role of women’s movements in these transformative processes. FEMCIT will explore the r…

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Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

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The phenomenon of childlessness in the context of social changes in Czech society

The subject matter of the project was a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of childlessness in Czech society, focusing on involuntary childlessness as well as the choice of life without children. An emphasis was on researching life st…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2003 - 2006

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