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Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment

The CESCAME research endeavour focuses on cities as sites where innovations in knowledge and agency originate. It looks at the coping strategies of people concerning everyday tasks of dealing with the material environment, including fo…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

City and Village, Environment

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Local and regional studies

Sociální a prostorová dostupnost středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

The project focused on secondary education in the Karlovy Vary region, which is one of the regions with a relatively low socio-economic status of pupils and a number of socially excluded localities. In addition, part of its territory is rep…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Education

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2024 - 2024

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

This project contributes to the recent political and scholarly debate on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities. Growing inter-regional disparities within EU countries have been described as a risk to social cohesion,…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Between market and alternatives: household food resilience in uncertain times (FoodRes)

Environmental degradation, the pandemic and growing food prices highlighted the vulnerability and unsustainability of the current food system. Its resilience can be enhanced by developing closer links with informal sources of food. The rece…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jan Vávra, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Climate Change, City and Village, Consumption, Public health, Environment, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2024 - 2026

Education of Foreigners in Schools and Its Impact on Successful Integration into Czech Society

The project, which is unique in the Czech context, deals with the topic of education of pupils with insufficient knowledge of Czech as the language of instruction in primary schools (ages 6-15) and high schools (ages 15-19). Building up t…

Principal Investigator:

RNDr. Mgr. Renáta Mikešová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Education

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2023 - 2026

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

There are grave socio-economic inequalities among regions in the European Union, inter-regional disparities within countries are on the rise. The priject concentrates on an exploration of the social and political consequences of spatial ine…

Principal Investigator:

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2023 - 2025

Inconspicuous innovations and resilience in the urban context: Researching global questions through Central and Eastern European cities

This project is supported by the 2020 Lumina Quaeruntur award of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It establishes a new research team - The Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment (CESCAME) based at the Institute of …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Globalization, Climate Change, City and Village, Sociological Theory, Consumption, Transformation, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2021 - 2025

The History and Future of Czech Housing Estates

Post-war housing estates (HEs) represent an important part of the housing stock in postsocialist countries and their development over the past decades is often discussed. Yet, in spite of relatively rich research evidence based on case stud…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Jana Kočková

Topics:

Housing, City and Village

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2020 - 2023

International mobility of researchers of the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences II

The aim of the project is the implementation of 3 mobilities of junior and senior researchers and mobility of technical and administrative staff of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, at foreign research institution…

Principal Investigator:

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2020 - 2023

Strategy AV21 Rescue and Renewal of Landscape

The aim of the project is to understand the environmental correlations of human anthropogenic impact on the landscape, to find ways of using the landscape that will be sustainable in the long term and at the same time to develop procedures …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Climate Change, Environment

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2020 - 2024

Experiencing Leisure of Older School Age Children as an Educational Challenge

Changes in the leisure participation of the older school age children connected predominantly with the increasing impact of internet and social networks in children lives are one of the challenges of 21th century. Changes in children leisur…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Media, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2019 - 2022

Rural amenities transformation and its effects on the rural population

The aim of the project is to provide knowledge on possible deficits of amenities in rural communities, as well as on the importance of such amenities for the local population. The project asks which groups would be hardest hit by loss of so…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

City and Village, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2019 - 2022

Water and soil for landscape, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2019)

The aim of the project was to map social science landscape research in the Czech Republic, to carry out a secondary analysis of landscape research, and to define basic principles, approaches and concepts in the field of landscape research i…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Environment

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2019 - 2019

Residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens: analysis of neighbourhoods, housing trajectories, and neighbourhood context

The research directly addresses a major challenge for contemporary urban policy: rising inequality and segregation in urban areas. The research examines residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens with innovative methods and …

Principal Investigator:

RNDr. Martin Šimon, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Identity, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Public Administration

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2019 - 2021

Sustainable lifestyles and movements in global and local contexts

The aim of this project is to examine local responses to global environmental problems (climate change, soil degradation, food quality, etc.) in terms of social movements and lifestyles. The research activity is carried out within the frame…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Marta Kolářová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Value Orientations, Identity, Culture, City and Village, Family, Public health, Environment, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2017 - 2020

Ecological landscape infrastructure, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2018)

The aim of the project was to analyze strategies, methods and forms of cooperation of environmental organizations of civil society, as well as how they succeed in meeting the goals with which they enter the planning and landscape management…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

doc. PhDr. Marta Kolářová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Civil Society, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2018 - 2018

Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective

The general objective of this project is to investigate the multifaceted interrelations between social disadvantage, opportunity structures, and individual agency in rural peripheries in eastern Germany and Czechia in a comparative perspect…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2018 - 2020

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:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2017 - 2017

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 and regional studies

Project Duration:

2017 - 2017

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:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2017 - 2019

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:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.
PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.
Mgr. Jiří Krejčík, Ph.D.
Mgr. Zuzana Uhde, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Petra Guasti, Ph.D., Dr. Habil.
Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Marta Kolářová, Ph.D.
PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Yana Leontiyeva, Ph.D.

Topics:

Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Other

Project Duration:

2016 - 2022

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:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2016 - 2016

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:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2016 - 2016

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:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2016 - 2017

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:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2015 - 2016

Projects

Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment

Sociální a prostorová dostupnost středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

Between market and alternatives: household food resilience in uncertain times (FoodRes)

Education of Foreigners in Schools and Its Impact on Successful Integration into Czech Society

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

Inconspicuous innovations and resilience in the urban context: Researching global questions through Central and Eastern European cities

The History and Future of Czech Housing Estates

International mobility of researchers of the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences II

Strategy AV21 Rescue and Renewal of Landscape

Experiencing Leisure of Older School Age Children as an Educational Challenge

Rural amenities transformation and its effects on the rural population

Water and soil for landscape, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2019)

Residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens: analysis of neighbourhoods, housing trajectories, and neighbourhood context

Sustainable lifestyles and movements in global and local contexts

Ecological landscape infrastructure, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2018)

Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective

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

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

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

Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges

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)

Volunteering in the Pardubice county

Leisure in Contemporary Society

Social Networks and Spatial Mobility of Homeless Persons

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