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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

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2014 - 2017

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.

Topics:

Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2013 - 2016

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:

Topics:

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

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2014 - 2018

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:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Religion and religiosity, Work, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

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.

Topics:

Gender, Care, Work

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2014 - 2015

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.

Topics:

Public Administration, Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Project Duration:

2014 - 2015

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:

Topics:

Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2011 - 2013

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.

Topics:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2013 - 2016

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.

Topics:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

Czech sociology has been through enormous development since 1989, when it was freed from the constraints of ideology, and it is now gradually returning to the international stage. Persecuted and exiled scholars were able to rejoin the ac…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Historical Sociology

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

European Political Elites in Comparison: the Long Road to Convergence

ESF Scientific Network Project, co-ordinated by Heinrich Best (University of Jena) and Maurizio Cotta (University of Siena).…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2002 - 2004

The CR Parliament Representatives 1996. The second Stage of Research. GA CR No. 403/96/0388 (1996-1997). Participant

InTune - Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an ‘ever closer Europe’

INTUNE is a research project whose aim is to study the changes in the scope, nature and characteristics of citizenship that result from the process of the deepening and enlargement of the European Union. Its focus is on how integration and …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2005 - 2009

The Europeanization of the Political Representation in the Czech Republic (2007-2009), head of the project. GA ČR, reg. č. 407/07/1395.

Social capital as a factor influencing regional disparities and regional development

The object of the research is disclosing of the basic features of regional disparities with regard to the role and importance of social and human capital in the regional development. The project testifies the hypotheses expressing the relat…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Economy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2007 - 2011

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:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2006

CESSDA.CZ The CESSDA Project: Building a CESSDA-ERIC focal point in the Czech Republic and integrating it into the large pan-European research infrastructure of data services for socio-economic research

The main objective of this project is to build the Czech node of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and to ensure Czech participation in the establishment and operation of this European distributed research inf…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Topics:

Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2010 - 2015

SUREURO - NAS

SUREURO (Sustainable Refurbishment Europe) was an acronym for one of the largest research projects supported under the 5th Framework Programme by the European Comission. Its main objective was the development of metodical and operative tool…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

The analysis of housing policy tools aiming to support the labour flexibility in the Czech Republic

The main goal of the project was to analyze the significance of the relation between housing tenure, existing and potential housing policy tools including rent regulation, on one side, and labour mobility, on the second side, in the Czech R…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2005 - 2006

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre, Project supported by Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2004). Participant.

Detraditionalization and individualization of religion in the Czech Republic and their socio-political and socio-economic consequences

The project aims to analyze processes of detraditionalization, individualization and privatization of religious values and forms of religious life in contemporary Czech society, including implicit ones and their functional equivalents. Alth…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

Etnologický výzkum drogové závislosti v soudobé české společnosti – Turnerovská perspektiva (GAČR)

WS Debate - Stimulating Policy Debate on Women and Science Issues in Central Europe

The WS DEBATE project is a Specific Support Action in the EU 7th Framework Programme. Its overall objective of is the stimulation of policy and public debate on the situation and perspectives of women in science, in order to bridge the gap …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

Changes in the Structure of Gender Roles in the Family: Men’s Participation in the Family and Household after Returning to Work from Parental Leave

The project focuses on monitoring the participation of fathers in the family and household, both during their parental leave and after they return to the labour market, with the objective of understanding the behaviour of fathers and identi…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Maříková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

The Application of Sociological Methods to Detect Housing Market Disequilibrium. Critical & Context-Sensitive Housing Research Methodology

A particular goal of the project is to make more effective use of sociological theory and methods in the analysis of housing demand. As the global economic crisis showed, the housing market has the potential to undermine the stability of th…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Topics:

Housing, Research Methodology

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2012 - 2015

Projects

Support for international cooperation in mentoring: networking and research

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

Dynamics of change in Czech society

Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic

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

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

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

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

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

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

European Political Elites in Comparison: the Long Road to Convergence

The CR Parliament Representatives 1996. The second Stage of Research. GA CR No. 403/96/0388 (1996-1997). Participant

InTune - Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an ‘ever closer Europe’

The Europeanization of the Political Representation in the Czech Republic (2007-2009), head of the project. GA ČR, reg. č. 407/07/1395.

Social capital as a factor influencing regional disparities and regional development

Parenthood after Partners Break Up – Parental Roles and the Identity of Divorced Mothers and Fathers

CESSDA.CZ The CESSDA Project: Building a CESSDA-ERIC focal point in the Czech Republic and integrating it into the large pan-European research infrastructure of data services for socio-economic research

SUREURO - NAS

The analysis of housing policy tools aiming to support the labour flexibility in the Czech Republic

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre, Project supported by Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2004). Participant.

Detraditionalization and individualization of religion in the Czech Republic and their socio-political and socio-economic consequences

Etnologický výzkum drogové závislosti v soudobé české společnosti – Turnerovská perspektiva (GAČR)

WS Debate - Stimulating Policy Debate on Women and Science Issues in Central Europe

Changes in the Structure of Gender Roles in the Family: Men’s Participation in the Family and Household after Returning to Work from Parental Leave

The Application of Sociological Methods to Detect Housing Market Disequilibrium. Critical & Context-Sensitive Housing Research Methodology

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