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Changes of working life quality

AnotationThe project is focused on the analysis of changes in the quality of working life, and on the implementation of an already developed methodology of its continuous observation. Outputs: 1. A publication analyzing the state and trends…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Topics:

Work, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Project Duration:

2014 - 2015

TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research

TRIGGER has been designed with the general aim of consolidating the many and valuable results of the process initiated by the EC since more than ten years now in the domain of gender and science, and contributing to take this same process o…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Hana Víznerová
PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Kateřina Cidlinská
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová
Mgr. Blanka Nyklová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2014 - 2017

Strengtheninng the European dimension of Czech research through representing the CR in ERA related expert groups and through a transformation of research organization to achieve gender balance

The "structural change" component of the project aims to implement cultural and institutional change at the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague (ICT). The ICT is a higher education institution with a highly developed international coo…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Hana Víznerová

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2014 - 2017

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

RSS Project 101/1996 "Social Partnership as a Form of Institutional Mediation of Interests in Czech and Slovak Society" (1996-1998). Coordinator

NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance

The aim of this Integrated Project is to produce a deeper conceptual, empirical and normative understanding of all aspects of governance within and beyond Europe, giving special attention to the emergence, execution, evaluation and evolutio…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2006

“Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison“, PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.

SummaryThe positive role of civil society, such as the contribution to the regime change and to the consolidation of democracy is highlighted in numerous literatures. However, until today, fewer authors were concentrating on the systematic …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2011 - 2011

Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

This research project adresses central questions within the study of parliamentary representation in the Czech Republic. Our study is focused on three themes: (1) Parlamentarians - who are Czech republic's political representatives and how …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

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 …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

Creation of the Czech node of the pan-European project of the large research infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS – survey)

The main aim of the ESS – survey project is creation of the national node of the ESS ERIC (www.europeansocialsurvey.org) in the Czech Republic and the realization of the fifth, sixth and seventh round of ESS survey. The European Social Su…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

Topics:

Value Orientations, Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Family, Age and Aging, Public health, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2010 - 2015

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:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

Citizenship, Publics and the Constitution for Europe: The Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Poland in European Integration (ConstEPS)

Coordinated by University of Bremen/FB 8Institute of Political ScienceJean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS)Professor Dr. Ulrike LiebertHomepage: www.monnet-centre.uni-bremen.de Research Project, funded by VolkswagenFoundation in th…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic. Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), head of the Czech…

Legitimacy of the Political System and Inequalities: The Development in the Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The project aims to increase the knowledge about the perceptions of the relation between the political and distributive systems legitimacy. It also focuses on problems of social inequalities and social capital. The instruments used and the …

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Lukáš Linek, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

Kontraurbanizace v České republice: migrace na venkov, životní styl a proměny rezidenčních preferencí

Grantová agentura University Karlovy v Praze, projekt č. 104810. Web projektu: http://www.urrlab.cz/?kontraurbanizace=…

Regional disparities in availability and affordability of housing, their socio-economic consequences and tools directed to increase availability and affordability of housing and decrease the regional disparities

The project will reveal, quantify and analyze actual regional disparities (among regions NUTS 3) in availability and affordability of housing in the Czech Republic. The time series describing the development of such disparities will be prov…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2007 - 2011

Life Strategies in the Czech Business Sphere in the Nineties

The subject of this sociologically oriented project is a case study of the lives of businessmen and businesswomen in contemporary Czech society. The project offers a comprehensive analysis of social and political mechanisms affecting profes…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

Projects

Changes of working life quality

TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research

Strengtheninng the European dimension of Czech research through representing the CR in ERA related expert groups and through a transformation of research organization to achieve gender balance

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

RSS Project 101/1996 "Social Partnership as a Form of Institutional Mediation of Interests in Czech and Slovak Society" (1996-1998). Coordinator

NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance

“Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison“, PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.

Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

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

Creation of the Czech node of the pan-European project of the large research infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS – survey)

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

Citizenship, Publics and the Constitution for Europe: The Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Poland in European Integration (ConstEPS)

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic. Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), head of the Czech…

Legitimacy of the Political System and Inequalities: The Development in the Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

Kontraurbanizace v České republice: migrace na venkov, životní styl a proměny rezidenčních preferencí

Regional disparities in availability and affordability of housing, their socio-economic consequences and tools directed to increase availability and affordability of housing and decrease the regional disparities

Life Strategies in the Czech Business Sphere in the Nineties

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Migration and Mobility
Wages and Incomes
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Social Capital
Social Inequalities
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