Projects

Equilibrium between Women and Men

Project reacts to discrimination of women in their access to decision-making and to inadequate reflection of their needs (gender mainstreaming). The project will explore link between both problems. The aim of the project is a system chang…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Themes:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic Impacts of Motherhood from a Lifelong Perspective

Quantification of lifelong economic impacts of motherhood on women and identification of their causes will lead to revision of relevant public policies and employer practices. Recommendations will be targeted at decision-makers and the publ…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Themes:

Economy, Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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.

Themes:

Work, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

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.

Themes:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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

Themes:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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

Themes:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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.

Themes:

Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

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:

Themes:

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

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

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:

Themes:

Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita, Work, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

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.

Themes:

Gender, Care, Work

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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.

Themes:

Public Administration, Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

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:

Themes:

Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

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.

Themes:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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.

Themes:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years

The aim of the project was to learn and analyse characteristics, structure and functioning of Parliamentary and other relevant political parties in relation to their functioning in the Parliament, at lower levels of an organization structur…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Diusion Processes?

The presented project fills some gaps in research on international migration, especially the secondary migration of immigrants. The explanation of the features of internal mobility of immigrants and its impact on socio-spatial differentiati…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Themes:

Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

The Analysis of Voting Behaviour in Elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996 – 2008

The project examines voting behaviour in elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The main objective is to analyse patterns of voting behaviour, the causes and consequences of the varying and generally very low voter…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Tomáš Lebeda, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Value Orientations in Society

The Quality of Survey Research on Electoral Preferences

The objective is to conduct a professional evaluation of electoral surveys in the Czech Republic. The project will assess all aspects of data quality and availability. We intend to create a review of all existing surveys and gather relevant…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Health & Family - ISSP 2011 and 2012

The association between the family and psychological and physical health has become a major theme in the sociological, demographic, and epidemiological literatures. On the one hand, significant attention has been devoted to the consequences…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Dana Hamplová, PhD.

Themes:

Family, Health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Value Orientations in Society

Denki Rengo Survey III: Quality of working life

International joint research on workers´ perception of their working life in the electrical and electronic machine industry. This research was conducted reciprocally three times: 1984-85, 1994-96 and 1999-2001. Denki Rengo III. covers the …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Members of the Czech Parliament in Its Third Term, supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, head of the Project Lubomír Brokl (2000-2002). participant.

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

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Topical Issues of the Formation of Equal Opportunities Policies for Men and Women in Connection with the Preparedness of the Czech Republic for the Accession to the EU

The objective of this sociologically-oriented project is to encourage the development of the following processes: a) implementation of binding European standards for equal opportunities policies for men and women in various spheres of socia…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

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