Projects

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:

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:

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:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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:

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:

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:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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:

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre - Parliamentary DICe

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre came into existence on the base of a set of information, data and analysis stemming from researches of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and parliaments of other post-communist Central E…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Project Duration:

2000 - 2004

Economic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in Czech Republic part of the international comparative project, co-ordinated by United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) at United Nations, Geneva, 2002-2001, head of…

PARTNER- Partnership and Participation in Local Public Administration: Meaning, Experiences and Promises.

Main goal of this project is to identify how local communities understand to idea of partnership and participation, to what extent and with what instruments is participation realized and what structures of partnership are created between …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science (CEC-WYS)

The two primary objectives of the Centre are: 1) to promote, mobilise and network women in science in Central Europe, and thus to contribute to increasing gender equality in R&D and to structuring the European Research Area 2) to promote, m…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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.

Topics:

Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

CESSDA - PPP: Preparatory phase project for a major upgrade of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) research infrastructure

This project arises as a direct result of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) Research Infrastructure (RI) being identified by ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) Roadmap exercise as an exis…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2007 - 2008

Objective and Subjective Assessments of the Financial Affordability of Housing in the Czech Republic during the 1990s

This study looks at assessments of the financial affordability of housing in the Czech Republic over the course of the 1990s, drawn from two mutually complementary perspectives: on the basis of verified data, detailing the levels of househo…

Principal Investigator:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Project Duration:

2002 - 2003

Reducing the security threats of corruption and organized crime in the Czech Republic

This project seeks to prevent serious security threats to the Czech state via organized crime and corruption by addressing the mechanisms by which those crimes take place. The project will design and propose legislative and non-legislative …

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Topics:

Corruption, Criminality

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

Local Government Cooperation – element of local democracy and effective tool of self-government

A database of cca 2 thousand of new municipalities that gained autonomy by fragmentation of original municipalities was developed in the framework of the two years project. Almost all new municipalities are smaller than 2 thousand of inhabi…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Vajdová

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2004 - 2005

Methods and Effectiveness of Interest Mediation Between Individuals, Social Groups and the State. Project supported within the program “Modern Society” by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic (2003). Head of the project.

The Housing Market in Prague from the Perspective of Economic Sociology: “Transitive” Factors behind the High Prices of Owner-Occupied housing

The main objective of the project was determine whether there exist “transitive”, institutionally and culturally specific factors behind the high prices and low financial affordability of older and new owner-occupied housing in Prague, …

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Civil Society

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2003 - 2006

Persistence and change of voting patterns in the territory of the Czech Republic since the introduction of universal suffrage (causes and consequences)

The research project analyzes causes and political consequences of persistence and change of the voting patterns. It analyses results of all parliamentary elections on the territory of the contemporary Czech Republic since universal suffrag…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Project Duration:

2012 - 2015

Public/private funding of higer education: a social balance

The aim of this project was to provide reliable data and information on the real and effective distribution of (teaching-related) costs of higher education. The shares of public and private costs were calculated for students of different so…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Petr Matějů, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Project Duration:

2006 - 2007

Analyses of The First Elections in the New Republic, 1992-1996

Mansfeldová, Z. (ed.) 2003. Czech Republic: The First Elections in the New Republic, 1992-1996. Analyses, Documents and Data. Serie WZB: Founding Elections in Eastern Europe. Berlin: edition sigma.The analyses presented in the book Czech R…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

1999 - 2002

Obstacles and opportunities for implementing flexible working arrangements in the Czech Republic

The aim of the research project is to analyze all types of factors influencing the implementation of flexible working arrangements in the Czech Republic. In the analysis we research the flexible working arrangements in the international co…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department: