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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…

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Topics:

Family, Public health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2011 - 2014

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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 …

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

1997 - 1999

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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…

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Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2000 - 2004

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SECONOMICS - Socio-Economics meets Security

Issued by: Evropská komise, FP7-SEC-2011-285223 Time of researching the project: 2012 – 2015, 36 months (1. 2. 2012 –31.1.2015) Coordinator of the project: Professor Dr. Fabio Massacci, University Trento, ItalyProject coordinator for t…

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Topics:

Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2015

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Transformations in professional and family trajectories in the Czech Republic

The research project focuses on a description and analysis of relations between professional career and family life and their development in the Czech Republic after 1989. It combines a diachronic approach based on comparison of the employm…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

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Support for Men Taking Parental Leave (MPSV ČR)

The issue of men going on parental leave must be monitored on a legislative, social-psychological, social, institutional and attitudinal levels and on the level of everyday life. As a result, the dynamic of relations between the private and…

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2002 - 2002

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Social inequalities and the market risks following from housing consumption. The real and desirable response of state fiscal and monetary policies

The objective of the project is to make a comprehensive, theoretically framed, and empirically grounded, context-based description of the transformation of housing conditions in the CR after 1990, including both the identification of the ma…

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Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2008 - 2010

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Analysis of low number of women in political decision-making functions

Project offered complex analysis of low proportion of women in political decision-making functions. Main focus points were: institutional framework of female participation, social and economic structures and conditions, political culture in…

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2004

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FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movement

While several social movements have contributed to social change in Europe during the last four decades, the goal of FEMCIT is to investigate the role of women’s movements in these transformative processes. FEMCIT will explore the r…

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Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

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Women in Czech science – the Position of Women in the Structures of the Academy of Sciences of the CR between 1953 – 2000 (AS CR)

The subject matter of this sociologically oriented project is the research of professional and life trajectories of women in this scientific institution. The core of the project is a sociological analysis of the structures and dynamics of p…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

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Regional councils in a European perspective

An important part of multi-level governance, regional self-administration has undergone many changes in recent decades both in the old and new democracies, with European integration playing a major role. In the Czech Republic regional self-…

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Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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Articulations of science policies in research practice and academic path

Science and research are increasingly becoming subject to managerial visions and procedures. Building on an international research project Knowledge, institutions and gender: an East–West comparative study (FP 6, 2006–2008, EC) this pro…

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Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2010

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Development interests of border area regions ( Orlicko case)

Differentiation and marginalisation of some social groups is folowed by regionalů differentiation and marginalisation. To map problems on a level of a whole and a region, to discover level of marginalisation of the Czech border area and to…

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

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Unequal access to education: the extent, sources, social and economic consequences, policy strategies

A vast number of studies conducted by the OECD and World Bank has well-documented that those countries reforming their educational systems and eliminating a variety of socio-economic barriers causing inequal access to education are today wo…

Principal Investigator:

  • prof. PhDr. Petr Matějů, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Project Duration:

2003 - 2008

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Deputies and Senators of the Parliament CR in the Third Term

The project of a research into the Members and Senators of the CR Parliament in its third term was a part of long-term monitoring of a development of the new Czech parliamentarianism and new political elite. It was continuous with the resea…

Principal Investigator:

  • doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

1999 - 2001

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Obstacles and opportunities: factors influencing the decisions of Czech scientists about the return to the Czech Republic from abroad

The aim of the project is to analyze all types of factors, which shape decision-making of Czech scientists and researchers who reside occupationally abroad whether they come back to the Czech Republic or not. The project addresses (through …

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

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National Contact Centre - Women and Science III.

A follow-up grant, the activities the Center develops fall into two basic lines. The first is to support women researchers' participation in European research, promote equal opportunities in science and research and support early career …

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Topics:

European Union, Gender, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2008 - 2012

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Constructions of breadwinning in Czech society after 1989

The  project concentrates on the phenomenon of breadwinning in the Czech Republic after 1989 which has not been so far systematically researched in Czech sociology and which is firmly linked to many areas of social reality, especially to…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

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The Building of the Archive of Sociological Data

Thanks to the project, SDA has developed into an infrastructure that is able to provide data and other services on a standard level for non-commercial social research and teaching. The project systematically created conditions for activitie…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

1999 - 2000

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