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This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of poverty in Czechia by examining associations between childhood financial situation and poverty in adulthood. Using Czech EU– Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data from 2011, 2019, and 2023, which include modules on intergenerational transmission of disadvantages, the study analyses income poverty, material deprivation, and subjective poverty. Individuals reporting financial difficulties in childhood have a significantly higher probabilit…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Gender in Horizon Europe Missions

This GENDERACTION publication presents recommendations for integrating the gender dimension into the five Horizon Europe missions: cancer, climate-neutral cities, healthy oceans and waters, soil health, and adaptation to climate change. Drawing on examples from research and practice, it demonstrates how biological differences and socially constructed gender roles shape people’s needs, exposure to risks, and the impacts of proposed solutions. It highlights the importance of sex and gender analysis throughou…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Jak na monitoring a evaluaci plánů genderové rovnosti

The guide How to Monitor and Evaluate Gender Equality Plans introduces both a general approach and specific steps towards the successful monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) and, consequently, the effective implementation of institutional change. The aim of this guide is to provide clear and practical guidance on how to develop an internal monitoring and evaluation plan for a GEP and to explain why monitoring and evaluation are essential components of the GEP cycle. It also prese…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Genderová dimenze v obsahu vzdělávání. Příručka k integraci genderové perspektivy a genderové dimenze do obsahu vzdělávání budoucích učitelů

This methodological guide provides an in-depth examination of the gender dimension (GD) in educational content within the preparation of future teachers. Integrating the gender dimension into science, research and education brings a holistic perspective to the subjects being studied, enhances the quality of research and educational processes, and extends their positive impacts to society. Gender-related aspects permeate all areas of the educational process. The aim of this guide is to explain the concepts of …

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Genderově podmíněné násilí a sexuální obtěžování na vysokých školách. Analýza výročních zpráv VŠ za rok 2022

Public higher education institutions (HEIs) are required to report in their annual reports on whether they address the issues of gender-based violence and sexual harassment (GBV and SH). The study analyses annual reports for 2022, comparing them with those from 2021 and 2017, when reporting on these issues was first introduced. Reporting on GBV and SH by higher education institutions is improving, with reports providing more detailed and specific information. Th…

Topics: Gender, Education

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Jak na genderově senzitivní komunikaci v instituci. Metodika pro inkluzivní komunikaci

This guide provides practical guidance for those seeking to create a fair and inclusive communication environment for themselves and others, particularly within higher education and research institutions. It is primarily intended for individuals responsible for communication and/or equal opportunities within these institutions. However, it is also available to anyone who shares the values of equal opportunities and gender equality. Through this guide, the Centre for Gender and Science (NKC) aims to facilitate…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Jak na bezpečné a respektující pracovní a studijní prostředí

The Centre for Gender and Science (NKC) has published a new guide entitled How to Integrate the Gender Dimension into Research Content. It is the first comprehensive guide of its kind, designed to support not only researchers but also project managers and other professionals responsible for gender equality. The publication includes numerous practical examples to help readers navigate the topic more easily. The aim of our new guide is to provide practical guidance on how to integrate the gender d…

Topics: Gender, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Plány genderové rovnosti v organizacích veřejného sektoru realizujících výzkumnou činnost. Zpráva k roku 2024

The 2024 analysis shows that the overall number of institutions with Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) has increased since 2023. However, the proportion of GEPs meeting individual mandatory requirements or addressing recommended thematic areas has grown only slowly, and only in certain cases. In some instances, the proportion of GEPs meeting these requirements or covering these areas has actually declined compared to 2023. Among the mandatory requirements, this applies to training, while among the rec…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

The Position of Czech Women in Czech Science. Monitoring Report 2024

The latest monitoring report provides an overview of the representation of women and men across scientific disciplines, academic sectors and sectors of the economy, including the Czech Republic’s position in international comparison. The publication aims to highlight one of the many manifestations of gender culture in Czech science. The available data reveal significant disparities that persist in Czech science and research. They indicate that the situation remains unfavourable, as further confirmed by inter…

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Minimální standard bezpečného prostředí pro kvalitní, udržitelnou a svobodnou výzkumnou a vzdělávací činnost

The aim of this document is to establish consistent standards for social safety, both in terms of the types of measures adopted (Part I) and the methods of their implementation (Part II). These minimum standards are formulated with a vision of a safe higher education and research environment in which problematic forms of behaviour are not tolerated, either within individual institutions or when moving between them. …

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Plány genderové rovnosti v organizacích veřejného sektoru realizujících výzkumnou činnost. Zpráva k roku 2025

Since 2022, a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) has been one of the eligibility criteria for participation in Horizon Europe and is therefore a prerequisite for Czech higher education and research institutions seeking to participate in the EU Framework Programmes. This study aims to map the adoption of GEPs by public and state higher education institutions and public research institutions, and to analyse their content. In doing so, it seeks to provide institutions with feedback on their GEPs and to inspire them when …

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Foraging Response-ability: Between Individual Profit and Multispecies Commons

In reaction to the economic and energy precarity that started in 2021, a portion of the Czech public turned to the forest as a source of wild crops and other free resources. In public debates, citizens have been encouraged to supplement their household income by collecting forest resources to partially make up for the deficiencies in social policies. Building upon ethnographic research on foraging practices in the Czech Republic and the concept of response-ability (Haraway 2016; Puig de la Bellacasa 2017; Hofm…

Topics: Economy, Intergenerational Relations, Environment

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

The Dilemma Game: Microbial Matters

With the support of a CSSM grant, we organized a workshop in 2023 dedicated to experimental methods for sensing and knowing microbes (Hey, Kolářová, Senft & Stöckelová, 2023). The three-day workshop brought together social scientists, humanities scholars, artists, microbiologists, and fermenters. While we greatly enjoyed the meeting, we also came away with a sense that we had not succeeded in creating shared research objects and expectations, and that microbes remained elusive to our methods and conce…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Education, Public health, Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review

The recent rise of populist and illiberal actors in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the concomitant democratic backsliding has generated notable scholarly interest; however, the implications of populism for cultural policy remain understudied. Since culture defines popular tastes and shapes interpretations of national identity and history, we adopt a comparative perspective to evaluate what impact these actors had on cultural policies between 2010 and 2023, using a combination of qualitative analysis of d…

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Between regional and neighbourhood structures: contextual effects behind populist radical right support in Italy

We examine support for the populist radical right in Italy using municipal-level data and apply spatial statistical methods to examine local, neighbourhood, and regional contextual effects, spatial dependence, and the halo effect of immigration. Our findings confirm a consistently negative association between higher education and radical right support, while revealing more nuanced, regionally contingent relationships with other social, economic, and demographic factors. Notably, the effect of unemployment vari…

Topics: Value Orientations, Migration and Mobility, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

(Fear of) Crime and Wellbeing. The role of individual and country-level determinants

Scientists have been looking for an answer to the question of how to increase peo-ple’s quality of life and wellbeing for several decades. This is not an easy task,since both phenomena are known to be influenced by a number of individual fac-tors ranging from unemployment, job satisfaction, and income to personal rela-tionships and health (Hamplová, 2015). At a country level, determinants such asincome inequality, economic performance, and unemployment rate have also beenwidely discussed (Di Tella & Mac…

Topics: Criminality

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Parental Violence and Family Stressors: A Comparative Study of Czech Adolescents in 2013 and 2023

This study investigates the use of corporal punishment among Czech parents in the years 2013 and 2023, drawing on data from the third and fourth waves of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3 and ISRD4). The Czech Republic provides a unique case, having recorded the highest levels of parental violence—both minor and severe—among European countries participating in ISRD3. The article examines changes in the prevalence and incidence of parental violence over the past decade and explores its …

Topics: Criminality

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The role of the parent–child relationship and parental control in the link between adolescent cyber-victimization, risky internet behavior, and self-control

This study extends existing research on adolescent cyber-victimization by highlighting the role of the parent–child relationship as an important protective factor. Drawing on data from a large, self-reported survey of ninth-grade students (N = 1.546) living in the four largest cities in Czechia and employing structural equation modeling (SEM), the study assesses the direct and indirect effects of the parent–child relationship and parental control on cyber-victimization, considering the mediating roles …

Topics: Criminality

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Climate Change and Czech cities: Searching for Responses

he book introduces Czech readers to a topic that connects the study of cities and their governance with questions concerning how society responds to the challenge of global climate change. From the perspective of interdisciplinary urban studies and urban sociology, it examines the responses to climate change that are emerging at the city level both internationally and in the Czech Republic. It provides a concise overview of how cities and climate change have been discussed in international urban studies and of…

Topics: Climate Change, City and Village, Environment

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Longitudinal measurement invariance of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) among adolescents in the Czech Republic

Background: Monitoring adolescent mental well-being requires instruments that measure the construct consistently over time. Although the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) has been widely validated across countries and diverse demographic, cultural and clinical groups, its longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI) has not yet been examined. Without evidence of invariance, observed changes in mental well-being may reflect measurement artefacts rather than true developmental trends. This s…

Topics: Research Methodology, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Social Stratification

Rutina a revoluce

This experimentally written work of creative nonfiction, based on long-term ethnographic research, takes readers into the everyday life of a particular theatre and follows a simmering conflict between its artistic leadership and staff as it erupts into an open “revolution”. Through this specific story, the book raises broader questions about the funding of cultural institutions, invisible labour and care, and relationships within the workplace. It asks what holds art worlds together and how and why their f…

Topics: Culture, Interpersonal Relations

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Publications

„Církev československá“; Českobratrská církev evangelická“; „Masarykova sociologická společnost“; „Der Selbstmort als sociale Massenerscheinung der modernen Civilisation“; „Simmels Soziologie“; „Sociologie“; „Unitářství“; „Volná myšlenka“; „YMCA“.

„Vzpomínka na Eduarda Maura.“ Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review 62, 2026, 4: 349–351.

Za obzor zavedených církevních dějin komunistického Československa. Martin Pácha: Zakázaná víra. Nelegální náboženské menšiny v komunistickém Československu. Soudobé dějiny 33, 2026, 2: 561–566.

Dědictví Starokatolické církve

From childhood disadvantage to adult poverty: Evidence from Czechia

Gender in Horizon Europe Missions

Jak na monitoring a evaluaci plánů genderové rovnosti

Genderová dimenze v obsahu vzdělávání. Příručka k integraci genderové perspektivy a genderové dimenze do obsahu vzdělávání budoucích učitelů

Genderově podmíněné násilí a sexuální obtěžování na vysokých školách. Analýza výročních zpráv VŠ za rok 2022

Jak na genderově senzitivní komunikaci v instituci. Metodika pro inkluzivní komunikaci

Jak na bezpečné a respektující pracovní a studijní prostředí

Plány genderové rovnosti v organizacích veřejného sektoru realizujících výzkumnou činnost. Zpráva k roku 2024

The Position of Czech Women in Czech Science. Monitoring Report 2024

Minimální standard bezpečného prostředí pro kvalitní, udržitelnou a svobodnou výzkumnou a vzdělávací činnost

Plány genderové rovnosti v organizacích veřejného sektoru realizujících výzkumnou činnost. Zpráva k roku 2025

Foraging Response-ability: Between Individual Profit and Multispecies Commons

The Dilemma Game: Microbial Matters

Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review

Between regional and neighbourhood structures: contextual effects behind populist radical right support in Italy

(Fear of) Crime and Wellbeing. The role of individual and country-level determinants

Parental Violence and Family Stressors: A Comparative Study of Czech Adolescents in 2013 and 2023

The role of the parent–child relationship and parental control in the link between adolescent cyber-victimization, risky internet behavior, and self-control

Climate Change and Czech cities: Searching for Responses

Longitudinal measurement invariance of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) among adolescents in the Czech Republic

Rutina a revoluce

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