Projects

Project Duration:

2024 - 2027

Dynamics of Overeducation in Europe from a Social Stratification Perspective

Overeducation, the situation in which individuals have more education than their work requires, is a critical issue of sociological research due to its negative association with job satisfaction, well-being, and other social impacts. Buildi…

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Project Duration:

2025 - 2026

The dynamics of adolescents‘ attitudes toward outgroups

The challenges associated with the integration of foreigners are very important and actual in many societies around the world. Negative attitudes towards foreigners are related to social issues such as racism, discrimination, social exclusi…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Aleš Kudrnáč, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Interpersonal Relations, Civil Society, Social Inequalities, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Social Stratification

Project Duration:

2023 - 2027

Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (CoRe)

There will be assembled a research team with the involvement of excellent researchers with competence on the border of social sciences (political science, sociology, gender studies, linguistics, legal sciences, area studies, media studies, …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Energy, Climate Change, Sociology of Sciences, Environment

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2023 - 2028

Research of Excellence on Digital Technologies and Wellbeing

DigiWELL is a project funded by the Jan Amos Komenský Operational Programme (OP JAK) under the Excellent Research scheme (PI Steriani Elavsky, University of Ostrava). DigiWELL addresses research challenges in key areas of the rapidly evolv…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Dana Hamplová, PhD.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Digitalization, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Social Stratification

Project Duration:

2024 - 2028

Society in Motion and Public Policy, Strategy AV21

The programme focuses on complex socio-economic phenomena in modern societies, including those that arise unexpectedly, such as epidemics, wars, and extreme weather events. A range of researchers from various disciplines and instituti…

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Department:

Social aspects of housing and its change during the transition in the Czech Republic in context with the adjustment to the EU standards

The first object of the project lies in multidimensional description of current housing problems and their changes during the transition in the Czech Republic by means of large analysis of housing expenditures from 1989 to 2000 and by reali…

Principal Investigator:

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

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Project Duration:

2000 - 2002

HouseInc: Inclusive, Affordable and Sustainable Housing for Marginalised Communities

A HORIZON-funded project that will use innovative methodologies and approaches to analyse the interlinked dimensions of housing inequalities in 4 European countries. The EU is facing a housing crisis with a lack of affordable, sustainable,…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2024 - 2026

Pragmatic Socioeconomics: a New Bridge between Sociology and Economics in Housing Studies

Housing price trends and their volatility have become one of the major determinants of wealth and social inequalities, and one of the major factors influencing sustainable economic growth. Despite this, mainstream housing economics has so f…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Economy, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2023 - 2025

A Mobile Society: Opportunities and Risks of New Forms of Mobility for Czech Society and Economy

Program: Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (P JAC), call: Social Sciences and Humanities: Man and Humanity in the Global Challenges of Today Acronym: AMOS No: CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008717 Three research institutions coope…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Martina Mysíková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Economy, Gender, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Work, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Project Duration:

2025 - 2028

Encyclopedia of Religion On-Line: A Mean for Understanding Religion

The on-line Encyclopedia of Religion, founded in 2020, aims to be a fundamental guide for all those interested in historical and contemporary forms of religion, both in the Czech society and in the world. It is currently visited by over 10 …

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Project Duration:

2024 - 2028

The Role of Religion in Shaping Identities – Identity Politics and Security Risks

Part of the AV21 Strategy Programme Identities in a World of Wars and Crises, in which research is conducted on religion of contemporary immigrants from Eastern Europe, especially from Ukraine, and its security risks. The research has stert…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Kateřina Horská, Ph.D.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2024 - 2025

Smart(ening up the Modern) Home: Redesigning Power Dynamics through Domestic Space Digitalisation

Home has long been positioned by means of particular dichotomies such as outside and inside, public and private, work and care, masculine and feminine, human and non-human. The digital transformation of home challenges these dichotomies a…

Principal Investigator:

Petr Gibas, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Digitalization, Gender, Technology and society

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Project Duration:

2023 - 2025

Phytotherapy in the Era of Post-Industrial Metabolism: A Biosocial Study of Foraging, Circulation, and the Use of Medicinal Plants in the Czech Republic

The project builds on research that examines the relationship between alternative and conventional medicine in the Czech Republic and the post-socialist space (Klepal and Stöckelová, 2018; Jasarevic, 2015; Stöckelová and Trnka, 2019). I…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Lukáš Senft, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences, Public health, Environment

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Project Duration:

2025 - 2026

Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment

The CESCAME research endeavour focuses on cities as sites where innovations in knowledge and agency originate. It looks at the coping strategies of people concerning everyday tasks of dealing with the material environment, including fo…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

City and Village, Environment

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Sociální a prostorová dostupnost středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

The project focused on secondary education in the Karlovy Vary region, which is one of the regions with a relatively low socio-economic status of pupils and a number of socially excluded localities. In addition, part of its territory is rep…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Education

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Project Duration:

2024 - 2024

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

This project contributes to the recent political and scholarly debate on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities. Growing inter-regional disparities within EU countries have been described as a risk to social cohesion,…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

This project contributes to the recent political and scholarly debate on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities. Growing inter-regional disparities within EU countries have been described as a risk to social cohesion,…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

GenderSAFE: Advancing the zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence in higher education and research in the European Research Area

GenderSAFE supports efforts to establish a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence in the European Research Area in order to contribute to building a safe, inclusive and respectful environment in research and innovation and higher …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2024 - 2027

Technocultures of extended metabolism

The project is concerned with recent advances in medical research and clinical practice in understanding metabolism that emphasize the complexity and malleability of metabolism. Metabolism, in this understanding, extends beyond the individu…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences, Public health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Project Duration:

2024 - 2026

Between market and alternatives: household food resilience in uncertain times (FoodRes)

Environmental degradation, the pandemic and growing food prices highlighted the vulnerability and unsustainability of the current food system. Its resilience can be enhanced by developing closer links with informal sources of food. The rece…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jan Vávra, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Climate Change, City and Village, Consumption, Public health, Environment, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Project Duration:

2024 - 2026

Inequalities in the settings, use and discourses of parental leave policies from a social sustainability perspective

The project develops research on paid parental leave (PPL) arrangements from a social sustainability perspective. We enrich knowledge of social inequalities related to institutional settings, discursive framing, access and use of PPL arrang…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Parenting, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2023 - 2026

Education of Foreigners in Schools and Its Impact on Successful Integration into Czech Society

The project, which is unique in the Czech context, deals with the topic of education of pupils with insufficient knowledge of Czech as the language of instruction in primary schools (ages 6-15) and high schools (ages 15-19). Building up t…

Principal Investigator:

RNDr. Mgr. Renáta Mikešová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Education

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department: