Position:
Head of department and Senior Fellow
Place of employment:
Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1
Highest completed education
2007 PhD. Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, Prague.
1999 Master, Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, Prague.
1997 Bc., Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, Prague.
Field of specialisation
Alena Křížková got her PhD in sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. From 1996 to 1999 she worked in the department of Social Structure Transformation at the Institute of Sociology, AS CR, since 1999 Alena has been with the Gender & Sociology department where she is the deputy head. In 2003 she led a Public Opinion Poll on the Position of Women on Labor Market; in 2004 - 2005 she was in charge of the first research project mapping the occurrence of harassment and sexual harassment at workplace in CR, in 2006 Alena Křížková is the coauthor of a book
Sexualized Reality of the Working Relations (published in Czech in 2006, Institute of Sociology AS CR). Since 2005 she has been in charge of project Work – Life Balance in the Perspective of Gender Relations, Social and Employment Policies in CR. She is the coauthor of
Management of Gender Relations, Position of Women and Men in Organization, (published in Czech in 2004, Management Press).
Alena Křížková also deals with civic and political participation of women in relation to the Czech Republics´ accession to EU, has been coordinator of the Czech team on the project Constructing Supranational Political Spaces: The European Union, Eastern Enlargement, and Women's Agency, funded by NSF USA. Alena participated on the project Enlargement, gender and governance, funded by EC. She is a coeditor of book
In Multiple Voices: Negotiating Women's Spaces after 1989, (published in Czech with English abstracts in 2006, Institute of Sociology, AS).
She provides expertise to the European Commission on a regular basis as a member of a Network of Experts on Gender Equality in Employment and Social Inclusion.
Foreign scholarships, fellowships or other academic study abroad
2007 -
2008 Visiting researcher v Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Oslo University, Norsko ( 10 months)
2006 Visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley, USA, Sociology Department and Women´s Studies Department (invited by Prof. Trond Petersen, 2 months)
2004 – 2005 Marie Curie Fellowship, European Commission, “In-depth training in sociological practices”, IRESCO (CNRS) Paris, departments: GERS, LASMAS, France (Invited by Helena Hirata, 5 months)
2004 Visiting scholar at McGill University, Montréal, Canada,
Sociology Department (invited by Assistant Prof. Elaine Weiner, 2 weeks)
2004 Visiting scholar at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Centre of the Comparative European Studies (invited by Prof. Joanna Regulska, 2 weeks)
2004 Study at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris within the framework of inter-institutional academic agreements (invited by Rose-Marie Lagrave, 5 weeks)
2003 Study at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Sociology within the framework of inter-institutional academic agreements (2 weeks)
2003 French government scholarship at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France (invited by Rose-Marie Lagrave, 5 months)
2002 Fellowship at University of Toulouse – Le Mirail, EU-funded Advanced Research Training Network Project “Women in European Universities” – 5
th Framework program of the EC, Équipe Simone-Sagesse, Toulouse, France (invited by Nicky LeFeuvre, 3 months).
2002 Summer European University “Recherches francophones sur le genre”, University of Toulouse – Le Mirail, France (1 week)
2002 Summer School “Les Différences des sexes”. Jan Hus Foundation, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France (1 week)
2001 Study at London School of Economics and Political Science within the framework of inter-institutional academic agreements (2 weeks)
2000 Study at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris within the framework of inter-institutional academic agreements (5 weeks)
Membership or position in academic committees, boards, and institutions
Expert on gender equality and social inclusion for European Commission - Network of Experts on Gender Equality in Employment and Social Inclusion.
Member of editorial board of the Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum journal.
