Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Highest completed education

Ongoing:

• 2005-, Ph.D. in Political Science, Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies within the research project “Citizenship, Publics and the Constitution for Europe: The Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Poland in European Integration” , Bremen Univeristy, Bremen, Germany

Finished:

• 2002-2007, Ph.D. in Sociology, Joint program between Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2001-2002, M.A. in Political Sociology, Central European University, School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland
• 1999-2001, B.A. in International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Field of specialisation

• modern democracy and its institutions, political participation of women, parliaments and parliamentarism, civil society and citizenship

Teaching activities

2003/2004
Institute of Sociological Studies, Faculty of social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
Sociological Perception of Suicide – theoretical course and seminar (BA and MA level)

2002/2003
Institute of Sociological Studies, Faculty of social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
Fall semester – Political sociology I. (MA level) theoretical course and seminars together with Associate Professor Dr. Lubomir Brokl, responsible for seminars, readings and practical implementation of theoretical issues
Spring Semester – Political sociology II. (MA level) together with Associate Professor Dr. Lubomir Brokl, responsible for seminars, readings and practical implementation of theoretical issues

Foreign scholarships, fellowships or other academic study abroad

• 2005- 2008, Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies, Bremen Univeristy, Bremen, Germany

• August 2005, ECPR a DAAD graduate summer school Governance and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, Lüneburg, Germany
  
• November 2004, research visit to Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences based on joint project: Political Parties and Parliamentary Elites in the Czech Republic and Poland in the Period of Democratic Consolidation, Warsaw, Poland
• August 2004, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, course: Models for Multi-Level Voting Behavior (Prof. Soren R. Thomsen), University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
• June 2004, one month research visit to Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) based on project Participation, Democratization and Citizenship, Berlin, Germany
• July-August 2001, Democracy & Diversity Institute, Graduate Faculty, New School University Courses: Sustaining Democracy and Theories of Gender in Culture; Krakow, Poland
• May-June 2000, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Institut für Gesellschafts- und Sozialpolitik: 5^th Intensive Program: Democratization in Europe: European Union and Enlargement, Linz, Austria

   

Membership or position in academic committees, boards, and institutions

• Czech Political Science Association, member, 1998 – present
• Masaryk Czech Sociological Society, 2002 – present
• European Political Science Network EPSNet, 2003 – present
• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Standing Group Central and Eastern Europe, od 2003
• National Graduate Representative – European Political Science Network EPSNet, od 2004
• Research Committee of Legislative Specialists, International Political Science Association (IPSA)
• Student section of the Czech Political Science Association, Head of the section, 12/2000 – present