The Main Researcher: Mgr. Aleš Kudrnáč, Ph.D.
Aleš conducts research at the intersection of sociology, political science, and social psychology. He has a long-standing interest in the formation of political attitudes in adolescence and how school and the environment, in which adolescents grow up, shape their behavior, prejudices, and perceptions of politics. He has been working at the Institute of Sociology since 2014, when he started to participate in the implementation of the Czech Household Panel Survey. He has attended research fellowships in Tallinn, Haifa, and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the USA. He has also gained significant experience during his almost four years at Umeå University in Sweden.
Postdoctoral Researcher: Mgr. Radka Hanzlová, Ph.D.
Radka gained her PhD in Sociology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. During her studies, she went to several internships and courses in England, Germany, and Norway. Her professional specialization is quantitative research methodology, testing and scale development, questionnaire surveys, and data collection. Her field of interest is well-being, life satisfaction, and mental health. In this project, she works as a data collection manager and researcher.
Postdoctoral Researcher: Ákos Bocskor, Ph.D.
Ákos comes from Hungary where he worked at Corvinus University of Budapest and the Center of Social Science in Budapest (formerly known as the Center of Social Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). His main research interests are peer relationships among adolescents, sociology of education, political discourses, and mixed research methods.
Postgraduate Student: Mgr. Markéta Spitzerová
Markéta is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her research interests include sociology of education, identity formation strategies, attitudes towards otherness, civic participation, and quantitative research. She completed her internship at the University of Bologna in Italy. She also has experience in the field of education in public administration. In this survey, she focuses on the role of democratic school environments and identity formation in shaping social attitudes.
Postgraduate Student: Mgr. Katarína Aslan
Katarína is a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. She focuses on issues at the intersection of sociology and social psychology; identity formation, inter-group relations, sense of belonging, and attitudes towards otherness. She went on an internship at the KU Leuven in Belgium. In this project, she explores how the school environment affects the sense of belonging among adolescents.
Postdoctoral Researcher: Mgr. Ivan Petrúšek, Ph.D
In his research, Ivan focuses on political participation, attitudes towards economic inequalities, and redistribution of incomes (in the Czech Republic and Europe). He went on research internships at Umeå University, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, and University of Mannheim. Ivan also works at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University where he teaches the basics of statistics and quantitative data analysis.