PROJECTS
TAČR
TAČR Project: Methodology for Assessing Social Effectiveness of Institutions Executing Public Policies
The objective is to create and introduce new procedures enhancing efficiency of existing public policies at central, regional and local level and develop a certified methodology assessing social effectiveness of institutions executing public policies. The implementation of this methodology will facilitate the identification of good practices, improvements in governance and administration, and cultivation of public institutions. Simultaneously it will also assist the implementation of the recently adopted civil service law.
Project name:
Methodology for Assessing Social Effectiveness of Institutions Executing Public Policies
Project duration:
11/2015 – 12/2017
Principal investigator:
Doc. Ing. Marie Bohatá, CSc., CERGE – EI
Principal co-investigator:
doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D., and doc. Ing. Ing. Lea Kubíčková PhD., Mendelu PEF ÚPHV
Project TAČR: Ethics in public administration
The objective is to enhance Czech public administration ethics and integrity.Current efforts to increase ethical awareness and competences of public officials will be analyzed, shortcomings and gaps in the implementation of existing tools identified, and reflecting on research findings and proven good practices recommendations for a common integrity framework and greater efficiency of existing practices formulated (4/2019). The recommendations will be discussed at an international conference in order to get feedback (6/2019). In a dialogue with relevant stakeholders and in workshops training needs will be identified, a training programme designed and a textbook
Project name:
Ethics in public administration
Project duration:
02/2018 – 06/2021
Principal investigator:
doc. Ing. Marie Bohatá CSc., PhDr. Mgr. Pavel Seknička Ph.D., Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR
Principal co-investigator:
doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D., Mendelu PEF ÚPHV
doc. RNDr. Anna Putnová Ph.D., MBA, VUT v Brně FBM ÚM
TAČR project: Increasing Efficiency of National Action Plan (NAP) supporting positive ageing in the period of 2013 to 2017.
The project aims to design a methodology and create measurable indicators to evaluate the National Action Plan (NAP) supporting positive ageing in the period of 2013 to 2017. Using such measurable indicators it will be possible: – to precisely assess the impact of the measures undertaken to ensure and protect rights of elderly people, lifelong learning, employmentof elderly people and senior persons in relation to the pension insurance system, volunteering and cross-generation cooperation, senior-citizen-friendly environment, healthy ageing, care of the most vulnerable elderly people with limited self-sufficiency – to efficiently plan further actions -to compare the results with other EU countries. Positive and active ageing has been incorporated in a number of EC programme documents such as the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, also adopted by EU countries.
Project name:
Increasing Efficiency of National Action Plan (NAP) supporting positive ageing in the period of 2013 to 2017.
Project duration:
1/2015 – 8/2016
Principal investigator:
doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D
Mendelu PEF ÚPHV
GAČR
Project GAČR: Disability geography – visually impaired experience with urban space
The research project has three main goals – to understand the spatial experience of visually impaired people; critically reflect the prevailing conception of visuality in current geography; to establish disability geography in the Czech context.
Visuality has dominated the Western world since ancient times, which leads to devaluing experience that is not based on visual perception. The favoritism of sight has also permeated both natural and social sciences, including both physical and human geography. The results of geographical research often consist of distances, angles, or measures, all of them captured in a visual form like maps, graphs, pictures, photographs etc. The spatial experience of visually impaired people offers a critical reflection of the dominance of visuality in human geography and opens up a question of how to conceptualize this experience geographically. The research draws on the poststructuralist approaches that focus on spatial practices – urban space is not a starting point in which miscellaneous activities are being done, but a result of these activities/practices, from urban planning to living in such a space. The project follows disability geography that focuses on personal experience with space and departs from the conviction that the modern city is configured for able-bodied subjects, and thus neglects other bodies. The research examines comprehending space and its borders in the visually disabled perspective, the effect of the type of assisted movement on experience with space, or studies how visuality is projected into the visually impaired experience. The research uses qualitative research methods – repeated semistructured interviews and go-along research.
Project name:
Disability geography – visually impaired experience with urban space
Project duration:
1/2020 – 12/2022
Principal investigator
RNDr. Robert Osman, Ph.D. , Masaryk University
Principal Co-inverstigator:
Mgr. Hana Porkertová, Ph.D., Mendel University in Brno
RNDr. Lucie Pospíšilová, Ph.D., Charles University
Project GA ČR: Digitalisation in the Labour Market: Challenges, Opportunities and Inequalities for Older Workers
Goals:
The project aims to identify the consequences of changes brought by Industry 4.0 for older workers in the multidimensional context of their lives by its focus on socially structured inequalities in later life, including their intersectional nature and accumulation across the life course.
Abstract:
The gradual digitalisation of the economy and the inception of Industry 4.0 eliminate routine jobs at the expense of more flexible and creative positions. However, these processes towards the digital economy make new demands on workers, who adapt to the new conditions to a variable degree. This project focuses on older workers and the role of their gender, age, ethnicity, type of job, and life course experience in labour market adaptability. The main objective is to examine how older workers in different types of jobs react to increasing digitalisation and restructuring of the labour market in the European context. The project will address the topic with qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis, combining existing international data with new data sources collected during our project in the Czech Republic. The main outcome will be a development of the theoretical concepts linked to the working adaptability of older workers to various sources of inequality, a better understanding of the working positions and perception of their situation.
Duration:
07/2021-06/2024
Principal investigator:
Mgr. Martin Lakomý, PhD (Mendel University in Brno, FBE)
Principal Co-inverstigator:
PhDr. Alena Křížková, PhD (Sociologický ústav, AV ČR)
Members representing Mendel University:
doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, PhD, Ing. Jakub Šácha, PhD, Ing. Drahomíra Zajíčková, prof. Clary Krekula, PhD
International
Research project – COST LD: basic information
The project follows the main objective of COST Action IS 1409. The aim of the project is to increase the scientific understanding of the importance of the gender dimension in the implementation and promotion of active ageing, especially with regard to the economic well-being of ageing workers in the Czech private and public sectors compared to Western countries, based on international cooperation within the approved ISCH COST Action IS1409.
Project title:
Gender dimensions of implementation of active ageing in the Czech private and public sector in comparison with Western countries.
Duration of the project:
11/2015 – 12/2017
Project Principal Investigator:
Assoc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D.
EEA Grant
Human capital development. Mobility for partnership between Mendel University and University of Iceland to strengthen inclusive education, equal treatment and respect to human rights.
Project description:
The aim of the project is to strengthen the cooperation and partnership between Mendel University in Brno and University in Iceland, esp. in terms of inclusive education, equal treatment and respect to human rights. The growing number of students from diverse backgrounds and with various needs is a phenomenon that most of the universities in Europe embrace. Thus, sharing their experience is a crucial part of getting through the process of diversification successfully, with the utmost respect for all students. These priorities are described also in strategic documents of both participating organisations.
Project duration:
8/2021 – 8/2022
Principal investigator:
MENDELU – doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D.University of Iceland – Associate Professor Sigurveig Sigurdardottir
Dynamics of Accumulated Inequalities for Seniors in Employment (DAISIE)
The DAISIE project explores the gendered impacts of policies and practices aimed at extending working life (EWL) in five contrasting national settings (the Czech Republic, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK), using a mixed methods research design inspired by insights from life-course and gender studies. The project addresses two significant and timely issues: labour market participation in later life and retirement and the analysis of labour market and family trajectories.
Project name:
Increasing Efficiency of National Action Plan (NAP) supporting positive ageing in the period of 2013 to 2017.
Project duration:
01/2018 – 12/2020
Principal investigator:
doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D., Mendelu PEF ÚPHV
Dr. Alena Křížková, Prof. Radka Dudová, Dr. Marie Pospíšilová, Dr. Marie Heřmanová,
Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
COST Project – Action IS 1409: Gender and Health Implications of Extended Working Life: Key Policy Messages
The main goal of this Action is to advance scientific knowledge about the gendered impacts of extended working life on the health and economic well-being of older workers in Europe and to support informed gender-sensitive future policy, explicitly considering the differential needs of women and men. Specific aims are (1) to develop new understandings and best practice for research into extended working life and gender and to create a platform which harmonises a number of methodologies, disciplines and approaches; (2) to enhance and add value to current research in these fields and build capacity for future collaborative research; (3) to provide training, support and mentoring for emerging researchers in the field of gender and extended working life; (4) to act as an innovative platform for knowledge exchange and dissemination of good practice among researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, NGOs and other relevant stakeholders including trade unions and employers.
Project duration:
4/2015 – 4/2019
Principal investigator:
doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D., Mendelu PEF ÚPHV