Project Team
Ivana Šimíková has worked as a longstanding researcher at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs. She has participated in many applied research studies in the area of evaluating integration and social inclusion policies. She has been the principal investigator in several projects focusing on evaluation of social programs targeted on Roma ethnic group, describing the situation in excluded localities or methodological drawbacks of capturing inequality based on ethnicity. She has a long-term experience with field data collection in socially excluded localities or in Roma ethnic groups, as well as experience from with social services operating in this milieu.
She has co-authored the following publications:
Laura Fónadová is an assistant professor at the Department of Public Economy at the Faculty of Economy and Administration of Masaryk University. Among her main research interests is inequality, mainly ethnic inequality in education, and the institutional level of inequality related to the Roma ethnic group.
She has authored or co-authored the following publications:
Tomáš Katrňák is a professor of sociology and the head of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University. His research interests include social stratification, educational and ethnic inequalities, and methodology of quantitative data collection and analysis. He has been the principal investigator in several research projects, among which the project establishing a Czech household panel between 2014 and 2018 is notable. He has published in the Czech Sociological Review, and international journals Sociológia, International Sociology, Sociological Theory and Methods, European Sociological Review and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
He has authored or co-authored the following books, published in Czech:
Miroslava Rákozcyová is a researcher at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs. She has focused on labour market policies and the issues of social exclusion and social inclusion, and their indication. In the past, she has been the principal investigator in several research projects studying integration among immigrants.
Her publishing activities include, among others:
Pavel Bareš works as a researcher at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs. His professional interest covers the issue of the provision of social services in the Czech Republic. In this area, he deals with the provision of social services with regard to the concept of modern social service as well as with the role of the state, regional and municipal governments and non-profit organizations in their provision. He also addresses the protection of vulnerable groups, the integration of ethnic minorities and the social inclusion of marginalized people.
He is, among other, a co-author of publications:
Matouš Jelínek is a doctoral student at Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, formerly doctoral student at Department of Sociology at Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. His research interests are related to ethnicity, mainly to the issues of ethnic identification and the mutual influence of ethnicity, gender and class in the context of social inequality and marginalization in low-threshold social services. He focuses on these topics in relation to Roma population. As a social worker, he worked with Roma children and youth. He has participated in several ethnographic research studies and has co-authored the following publications: