Research
Science and Research at the IMS
Within the framework of the FSV research plan and in a number of other Czech and European grants, the Institute's members are developing the theory, methodology and the empirical research in all the major areas of social sciences.
The Institute publishes its own magazine, Studia Territorialia, which is a reviewed academic magazine covering Area Studies.
The students are also involved in the Institute's scientific activities as assistants or researchers, or as the main investigators in the projects of the Charles University Grant Agency (GA UK).
Research Projects
Institute publications
News
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Slavomír Horák completed a short-term academic stay in Almaty
Slavomír Horák completed a short-term academic stay at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, where he gave several lectures and also became a foreign consultant for the dissertation Establishment of Statehood from the Kazakh ASSR to the Kazakh SSR. 1924-1937. -
Recent activities of Dr. Valeriya Korablyova in the field of international academic cooperation
Dr. Valeriya Korablyova from KRVS has been very active in international academic cooperation recently. First, she participated in the Invisible University for Ukraine winter school at Central European University and then achieved success in the SPEED4EU+ grant competition. -
Klára Kosová has defended her dissertation at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
We warmly congratulate Klára Kosová, who successfully defended her dissertation Governance legitimacy in the oligarchized settings: the case of Bulgaria on Thursday, February 19. The thesis, supervised by Prof. Pablo Valdivia Martin, Dr. Lisa Gaufman, and Doc. Adrian Briska, examines how political legitimacy is constructed in contemporary democracies and analyzes the state of the Bulgarian socio-political situation during the protests in 2020 and 2021. -
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) has announced a new competition round
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) has announced a new competition round and made available an application for submitting standard projects, Restart grants, Postdoctoral individual fellowship project, international bilateral projects and projects under the LEAD regime. -
Call for topics and supervisors for Marie Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 projects
Applicants for the European MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 grant, which supports postdoctoral projects in the form of international mobility, can again this year take advantage of the support of the Rector's Office in collecting topics and supervisors. -
Associate Professor Slavomír Horák participated in research focusing on three sub-ethnic groups living in Georgia
In recent months, Associate Professor Slavomír Horák from KRVS has contributed to a new study entitled To Be or Not to Be… Georgians? Sub-Ethnic Groups and the Georgian Nation, which was published in the academic journal Nationalities Papers by Cambridge Press.
