Researchers from the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies are collaborating on the research.
Alena Pařízková, Ph.D.
Alena Pařízková is interested in the issues of international migration, life course, health, inequality and gender. In the past, she has participated in the project analysing changes intimate and family relations in the Czech society. She conducted qualitative research of Czech economic migrants in the UK and examined their family relations, working trajectories and gender aspects of their experiences. She also led a small research project on football fans analysing processes of identity and neo-tribes processes. Currently, she is focusing on health and migration or travel. First she focuses on migrant women and their maternal health. Phenomenon of women who travel for preferred services for long distance or abroad is another research focus. In the area of social work and inequality, she is focusing on intersection of violence, marginalisation and sex-work.
Mgr. Jan Pěchota
Jan Pěchota completed a master’s program at the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where he works presently as a member of academic research staff and as a project manager. Within international projects (Interreg CE, Ziel ETZ 2014-2020) focused on migration and the integration of foreigners, he deals with the coordination of project activities, the realization of academic and networking workshops, the preparation of integration activities for third-country nationals, and scientific research. The second field of his academic interest is the modern history of northwest Africa, Berber identity, and relationships between Europe and North Africa in the pre-colonial and colonial period, which is also the topic of his doctoral research at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Alena Glajchová, Ph.D.
Alena Glajchová completed a doctor’s degree in Ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. She focuses on issues in the field of medical anthropology and sociology of health and illness. She mainly deals with the issue of providing health care to vulnerable groups of population, interactions within the healthcare system and health inequalities. She conducted the ethnography of medical facility and paid attention to interpretation of experiences relating to the provision of care and to relationships between healthcare professionals and elderly patients as a vulnerable group. She participated in the project that dealt with the perinatal health of migrant women. As part of this project, she conducted the ethnography of maternal facility and focused on migrant women’s vulnerability and on experiences of healthcare professionals with caring for them. In her research, she approached from the intersectional perspective. She also focuses on issues from the field of sociology of gender and migration. In the field of social work, she focuses on issues of discrimination, marginalization and the provision of health care to vulnerable individuals.
Viktor Rumpík, Ph.D.
Viktor Rumpík is interested in the issues of international migration, human rights, integration of immigrants. He completed a doctor´s degree in Ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 2018. He is focused on the labour migration of Ukrainian into the Czech Republic. His doctoral thesis included transnational analysis of Ukrainian social networks helping in adaptation to structures of the target country. Apart from this he works as a social worker with immigrants in Diakonie Západ.
Tomáš Hirt, Ph.D.
Tomas Hirt is a lecturer and a researcher at the Department of Anthropology and History of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His scholar activities are aimed at nationalism, ethnicity and multicutluralism, however, his key specialization at present is the area of visual anthropology and applied anthropology. Tomas Hirt co-founded and leaded The Center for Applied Anthropology and Fieldwork (at the University of West Bohemia). He also worked as director of regional branch of the non-profit organisation People in Need in Pilsen. He is an editor of five anthologies, and author (or co-author) of number of articles, research reports, particular chapters in various monograhs and three short ethnographic documentaries.
Karel Řezáč, Ph.D.
Karel Řezáč completed a PhD in Social Policy and Social Work at the Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University. He is a lecturer in social work at the Department of Sociology of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Since his undergraduate studies, his research interests have included boundaries of professional performance of social work, deinstitutionalization, foster care, human development, and well-being. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on The Potentiality of Children in Foster Care. He worked as a social worker in an NGO responsible for children’s social and legal protection.