Conference “Young Scientists: Balancing Career and Family”

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We cordially invite all employees in the field of science and research to this conference focusing on the support of young scientists.

The objective of the conference is to present good practice examples and offer space for discussion on suitable forms of support for PhD students and post-docs by the employer and other institutions (such as the providers of grant schemes, law-makers), with an emphasis on balancing their family and professional life.

The conference “Young Scientists: Balancing Career and Family” will address, inter alia, the following questions:

• Does the existing system allow young scientists the successful development of their careers while they raise their families?
• What baits and challenges do young scientists have to face? Does the university provide them with sufficient security?
• How can the university prevent brain drain of highly qualified employees from the field of science?
• What are the possible measures securing both the career and family?
• What can scientists themselves do to “have both” (i.e. career and family)

If you have any questions or wish to be informed of any news, please contact us via email at the following address: eliska.matejova@ceitec.cz.

The press release about the conference can be found HERE.

Registration:

The registration has been closed, because the capacity has been already filled. If you had any questions, please send an e-mail to eliska.matejova@ceitec.cz.

Programme:

Moderator of the conference

Mgr. Lucie Jarkovska, Ph.D.
Research associate, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, MU

The programme may be changed.
This webpage will be updated on an ongoing basis. 

Project partners:

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

We are very glad to confirm the attendance of our key note lecturer, professor Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger of the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics and Business. Prof. Hanappi-Egger started off her career as a researcher in the field of applied informatics. Since 2004, she has been focusing exclusively on gender issues in organisations and she has published many works in this field. At the moment, she has been participating in research projects focusing on the position of women, innovations in firms and international corporations and investigation of their impacts on global development and creation of values. As a mentor and teacher, she holds the position of “Jean Monnet Chair” for "Gendered Inequalities and Classism in Europe", awarded by the European Commission. In December 2014, she will give lectures as a visiting professor at McGill University and at the University of Montreal.

Hana Víznerová

Mgr. Hana Víznerová graduated in sociology from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Both during her studies and after her graduation, she worked for the Department of Gender & Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and, after five years in the non-profit sector, she returned to the Institute of Sociology in 2013 as a member of the National Contact Centre – Women and Science. She works as a coordinator of the programme focusing on structural changes and the promotion of gender equality at the institutional level in science and research. In 2013, she took an internship at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, to focus on the exchange of experience, knowledge and best practices relating to measures, policies and research in the area of strengthening gender equality at research institutions and universities. In addition to issues relating to cultural and institutional transformation at RDI institutions, she has extensive knowledge and expertise in the fields of networking, sociological research(quantitative and qualitative methodology), as well as in education activities management methods. In the course of her work in the non-profit sector, she has also acquired extensive knowledge and expertise in the area of social exclusion and (multiple) discrimination of disadvantaged and marginalised groups, including issues relating to the integration of female migrants.

Marta Vohlídalová

PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D. graduated in sociology from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Since 2005, she has been working at the Department of Gender & Sociology of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and, since 2008, she has been participating in the project of the National Contact Centre – Women and Science. In her work, she has been focusing on gender aspects of scientific careers and mobility, sexual harassment in the academic environment, sociology of the family and private life, gender inequalities in the labour market and family policy. She is the author and co-author of a number of specialised monographs and she has published work in specialised journals. She is the editor of the following publications: Sexuální obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí: analýza, souvislosti, řešení (Sexual Harassment in the University Environment: Analysis, Context, Solutions) and Akademické duety: o profesním a soukromém životě ve vědě (Academic Duets: on Professional and Private Life in Science) and a co-author of the following publications: Nejisté vyhlídky: Proměny vědecké perspektivy (Uncertain Prospects: Transformations of Scientific Perspective), Vědci a vědkyně v pohybu: o akademické mobilitě (Male and Female Scientists on the Move: on Academic Mobility), Živitelé a živitelky: reflexe (a) praxe (Male and Female Family Supporters: Reflexions of (and) the Practice), and she participated in the publication of Práce a péče: Proměny „rodičovské“ v České republice a kontext rodinné politiky Evropské unie (Work and Care: Transformations of “Parental Leave” in the Czech Republic and the Context of Family Policy in the European Union).