Our team

Marcela Linková

Head of NKC

marcela.linkova(at)soc.cas.cz

Marcela Linková PhD is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences where she directs the Centre for Gender and Science. She has a doctorate in sociology from Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on sociology of gendered organizations, research careers, governance of research and research assessment from a gender perspective. Marcela also examines the material-discursive practices through which gender equality policies and initiatives are adopted and implemented at the European and Czech country levels. She is the chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation. She is active in developing policy solutions for gender equality in research at the Czech and EU levels. Marcela has been involved in several EU funded projects; most recently, she is the coordinator of Horizon 2020 GENDERACTION project and participates in GE Academy, Gender-SMART and CASPER. She has served on expert and advisory bodies of the European Commission and in the Czech Republic. She is an alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Programme “Women in STEM”.

Martina Fucimanová

Organisation of the Milada Paulová Award, CZERA project

martina.fucimanova(at)soc.cas.cz

Martina studied gender studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. She has been a member of the Center Gender & Science team since April 2014. She used to coordinate the mentoring program for secondary school students and early-stage researchers, and supported the GENDERACTION project as a project manager. Currently, she organizes Cena Milady Paulové and supports the team in international projects. When she is not reading anything you have accidentally left around her, she is watching a series or trying out a new recipe.

Gabriela Langhammerová

Promoting institutional change and Community for Change in the CZERA project

gabriela.langhammerova(at)soc.cas.cz

Gabriela holds a PhD at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, majoring in Philosophy and History of Natural Sciences, which takes into account the history and methodology of science. She also studied theology and philosophy at the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University and Gender Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.  She has been a member of the Center for Gender and Science since 2021. She deals with the issue of promoting institutional changes in scientific and research organizations within the CZERA project and in cooperation with the Community for Change.

Eva Oliva

Promoting institutional change in the CZERA project

eva.oliva(at)soc.cas.cz

Eva graduated from the Master’s programme in Ethnology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University with a focus on gendered social roles and the study of masculinities. Previously, she studied a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, Society and Culture at the Anglo-American University in Prague. She is responsible for the project’s activities in the area of expert support to research organizations, particularly on issues related to advocacy for institutional change in science and research organizations. She is particularly interested in the issue of gender-based violence in academic environment. She also works with the Community for Change and is involved in supporting them in conducting gender audits.

Ananké Nebeská

Gender dimension in research in the CZERA project

ananke.nebeska(at)soc.cas.cz

Ananké studied Liberal Arts and Humanities, majoring in social anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, and spent a year abroad as an Erasmus exchange student at the University of Copenhagen. At the moment, they are writing their thesis in the Gender Studies program also at FHS CU, focusing on the intersections of feminism and ecology. Ananké is responsible for the gender dimension in the research agenda as part of the Community for Change as well as the project One Size Doesn’t Fit All in the CZERA project. They have been a member of the Centre for Gender & Science since 2022 and in the past, they worked as an event coordinator of the Ending gender-based violence in academia conference and within the STRATIN+ project on the development of a methodology for monitoring and evaluation of gender equality plans.

Jana Novák Gabrielová

Communication Manager in the CZERA project

jana.gabrielova(at)soc.cas.cz

Jana studied Gender studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. She has been a member of the Center for Gender & Science team since November 2021 as a communication manager in the CZERA project. Before that, she worked as a communication expert in private companies and public and cultural institutions. Previously, she was also dealing with activities addressing sexism in advertisements. Among others she spends her free time reading books, watching crime series, hiking, and visiting cultural events.

Anna Donovalová

Analyst in the STRATIN+ project

anna.donovalova(at)soc.cas.cz

Anna studied Teaching at secondary school at the Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University. Her thesis was focused on the attitudes of the teachers to gender and gender equality. She is currently studying a Ph.D. program at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, her study is focused on gender in the curriculum framework. She has been a member of the Center for Gender & Science team since February 2022 as a gender equality analyst in the STRATIN+ project. In her free time, Anna likes reading, watching series and movies, or listening to music. Her favorite hobby is photography.

Zuzana Andreska

UniSafe

zuzana.andreska(at)soc.cas.cz

Zuzana studied law and gender studies at Charles University. Her research focuses on the issue of gender-based violence in academic settings (UniSAFE project). Moreover, she is involved in advocacy tasks and cooperation with state administration in promoting gender equality in science.

Jana Dvořáčková

UniSAFE

jana.dvorackova(at)soc.cas.cz

Jana holds a PhD in sociology from the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno. In her current work, she focuses mainly on implementing cultural and institutional changes for gender equality in research performing and research funding organizations. She joined the Centre for Gender and Science in 2018. She is responsible for the Working Group for Change. She was previously an assistant professor at the Gender Studies Programme (Masaryk University) and she also worked as a researcher at the Office for Population Studies at the same university. She is a co-author of the book Politics and Everyday Life in Czech Universities: Ethnographic Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Research (2014).

Blanka Nyklová

Researcher

blanka.nyklova(at)soc.cas.cz

Blanka has worked at the Centre for Gender and Research since 2014. She holds an MA in media studies and Ph.D. in sociology from Charles University in Prague. Her research interests span several areas: the Czech feminist scene, its changes, and theoretical starting points; sexual violence in higher education and academic mobility; visual discourses; and the intersection of geopolitics and epistemology with emphasis on transformation processes in the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe around 1989. The latter topic is also the central focus of her current research project, which explores the fate of applied chemical research at research and development departments and institutes affiliated with chemical plants before and after 1989.

Nina Andrš Fárová

Researcher

nina.farova(at)soc.cas.cz

Nina holds MA in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. For her Ph.D. project, she had been conducting ethnographic research into the Czech educational system, focusing on the issue of men and masculinity in a feminized context. She works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Gender and Science. As a team member, she has taken part in several research projects focused for example on working conditions and gender equality in Czech academia or on the fate of scientific knowledge in the (post)socialist chemical industry. At present, she focuses mainly on the topic of gender and technology. She is also a lecturer at the University of Hradec Králové where she teaches gender theory and qualitative methodology.

Jarmila Klsák

Team Assistant

jarmila.lancosova(at)soc.cas.cz

Jarmila has been part of the team since 2021. She is currently studying Transcultural Communication at the University of Hradec Králové, where she tries to raise gender issues at every opportunity. In the past, as a self-defense instructor, she was involved in applied prevention against physical violence, and this drew her to the topic of gender (in)equality. Jarmila is in charge of running the office, co-hosting events, and administering Moodle.