doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Doc. Radka Dudová, Ph.D. is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she has been working since 2001. Since 2018, she has also been an associate professor at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She studied sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and at Université Paris V. René Descartes. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2007. From 2008 to 2010, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Her research focuses primarily on gender relations and care, changes in family life and the labor market, social inequalities, and the study of the body and embodiment in sociology. Her theoretical interests lie in the interconnectedness of institutions, social norms, and discourses. She employs and further develops qualitative approaches to social science research.

She is the author of the books Otcovství po rozchodu rodičovského páru (Fatherhood after Parental Separation, 2008), Interrupce v České republice: zápas o ženská těla (Abortion in the Czech Republic: The Struggle over Women's Bodies, 2012), and Postarat se ve stáří: Péče o seniory v rodině (Caring in Old Age: Family Care for Seniors, 2015). She has published articles in professional journals such as Politics and Gender Journal and Feminist Economics.

She has served on several government expert committees (e.g., the Commission for Family Policy at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, 2016–2018; the Expert Commission for Pension Reform, 2014–2016; and the Commission for Fair Pensions, 2019–2020). From 2017 to 2023, she was Vice-Chair of the Expert Panel 5 for Social Sciences of the Research, Development and Innovation Council, responsible for science evaluation under Methodology 17+, and the guarantor for remote assessment of selected results in the field of sociology.

Since 2012, she has been a member of the Institute Board of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and since 2023, a member of the Evaluation Committee for Internal Evaluation at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She is also a member of the board of the doctoral study program in Public and Social Policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, and of the doctoral study program in Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

As a member of the Scientific Council, she would like to focus on the issues of research evaluation and the ethics of scientific research.