Postdoctoral Positions

Call for Applications under the Institutional Support Programme for Postdoctoral Positions at the Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové for the years 2027–2029

 

This Call is issued by the Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, in accordance with Vice-Rector’s Directive No. 13/2026  and FF UHK Dean’s Decree No. 18/2026 on the Institutional Support Programme for Postdoctoral Positions at the University of Hradec Králové for the years 2027–2029. 

• Deadline for applications: 1 October, 2026
• Standard duration: 36 months (1 January 2027 – 31 December 2029)
• Employment contract: 1,0 FTE
• Gross monthly salary: CZK 43.500
• Place of work: Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

The successful candidate will be expected to:
• independently plan and conduct research within agreed research plan;
• prepare scholarly publications with the affiliation to the UHK according to the research plan;
• actively contribute to the development of a collaborative and internationally oriented research environment. 

We are seeking a postdoctoral researchers in these fields: 

Archaeology supervisor: Mgr. Richard Thér, Ph.D.

History - Archival Studies - Auxiliary Historical Sciences supervisor:prof. PhDr. Jan Županič, Ph.D., DSc.

Philosophy supervisor: doc. Mgr. Ladislav Koreň, Ph.D.

Political Science supervisor: doc. Mgr. Pavel Dufek, Ph.D.

Psychology supervisor: doc. Mgr. Kateřina Juklová, Ph.D.

Social Work supervisor: doc. MUDr. Alena Vosečková, CSc.

Sociology supervisor: Mgr. Nina Andrš Fárová, Ph.D.

 

We require

• A postdoctoral researcher must have obtained a PhD or its equivalent within the preceding seven years. Verifiable career breaks, in particular maternity or parental leave, long-term illness, care for a close relative, or other similar objective reasons, may be excluded from this period.
• Applicants must have completed a doctoral programme at a foreign university or at a university in the Czech Republic other than the University of Hradec Králové.
• Applicants must have a command of English at least at B2 level.
• Applicants must demonstrate a relevant publication record commensurate with the length of their academic career to date, the conventions of the relevant discipline, and the specialist focus of the postdoctoral position
• The assessment of a candidate’s academic quality may also take into account citation impact, the H-index, or other discipline-relevant indicators of research performance.
• It shall be considered an advantage if the candidate has previously participated in national or international research projects, has verifiable experience abroad, experience in international research collaboration, a record of joint publications with foreign institutions, or the potential to participate in the preparation of future project applications.
• The candidate’s research proposal must be aligned with the academic focus of the relevant faculty.

 

Applications must be submitted by e-mail, together with all documents required under Article VII(2) of Vice-Rector’s Directive No. 13/2026 and FF UHK Dean’s Decree No. 18/2026, to the Head of the Research Office of the Philosophical Faculty, UHK, Mgr. Lenka Kašparová (lenka.kasparova.1@uhk.cz), no later than 1 October 2026.

 

We offer

• A three-year full-time postdoctoral position
• A professionally equipped workplace, including well-equipped library in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities
• Opportunities for personal and professional development
• Publication support and/or funding
• Possible funding for business trips
• Professional support from the supervisor
• Opportunities for professional collaboration with members of the department or faculty
• International environment
• 6 weeks of annual leave
• Benefit programme of the UHK
• Free Czech language course
• Free parking on the university campus
• Meal allowance

 

Expected commencement of employment: 1 January 2027

Minimum set of documents to be submitted by the applicant:

a) a completed form in English – see Annex 1: Application Form for 2027–2029 Postdoctoral Job Positions at the University of Hradec Králové;
b) a copy of the diploma certifying the award of a PhD or its foreign equivalent; if the diploma is issued in a language other than Czech, Slovak, or English, the applicant shall submit a certified translation of the diploma into English;
c) a structured CV in English, not exceeding 2 pages, in a font size of at least 11 points;
d) an overview of the 10 most significant scientific achievements, including the number of citations, in English;
e) a research proposal in English (maximum 1,000 words);
f) a timetable for the implementation of the research proposal, if required by the faculty call for applications.

 

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to online interviews which will be held from 26 October to 6 November 2026. Results will be announced by 16 November 2026.

 

The Selection Committee shall decide by vote whether to include an applicant on the shortlist of candidates invited to an interview, following a joint assessment of the criteria set out following:

a. the applicant’s publication record;
b. the applicant’s international research experience;
c. the quality, originality, feasibility, and relevance of the research plan;
d. the alignment of the research plan with the research priorities of the relevant department/institute and the Faculty.
e. English-language skills

 

Any questions should be directed to:

Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Kašparová - Head of the Department of Science and Research
t/ + 420 493 331 214
e/ lenka.kasparova.1@uhk.cz

 

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Current PostDocs

Daniil Koloskov, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences - January/2024-December/2026)

Dr. Daniil Koloskov received his PhD in 2023 from Charles University and the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Technology. His main interests are phenomenology and philosophical anthropology; he is interested in the relationship between the everyday, social practices and the formation of meaning.

His work at KFS explores how meaning formation is related to the genesis of power relations and their ability to spontaneously mobilize and organize shared forms of action.

New book published in Springer publishing house: Life without a Ground: A Praxis of Being-in-the-World

Presentation dr. Daniil Koloskov - 2/2026

Dr. Alberto Lioy (Department of Political Science - August/2021-December/2023; January/2024-December/2026)

Dr. Alberto Lioy has obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR, USA), and MS from the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) and is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Latin American Politics at the University of Hradec Kralove.

His sub-field of expertise is constituted by political parties and elections, with specific attention to radical changes in voters' behavior. He has published his work dealing with voting, internet politics, electoral authoritarianism in a comparative Europe-Latin America perspective in reknown academic journals. 

Presentation - Research UHK 2021-2023 (dr. Alberto Lioy)

After successfully completing the first phase with an excellent evaluation, supported by the publication of several scientific articles in international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, Dr. Alberto Lioy is now employed as a postdoctoral fellow for his second three-year period (2024-2026). His new research project is entitled "Who is to be blamed if citizens distrust politics?". He is also a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Philosophical Faculty UHK.

Presentation dr. Alberto Lioy - 1/2025

 

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Former PostDocs

 

Dr. Alan Donohue (Institute of History - August/2021-December/2023)

Alan Donohue is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Hradec Králové, where he is researching the service and fate of Czech nationals in the German armed forces from 1938 until the immediate post-war period. His main interests and areas of expertise are military history and the history of Central and Eastern Europe as well as languages, linguistics, and translation. His first monograph is currently (2021) being prepared for publication, and he has published articles and book chapters on themes from the German-Soviet War such as military intelligence, deception, and occupation policy. He has also taught courses on military history and the history of Europe in the twentieth century and is currently preparing a course of lectures for UHK on military history from 1500 to 1945.

Alan earned his PhD in History from Trinity College Dublin. He also holds an MA in Military History from the University of Leeds, an MA in Translation Studies from Dublin City University, and a BA in Germanic Languages from Trinity College Dublin. He speaks German fluently as well as Russian, Dutch and Swedish at an advanced level, and is also currently learning Czech.

Presentation - Research UHK (dr. Alan Donohue) 

Dr. Sunwoo Lee (in cooperation with Faculty of Informatics and Management - May/2018-April/2020)

Dr. Lee works at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences. She also studied research methodology in the field of health sciences. Her research interest consists primarily in the social and behavioural sciences, aging in the context of the quality of life, social\\ well-being, physical activity and leisure time. One of the studies has recently been published in the European magazine Public Health.

Dr. Lee is an expert in quantitative data analysis that uses advanced statistical techniques such as CFA and SEM, and she is also interested in long-term modelling of the social relationships of older adults in relation with their mental and physical health. She is a leading author of a number of papers presented at professional conferences and co-author of a number of publications on health and aging.

 Her two-year research project at the Philosophical Faculty of the UHK strives to better understand the antecedents and consequences of loneliness in Czech older adults, with an emphasis on its correlation and association with social and emotional well-being.

 

Mgr. Josef Wilczek, Ph.D. (Department of Archaeology - June/2018-April/2020)

Dr. Josef Wilczek is a graduate of the Archaeology of Masaryk University in Brno and the Université of Bourgogne - Franche Comté in Dijon, where he currently teaches. He focuses primarily on the application of quantitative methods in natural and social sciences, in particular shape analysis and automated systematisation and recognition of animate and inanimate objects from different regions and time periods (e.g. rock engravings in France, dinosaur footprints in Morocco, burial landscape relics in Mongolia or axes from the Bronze Age in Western Europe).

The focus of his engagement at the Department of Archaeology of the FF UHK is the project “Automated documentation, classification and search for archaeological artefacts”. The project is based on the current state of the documentation techniques and typological analysis and it is focused on ceramics. Both the creation of illustrations and of typologies are considered time-consuming activities and the resulting drawings and typological schemes, no matter how detailed, are often perceived as subjective and inaccurate.

The proposed project aims to contribute to overcome these problems using the latest knowledge in the fields of mathematics, biology, physics, computer science and archaeology. Its aim is to create an easy-to-use computer application for creating illustrations, classifications and automatic search for ceramics to simplify work with archaeological artefacts. During his stay in Hradec Králové, J. Wilczek will also give lectures on the Iron Age in Europe and modern quantitative methods of shape analysis in archaeology.

 

Mgr. Petra Vodová (Svačinová), Ph.D. (Department of Political Science - September/2018-April/2020)

Petra Svačinová graduated in Political Science at Masaryk University where she acquired her doctorate in 2018. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a team member in two grant projects focused on quality of democracy in the Czech Republic, and research on the parties of political entrepreneurs. She specializes first of all in research on the coalition governance, internal organization of political parties, and local politics. Her greatest publication success so far is co-authorship on the article Local and More Local: Impact of Size and Organization of Local Municipal Communities on Candidacy, published in the magazine Political Geography.
She has also published in the Sociological Journal (text Do you not Grieve by Promise? Fulfilment of the Socio-Economic Legislative Promises of the Czech Government Parties (2006–2015)) and she is the author or co-author of several chapters in Czech and foreign books.

During her postdoctoral position at FF UHK, she will work on the project "The Influence of Political and Personality Characteristics of Ministers and their Activities in Coalition Governments in Europe".

 

Dr. phil. Nadezhda Rudik (Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archival Science) - May/2018-December/2018

Dr. Nadezhda Rudik works as a lecturer at the Institute of Old Oriental Studies at the University of Leipzig and at the Seminar of Old Oriental Studies at the University of Göttingen where she participates in the project on Mesopotamian mythology.

She collaborated on the Akmadian dictionary of etymology in Leipzig. She has also worked as a lecturer in Mesopotamian philology at the Russian State University of Humanities in Moscow and at the Institute for Middle Eastern Languages and Culture at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2007, she participated in the organization of the annual World Assyriological Congress "Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale" in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Her research focuses on the Sumerian language and literature, especially with magical and religious content. On behalf of FF UHK, she will publish studies in scientific magazines entered in the SCOPUS database. They will be devoted to the structure and characteristics of the verse in Sumerian literary texts.