Department of Sociology

Dr. Pavel Šindlář (summer semester 2019)

Pavel Sindlar has a bachelor’s degree from gender studies and doctoral degree in sociology from Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic. His main interest lies in the fields of international migration, transnationalism, social integration, startups and enterpreneurship. Currently working as project coordinator at Business Angels Norway and operational manager at Oslo International Hub and it’s sister Bærum International Hub. Pavel’s early career was in various fields, working in project management, recruitment and relocation. While completing his education Pavel worked at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Beijing, as external recruiter for Amazon UK and relocation consultant for Foreigners CZ. Prior finishing his PhD in 2017 and moving to Norway, Pavel has worked in several research roles and gained international experience by working in UK, China, Czech Republic and Japan.

Dr. Oldřich Bubák (winter semester 2020/2021)

Dr. Bubák teaches a course Paradigms, Philosophies, and the Collective State of Mind, which begins with a different look at the contemporary discourse and leads students across the Faculty to appreciate its key underlying socio-cultural workings, dynamics with implications to politics, the prevailing social scientific approaches, and ultimately to social progress.

Oldřich Bubák is an author and an academic focusing on society, politics, and culture. The author's research facilitated by his extensive theoretical and practical training helps his students appreciate issues stemming from complexity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty. He is intrigued by transdisciplinary inquiry that, in his view, brings the greatest strides forward in the intellectual progress. Aside from the wealth of his industry experience, he served as a research associate at George Mason University’s System Architectures Laboratory. Most recently, the scholar has conducted advanced research in public policy at McMaster University, Canada, from which he also holds a doctorate in comparative public policy. 

His last book (with H. Jacek), Trivialization and Public Opinion: Slogans, Substance, and Styles of Thought in the Age of Complexity (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), was distinguished as one of Springer Nature’s top research works of 2019.

Dr. Dirk Schuster (summer semester 2022/2023)

Dr Dirk Schuster taught the course Processes of secularization, secularity, and non-religiousness in Central and Eastern Europe at the Department of Sociology at FF UHK. In the course the students got an overview about different theories related to the phenomenon of secularization. Also, different country specific examples were given.

Dr Dirk Schuster is Research Assistant at the Center for Museum Collections Management at the University for Continuing Education Krems (Austria) and lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. He studied History and Religious Studies in Leipzig (Germany) and acquired his doctorate degree from Freie University Berlin. His main research topics are religion during the Nazi period, secularization processes and also atheist worldview in communist ideology.

As editor he published different books, for example Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe (Berlin 2020), articles, and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals and edited books.

For the full list of publications visit https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-7668