Marie Valentova is a research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER, formerly CEPS/INSTEAD). She holds PhD in Sociology from the Masaryk University and the Advanced Master in European Social Policy Analysis (MESPA) from the Tilburg University (NL) and the Bath University (UK). 

She joined and actively participated in several reknown large-scale international networks. She is a full member the Network of  Leave Policies and Related Research and an editor of the annual Network's review covering more than 50 countries world-wide. She also acted as a member of the Expert’s Forum of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE),  an independent expert in the Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion and Assessment in Social Inclusion and a member of the Methodology group of the European Value Study (EVS).

She has led and contributed to various externally funded research and policy-oriented projects, both at the EU as well as the national level, including EU-Horizont projects, EU COST projects, European Fund for Integration of Third Country Nationals, Danish Independent Research Fund, several CORE projects of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), etc.  She currently led three large-scale projects funded by the Luxembourg Ministry of Family and Integration evaluating different work-family reconciliation policies in Luxembourg.

Her current research interests include: social policy analyses and evaluation, reconciliation of family and paid work, integration and perception of immigrants and social cohesion. Her research papers were published in leading international peer-reviewed journals such as: Work Employment and Society, International Sociology, Journal of European Social Policy, Survey Research Methods, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Review of Sociology, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Social Indicators Research, , Journal of Social Policy etc.

English – fluent, Czech – native, French – very good, Luxembourgish - intermediate        

Computer skills: SPSS, STATA, Atlas, MPLUS

Other Work Experience:

2023-present     editor of annual international review of the Network of Leave Policies and Related Research (LP&R) covering over 50 countries world-wide

2015-present:   country representative of Luxembourg at the the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) UNECE

2015-present:   country representative of Luxembourg (full memmber) at the International Network of Leave Policies and Related Research https://www.leavenetwork.org/introducing-the-network/

2013–2016:      alternate member of the Expert’s Forum of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).

2011-2016:       Country expert – Luxembourg at Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion and Assessment in Social Inclusion, www.peer-review- social-inclusion.eu

2009-2013:      Visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Applied Social Studies, Slovenia, PhD workshop: The Methods of Triangulation. Subjective and Objective Social Indicators.

2007-2010:      Member of the Methodology group of the European Value Study (EVS) network : responsible for the accoss-time validation of the Master questionnaires (waves 1990 and 1999); coordination of the translation process for the vawe 2009 in 47 participation parties using online platform. Directly collaborating with EVS national representatives in 47 countries, GESIS Cologne,  the Gallup Europe and the Tilburg university. 

2007-2015:      Unpaid Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Membership:

International Sociological Association, European Sociological Association, Social Policy Association, International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research.

Refereeing:

Socio-Economic Review (Oxford Academic)

Social Policy and Society (Cambridge University Press)

Journal of Social Policy (Cambridge University Press)

Social Inidicators Research (Springer)

Czech Sociological Review

International Journal of Sociology of the Family

Civil Society Journal

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