Rate My Professor Iveta Radičová

Prof. PhDr. Iveta Radičová, PhD., serves as Professor of Sociology at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), where she joined the faculty in 2016 and teaches courses such as Introduction to Political Sociology, Political Science 4: The European Union, Social Policy, and Is the European Union in Crisis?. She earned her PhDr. from Comenius University in 1979 and PhD from the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1986, attaining the professorial title in 2005. Her academic career includes researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (1979–1989), lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Comenius University (1990–1993), Deputy Director of Academia Istropolitana (1993–1997), and Director of the Institute of Sociology, SAS (2005–2017). Radičová held prominent public roles as Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (2005–2006), Member of the National Parliament (2006–2009), and Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic (2010–2012), concurrently serving as Minister of Defence.

Her research focuses on social policy, European Union politics and identity, poverty, ethnicity, Roma communities, and social transformation in Central Europe. She has coordinated and led projects including the World Bank Roma and Labour Market study (1999–2001), Yale University’s Poverty, Ethnicity, Gender initiative (1998–2002), Monitoring Social Protection Reform in CEEC (CONSENSUS II, 1998–2000), and New Pact for EU (2016–2017), alongside national expert roles in MISSOC, trESS, and FreSsco. Key publications encompass Hic Sunt Romales (Nadácia S.P.A.C.E., 2001), Atlas rómskych komunít na Slovensku (2004), Sociálna politika na Slovensku (ed., 1998), Zdravie, práca, dôchodok (1999), and contributions to international works like Business Ethics in East and Central Europe (1997) and International Review of Comparative Public Policy (1996). Radičová has received honors including Women of the Year (2006, 2010), Pelikán Award (2011), and Cena slobody Antona Srholca (2019), and fellowships at Oxford’s St. Anthony College, Robert Bosch Academy, and Fulbright at New School for Social Research (1999). She contributes to public discourse through lectures at universities worldwide and roles in organizations like Club de Madrid and Forum 2000.