Dr. Klára Kosová from the Institute of International Studies at FSV UK, this year’s recipient of the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship, combines political science, cognitive linguistics, and neuroscience in her research, exploring how the values that hold democracy together are formed in people’s minds. Her dissertation, awarded cum laude at the University of Groningen, shows that elections alone are not enough – what is crucial is how each of us approaches democracy. “I don’t want to do science just for the sake of science. I want it to have a real impact – so that people can recognize authoritarian tendencies and say for themselves that this is not the path they want to take,” she says in the interview.
Read the interview with Klára Kosová here.
