Education and Professional Qualifications
1980 – Mgr. (Master’s degree) in Sociology, Comenius University in Bratislava
1983 – PhDr., Department of Sociology, Comenius University in Bratislava
2009 – PhD, Department of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava
Professional Experience
Since 2018 – Head of the Department of Sociology, Trnava University in Trnava
2009–2017 – Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child; expert, monitoring and lecturing activities in the field of children’s rights, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations, Geneva
2005–2011 – Head of the Department of Children’s Rights; monitoring of children’s rights, handling complaints, coordination of international projects in the field of children’s rights, Slovak National Centre for Human Rights, Bratislava
1999–2005 – Director General of the Family Policy Section; state family policy and child protection, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava
1994–1999 – Deputy Director for Research; coordination of national and international family research projects, International Centre for Family Studies, Bratislava
1990–1994 – Deputy Director, Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
1983–1989 – Member of the Family Research Team, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Research Projects
2025–2026 – SMART UA: Innovative Approaches to Mitigate the Societal Consequences of Russia’s War of Aggression Against Ukraine within EU Countries. Project No.: ESF-SI-2024-UA-01-0074
2025 – Studio 25: Iceland. Project No.: FBR03-098. Fund for Bilateral Relations at the National Level, co-financed by the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.
2020–2023 – Support for Transferable Work Competences for the Labour Market During University Studies. Project No.: INTERREG V-A SK-CZ/2020/12. Member of the expert team.
2018–2021 – Social Trust in Slovakia. VEGA research project. Team member.
2018–2020 – PERSIST_EU: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Perceptions about Science among European Students. Project No.: 2018-1-ES01-KA0203-050827. Erasmus+. Team member.
2018–2020 – CONCISE: Communication Role on Perception and Beliefs of EU Citizens about Science. European Union Horizon 2020 project, Grant Agreement No. 824537. Team member.
Selected Publications
The trustworthiness and reliability of science information channels and sources in the public’s view/ Pellegrini, Giuseppe; Estevens, João; Krzewińska, Aneta; Mendoza, Isabel; Guráň, Peter. In: How Citizens View Science Communication : Pathways to Knowledge / Moreno-Castro, Carolina; Krzewińska, Aneta; Dzimińska, Małgorzata. – 1. vyd. – Abingdon (Veľká Británia) : Taylor & Francis Group. Routledge, 2024. – ISBN 9781032510668. – ISBN 9781032510682. – ISBN (elektronické) 9781003400943, s. 74-87.
How to communicate about climate change: an insight into the perception of science communication in selected European countries / Diener, Lenka; Fero, Martin; Guráň, Peter. – [DOI 10.24193/OJMNE.2022.39.03. In: Online Journal Modelling the New Europe : interdisciplinary studies. – Kluž (Rumunsko) : Universitatea Babes-Bolyai. – ISSN (online) 2247-0514. – č. 39 (2022), s. 44-68.
Brondi, S., Pellegrini, G., Guráň, P., Fero, M. Rubin, A. 2021. Dimensions of trust in different forms of science communication: the role of information sources and channels used to acquire science knowledge. In: JCOM 20 (03), A08.
Guráň, P., Fero, M., Ritomský, A., 2019. Projekt a realizácia kvantitatívneho sociologického výskumu. Krakow: Towarzystwo Słowaków w Polsce.
Guráň, P., Filadelfiová, J., Debnár, M. 2015. Contemporary Family in Slovakia: Demography, Values, Gender and Policy. In: Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies. Rajkai Z. (ed.). BRILL: Leiden/Boston.
Guráň, P. 2015. Práva detí a vzdelanie. In: Právo na vzdelanie a jeho kľúčové aspekty. Horná D. (ed.). Štátny pedagogický ústav: Bratislava.
Guráň, P., Filadelfiová, J., Debnár, M. 2015. Contemporary Family in Slovakia: Demography, Values, Gender and Policy. In: Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies. Rajkai Z. (ed.). BRILL: Leiden/Boston.
Guráň, P. 2013. Práva detí. In: Vybrané texty k ľudským právam. Univezita Komenského: Bratislava.
Guráň, P. – Filadelfiová, J., 2009: Deti o svojich právach – Slovensko 2009. Záverečná správa z výskumu. Bratislava, IUVENTA a Slovenský výbor UNICEF [online]. In: Data archív výskumu mládeže. ISBN 978-80-223-4271-1 Univerzita Komenského v Bratislava: Bratislava.
Guráň, P. – Filadelfiová, J. – Ritomský, A., 1997: Tradičné verzus moderné: zmeny a život súčasných rodín. In: Sociológia, roč. 29, č. 1, s. 5-20.
Guráň, P., Filadelfiová, J., 1997. Hlavné demografické trendy: Slovensko 1996. Sociológia, 29, 563-578.
Guráň, P. – Filadelfiová, J., 1995. Main demograpfhic trends and the family. World – Europe – Slovakia. The Bratislava International Center for Family Studies: Bratislava.
Specific International Experience
2018–2021 – Horizon 2020 – Coordination of the international project CONCISE.
2018–2021 – Erasmus+ – Coordination of the international project PERSIST_EU.
2013–2015 – Japan, Kyoto University – Collaboration on a comparative research project on family development in post-communist countries.
2010–2017 – United Nations – Lecturing activities in various countries worldwide on independent monitoring of human rights and children’s rights.
2009–2017 – United Nations – Expert member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Membership in Professional Organisations
1998–2004 – Member of the European Population Committee, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
2004–2009 – Member of ChildONEurope, Florence, the European Union network of national observatories on childhood.
2020–2022 – President of the Slovak Sociological Society.
Other Professional Experience
Member of the Committee for Children and Youth of the Government Council of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights.
Member of the Board of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Slovakia.
Long-term lecturing activities for secondary school teachers and students within the Human Rights Olympiad programme.
Teaching Activities
Sociology of the Family
Human Rights
Theories of Social Change
The Welfare State and European Trends in Social Policy
Family Policy and the System of Protection of Children’s Rights
Pre-sociological Social and Political Thought
Bachelor’s and Master’s Thesis Seminar