Ing. Jana Švejdová, Ph.D.
Email: jana.svejdova@vse.cz
Office: NB345
Phone: +420 703 199 961
Her main specialisation is the economic history of Great Britain during the 20th century and the development of the process of economic integration of Western Europe in the second half of the 20th century. She is targeted also to the economic and political development of Czechoslovakia in the years 1918–1948 and the development of tertiary education in economic field in communist Czechoslovakia.
She successfully completed study of Ph.D. study program Economics and Economic Administration Economic and Political History in the 20th Century at the Faculty of Economics of the Prague University of Economics and Business. She studied the main specialization at the master degree at the Faculty of Economics and the minor specialization at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting. During 2013-2019 she realized several short-term research stays in London (National Archives of the UK, London School of Economics and Political Science).
She has been teaching at the Department of Economic History at the Prague University of Economics and Business. In 2014–2017 she worked for the Czech Science Foundation and she has been working at the position of academic staff at the Unicorn University at Prague.
Pedagogical activity
5HD250 Economic History
5HD291 European Integration: Historical Context and Current Developments
5HD391 From Empire to Twenty-First Century Britain: Economic and Political Development of Great Britain in the 19th and 20th Centuries
5HD200 Economic History (seminars taught in Czech Language)
Conferences, workshops, colloquia
Scientific workshop History of business in Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Sources – methods – interpretation, Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, September 2020.
Colloquium Chosen Examples of Implementation of Economic Theories to Economic Policy, November 2017.
Colloquium Economic and Political Development of the United States of America and its Influence on the Development of World Economy, November 2016.
Colloquium The role of the State during Crisis Periods in the First Half of the 20th Century, September 2015.
Colloquium History of University of Economics at the turn of 1950s and 1960s and in the Reform Period in 1960s on the Background of Academic Education in Economic Feld in Central Europe December 2014 and December 2015
Colloquium International Economic Relations of Central European Countries in the first half of the twentieth century, September 2014
Research grants and projects
Grant IGS (Internal Grant Competition) Prague University of Economics and Business: Chosen Examples of Implementation of Economic Theories to Economic Policy, 2017
Grant IGS (Internal Grant Competition) Prague University of Economics and Business: Economic and Political Development of the United States of America and its Influence on the Development of World Economy, 2016
Grant IGS (Internal Grant Competition) Prague University of Economics and Business: History of University of Economics at the turn of 1950s and 1960s and in the reform period in 1960s on the background of academic education in economic field in Central Europe, 2014–2015
Grant IGS (Internal Grant Competition) Prague University of Economics and Business: The role of the State during Crisis Periods in the First Half of the 20th Century, 2015
Grant IGS (Internal Grant Competition) Prague University of Economics and Business: International Economic Relations of Central European Countries in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, 2014
Publications (selection)
Chapters in scientific monographs
ŠVEJDOVÁ, J., Stálo to za to? Tematické rozhovory: … s Janou Švejdovou – ekonomie, in: KUČERA, K. – KUČERA, V., Stálo to za to, Praha: Česká televize 2019, s. 244–261.
ŠVEJDOVÁ, J. – HOLEŇOVÁ, P., Vliv KSČ na vývoj vysokých škol s důrazem na VŠE, in: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze a rok 1968, Praha: Agentura Pankrác 2018, s. 68–81.
BRHELOVÁ, J., Od konfliktu ke kompromisu: Spojené státy americké a britské „impérium“ v letech 1945–1950, in: TAJOVSKÝ, L., Hospodářský a politický vývoj USA a jeho vliv na vývoj světové ekonomiky, České Budějovice 2016, s. 33–45.
BRHELOVÁ, J. – SLABÝ, P., Zahraniční politika Spojených států amerických a její vliv na proces evropské integrace mezi lety 1945–1958, in: TAJOVSKÝ, L., Hospodářský a politický vývoj USA a jeho vliv na vývoj světové ekonomiky, České Budějovice 2016, s. 67–106.
BRHELOVÁ, J., Hospodářské vztahy Československa a Velké Británie v letech 1945–1948, in: CHALUPECKÝ, P., Hospodářské vztahy Československa a Velké Británie v letech 1945–1948, Praha 2015, s. 121–134.
BRHELOVÁ, J. – FABIANKOVÁ, K., Konec velmoci a impéria: K vnitropolitickým příčinám úpadku velmocenského postavení Velké Británie po druhé světové válce (1945–1951), in: TUMIS, S. – KOURA, J. – SOUKUP, J. (eds.), Kapitoly z britských a amerických dějin, Praha 2015, s. 172—184.
Articles in scientific journals
BRHELOVÁ, J. Británie a Evropa 1945-1951. Evropská linie britské zahraniční politiky a hospodářské příčiny odmítavého postoje k hlubším formám ekonomické integrace Západní Evropy. Dvacáté století – The Twentieth Century. 2017. sv. 9, č. 1, s. 57–68.
NIKODYM, T. – NIKODYM, L. – BRHELOVÁ, J., Antonín Basch and the Economic Nature of WWII: A Liberal Approach, in: History of Economic Ideas, 2016, vol. XXIV, no. 2, pp. 141–164.
NIKODYM, L. – NIKODYM, T. – BRHELOVÁ, J., J. G. Hülsmann a alternativní přístup k řecké dluhové krizi, in: Socioekonomické a humanitní studie/Studies of Socio-Economics and Humanities), 2016, vol. 6, no. 2, s. 40–51.
BRHELOVÁ, J. – NIKODYM, L. – NIKODYM, T., Ekonomické rozhodnutí nebo politická nutnost? Ekonomické aspekty znárodnění ve Velké Británii v letech 1945–1951, in: Dvacáté století/The Twentieth Century, 1/2015, s. 93–108.
