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Mgr. Lucie Vidovićová, Ph.D.

office: 3.62
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

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Mgr. Lucie Vidovićová, Ph.D. is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, and also collaborates with the Research Institute of Labor and Social Affairs, vvi, and has long been involved in the sociology of ageing mainstreaming. She participates in research projects for national and international institutions and also works as a consultant on a number of implementation projects by state institutions and non-profit organisations. She is the Vice President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Aging of the International Sociological Association (ISA RC 11) and an elected member of the Main Committee of the Czech Sociological Society. She publishes in Czech Sociological Review and Social Policy Forum, is a member of the editorial board of Vital magazine, author of Aging, Age and Discrimination - New Contexts (Masaryk University, 2008) and co-author of Aging in the City, City in the Life of Seniors (Sociologické nakladatelství & MUNIPress, 2013) and Rural Aging - Forms of Active Aging and Quality of Life in Rural Areas (Sociologické nakladatelství & MUNIPress, 2018).

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Total number of publications: 325

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Mgr. et Mgr. Marcela Petrová Kafková, Ph.D.

office: 3.62
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

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Mgr. and Mgr. Marcela Petrova Kafkova, PhD. is a sociologist and specialist at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. She has long been involved in the sociology of ageing and social gerontology, focusing mainly on the topics of active ageing, intergenerational relationships and old age. She participates in many research projects and consults on implementation projects by state institutions. She is the co-author of the publication Rural Ageing - Forms of Active Aging and Quality of Life in Rural Areas (Sociologické nakladatelství & MUNIPress, 2018) and Aging in the City, City in the Life of Seniors (Sociologické nakladatelství, 2013), the author of Graying Values? Activity as the Dominant Way of Aging (Masaryk University, 2013) and Invisible Seniors and their Everyday Life: The Fourth Age as Aging with Disability (CDK, 2017).

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Total number of publications: 166

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Mgr. Lucie Galčanová Batista, Ph.D.

office: 3.13
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

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Mgr. Lucie Galčanová Batista, Ph.D. is a sociologist. She works as a researcher at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. In her long-term research practice and teaching, she has addressed issues concerning the environmental, spatial, and material contexts of social phenomena, for example, in projects examining the meanings of home and housing, urban and rural aging, and voluntarily modest living. She is a co-coordinator of the European Sociological Association (ESA RN01) Research Network on Aging in Europe, an active member of the Czech Sociological Society and a passive member of the Czech Ornithological Society. She is the co-author of the books Sami doma (Pavel Mervart and MUNIPress, 2014), Aging in the City, City in the Life of Seniors (Sociologické nakladatelství, 2013), and Rural Ageing - Forms of Active Aging and Quality of Life in Rural Areas (Sociologické nakladatelství & MUNIPress, 2018), and the author and co-author of a number of domestic and international peer-reviewed articles.

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Total number of publications: 143

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Mgr. Barbora Hubatková

office: 3.56
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

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Mgr. Barbora Hubatková is a sociologist and specialist at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. Her research interests include ageing, family, education, and data collection methodologies. Since 2018, she has been the executive editor of the journal Sociální studia/Social Studies. She is the author and co-author of a number of professional texts on various topics and co-author of the publication Rural Ageing - Forms of Active Aging and Quality of Life in Rural Areas (Sociologické nakladatelství & MUNIPress, 2018).

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Total number of publications: 54

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  • First reproductive experience : a survey module

    BEAUJOUAN Eva SINGH Shalini ŠŤASTNÁ Anna KREIDL Martin DVOŘÁK Daniel HUBATKOVÁ Barbora KMENTOVÁ Darina SLABÁ Jitka PASSET-WITTIG Jasmin GOISIS Alice VÄISÄNEN Heini

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    Year: 2025, type: Article in Periodical (without peer review)

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Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Menšíková

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Joštova 218/10, 602 00 Brno

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Jaselská 201/18
602 00 Brno

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Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Menšíková is a sociologist and a PhD student in the study of religion at the Faculty of Social Studies and the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno. Her research interests include the marginalisation of minorities in the Czech Republic and in India, the mobilisation and emancipation strategies of social movements, Dalit communities, ageing and homelessness. In her dissertation and IGA research project Challenging Marginalisation Online: The Case of Dalit Movement Network Through Blog and News Platforms, she explores the social and discursive patterns of Indian Dalit online activism through activist online production on blog and news platforms. By adopting the methods of computational text analysis (unsupervised machine learning models) and social network analysis, her research aims to understand the role of religious and secular motives in the socio-political mobilization of marginalized communities. She is the leader of a Working Group Heath, Care and Support of the PAAR-net COST Action.

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Total number of publications: 47

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Mgr. Martin Lakomý, Ph.D.

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Mgr. Martin Lakomý, PhD is a sociologist at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Business and Economics at Mendel University, Brno. He studies the activities of older adults and their consequences, including labour force participation in the context of the rapid digitalisation of work, changes of family relations, and value changes connected to all these issues. His research activities are based on quantitative data from international surveys and innovative techniques of data analysis. A part of this methodological focus can be illustrated by the methodological project on improving survey techniques in other to involve omitted parts of (not only) older populations. He received his PhD in sociology in 2019 for the dissertation The consequences of activities supported by the active ageing approach for quality of life and has research experience both in Czechia and during research stays at the University of Bergen and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. He has published as a lead author in high-impact journals, such as the European Journal of Ageing, International Sociology, European Societies, Plos One, and Social Science Research.

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Total number of publications: 48

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Mgr. Ing. Tomáš Doseděl, Ph.D.

office: 3.61
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

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Mgr. Ing. Tomáš Doseděl, Ph.D. is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. His research interests include the labour market, technological change, educational expansion, and the combination of all three phenomena: the impact of educational expansion and technological change on the labour market. He is involved in several projects and publishes the results of his work in journals and book chapters. As a journalist, Tomáš Doseděl has been working hard for a long time to popularise modern technologies.

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Total number of publications: 72

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Mgr. Světlana Nedvědová

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Mgr. Světlana Nedvědová is a qualitative sociologist and a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno. In her research, she focuses on the sociology of death, dying, and bereavement. Specifically, she examines the disenfranchised grief from the perspective of normativity, social control, and inequalities, with a narrower focus on gender, sexuality, and age. She is also involved in the project Institution of Aging Men (GA23-05047S) and within the national institute and scientific hub SYRI, she is part of a group dealing with the effectiveness of the healthcare system. She also engages with medical topics as a journalist.

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Total number of publications: 23

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