Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• ORCID: 0000-0003-4325-1697

Department

• department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University

Employment - Position

• assistant professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2007-2012: PhD., Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ Thesis: Šedivějící hodnoty? Aktivita jako dominantní způsob stárnutí (Greying Values? Being Active as the Predominant Way of Ageing) Supervisor: Prof. Ladislav Rabušic
• 2004-2007: Master of Arts, History – specialization - International Relations and European Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ Thesis: Odsun Němců ze Židlochovic (Expulsion of Germans from Town Židlochovice)
• Supervisor: Tomáš Dvořák, PhD. 2004-2006: Master of Arts, Sociology, Faculty of social Studies Masaryk University, Brno, CZ Thesis: Postoje populace ke stárnutí v evropských zemích (Attitudes of Population to Ageing in European Countries) Supervisor: Prof. Ladislav Rabušic
• 2000-2004: Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and History, Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University, Brno, CZ

Employment

• 1/2021 - present: specialist (researcher), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
• 6/2012 – 12/2020: specialist (researcher), Office for Population Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
• 1/2014 -12/2019: post-doc researcher, Institute of State and Law of Czech Academy of Science
• 10/2010 – 1/2013: assistant professor, Theatre Management Department, Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Brno, CZ

Teaching Activities

• Since 2013 teaching in courses at sociology FSS MU (SOCb1018 Quantitative Data Analysis I; SOCb1019 Quantitative Data Analysis II; SOCb2284 Social Gerontology; SOCn6205 Social gerontology: Concepts and controversies; SOCb2000 Applied sociology for policy making; CORE063 Příprava člověka, vědy a společnosti na rok 2060: základy gerontologické gramotnosti; GLCb2022 Global Ageing;SOCb2022 Doing social research in older and other difficult-to-acces populations)
• 10/2010 – 1/2013: assistant professor, Theatre Management Department, Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Brno, CZ Teaching research methods and general sociology
• 9/2009 – 1/2016: one semester course “Sociology” at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Technology, Brno, CZ
• 2007 - 2010: teaching in seminars and assistance in lectures for bachelor’s students of Sociology at FSS MU above all methodological

Scientific and Research Activities

• 1/2022-12/2025: Meanings of food intake in old age, Czech Scientific Foundation (GA23-06348S)
• 1/2022-12/2025: Effects of digitalisation in (post) COVID-19 era on quality of life, and social inclusion of older adults (DIGOLD); Czech Scientific Foundation LA (GA20-12567S)
• 1/2022-12/2025: Institutions of Ageing Men, Czech Scientific Foundation GA23-05047S
• 7/2021 – 12/2023: Innovative ways of definition, measurement of prevalence, and solution of elder abuse in the Czech Republic (including transfer of international best practice), Technology Agency of the Czech Republic Éta (TL05000516)
• 1/2020 – 12/2022: research project Ageing and Older People in the Time of Climate Change, team member, Czech Scientific Foundation (GA20-12567S)
• 3/2019 – 12/2021: research project A life course perspective on the GENdered PATHways of Social exclusion in later life, and its consequences for health and wellbeing, team member, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic / ERA-NET (TJ03000002)
• 1/2019 – 12/2021: research project Survey and education of citizens of the Czech Republic in the field of biometrics, investigator for MU, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic / ÉTA (TL02000134)
• 1/2019 – 12/2021: research project The use of the humanoid robot in promoting active ageing in older men and women, team member, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic / ÉTA (TL02000362)
• 1/2016- 12/2018: research project Rural ageing: unanswered questions of environmental gerontology, team member, Czech Scientific Foundation GA16-20873S
• 1/2015 - 12/2017: research project Fourth Age: the identity of disability during the period f active aging, investigator, Czech Scientific Foundation GA15-03156S
• 2/2013 – 12/2015: research project Role Overload: Grandparents in the Era of Active Ageing – team member, Czech Scientific Foundation GA13-34958S
• 1/2011 –12/2012: research project Ageing in the Environment: Regeneration, Gentrification and Social Exclusion as New Issues in Environmental Gerontology – team member, Czech Scientific Foundation P404/10/1955
• 2008 – 12/2010: research project Value Changes in the Czech Republic (1991 – 2008) in European Context – team member, Czech Scientific Foundation GA403/08/0999

Activities Outside University

• since 2022: a member of journal Executive Board European Countryside
• since 2022: member of Administrative Board of Život90
• 2016 – 2020: MC substitute for COST ROSEnet (CA15122) - Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy
• 2015 – present: member, European Sociological Association (ESA)
• 2015 – present: member, Eastern-European Research Network of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing (EAST)
• 2012 – present: member, International Sociological Association (ISA)
• 2012 – present: member, Masaryk Czech Sociological Association
• 2014: member, European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)

Major Publications

• PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela. Sources of Loneliness for Older Adults in the Czech Republic and Strategies for Coping With Loneliness. Social Inclusion. Lisbon: Cogitatio Press, 2023, vol. 11, No 1, p. 225-233. ISSN 2183-2803. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i1.6185. article - open access info
• PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela, Petr FUČÍK, Marja AARTSEN, Thomas HANSEN, George PAVLIDIS, Ruth KATZ, Sigal NAIM, Rodrigo SERRAT, Feliciano VILLAR and Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ. Is There an Association Between Childhood Conditions and Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life? Polish Sociological Review. Warsaw: Polish Sociological Association, 2023, vol. 223, No 3, p. 369-393. ISSN 1231-1413. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.26412/psr223.05. article - open access info
• URBANIAK, Anna, Kieran WALSH, Lucie GALČANOVÁ BATISTA, Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Celia SHERIDAN, Rodrigo SERRAT and Franziska ROTHE. Life-course transitions and exclusion from social relations in the lives of older men and women. Journal of Aging Studies. New York: Elsevier, 2023, vol. 67, December, p. 1-12. ISSN 0890-4065. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101188. article - open access info
• PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela. Activities to Address Quality of Life Between Urban and Rural Ageing People in the Czech Republic. In Fermina Rojo-Pérez and Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas. Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life : From Concepts to Applications. Cham: Springer, 2021, p. 573-591. International Handbooksof Quality-of-Life. ISBN 978-3-030-58030-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58031-5_35. URL info
• HANSEN, Thomas, Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Ruth KATZ, Ariela LOWENSTEIN, Sigal NAIM, George PAVLIDIS, Feliciano VILLAR, Kieran WALSH and Marja AARTSEN. Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life : Micro- and Macro-Level Patterns and Correlations in a European Perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Basel: MDPI, 2021, vol. 18, No 23, p. 1-16. ISSN 1660-4601. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312418. article - open access info
• VIDOVIĆOVÁ, Lucie, Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Lucie GALČANOVÁ BATISTA and Barbora HUBATKOVÁ. Stárnutí na venkově. Podoby aktivního stárnutí a kvalita života v rurálních oblastech (Rural ageing. Forms of active ageing and quality of life in the countryside). 1st ed. Praha: koedice Masarykova univerzita / Slon, 2019, 142 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9165-8. info
• PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela. The Active Ageing Index (AAI) and Its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults. In Zaidi, Asghar. Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies : Active Ageing Index and its Potential. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, p. 55-74. ISBN 978-981-10-6016-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_4. info
• GALČANOVÁ, Lucie and Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ. Self-perception during the Transition to the Fourth Age in the Czech Republic. Ethnologie française. Presses Universitaires de France, 2018, vol. 48, No 3, p. 413-426. ISSN 0046-2616. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ethn.183.0413. URL info
• PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela. Neviditelní senioři a jejich každodennost : Čtvrtý věk jako stárnutí s disabilitou (Invisible older adults : fourth age as ageing with disability). 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2017, 143 pp. Sociologická řada, sv. č. 18. ISBN 978-80-7325-487-2. info

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