Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualifications

• 2015 - present: Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Masaryk University
• 2008 - 2014: Religious Studies, Masaryk University
• 2009 - 2011: Tibetan, Charles University
• 1989 - 1993: Psychology, Charles University

Professional experience

• 2015 - present: Researcher, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
• 2007 - present: Consultant, Evaluator, Trainer in the areas of development aid and social services, freelance
• 1993 - present: Translator, translation of books and documentaries from English and Russian to Czech, freelance
• 2006 - 2007: Head of Northern Caucasus Office, management of humanitarian and development programmes
• 2004 - 2006: Desk Officer for the Northern Caucasus, Caritas
• 2002 - 2003: Social Worker, social assistance to refugees in the Czech Republic, Czech Helsinki Committee
• 1990 - 1993: Educator, education in childens' home, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic

Teaching activities

• 2014 - present: Trainer, Deinstitutionalization and humanization of social services, ČALS
• 2007 - present: Trainer, Strategy and project development and management, freelance
• 2001 - 2004: English Teacher, freelance

Research activities

• 2014 - present: Ph.D. research project "How to eat well in institutional care: dis/ability in repertoires of dining"; research into modes of ordering of dis/ability and repertoires of care: their patterns, socio-materiality, their force and durability, together with possibilities for formulating and introducing alternatives; project supervisor: Doc. PaedDr. Zdeněk Konopásek, Ph.D.
• 2017 - present: research project "Paperwork and the practice of social change: The use of writen documents in participative planning"; implemented by CTS, Charles University / The Czech Academy of Sciences, project leader: Doc. PaedDr. Zdeněk Konopásek, Ph.D.
• 2015 - present: research project "Case management as a complex intervention in dementia, its impact on resource utilisation and the quality of life of patients and caregivers"; implemented by CELLO, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, project leader: Doc. MUDr. Iva Holmerová Ph.D.
• 2018 - present: member of the board of experts of the research project "Restrictive interventions in psychiatry"; implemented by the Centre for Mental Health Care Development
• 2000 - 2014: Transmission of "religious" modes of ordering in time and space /transmission of medieval Buddhist texts/
• 2000 - 2014: Philosophy and philosophical debate in Tibetan Buddhism /Tibetan Madhyamaka and Samye debate/

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• 2015/05/04 – 2015/05/08: University of Oslo, Oslo, NOR
  • PhD course „The Politics and Practices of Method“
• 2014/03/01 – 2014/05/31: University of Vienna, Vienna, CEEPUS, AUT
  • Studijní pobyt na Institut für Religionswissenschaft a Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde Vídeňské univerzity.

Non-university activities

• 2016 - present: Biograf journal, editorial board member
• 2008 - 2013: FLIM Festival of Tibetan Films and Films about Tibet, Potala NGO, programme, production
• 2012 - 2014: Tibetan News /Tibetske Listy/, editor

Major publications

• ILIFFE, Steve, Jane WILCOCK, Michal SYNEK, Radek CARBOCH, Dana HRADCOVÁ and Iva HOLMEROVÁ. Case management for people with dementia and its translations : A discussion paper. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. London: SAGE Publications, 2019, vol. 18, No 3, p. 951-969. ISSN 1471-3012. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301217697802. URL info
• HRADCOVÁ, Dana and Michal SYNEK. Between silence and re-describing matters of care: An attempt at ethnography of cognitive disability. In Workshop “The Practices and Politics of Description”, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. 2019. info
• SYNEK, Michal, Dana HRADCOVÁ, Radek CARBOCH and Dita JAHODOVÁ. Kritické gesto a záležitosti péče v souřadnicích ne/způsobilosti (The Dis/ability Coordinates of the Critical Gesture and Matters of Care). Sociologický časopis. AV ČR, Sociologický ústav, 2019, vol. 55, No 5, p. 587–614. ISSN 0038-0288. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2019.55.5.478. URL info
• SYNEK, Michal. Perfect etiquette : On diplomatically arguing with members. Medicine Anthropology Theory. 2018, vol. 5, No 1, p. 25-49. ISSN 2405-691X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.17157/mat.5.1.500. článek info
• KONOPÁSEK, Zdeněk, Michal SYNEK and Radek CARBOCH. Making clients to decide for themselves: Turning people with learning difficulties into “modern subjects”. In EASST Conference 2018, Lancaster, UK. 2018. info
• HRADCOVÁ DANA, Michal SYNEK, Dita JAHODOVÁ and Radek CARBOCH. In between silence and re-describing matters of care: An attempt at ethnography of cognitive dis/ability. In EASST Conference 2018, Lancaster, UK. 2018. info
• SYNEK, Michal, Dana HRADCOVÁ, Radek CARBOCH and Dita JAHODOVÁ. Mezi tichem a záležitostmi péče: Etnografie kognitivní dis/ability (In between silence and formulating matters of care: An attempt at ethnography of cognitive dis/ability). In Konference ČSS 2018. 2018. URL info
• SYNEK, Michal. Valuable buildings, disabled people: Tinkering with maintenance and care in situations of socio-material oppression. In Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston 2017. 2017. URL info
• SYNEK, Michal, Dana HRADCOVÁ, Dita JAHODOVÁ and Radek CARBOCH. Koordinace služeb pro lidi žijící s demencí: Poznámky k (ne)soudržnosti pečování (Coordination of services for people living with dementia: Notes on the (non)coherence of caring). In 19. Pracovní konference Biografu, Chotěboř 2017. 2017. info
• SYNEK, Michal, Dana HRADCOVÁ, Dita JAHODOVÁ and Radek CARBOCH. O (ne)soudržnosti pečování: Mnohočetné ontologie života s demencí (On (in)coherence of caring: Multiple ontologies of life with dementia). Biograf. Časopis Biograf o.s., 2017, vol. 2017, 65-66, p. 5–49. ISSN 1211-5770. info
• SYNEK, Michal and Dana HRADCOVÁ. How to make homey meal in not-so-homey kitchen: Home metaphors in repertoires of institutional dining. In American Studies Association Annual Meeting Denver 2016, Critical Disability Studies Caucus. 2016. URL info
• SYNEK, Michal and Radek CARBOCH. Profesní slepota a režimy spěchu : Podpora soběstačnosti při jídle v institucionální péči o lidi s mentálním znevýhodněním (Professional blindness and regimes of haste : Support of self-sufficiency in eating in institutional care for people with mental disability). Biograf. Časopis Biograf o.s., 2014, vol. 2014, No 60, p. 5-37. ISSN 1211-5770. URL info
• SYNEK, Michal. Profesní slepota a režimy spěchu: Podpora soběstačnosti při jídle v institucionální péči o lidi s mentálním znevýhodněním (Professional blindness and regimes of haste: Support of self-sufficiency in institutional repertoires of dining). In 16. Pracovní konference Biografu, Hoješín u Seče 2014. 2014. info
• SYNEK, Michal. Doktrína a politika lhaské debaty : obraz samjäské tradice v kronice Baže (Doctrine and politics of the Lhasa debate : the image of the Samye tradition in the bBa' bzhed chronicle). Sacra. Brno: Občanské sdružení Sacra, 2012, roč. 10, č. 1, p. 5-32. ISSN 1214-5351. info

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