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

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, roč. 11, č. 1, s. 225-233. ISSN 2183-2803. doi:10.17645/si.v11i1.6185. 2023. article - open access info
• PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela, Petr FUČÍK, Marja AARTSEN, Thomas HANSEN, George PAVLIDIS, Ruth KATZ, Sigal NAIM, Rodrigo SERRAT, Feliciano VILLAR a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ. Is There an Association Between Childhood Conditions and Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life? Polish Sociological Review. Warsaw: Polish Sociological Association, roč. 223, č. 3, s. 369-393. ISSN 1231-1413. doi:10.26412/psr223.05. 2023. article - open access info
• URBANIAK, Anna, Kieran WALSH, Lucie GALČANOVÁ BATISTA, Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Celia SHERIDAN, Rodrigo SERRAT a 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, roč. 67, December, s. 1-12. ISSN 0890-4065. doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101188. 2023. 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. s. 573-591. International Handbooksof Quality-of-Life. ISBN 978-3-030-58030-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58031-5_35. 2021. URL info
• HANSEN, Thomas, Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Ruth KATZ, Ariela LOWENSTEIN, Sigal NAIM, George PAVLIDIS, Feliciano VILLAR, Kieran WALSH a 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, roč. 18, č. 23, s. 1-16. ISSN 1660-4601. doi:10.3390/ijerph182312418. 2021. article - open access info
• VIDOVIĆOVÁ, Lucie, Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Lucie GALČANOVÁ BATISTA a Barbora HUBATKOVÁ. Stárnutí na venkově. Podoby aktivního stárnutí a kvalita života v rurálních oblastech. 1. vyd. Praha: koedice Masarykova univerzita / Slon. 142 s. ISBN 978-80-210-9165-8. 2019. 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. s. 55-74. ISBN 978-981-10-6016-8. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_4. 2018. info
• GALČANOVÁ, Lucie a Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ. Self-perception during the Transition to the Fourth Age in the Czech Republic. Ethnologie française. Presses Universitaires de France, roč. 48, č. 3, s. 413-426. ISSN 0046-2616. doi:10.3917/ethn.183.0413. 2018. URL info
• PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela. Neviditelní senioři a jejich každodennost : Čtvrtý věk jako stárnutí s disabilitou. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury. 143 s. Sociologická řada, sv. č. 18. ISBN 978-80-7325-487-2. 2017. info

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