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Soňa Kalenda Vávrová
Academic degree, name, surname:
prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, Ph.D.
Room, floor, building:
B 106, Building B
Position:
Dean
Research interests and teaching:
Department (Faculty):
Phone number, mobile:
+420 732 333 321
+420 553 46 3201
+420 553 46 3201
Education
2022
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies, professorship in social work
2014
Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ostrava, habilitation in social work (habilitation thesis titled Perspectives of Residential Social Services for Seniors)
2002 – 2006
Faculty of Health Studies, University of Ostrava, a doctoral degree in Social Work (dissertation titled Time Understanding by Users of Residential Social Services)
1995 – 1996
Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc, supplementary Pedagogical Study of Sociology - Andragogy
1991 – 1996
Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc, Masters studies in Sociology - Andragogy
Working Practice
Since 2015
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Social Work
Since 2008
Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Research Centre of the Faculty of Humanities
2002 – 2008
Social Services Uherské Hradiště, Head of the Home for People with Disabilities in Velehrad
1996 – 2002
Regional Office of Social Affairs in Uherské Hradiště, since 1999, Head of the Department of Social Affairs
Professional Activities in the Field
Prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D., is a professor of social work at the Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ostrava. She specializes in qualitative methodologies in social work research, human rights, and participatory approaches to social work. She studies social work digitalisation, positions of social workers in social services, the quality of social services and their transformation; primarily with regards to endangered children, elderly people, and persons with disabilities. Her research also focuses on deinstitutionalization and transformation of various types of total institutions, residential social services, and residential institutions for minors and people with disabilities. She was a member of the research teams working on projects supported by the Czech Science Foundation titled Cognitive and Non-cognitive Determinants of Self-Regulated Learning Development in Students of Helping Professions (2009-2011) and Spots in Non-Formal Education of Adults: Non-Participants and their Social Worlds (2019-2021), an investigator of the projects titled Understanding the Mechanism of Self-Regulation in Children and Minors in Institutional Care (2013-2015) and Social Adjustment of Homeless Children with Domestic Violence Experience in the Territory of the City of Ostrava (2018-2020). As an independent expert, she cooperates with several social service agencies to which she provides supervision, support, and counseling. She cooperated with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as an independent expert in several projects focused on deinstitutionalization of social services. The results of her work can be found in Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention, European Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Work Practice, Czech and Slovak Social Work, Kontakt and many others.
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Abbreviation
Subject
KONHO
44KUC
44PUC
MPUBL
1SUPA
1SUPX
2SUPA
2SUPX
Author
Title
Type of thesis
Year
Karpunina Anastasia
Children with Disability in Families at Risk in Russian Federation: Social Work Approaches
Doctoral thesis
2024
Černý Jakub
Housing rights urban movements and social work in the context of the post-socialist Czech Republic: a multi-case study
Doctoral thesis
2023
Pospíšilová Pavlína
Social Work as a Tool to Support Active Ageing Policy in the Moravian-Silesian Region
Doctoral thesis
2023
Dořičáková Šárka
Terrain Services for Seniors Provided Without Registration
Doctoral thesis
2019
Recmanová Adéla
Information and Communication Technologies in Interventions of Social Work with Vulnerable Children and Their Families
Doctoral thesis
2019
Jordanova Gabriela
The role of social work in improving the quality of social services at home with a special regime
Master's thesis
2025
Bartolšicová Tereza
Adoption of a child in the context of current family changes
Master's thesis
2024
Mucha Petr
Digitization of Social Work in Social Services in the Territory of the Moravian-Silesian Region
Master's thesis
2024
Panocová Hana
Digitalization of Social Work in Shelters for Mothers with Children
Master's thesis
2024
Francová Tereza
Use of Cochem practice in social and legal protection of children
Master's thesis
2022
Palečková Eva
Institutional Care in the System of Social and Legal Protection of Children
Master's thesis
2022
Konečná Natálie
Using of ICT in interventions of social work in low-threshold facilities for children and youth
Master's thesis
2021
Kučerová Tamara
Transformation of social residential services home with special regime
Master's thesis
2021
Neubauerová Jana
Seniors´ strategies to cope with aging in natural social environment
Master's thesis
2020
Povolná Kateřina
The issue of sexuality in people with intellectual disabilities in sheltered housing
Master's thesis
2020
Kahánková Tereza
Professional development of employees in social activation service for families with children
Master's thesis
2019
Pospíšilová Pavlína
Role of individual actors in the process of community planning of social services in the city of Brno
Master's thesis
2019
Boháčová Jarmila
Personal Management At Retirements Home In The Context Of Standards Quality In Welfare Services
Master's thesis
2018
Benčáková Aneta
Home care as prevention of institutionalization of seniors
Master's thesis
2017
Fránková Zuzana
Transformation of retirement home from the employeeś point of view
Master's thesis
2017
Kročková Martina
Social work interventions in facilities for children in need of immediate assistance aimed at returning the child to the family
Bachelor's thesis
2024
Chudíková Kateřina
Reflections on the change in the deinstitutionalised residential social services facility for people with disabilities
Bachelor's thesis
2023
Main solver
prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, Ph.D.
Period
10/2024 - 12/2028
Provider
Centrum excelence IT4Innovations, divize, Centrum pro rozvoj a inovace, Katedra sociální práce, Pedagogická fakulta, Přírodovědecká fakulta, OP JAK (Jan Amos Komenský)
State
solved
Main solver
prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, Ph.D.
Period
9/2020 - 8/2023
Provider
Fakulta sociálních studií, Moravskoslezský kraj
State
finished
Main solver
prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, Ph.D.
Period
1/2021 - 11/2021
Provider
Rozvojové programy MŠMT
State
finished
Main solver
prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, Ph.D.
Period
1/2018 - 12/2020
Provider
Grantová agentura ČR
State
finished
Main solver
prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, Ph.D.
Period
5/2017 - 7/2018
Provider
Výzkumná činnost
State
finished
Main solver
prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda Vávrová, Ph.D.
Period
12/2016 - 11/2017
Provider
Veřejná zakázka
State
finished
