Soňa Kalenda
| Academic degree, name, surname: | doc. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D. |
| Room, floor, building: |
B 425, Building B |
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| Department (Faculty): | Department of Social Work (Faculty of Social Studies) |
| Phone number, mobile: |
+420 732 333 321 +420 553 46 3225 |
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Education
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, associate professor at the Faculty of Social Studies
Since 2008
Tomas Bata University in Zlín, associate professor at the 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
Assoc. Prof. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D., is an associate 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 aims, 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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| Author | Title | Type of thesis | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Vondrka Josef | Need analysis of users in aftercare social servis Darmoděj z.u. Jeseník | 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 |
| Science and Research Support Program in the Moravian-Silesian Region 2020 - Support for Talented Students 2020 | |
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| Main solver | doc. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D. |
| Period | 9/2020 - 8/2023 |
| Provider | Fakulta sociálních studií, Moravskoslezský kraj |
| State | solved |
| E-course Methods and techniques of qualitative research in social work | |
|---|---|
| Main solver | doc. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D. |
| Period | 1/2021 - 11/2021 |
| Provider | Rozvojové programy MŠMT |
| State | finished |
| Social Adjustment of Homeless Children with the Experience of Domestic Violence in the City of Ostrava | |
|---|---|
| Main solver | doc. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D. |
| Period | 1/2018 - 12/2020 |
| Provider | Grantová agentura ČR |
| State | finished |
| Provedení evaluace procesu v projektu Společně v agendě ochrany práv dětí | |
|---|---|
| Main solver | doc. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D. |
| Period | 5/2017 - 7/2018 |
| Provider | Výzkumná činnost |
| State | finished |
| Modely sociální práce doprovázející bydlení | |
|---|---|
| Main solver | doc. Mgr. Soňa Kalenda, Ph.D. |
| Period | 12/2016 - 11/2017 |
| Provider | Veřejná zakázka |
| State | finished |
