Mgr. Zuzana Bezdíčková
Lecturer at the Language Centre at the University of Pardubice.
Zuzana Bezdíčková specializes in teaching English for Specific Purposes, mainly English for Economics and English for Medicine, and presenting skills. She participates in language testing not only as an examiner but also as an online-based tests designer. She is also an author of ESP courses designed in e-learning management systems Mahara and Moodle. As a coordinator of the programme Language and Culture Scheme, she co-organizes short study stays for students from Pardubice University and partner universities from Great Britain and Sweden. The aim of these short-study stays is to enhance intercultural awareness and communication based on mutual contacts. Language and Culture is, therefore, the motto of the Language Centre programme for the Summer School 2018.
Ing. Jan Fuka, Ph.D.
Assistant professor at the Institute of Administrative and Social Sciences
Jan Fuka has been an assistant Professor at University of Pardubice at the Institute of Administrative and Social Sciences for five years. His research and lecturing activities focus on the Czech public administration, ethics and current trends in public administration. He lectures to Czech and foreign students. During his academic career he published about 30 research papers. He currently lectures in the following subjects: Current Trends in Public Administration, Introduction to Public Administration, Regional Administration and State Administration.
Ing. et Ing. Veronika LINHARTOVÁ, Ph.D.
Assistant professor at the Department of Economic Sciences
Veronika Linhartová finished her Ph.D. in 2014 with thesis entitled „Corruption and its impact on the economic performance of regions of the Czech Republic”. She specializes in Regional and Public Economics. Since 2014, she has been teaching subjects related to economics, public economics, public services and public sector management at the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, University of Pardubice. She has also written many specialized conference papers published in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Ing. Martin Sobotka, Ph.D.
Assistant professor at the Department of Economic Sciences
Martin Sobotka is an assistant professor at the University of Pardubice, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Institute of Economic Sciences. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree upon completion of the study programme of Regional and Public Economy. His educational and research projects focus on public finance, social security and municipal management. Mr Sobotka is involved in simulation methods in the field of public policy impact.
Ing. Robert Baťa, Ph.D.
Assistant professor at the Institute of Administrative and Social Sciences
Robert Baťa is involved in research of sustainable development, environmental economy and management.
Ing. Radka Knězáčková, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in the Department of Economic Sciences
Radka Knězáčková lectures on Economic Policy primarily to students of the second year undergraduate studies. The main focus of her teaching is an active role of state in market economy. She also leads practical seminars in micro-economics and macro-economics.
Ing. Pavel Zdražil, Ph.D.
Assistant professor at the Institute of Regional and Security Sciences
Pavel Zdražil educational activities focus on the application of regional development theories in regional policy. His research is concerned with issues of economic growth, industrial structure and regional disparity; in particular with development drivers and barriers. During his career he published (as an author or co-author) one book and more than 30 scientific publications in professional journals and proceedings of international scientific conferences.
Assoc. Prof. Jitka Komárková
Associate professor at the Institute of System Engineering and Informatics
Jitka Komárková received the Ph.D.degree in Landscape and Applied Ecology. She focuses on geographic information systems in waste management. She started working at the Faculty of Economics and Administration in the field of geo-information technologies in 1997 as an assistant professor, later as an associate professor. Her major research is in vector data processing in geographic information systems.
Mgr. Lucie Chrudimská, DiS.
Assistant professor at the Faculty of Health Studies
Lucie Chrudimská is a member of academic staff of the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Pardubice. Her focus is on communication in healthcare. She is a dental hygienist in the Dental Centre DentPra in Pardubice. Lucie Chrudimská finds the academic work a challenge and opportunity to convey her creative attitude and specific knowledge on students. She is a Faculty Erasmus+ coordinator of hospital internship for students from abroad, which enables her a regular contact with foreign partner universities. Lucie views any contact with foreign colleagues and each travel abroad as an opportunity for personal growth and improvement of foreign language competence, finding new contacts, ideas and inspiration for further work.
PhDr. Kateřina Horáčková, DiS.
Head of the Department of Nursing
Kateřina Horáčková teaches oncology and palliative care. She is a general nurse in the Complex Oncology Centre in Pardubice. The daily care of serious oncology patients and contact with their families raise her need to grow awareness among the public in the field of tumor diseases prevention.
The work at the University gives her a chance to follow the new trends in prevention, diagnostics and treatment of pernicious diseases in the Czech Republic and abroad. Thanks to the Erasmus+ programme, she visited oncology centres and palliative care facilities in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Netherlands and Turkey. Her last foreign visit was to India within the programme Discover India.
Mgr. Jitka Rusová, DiS.
Assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Studies
Jitka Rusová is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Pardubice and a Ph.D. student of the Charles University of Prague. As a nurse specializing in intensive care, a theologist and ethician, she is fond of beauty (more than just the beauty of hypophysis vascularization), she has a sense of detail (comes handy in human state diagnosis) and a desire of knowledge and transcendence (ability to recognize ethical dilemmas in life and in fiction). This combination of different fields encounters a specific view of the world which you get known within individual workshops.
Mgr. Barbora Faltová
Assistant professor at the Faculty of Health Studies
Barbora Faltová is a member of academic staff of the Faculty of Health Studies. Her teaching focus is on theoretical background of social and educational sciences as well as their application in healthcare and social welfare. Practical application of her knowledge is closely connected with communication skills training. She also lectures in leisure time activities of the art-therapy nature. Her professional interest is focused on healthcare and social and educational care of clients in social welfare services in Czech Republic.
Mgr. Lucie Straková
Lawyer ot the Centre for Technology and Knowledge Transfer
Lucie Straková specializes in intellectual property and IT law. She studied at the Law Faculty of the Masaryk University of Brno and is about to complete her Ph.D. degree at the same faculty. Mgr. Straková works at the Centre of Technology and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Pardubice, at the Transfer Technology Office at Masaryk University in Brno and as a Legal Lead Creative Commons Czech Republic. She has been cooperating with other subjects (e.g. the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, rvp.cz portal, Iuridicum Remedium, etc.) In 2017, she co-founded the association Open Content: an association involved in an open content and use of public licenses.
Attila Pató Ph.D.
Lecturer at the Language Centre at the University of Pardubice.
Mr. Attila Pató, Ph.D. for many years has been involved in intercultural studies, especially in the context of Central-European literary and academic research, also present with essays, translation and civic activities. His last papers have been published in a collection of studies entitled Understanding Central Europe (Routledge, 2018). Attila Pató is responsible for the International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO) events in Hungary, also member of the IPO International Committee. At present, he is affiliated with the University of Pardubice, Language Centre and partly at the UPCE Centre of Ethics.
assoc. prof. Martin Fárek Ph.D.
Head of the Department of the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Associated Professor Mr. Martin Fárek, Ph.D. is currently the head of the Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He works within the international research team in Comparative Science of Cultures with focus on relations between Europe and India. Fárek authored or co-authored 36 scientific publications, the most recent is the book Western Foundations of the Caste System (Palgrave MacMillan, London 2017). Fárek regularly speaks at prestigious conferences, for example those organized by the European Association for the Study of Religions. He took part in several European projects, including the role of Univeristy of Pardubice academic coordinator for Svaagata.eu, Erasmus exchange project which brought more than one hundred Indian students and staff to eight European universities. He has co-organized and led several university delegations to India, conducted research with his Ph.D. students there, and has helped to develop ties between people of Europe and India in other ways.
Jiří Studený, Ph.D.
Assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Mgr. Jiří Studený, Ph.D., a poet (since 1996 he has published six collection of poems, last three under the pseudonym of Krejzyber or Dr. Krejzyberd) and essayist (recently Povytažený dráp. Eseje o tvůrčím psaní, 2016 – A Stretched claw. Essays about creative writing - note: translation by the editor), former editor and since 2009 editor in chief of the literary-culture magazine Tahy (2007–2016), currently editor of the Partonyma literary magazine (editorial supervisor of literary science section). In his essays, he critically reflects the theory and methodology of creative writing (in broader literary theory, dramatherapy, art therapy, meditation and coaching contexts), psychology of creativity, practical rhetoric and popular motivational (transformational) literature. He also concentrates on theory of fiction, primarily in literary culture and applied poetics contexts; he is the author and editor of two collective monographs.
