David Kocman, M.A., Ph.D.

David Kocman studied sociology at Charles University in Prague and social research methods and social policy at the University of Kent, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 2013. He later studied community care for persons with mental illness (Jewish Care London) and autism (University of Birmingham). Since 2002, he has been working at the interface of clinical practice and research in social and health services with respect to both the Czech and English systems. He has experience of working in health and social services and as a municipal care coordinator (Kingston upon Thames). He was involved in academic research surrounding, for example, the introduction of innovations in social and health care systems, the complexity of care provision, the coordination of care and the impacts of public policies first at the University of Kent and then at the University of Leicester. From 2019 to 2023, he served as an expert advisor to the mayor of Prague on social policy and healthcare focusing primarily on support for the contracting role of the region in the development of social services, the modernisation of the social care system, and the integration of services at the social-healthcare interface.