Mgr. Jana Havlíková, Ph.D.

Jana Havlíková studied sociology, social policy and social work at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, and completed a study stay at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg from October 2004 to September 2005. In July 2003, she participated in the International Summer School in Philosophy and Politics: Challenges to Democracy held in Cortona, Italy and organised by the Vienna Institute for Human Science. Her professional interests lie mainly in social services policy, quality in social services, unemployment and the life course. From 2017 to 2022, she was a member of the advisory body of SoCaTel – The Multi-stakeholder Co-creation Platform for Better Access to Long-term Care Services (https://www.socatel.eu/) project. She works as an international expert at the Agency for the Support of Research and Development of Slovakia. She is also a reviewer of academic articles for the Sociální práce/Sociálna práca journal and the British Journal of Social Work.