Masaryk University

Jana Obrovská is a junior researcher at the Institute for Research in Inclusive Education. The fields of her professional interests are the sociology of education and culture. She deals with minority/inclusive education and the role of social disadvantage in the educational process. She cooperates with NGOs and projects dealing with education (Museum of Romani Culture, Centers for Support of Inclusive Education). Recently, she was involved in the research project Educational Strategies of Migrants and Ethnic Minority Youth supported by the Czech Grant Agency. She specializes in qualitative methodology, especially school ethnography.

Dr. Karel Pančocha works as an associate professor and researcher at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic. He is the head of the Institute for Research in Inclusive Education. He received his doctorate at Masaryk University in 2007 at the Department of Special Education and was appointed associated professor in 2014. He specializes in the research of social inclusion of adults with disabilities and measuring attitudes of different populations towards inclusion in education and towards disabilities.

Katerina Sidiropulu Janku is a junior researcher at the Institute for Research in Inclusive Education PedF MU and establishing member of the Center for the Cultural Sociology of Migration FSS MU. She joined ISOTIS project to focus on the WP3 research activities and qualitative interviews across several WPs. She has been assistant professor in the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development at Ostrava University (2004-2008) and in the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University (2007-2017). As ethnographic sociologist she focuses on Czech-Roma relationships, notions of social marginalization, the sociology of memory and research ethics. In recent years her focus also includes interdisciplinary cooperation and the participative approaches. She was in charge of the applied project The Memory of Roma Workmen, that encompassed the collection of historical data, conceptual street exhibition, documentary movie and piloting didactic materials in elementary schools.

Mgr. Lenka Kissová is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University in Brno. She has degrees in fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology and International Relations (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia). Her research interests focus on critical studies of policies, migration, political discourse, securitisation as well as on human rights and minorities. She actively analysis political discourses on migrants, ethnic minorities, migration and welfare policies in Central Europe.
She was a visiting student at universities such as University of Toronto, Princeton University, REMESO institute at Linköping University or Universitá di Bologna.
She worked in a human rights NGO Milan Šimečka Foundation on projects aiming at poverty and social inclusion, particularly exclusion/ inclusion of the Roma in Slovakia. She worked also as an impact evaluator in a social innovation project aiming at the inclusion and employment of immigrants living in Brno. Currently, she is a research fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology of Migration (Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University), she works at the Institute for Research in Inclusive Education (Faculty of Education, Masaryk University) and she is also the external associate at Masaryk University Office for International Cooperation.

Zuzana Lenhartová is a sociologist, PhD. student at Faculty of Education, and junior researcher at the Institute for Research in Inclusive Education. The fields of her professional interests are the sociology of inequality and minorities and sociology of education, (particularly school inclusion of people with social disabilities).
She is lecturing the courses on quantitative research methods and sociology for special education needs teachers.