Mgr. Michal Synek, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** office: 2.35 e-mail: michal.synek@fhs.cuni.cz tel.: (+420) 604973709 website: https://msynek.academia.edu [ URL "https://msynek.academia.edu"] CURRENT COURSES viz SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php? id=88e4f2c37aa98156f2516f0b38062a09&tid=2&do=ucit&kod=81522"]   CONSULTATIONS viz SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php? id=88e4f2c37aa98156f2516f0b38062a09&tid=2&do=detailuc&kuc=81522"] RESEARCH AREAS I am a sociologist of science/technology and disability. The most important lines of my research have so far included: • relations between repertoires of caring (e.g. cooking and serving meals or case manageme different version of disability; • tensions between various objects of care (e.g. things and people) in social services; • life stories of people identified as disabled; • crip science, art and politics. Presently, I am working on two book-length projects: "Life Stories For Human Rights", on l of people who spent their lives in asylums, and "Besides Disability", on theory and method narrating. I have worked as advisor to self-advocates. I am interested in theoretical problems with p at the crossroads of science and technology studies, disability studies and care studies. WORK EXPERIENCE [2017 – 2021] Researcher, Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University and [2013 – 2023] Researcher, lecturer and consultant, Czech Alzheimer's Soci [2015 – 2019] Researcher and a leader of a research team, Centre of Expertise [2003 – 2007] Manager of humanitarian and development projects, Caritas Intern [2002 – 2004] Social worker, Czech Helsinki Committee   EDUCATION AND TRAINING [2015 – 2020] Ph.D. in sociology (STS), Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk Un [03/2014 – 07/2014] Educational exchange, Institut für Religionswissenschaft, Unive [2008 – 2014] Mgr. in Religion Studies / Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Ar SELECTED PUBLICATIONS SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. (2025): At home in the ‘home’: Narratives of home in repertoires dining. Housing Studies 40 (1): 70–93. doi/org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2262949. SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. (2023) Souostroví / postižení / ver?ejnosti [Disability / archipe Praha: Display – sdružení pro výzkum a kolektivní praxi. SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. / CARBOCH, R. (2022): „Všechno stejný, všechno zastavený“: Karant pro lidi oznac?ené za postižené. Sociologický c?asopis / Czech Sociological Review 58 (5): org/10.13060/csr.2022.029. SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. / CARBOCH, R. (2022) Vlastní místo? Každodennost a údržba budovy pro osoby se zdravotním postižením“. [A proper place? Practice of everyday and building ma a „home for persons with health impairments“]. Biograf (75-76): 77–110. Available on-line www.biograf.org/clanek.html?id=1099. SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. / BOSÁ, M. (2022): O ru?zných praxích a normativitách pec?ování [ different practices and normativities of caring]. Biograf (75-76): 3–14. Available on-line www.biograf.org/ clanek.html?id=1095. HRADCOVÁ, D. / SYNEK, M. (2021): The Rest is Noise: On Describing Cognitive Multiplicity. Research 21 (3): 442–460. doi.org/10.1177/1468794120975987. SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. (2020): Obde?lávat svou zahradu: Spekulativní etika Maríi Puig de [We must cultivate our garden: Speculative ethics of María Puig de la Bellacasa]. Sociolog Czech Sociological Review 56 (2): 259–275. doi.org/10.13060/csr.2020.009. HRADCOVÁ, D. / SYNEK, M. / ZGOLA, J. / HOLMEROVÁ, I. (2020): Promoting the Enjoyment of Fo Dementia Care: The Bon Appetit Intervention in Care Homes. In J. Manthorpe & E. Moniz-Cook Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. SYNEK, M. (2020): Impaired Food: Routine, Materiality and Ontology in Social Care Practice Masaryk University. SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. / JAHODOVÁ, D. / CARBOCH, R. (2019): Kritické gesto a záležitosti adnicích ne/zpu?sobilosti [The dis/ability coordinates of the critical gesture and matters Sociologický c?asopis / Czech Sociological Review 55 (5): 585–611. doi.org/10.13060/003802 ILIFFE, S. / WILCOCK, J. / SYNEK, M. / CARBOCH, R. / HRADCOVÁ, D. / HOLMEROVÁ, I. (2019): for people with dementia and its translations: A discussion paper. Dementia: The Internati Social Research and Practice 18 (3): 951–969. doi.org/10.1177/1471301217697802. SYNEK, M. (2018): Perfect etiquette: On diplomatically arguing with members. Medical Anthr (1): 25–49. doi.org/10.17157/ mat.5.1.500. SYNEK, M. / HRADCOVÁ, D. / JAHODOVÁ, D. / CARBOCH, R. (2017): O (ne)soudržnosti pec?ování: ontologie života s demencí [On (non)coherence of caring: Multiple ontologies of life with Biograf (65–66): 5–52. Available on-line at: http://www.biograf.org/ clanek.html?id=1017. SYNEK, M. / CARBOCH, R. (2014): Profesní slepota a režimy spe?chu: Podpora sobe?stac?nosti v institucionální péc?i o lidi s mentálním znevýhodne?ním [Professional blindness and regi Support of self-sufficiency in eating in institutional care for people with intellectual d Biograf (60): 5–37. Available on-line at: http://www.biograf.org/clanek.html?clanek=6001. SYNEK, M. (2012): Doktrína a politika lhaské debaty: Obraz samjäské tradice v kronice Baže politics in Lhasa debate: Samye tradition in dBa' bzhed cronicle]. Sacra 10 (1): 5–32. MEMBERSHIPS Biograf journal: member of the editorial board Czech Association for Social Anthropology (Anthropology of Medicine Section) Society for S Science /4S/ The American Studies Association (Critical Disability Studies Caucus) Czech Association for the Study of Religions        RESEARCH PROJECTS [2025 – current] Overcoming (total) institutions: Strategies dis/ablement and d Foundation [2021 – 2024]    Life stories for human rights, implemented by Faculty of Human [2019 – 2022] Vulnerable residents in fragile residences: An inquiry into te [2014 – 2017]      How to eat well in institutional care: Dis/ability in repertoi PaedDr. Zdeněk Konopásek, Ph.D. [2017 – 2018]  Paperwork and the practice of social change: The use of writte University Institutional Development Grant [2015 – 2018]   Case management as a complex intervention in dementia, its imp Expertise in Longevity and Long-term Care, Faculty of Humaniti [2018 – 2019]   Restrictive Interventions in Psychiatry, implemented by Centre