Social work with families
Gender competence of social workers
Critical social work
Street-level bureaucracy
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2024 |
Associate Professor, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies, Social Work |
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2014–2018 |
Doctoral studies, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies, Social Work |
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2011–2014 |
Master's studies, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Social Studies, Social Work |
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2011–2013 |
Master's studies, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Social Studies, Public Policy and Human Resources |
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2008–2011 |
Bachelor's studies, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts, Counseling in Social Work |
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2008–2011 |
Bachelor's studies, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts, German in Business |
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2004–2007 |
Higher Vocational School of Social Work, Social Work |
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September 2023–June 2024: |
Educational program Possibilities of Dialogue (training in collaborative-dialogic practice with accreditation by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and with certification by the International Network of Collaborative-Dialogic Practice, 170 hours) |
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September 2018–May 2019: |
Accredited course Community Work in the Context of Socially Excluded Localities (100 hours) |
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2024–present |
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Social Work, position: Associate Professor, Researcher |
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2021–2025 |
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies, position: Head of the Department of Social Work |
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2018–2024 |
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Social Work, position: Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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2022–2025 |
Rosteam, s.r.o., position: lecturer, evaluator |
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2016–2021 |
Social Work Journal: Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / CSSW (ASVSP and ERIS), position: administrator of academic articles of the English edition |
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2014–2017 |
SocioFactor s.r.o., position: researcher |
2025–present: member of the Board for Doctoral Studies, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies
2025–present: member of the Scientific Board, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies
2021–2026: member of the Program Councils, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies
2023–2025: member of the Disciplinary Committee, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies
2021–2023: member of the Ethics Committee, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies
2015–2018: member of the Scholarship Committee, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Social Studies
2014 I. A. Bláha Scholarship
2023-2028: “Excellent research in the field of digital technologies and wellbeing” funded by OP JAK, CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004583 / co-investigator
2024-2026: “Social dimension of new technologies in energy in the Ostrava metropolitan area”, OP JAK, CZ.02.01.01/00/23_021/0008591 / co-investigator
2020–2022: “Development of tools to support fathers’ involvement in social activation services for families with children and their pilot verification in practice” is implemented with the financial support of TA CR, TJ04000152: Zéta program / principal investigator
2018–2020: “Development of software for responsive evaluation and planning of community work as a tool for development of effective and efficient practice in the field of social inclusion
Mertl, J., Gřundělová, B., Gojová, A., Broskevičová, Z., Kowolová, I. The New Role of Social Work: The Social Worker-Client Relationship in the Digitalised Society as Hotline-Level Bureaucracy. Journal of Social Work Practice. In press.
Gřundělová, B., Mertl, J. Becoming a “Good” Father in Context of Czech Social Work. Social Inclusion. Available from: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/10878/4888
Mertl, J., Gřundělová, B. Criminalisation of Truancy as a Manifestation of Advanced Marginality that Mothers should be Blamed for: Media Framing in the Czech Republic. Crime, Media, Culture. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17416590251405761?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article
Gřundělová, B., Broskevičová, Z. a Kowolová, I. Negotiating access to hard-to-reach populations through institutional gatekeepers in social work research. The British Journal of Social Work. 2024, 54(6), 2790-2807. Available from: https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article-abstract/54/6/2790/7637659?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Gřundělová, B., Broskevičová, Z. a Kowolová, I. When a gatekeeper denies a researcher access: circumstances of gate closure in social work research. Research Ethics. 2024, 21(4), 623-643. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161241273813
Broskevičová, Z., Gřundělová, B. a Kowolová, I. “It Puts Them in the Role of Zoo Animals”: Gatekeeping, Research Fatigue and Over-Researched Populations in Czech Social Work Research. Journal of Social Service Research. 2024, 50(4), 548-561. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01488376.2024.2348530
Gřundělová, B., Černý, J., Gojová, A., Stanková, Z. a Lisník, J. The Shadow Fathers: Barriers to Whole Family Approach in Social Work. Journal of Family Research. 2023, 2023(35), 85-102. Available from: https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/796/696
Burda, M., Gojová, A., Gřundělová, B., Malina, M., Stanková, Z., Štěpnička, M. a Vajgl, M. EVKA-Fuzzy Modelling Based System for the Decision-Making Support of Community Workers. Social Science Computer Review. 2022, 1-33. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08944393221117912
Gřundělová, B. a Gojová, A. Gendered Practices of Family Social Workers: The Case of the Czech Republic. International Social Work. 2022, 65(4), 622-637. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020872820911678
Gřundělová, B. Client Experience of Street-Level Activation Practices: Implementation of Discourage Policy in the Czech Republic. Critical Social Policy. 2021, 41(4), 566-585. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261018320980583
Gojová, A., Burda, M., Gřundělová, B., Stanková, Z. a Gojová, V. Variables of community social work and their interconnections in socio-spatial excluded neighbourhoods – example of the Czech Republic. European Journal of Social Work. 2021, 24(6), 1001-1014. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691457.2021.1882398
Glumbíková, K., Gojová, A. a Gřundělová, B. Critical reflection of the reintegration process through the lens of gender oppression: The case of social work with mothers in shelters. European Journal of Social Work. 2019, 22(4), 575-586. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691457.2018.1441132
Gřundělová, B. a Stanková, Z. The Shadow Fathers in Social Work with Families: Barriers to Whole Family Working. The British Journal of Social Work. 2019, 49(7), 1913-1931. Available from: https://academic.oup.com//bjsw/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjsw/bcy110/5240813?guestAccessKey=e6adaad2-d160-48a0-be36-151bf054c48B
Gřundělová, B., Pavlica, K. a Lisník, J. Zapojování otců v sociálně aktivizačních službách pro rodiny s dětmi v České republice. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2023, 23(6), 52-69. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/article/zapojovani-otcu-v-socialne-aktivizacnich-sluzbach-pro-rodiny-s-detmi-v-ceske-republice/
Broskevičová, Z. a Gřundělová, B. Negotiating relationships between researchers, gatekeepers, and hard-to-reach groups of population as a challenge for social work research. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2023, 23(1), 4-17. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/en/article/negotiating-relationships-between-researchers-gatekeepers-and-hard-to-reach-groups-of-population-as-a-challenge-for-social-work-research-2/
Gřundělová, B. Activation Policy in the Czech Republic: A Failing Tool to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2022, 4(22), 36-53. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/article/activation-policy-in-the-czech-republic-a-failing-tool-to-fight-poverty-and-social-exclusion/
Gřundělová, B. Faktory ovlivňující zapojení otců v sociální práci s rodinou. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2020, 20(2), 79-98. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/article/faktory-ovlivnujici-zapojeni-otcu-v-socialni-praci-s-rodinou/
Gřundělová, B. Hodnocení implementace české aktivační politiky. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2020, 6(20), 55-72. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/article/hodnoceni-implementace-ceske-aktivacni-politiky/
Gřundělová, B. a Stanková, Z. Hope in Homeless People: Potential for Implementation of Person-Centred Planning in Homeless Shelters? Practice: Social Work in Action. 2019, 25, 1-19. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09503153.2019.1695109
Gřundělová, B. Genderové aspekty v sociální práci s rodinou – implikace pro vzdělávání. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2019, 19(3), 53-67. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/article/genderove-aspekty-v-socialni-praci-s-rodinou-implikace-pro-vzdelavani/
Gřundělová, B. Janusova tvář aktivace: mezi disciplinací a zmocněním. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2019, 19(6), 5-20. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/article/janusova-tvar-aktivace-mezi-disciplinaci-a-zmocnenim/
Gřundělová, B. Kritická reflexe konstrukce mateřství a otcovství v sociální práci s rodinou. Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work. 2018, 18(3), 40-53. Available from: https://socialniprace.cz/article/kriticka-reflexe-konstrukce-materstvi-a-otcovstvi-v-socialni-praci-s-rodinou/
Glumbíková, K., Gřundělová, B. a Gojová, A. Intersekcionalita útlaku u matek bez domova z azylových domů. Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research. 2018, 18(2), 163-181. Available from: https://www.genderonline.cz/pdfs/gav/2018/02/08.pdf
Gojová, A., Černá, E. a Gřundělová, B. Focusing on Oppression in Social Work Education. In: R. Baikady (ed.). Social Work in an Unequal World. Oxford University Press, 2025. s. 293-316. ISBN 9780197807569.
Gřundělová, B. Aktivace nezaměstnaných. In: O. Matoušek a kol. (eds.). Strategie a postupy v sociální práci. 1. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2022. s. 233-238. ISBN 978-80-262-1952-1.
Gřundělová, B. a Poláčková, E. Práce s domácím násilím. In: Matoušek, O. (Ed). Strategie a postupy v sociální práci. Praha: Portál, 2022. s. 273-279. ISBN 978-80-262-1952-1.
Gřundělová, B., Mertl, J., Geregová, M., Plíhal, D. Analýza situace v oblasti závislostí v Ostravě. Ostrava: FSS OU a MMO, 2025. Available from: https://kpostrava.cz/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Analyza-situace-v-oblasti-zavislosti-v-Ostrave-2025.pdf
Gřundělová, B., Gojová, A., Stanková, Z., Černý, J. a Lisník, J. Podmínky zapojování otců v sociálně aktivizačních službách pro rodiny s dětmi. 2022. Available from: https://dokumenty.osu.cz/fss/projekty/zapojeni-otcu/podminky-zapojovani-otcu-souhrnna_vyzkumna_zprava-2022.pdf
Other publications
Gřundělová, B., Kowolová, I., Stejskalová, J., Stanková, Z. a Marszalková, I. Metodika k zapojování otců nejen v sociálně aktivizačních službách pro rodiny s dětmi. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2022. Available from: https://dokumenty.osu.cz/fss/projekty/zapojeni-otcu/metodika-zapojovani-otcu.pdf
In the doctoral study program Social Work: Article, Full-time assignments, Publication activity, Research projects
In the follow-up master's study program Social Work: Gender-sensitive approaches in SP with families, Critical social work, Seminar for the diploma thesis
In the bachelor's study program Social Work: Social policy fields, Social policy and its implementation in social security law, Introduction to study and work with professional text, Qualitative research methods, Seminar for the bachelor's thesis
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September-October 2025: |
Belgium, Ghent, Ghent University, Department of Social Work & Social Pedagogy, research internship |
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May 2024: |
Germany, Berlin, Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin, Erasmus+ teaching mobility |
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December 2023: |
Germany, Cologne, Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen, Erasmus+ teaching mobility |
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March 2022: |
Slovenia, Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana, Erasmus+ teaching mobility |
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September 2018: |
Germany, Vechta, Universität Vechta, Erasmus+ staff mobility for training |
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October-November 2016: |
Austria, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, research stay for the purpose of developing a dissertation |
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
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