Lecturers

Lecturer and part university lecturer who began her professional and teaching experience in the voluntary sector and then in university. Her research has focused on intergenerational learning, workplace learning and workplace skills. Her approach to her work has been influenced by her experience of educating different age groups and the ideas of age management. She is a certified trainer of the scientifically proven Finnish training programme Professional Seniority®. When she is not creating methodologies, evaluations or mapping wellbeing and inclusion at our university, she can be found caring for her loved ones or on the yoga mat.

Psychologist, psychotherapist and PCA supervisor, who studied psychology at the FF MU in Brno. Most of his professional life has been devoted to working with families in crisis and people who are trying to understand themselves better and work on their development. Nowadays he is starting a private practice, he works a bit in an elementary school, in an orphanage, supervises a bit in various social service institutions and lectures a bit. During his studies at university he was already intensively interested in how to teach people something in the most effective way using experience, mainly under the Instructors Brno and then in ACOR (Academic Centre for Personal Development). He is mainly interested in topics related to group work, reflection and psychological safety.

He graduated with a degree in business administration, he studied also historical sciences and several other disciplines which he did not finished. He is currently working at the Teiresiás Centre (Support Centre for Students with Special Needs), where he serves as the secretary of the department. In his youth, he read E.T. Seton's books and many of his ideas are still sympathetic to him; his own practical (not only) teaching experience was mainly gained in the environment of the Holiday school Lipniceand related organisations. Although sceptical about everything and everyone, he is still an idealist.

She works at the Faculty of Education, where he is involved in the education of English language teachers and primary school teachers. Her main research interest is in teacher professional development and its support using video recordings of teaching.

Nikki Fořtová is a lecturer on the MA in Teaching at Masaryk University. She is also a CELTA and Oxford Teachers Academy trainer. Her ELT research interests lie in classroom interaction, reflection, and the use of technology. Her current research explores corrective feedback by teachers at different stages in their career and in different classroom environments. Nikki enjoys playing the piano, running, and hula hooping. She isn’t very good at any of these but keeps a growth mindset about it all, so maybe one day she will be.