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            Tereza Javornicky Brumovska, PhD.

            Tereza is an awarded H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Currie Action Research Fellow for the project 

            ENCOUNTER: Experiences of Youths in Natural Mentoring Relationships.

            With a background in social sciences and social work, Tereza has long-term experience rese

            theme of youth mentoring. Her interest in youth mentoring started during her BA studies in
            volunteered for the Czech Big Brothers Big Sisters/5P mentoring programme. This experience

            research focus of her MA research dissertation, which eventually received funding for publ
            monograph on youth mentoring in the Czech context (2010). This academic passion was furthe
            her PhD on understanding youth mentoring relationships and benefits, completed in UNESCO C

            Research Centre, the School of Sociology and Political Science, NUI Galway. The PhD. exper
            facilitated her skills and expertise in applied social-science methods to develop and eval
            based practice in social services for socially disadvantaged children and youths. She was 

            in advanced relational skills through arts-based methods, worked in different positions wi
            disadvantaged and vulnerable children, youths and young adults, and coordinated university
            volunteering programme.


            Before the MSCA IF Encounter project, Tereza coordinated student volunteering programme at
            (2018-19), worked as a postdoctoral researcher exploring Children's attitudes to science a

            (CATSS Study, NUI Galway, 2019-2020) and coordinated fieldwork with speech therapists in t
            children's language development (BDTJ Study, FHS UK and Czech Academy of Science, Institut
            2020-21). She also worked as a full-time lecturer at the School of Liberal Arts and Humani

            University in Prague (2020-21), which included teaching a module on Mentoring for Children
            designed for BA students (2020-21).


            Further details:

            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6582-0371 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6582-0371"]


            https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tereza-Brumovska/research [ URL "https://www.research
            Tereza-Brumovska/research"]



            Ms Marketa Michalcova


            Marketa is a student at the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities in bachelor programme Hu
            and student of Psychology at Palacky University Olomouc. She has been interested in mentor

            2019 when she became a volunteer at Lata as mentor. In project ENCOUNTER, she is a researc
            She assists the project with specialisation in science communication (social media, websit
            contributes to fieldwork and data analysis of the project throughout its course.











            Doc. Gabriela Seidlová Málková, PhD.


            Gabriela is a supervisor of the ENCOUNTER project and IF fellowship. She is a founder of t
            of Psychology at the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities (ENCOUNTER Host Institution). S

            a vice-dean for research at the same School. She is an expert researcher in educational an
            psychology, specialising in literacy and its impact on children's social exclusion/inclusi
            experience conducting studies as a principal investigator in developmental psychology in E

            Czech-funded projects and have a long experience supervising PhD fellows. She has co-autho
            on youth mentoring in the Czech and international context. Her expertise in tackling depri
            creating conditions for positive change in education, and developing methodical tools for 

            are particularly relevant in supervising the ENCOUNTER project. She will provide advanced 
            current psychological theories on children's development in a social context and in method
            developing intervention materials/programmes for school children while co-authoring ENCOUN

            and other outputs. She has long-standing collaborative relationships with several Czech pr
            which will facilitate access to research participants during the fieldwork of the ENCOUNTE