POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Hybernská 8, Praha 1, 110 00
Czech Republic
Phone: (+420) 224 005 291
E-mail: zabrodska@psu.cas.cz
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Critical, discursive, and interpretative psychology
• Qualitative research methods (discourse analysis, collective biography)
• Workplace bullying, workplace harassment
• Issues of identity, agency, and resistance
• Organizational discourse
QUALIFICATION
2009 Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
2005 MA in Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
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2014 |
Awarded Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship for academic year 2014/2015, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US. |
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2011 |
Awarded Fulbright Scholarship for academic year 2012/2013, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (unable to take up the scholarship) |
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2011 |
Collective biography workshop on workplace bullying in academe. A research stay in Sydney, Australia. Organized in cooperation with Prof. Bronwyn Davies |
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2010 |
EEA Financial Mechanism and Norwegian Financial Mechanism Funds. Visiting Researcher with The Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. Cooperation with Dr. Agnes Andenæs. |
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2007 – 2008 |
Endeavour Europe Award, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Visiting Fellow with the 'Narrative Discourse and Pedagogy' Research Node. Supervisor: Prof. Bronwyn Davies. |
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2006 – 2007 |
Danish Governmental Award, The Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark. Visiting Researcher with the 'Gender, Diversity and Subjectification' Research Group. Supervisor: Prof. Dorte Marie Söndergaard. |
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2003 |
Socrates/Erasmus Program. Master's Studies in Psychology. Århus University, Århus, Denmark (two semesters). |
OTHER AWARDS
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2010 |
Recipient of Rector's Award for Outstanding Dissertation Thesis, Masaryk University. |
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2009 |
Recipient of Postdoctoral Scholarship Award 2009, University of Western Bohemia. |
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2008 |
Recipient of Award Supporting the Internationalization of Doctoral Students Among Young Academics, Masaryk University. |
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2007 – 2008 |
Recipient of Award Supporting Outstanding Dissertation Thesis, Masaryk University. |
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
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2014 – 2015 |
Resistance to workplace bullying in higher education: Exploring differences between neoliberal and post-state-socialist workplace (principal investigator). Fulbright-Masaryk scholarship. |
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2014 – 2016 |
Work environment quality and employee well-being in public higher education (principal investigator). The Czech Science Foundation (GA CR 14-02098S) |
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2010 – 2012 |
Bullying and mobbing in tertiary education: Qualitative methodology as a research and intervention tool (principal investigator). Research grant awarded by The Czech Science Foundation (P407/10/P146) |
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2009 – 2011 |
Transformation of gender culture in Czechoslovakia 1948-1989 (cooperating researcher). Research grant awarded by The Czech Science Foundation (GA403/09/1502) |
PROFESSIONAL BODIES & ASSOCIATIONS
European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) - Member
International Association on Workplace Bullying & Harassment (IAWBH) - Member
Czech-Moravian Psychological Society (CMSP) - Member
Human Affairs. Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly - Editorial Board Member
Conference on Qualitative Approach and Methods in Human Sciences - Program Committee Member
Journal of Graduate Social Sciences - Advisory Board Member
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Zábrodská, K. (2009). Variace na gender. Poststrukturalismus, diskurzivní analýza a genderová identita. Praha: Academia. [Variations on the theme of gender. Poststructuralism, discourse analysis and gender identity. Prague: Academia].
Davies, B. & Gannon, S. (Eds.), with Ellwood, C., Camden-Pratt, C., Zabrodska, K. & Bansel, P. (2009). Pedagogical Encounters. New York: Peter Lang.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Zabrodska, K., Ellwood, C., Zaeemdar, S., & Mudrak, J. (2014). Workplace bullying as sensemaking: An analysis of target and actor perspectives on initial hostile interactions. Culture and Organization, Online First, DOI:10.1080/14759551.2014.894514
Zabrodska, K., & Kveton, P. (2013). Prevalence and forms of workplace bullying among university employees. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 25, 89-108. DOI: 10.1007/s10672-012-9210-x
Mudrák, J., & Zábrodská, K. (2013). Lidský potenciál jako psychologický konstrukt [Human potential as a psychological construct]. Czechoslovak psychology, 57, 201-217.
Zábrodská, K., & Květon, P. (2012). Šikana na pracovišti v prostředí českých univerzit: výskyt, formy a organizační souvislosti. [Workplace bullying in Czech universities: prevalence, forms and organizational context]. Czech Sociological Review, 48, 641 - 668.
Zabrodska, K., Linnell, S., Laws, C. & Davies, B. (2011). Bullying as intra-active process in neoliberal universities. Qualitative Inquiry, 17 (8), 709-719. DOI: 10.1177/1077800411420668
Zábrodská, K. (2011). Mobbing ve vysokoškolském prostředí: zkušenosti ze zahraničního výzkumu [Mobbing in higher education: An overview of international research]. Czechoslovak Psychology, 55 (4), 333-345.
Zabrodska, K. & Ellwood, C. (2011). Subjectivity as a play of territorialization: Exploring affective attachments to place through collective biography. Human Affairs. Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly, 21 (2), 180-191.
Zábrodská, K. (2010). Diskurzivní analýza v soudobé sociální psychologii: teorie, koncepty a aplikace. [Discourse analysis in contemporary social psychology: Theories, concepts, and applications]. Czechoslovak Psychology, 54 (3), 249-262.
Mudrák, J. & Zábrodská, K. (2007). Die Fähigkeiten aus der Sicht des Einzelnen und der Gruppe: verschiedene Ergebnisse zu demselben Thema. Paidagogos, 3.
Zábrodská, K. (2006). Rodová analýza jako prostor pro nové epistemologie: poststrukturalismus a diskurzivní analýza v psychologii / Gender analysis as a space for new epistemologies: poststructuralism and discourse analysis in psychology. Czechoslovak Psychology, 50, 105-118.
Zábrodská, K., Blatný, M. (2005). Rodová přesvědčení a rodové aspekty sebepojetí u adolescentních dívek a chlapcù. [Gender beliefs and gender aspects of self-image in adolescent girls and boys]. Psychológia a patopsychológia dietata, 1, 30-42.
Book chapters
Zabrodska, K. (2014). Between femininity and feminism: Negotiating the identity of a ‘Czech socialist woman’ in women’s accounts of state socialism. In H. Havelkova, & L. Oates-Indruchova (Eds.), The politics of gender culture under state socialism: An expropriated voice. London: Routledge.
Zábrodská, K. (2010). Trojí smrt v "Psychóze ve 4.48" In: I. Čermák, M. Miovský & V. Chrz (Eds.). Umění ve vědě. Věda v umění. [Threefold death in '4.48 Psychosis'. In I. Cermak, M. Miovsky & V. Chrz (Eds.). Art in Science. Science in Art]. Prague: Grada, pp. 272-291.
Zábrodská, K. (2008). Touha. Klíčový pojem poststrukturalistické teorie subjektivity? In: K. Novotný & M. Friedmanová (Eds.).Výzkumy subjektivity. [Desire. A key term of poststructuralist theory of subjectivity? In: K. Novotný & M. Friedmanová (Eds.). Subjectivity Research]. Praha: Pavel Mervart, pp. 287-304.
Zábrodská, K. (2007). Arguing for motherhood: The role of desire in the re-production of gender subjectivity. In: K. Kolářová & V. Sokolová (Eds.). Gender & Generations. Interdisciplinary Perspectives & Intersections. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, pp. 189-211.
Edited monographs
Zábrodská, K. & Čermák, I. (2010) (Eds.). Kvalitativní přístup a metody ve vědách o člověku IX.: Individualita a jedinečnost v kvalitativním výzkumu. [Qualitative Approach and Methods in Human Sciences. Individuality and Uniqueness in Qualitative Research]. Brno: Psychologický ústav AV ČR.
Published conference papers
Zábrodská, K. (2010). Diskurzy, pozice, praktické ideologie: utváření genderových identit v interakci [Discourses, subject positions, and practical ideologies: Constructing gender identities in social interaction]. In K. Zábrodská & I. Čermák (Eds.). Kvalitativní přístup a metody ve vědách o člověku IX.: Individualita a jedinečnost v kvalitativním výzkumu, str. 114-123. Brno: Psychologický ústav AV ČR.
Blatný, M., Zábrodská, K. & Jelínek, M. (2009). Aktéři života. In: Golecká, L, Gurňáková, J. & Ruisel, (Eds.). Sociálne procesy a osobnost 2008. Zborník z konferencie. Bratislava: Ústav experimentálnej psychológie SAV, str. 674-681.
Čermák, I., Chrz, V. & Zábrodská, K. (2007). ‘4.48 Psychosis’ as a Suicide Note of Sarah Kane? In: D. Robinson, N. Kelly & K. Milnes (Eds.). Narrative and Memory. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield, str. 111-119.
Zábrodská, K., Snopek, M., Sedláček, L., Chmelařová, H. & Kobes, T. (2007). Změna z pohledu diskurzivní analýzy. In: Humpolíček, P, Svoboda, M. & Blatný, M. (Eds.). Sociální procesy a osobnost: pohyb, vývoj, změna. Brno: MSD, str. 413-419.
Zábrodská, K. (2006). Psychóza ve 4.48: poststrukturalistické čtení hry Sarah Kane. In: Gajdošíková, H. (Ed.). Kvalitativní přístup a metody ve vědách o člověku V. Vybrané aspekty teorie a praxe. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, str. 130-135.
TRANSLATIONS
Davies, B. (2008). Jak znovu-promyslet "chování" v pojmech umísťování a etiky odpovědnosti. Biograf, 47, 3-17.
Translation of: Davies, B. (2008). Re-thinking "behaviour" in terms of positioning and the ethics of responsibility. In: A.M. Phelan & J. Sumsio (Eds.). Critical Readings in Teacher Education: Provoking Absences. Netherlands: Sense Publisher, pp. 173-186.
INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES
Zábrodská, K. (2012, May). "Šikana na pracovišti v prostředí českých univerzit: výskyt, formy a organizační souvislosti" [Workplace bullying in Czech universities: prevalence, forms and organizational context]. Institute of Psychology ASCR, Prague.
Zábrodská, K. (2012, May). "Kolektivní biografie aneb překračování hranic mezi vědou a praxí" [Collective biography: crossing boundaries between science and practice]. Invited lecture for Narativ, Brno.
Zábrodská, K. (2011, December). "Aktuální stav obtěžování v zaměstnání – mobbing, bossing" [The current state of workplace harassment – mobbing, bossing]. Invited lecture for the Czech Ministry of Defense, Prague.
Zábrodská, K. (2011, December). "Psychický teror a násilí na pracovišti: jak se projevují a jak se jim můžeme bránit?" [Psychological terror at the workplace: How to identify it and overcome it?] Invited lecture for the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society, Prague.
Zábrodská, K. (2010, December/2011, March). "Between femininity and feminism: Negotiating the identity of a ‘Czech socialist woman’ in biographical interviews.” Invited lecture for the Sociolinguist Group, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
Zábrodská, K. (2009, February). “Identity: Between violence and ethics of responsibility.” Invited talk for the Centre for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Zabrodska, K. (2012, January). Šikana a zneužívání moci na pracovišti optikou kolektivní biografie [Bullying and abuse of power at work: A collective biography]. Kvalitatívny prístup a metódy vo vedách o človeku XI., January 23-24, 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Zabrodska, K. (2011, October). Změny pracovní dráhy v důsledku mobbingu: příběhy z vědy i odjinud [Effects of mobbing on targets' work trajectories: stories from science and elsewhere]. Životní dráhy z kvantitativní a kvalitativní perspektivy, October 20-21, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
Zabrodska, K. & Kveton, P. (2011, July). Workplace bullying in academe: Findings from universities in the Czech Republic. The 12th European Congress of Psychology, July 4-8, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
Zabrodska, K. (2011, May). On thin ice: Academic mobbing and strategies of resistance. Paper presented at the Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 17-21, 2011, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
Zabrodska, K., Ellwood, C., Zaeemdaar, S. & Mudrak, J. (2011, May). Beyond the interview: Exploring different perspectives and methodologies in workplace bullying research. Paper presented at the Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 17-21, 2011, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
Davies, B., Zabrodska, K., Linnell, S., & Laws, C. (2011, May). Bullying as intra-active process in neoliberal universities. Paper presented at the Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 17-21, 2011, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
Zábrodská, K. (2010, July). Agency and resistance to change in Czech popular discourse: Examples from research on gender identity and gender-related bullying. Paper presented at the Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference 2010, BPS, Windsor, UK.
Zábrodská, K. (2010, January). Diskurzy, pozice, ideologie: utváření genderových identit v rozhovoru [Discourses, subject positions, and practical ideologies: Constructing gender identities in talk]. Paper presented at the Conference on Qualitative Approach and Methods in Human Sciences, Brno, CR.
Ellwood, C. & Zábrodská, K. (2009, May). Desires for the other place. Paper presented at The Fifth Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Snopek, M. & Zábrodská, K. (2009, September). Gender Aspects of Body Image and Body Esteem in Czech Adolescents. Poster presented at the Social Processes and Personality Conference. Třešť, CR.
Zábrodská, K. (2009, February). Captives of gender determinism? Poststructural discourse analysis as an analytical and transformative practice. Paper presented at the Feminist Research Methods Conference, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Zábrodská, K. (2007, March). Accounting for motherhood: The role of desire in the re-production of gender subjectivity. Paper presented at the Gender & Generation Conference, Prague, CR.
Čermák, I., Chrz, V. & Zábrodská, K. (2006). ‘4.48 Psychosis’ as a suicide note of Sarah Kane? Paper presented at the 6th Annual Conference. Narrative and Memory. University of Huddersfield, UK.
