OMBUDSWOMAN OF THE FILM AND TV SCHOOL OF THE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE

The FAMU Ombudswoman is an independent person who is not a teacher at FAMU, she is an advisor to the Dean of FAMU and the Rector of AMU, and through her work she creates space for confidential assistance to students, employees of FAMU. Her mission is to co-create a safe and fair studying and working environment, support diversity and improve the accessibility of studies for students with special needs. In her activity, she focuses primarily on mediation and other adequate methods of resolving disputes and complaints with a view to protecting students, teachers and other employees. With her activity, she contributes towards developing FAMU’s internal culture and fair and democratic operation.

Mgr. Pavlína Junová is a psychologist and special education specialist, holding degrees from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno. She has further advanced her professional qualifications through systematic psychotherapeutic training in Gestalt therapy. She has been engaged in the fields of psychotherapy and psychology for more than a decade. Over the course of her career, she has acquired extensive experience across the sectors of education, healthcare, and social services. Her professional activities include the provision of individual and group therapy, psychological counseling, and team supervision within social services, where she fosters professional development, self-reflection, and the mental well-being of staff. She also serves as a volunteer with the organization Bílý kruh bezpečí (White Circle of Safety), working with particularly vulnerable individuals as well as with victims of crime. Since 2022, she has held the position of Ombudsperson at FAMU. She is also the Vice-Chair of the Committee of the School Ombuds Platform, which is dedicated to the advancement of the profession and the systematic support of ombudspersons operating at higher education institutions in the Czech Republic.

Contact:
E-mail: pavlina.junova@famu.cz
Phone number: +420 737 389 034
Consultations: every Thursday 15:00 - 17:00 (other days by prior agreement), room U7 (3rd floor, main building, Smetanovo nábřeží 2)

See the Dean's Decree to find more details about the ombudsperson's role and activities.

THE SECRETARY OF THE OMBUDSWOMAN 

Ing. Eva Doláková graduated in Economics and Management at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. She worked in positions such as back-office manager and project coordinator in Czech companies. Gradually, she began to focus on the area of healthy lifestyle – yoga, dance, healthy cooking, and working with children. She completed the Respect and Be Respected course and obtained a pedagogical minimum. For four years, she led the Prokůpek Parenting Center and then worked as a manager at the Seven Daisies Waldorf Club. She organized camps for parents with children and morning meetings for parents and children involving exercise and creative activities. Currently, she leads dance and movement preparation for children at DDM Prague 6 and teaches yoga.

FAMU’s first ombud, Mgr. Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková started working with the Faculty in the autumn of 2020, aiming to give the ombud position a firm footing and improve the internal ethics culture further to the initiative of Dean of FAMU Andrea Slováková. She helped to set up and define the standards and methods of the ombuds’ work as defined in the Ombudsperson’s Charter. Developed at FAMU and inspired by good international practice, this model of ombud functioning provided further inspiration for several other Czech tertiary schools.

Organising training workshops, seminars and webinars was another important part of the FAMU ombud’s activity. Klára Laurenčíková organised six events on the topics of support for mental health, transgender and non-binarity, discrimination in the school environment, communication and self-care during crisis events, and the position of Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian students in relation to the war in Ukraine.

During her tenure, Klára Laurenčíková in cooperation with the Feminist (art) Institution organised a Colloquium of FAMU Ombudswoman with the slogan safe and fair environment in tertiary schools and the role of the ombudsperson in encouraging it. The event took place in January 2022 at the FAMU Studio and more than two dozen Czech and international lecturers and some 120 participants from the Czech Republic and abroad attended in both on-premises and online form. They included guests active in the ombudsperson agenda, educational ethics and human rights, such as Josef Leidenfrost from Austria, student ombudsman and the President of the European Network of Ombuds in Higher Education (ENOHE), Hjördis Czesnick, German ombud for science, and Marie-Luisa Purkrábková for the NE!MUSÍŠ TO VYDRŽET initiative. It was the first ever undertaking focused on ombuds in Czech tertiary schools. The event provided the cornerstone for establishing the Czech branch of ENOHE. Aiming to unite the efforts towards establishing the ombud position and spreading the ombudsperson idea across the Czech educational sector, Klára Laurenčíková as the FAMU ombudsperson initiated the formation of a standing platform for school ombuds whose first informal meeting took place in Olomouc on 18 May 2022 and offered room for sharing good practice, methods for addressing difficult situations and for working and cooperating with other faculty and university authorities, which will allow for developing the ombudsperson positions further, cultivating the internal environment of tertiary schools in the process.

Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková was appointed the new Government Commissioner for Human Rights in May of 2022 and resigned from the position of FAMU’s ombudsperson.