UCM
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
 doc. PhDr. Ivan Rác, PhD.
Email:
 ivan.rac@ucm.sk
Homepage:
 http:\\
Fakulta/Univerzita:
FSV UCM - Faculty of Social Sciences
Pracovisko:
USPSP - Institute of Social Work and Social Policy

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Rác
I.2 - Name
Ivan
I.3 - Degrees
doc.PhDr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1984
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Social Work and Social Policy, UNIVERSITY of SS. CYRIL and METHODIUS in Trnava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Bučianska 4/A, 917 01 Trnava
I.7 - Position
university professor
I.8 - E-mail address
ivan.rac@ucm.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/10806
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
33 Social Work
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0001-8957-215X

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra
II.b - Year
2005
II.c - Study field and programme
Social Work
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra
II.b - Year
2007
II.c - Study field and programme
Social Work
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra
II.b - Year
2010
II.c - Study field and programme
Social Work
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra
II.b - Year
2021
II.c - Study field and programme
Social Work
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
university professor Department of Social Work and Social Policy, UNIVERSITY of SS. CYRIL and METHODIUS in Trnava september 2024
Associate Professor Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra january 2022 - august 2024
assistant professor Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra september 2010 - december 2021

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Project management, financial management and team management Euroformes ,n.o. May 2010 – january 2011
Active participation in the workshop e-Roma Resource /Lifelong Learning Programme 2015
Course Facilitation - conducting meetings I. PDCS 2018
Course Negotiation - Effective Negotiation Practices PDCS 2018
Course Communication in Conflict PDCS 2021
Course Depolarization: How to bridge divided communities PDCS 2021

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Social policy Social services and counselling 1 Social work
Social services Social services and counselling 1 Social work
Employment policy Social services and counselling 1 Social work
Social security Social services and counselling 2 Social work
Theoretical models of social services Social policy 3 Social work
Social policy in a global space Social policy 3 Social work
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
1
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
3
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
40
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
75
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
93
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
26
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
9
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
8
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
95
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
83
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
21
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
18
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
9
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
7
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Perpetration of crime by women - victims of violence in intimate partner relationship: (selected aspects of social work). - Prague: Hnutí R, 2010. - 143 p. - ISBN 978-80-86798-08-0.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

Health Risks Related to Domestic Violence against Roma Women, 2020. DOI 10.3390/ijerph17196992. In. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - ISSN 1661-7827, Roč. 17, č. 19 (2020), s. 6992.

[Kozubík Michal (29%) - Van Dijk Jitze Pieter (1%) - Rác Ivan (70%)]

Barriers to assistance for women from marginalised Roma communities who are experiencing domestic violence / Ivan Rác, 2020. In: Kontakt : Journal of nursing and social sciences related to health and illness. - ISSN 1212-4117, Roč. 22, č. 4 (2020), 251-257.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

Social services for women experiencing violence : from theory to practice / Ivan Rác ; reviewer: Alena Kajanová, Barbara Pavlíková. - 1st ed. - Nitra : UKF, 2017. - 96 s. - ISBN 978-80-558-1220-5.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

Social pathology and prevention of social pathological phenomena - Nitra: UKF, 2011. - 141 s. - ISBN 978-80-8094-913-6.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Health Risks Related to Domestic Violence against Roma Women, 2020. DOI 10.3390/ijerph17196992. In. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - ISSN 1661-7827, Roč. 17, č. 19 (2020), s. 6992.

[Kozubík Michal (29%) - Van Dijk Jitze Pieter (1%) - Rác Ivan (70%)]

Barriers to assistance for women from marginalised Roma communities who are experiencing domestic violence / Ivan Rác, 2020. In: Kontakt : Journal of nursing and social sciences related to health and illness. - ISSN 1212-4117, Roč. 22, č. 4 (2020), 251-257.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

Work with perpetrators of domestic violence / Ivan Rác ; reviewer: Alena Kajanová, Alžbeta Raffajová. - Nitra : UKF, 2020. - 108 s. - ISBN 978-80-558-1556-5.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

Specific barriers to reintegration of people released from prison. Acta Missiologica. Roč. 17, č. 2 (2023), s. 201-213. ISSN 1337-7515.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

Selected manifestations of risk behaviors in adolescents. Logos polytechnikos. Vol. 14, no. 2 (2023), pp. 195-206. ISSN 1804-3682.

[Rác Ivan (100%)]

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Michal Kozubík, Jitze Pieter Van Dijk, Ivan Rác : Health Risks Related to Domestic Violence against Roma Women, 2020. DOI 10.3390/ijerph17196992. In. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - ISSN 1661-7827, Roč. 17, č. 19 (2020), s. 6992.

References:

2024 [1CI] MOLNAR, L. et al. 2024. Towards a multifactorial framework of the Roma’s victimisation: Discrimination, risky situations, and acceptance of violence as correlates of physical assault and harassment. In International Review of Victimology. ISSN 0269-7580. DOI: 10.1177/02697580241232436.

2024 [1CI] DE AGUILETA, A. 2024. Contributions from Research with (and Not without) Roma Women to Social Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 2, art. no. 677. ISSN 2071-1050. DOI: 10.3390/su16020677.

2023 [1CI] KODJEBACHEVA, G. - HRISTOVA, S. - SAVOV, V. 2023. Development and evaluation of an intervention to promote the use of eyeglasses among Romani families in Bulgaria. In Frontiers in public health, vol. 11, art. no. 1096322. ISSN 2296-2565. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1096322.

2021 [1] MOLNAR, L. 2021. The Imperative Need for Criminological Research on the European Roma: A Narrative Review. In Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1-16. ISSN 1524-8380. DOI: 10.1177/15248380211048448.

2021 [1] MOEINI, B. et al. 2021. Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Among Pregnant Women in the Poor Neighborhoods of Hamadan, Iran. In Violence and victims, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 565-579. ISSN 0886-6708. DOI: 10.1891/VV-D-19-00139.

Barriers to assistance for women from marginalised Roma communities who are experiencing domestic violence. Kontakt. Roč. 22, č. 4 (2020), 251-257. ISSN 1212-4117.

References

2024 [2ID] BLASCO, P. - SARAFIAN, I. - ROMAN, R. 2024. Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives: Methods, Ethics and Dilemmas. London : Routledge, 222 p. ISBN 9781032629285. DOI: 10.4324/9781032629285.

2024 [1CI] DE AGUILETA, A. 2024. Contributions from Research with (and Not without) Roma Women to Social Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 2, art. no. 677. ISSN 2071-1050. DOI: 10.3390/su16020677.

2021 [3] WIRÉN, A. 2021. Vägen från våld till frihet : Hjälpsökandeprocesser hos romska kvinnor i Rumänien. Thesis. Umeå : Universität Umeå, 40 p.

Ivan Rác : Social pathology and prevention of social pathological phenomena. - Nitra : UKF, 2011. - 141 s. - ISBN 978-80-8094-913-6.

References

2017 [3] FRIMMEL, R. 2017. The failure of multiculturalism in the post-modern era. In Current trends and social policy and services. Uherské Hradiště. ISBN 978-80-906614-6-2.

2017 [3] VALKOVIČOVÁ, V. 2017. Prostitution, governmentality and techniques of power: consensual provision of sexual services in Slovakia. In Acta Fakulty of Philosophy of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, vol. 9, č. 1. ISSN 1802-0364.

2017 [3] BOČÁKOVÁ, O. - DÁVIDEKOVÁ, M. 2017. Social services in the space of social policy. Gdansk : Research Institute for European Policy. ISBN 978-83-944614-6-1.

2016 [1] ODRASKOVA, B. - KOZUBIK, M. - ODRASKA, L. 2016. YOUNGSTER'S ATTITUDES TO SCHOOL-BASED PREVENTION PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION. In CBU INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIONS IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. Central Bohemia University. ISBN 978-80-88042-05-1.

2016 [3] ODRASKOVA, B. - KOZUBIK, M. - ODRASKA, L. 2016. Influence of family environment on adolescent deviant behavior. In Comparative European Research 2016. London, 2016. - ISBN 978-0-9928772-9-3.

2016 [3] FECENKO, J. - FECENKO, M. 2016. Social support of university students in the context of prevention of socio-pathological phenomena. In Polska - Węgry Drogą Wspólnoty Wyszehradzkiej. Stalowa Wola: KUL, 513 p. ISBN 978-83-63835-55-2.

2015 [3] KOZUBÍK, M. 2015. Traditional romany cultury - myth or reality? 1st ed. - Krakow: Krakowska Akademia, 165 p. ISBN 978-83-60837-90-0.

GOMBITA, Peter, Michal OLÁH, Róbert KOVÁČ, Martin JURAŠEK, Michaela KOSTIČOVÁ, Marta ŤAŽIAROVÁ, Silvia ZÁBAVOVÁ, Eva HALUŠKOVÁ, Mária JACKULÍKOVÁ, Pavol ZEMKO, Monika KATUNSKÁ, Jana ADAMCOVÁ, Jozef BOŽÍK, Ivan RÁC, Katarína BUNDZELOVÁ, Anna PAVLOVIČOVÁ, Wladimierz MASZLAK a David TONZAR. Senior Homeless Population was Covid-19 Free in 3 shelter communities after adapting the Life Island model (Note). Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention. Roč.11, č. 3 (2020), s. 78-79. ISSN 2222-386X.

References

2023 [1CI] LIANG, Y. et al. 2023. SARS-CoV-2 incidence, seroprevalence, and COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the homeless population: a systematic review and meta-analysis. In Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 11, art. no. 1044788. ISSN 2296-2565. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1044788.

2022 [1CI] COREY, J. et al. 2022. A Scoping Review of the Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Persons Experiencing Homelessness in North America and Europe. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 6, art. no. 3219. ISSN 1661-7827. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19063219.

2021 [1] CAUDA, R. et al. 2021. We shall start Health Intervention against Collateral Effect of Pandemic to Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Mental Health in Migrants, Children and Caregivers. In Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention, vol. 12, no.3, pp. 6-8. ISSN 2222-386X. DOI: 10.22359/cswhi_12_3_20.

2021 [1] WANG, Y. et al. 2021. The Homeless People in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Victims of the Strict Pandemic Control Measures of the Government. In Frontiers in Public Health. ISSN 2296-2565. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.679429.

2021 [1] MOHSENPOUR, A. et al. 2021. SARS-Cov-2 prevalence, transmission, health-related outcomes andcontrol strategies in homeless shelters: Systematic review and meta-analysis. In EClinicalMedicine. ISSN 2589-5370. DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101032.

KOZUBÍK, Michal, Svetlana SÍTHOVÁ, Alena KAJANOVÁ a Ivan RÁC. Is Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) a good method for social inclusion of poor Slovak children in school? A study focused on social and educational levels. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kontakt.2017.10.006 Kontakt. Vol. 20, no. 1 (2018), p. 42-47. ISSN 1212-4117.

References

2022 [1CI] YUEN-CHING KEUNG, A. - FAI-LING HO, F. - KAR-MAN SHUM, K. 2022. Early cognitive intervention using mediated learning for preschoolers with developmental delay: A randomized controlled trial. In British Journal of Educational Psychology. ISSN 0007-0998. DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12490.

2019 [1] ANDREUCCI-ANNUNZIATA, P. - MORALES-CABELLO, C. 2019. The role of the family in the early care of children with Down's Syndrome, Chile. In Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, vol. 17, no. 2. ISSN 1692715X. Available from: DOI: 10.11600/1692715x.17207.

2018 [1] ALMEIDA, C. - PEREZ, J. - CEJAS, Y. 2018. Bad school behavior, works on the web and the choice of teachers. In Revista Conrado. Vol. 14, no. 64, p. 6-15. ISSN 1990-8644.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

VEGA 1/0111/15 - Violence against Roma women in partner relationships, responsible investigator

OPV ITMS 26120130028: Increasing the quality of further education of seniors at the University of the Third Age at the UKF in Nitra, co-investigator

KEGA 039UMB-4/2021 - 12/2023: Verification of the effectiveness of alternative forms of practice aimed at the development of professional competences in the undergraduate training of helping professionals, co-investigator

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Deputy Director Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra 2016 - august 2024
Coordinator of specialised practice in Social Work Institute of Romani Studies, UKF in Nitra 2016 - august 2024

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
University of Silesia, Faculty of Arts Katowice (Poland) 26.6.-1.7.2022 STT
University of Silesia, Faculty of Arts Katowice (Poland) 24.4.-29.4.2023 STT

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Guarantee of professional activities:

2014/2015: Professional coordinator of partner organisations in the field of providing comprehensive support and protection to women experiencing violence and their children. European Social Fund, OP Employment and Social Inclusion. 9/2014-10/2015.

2016/2018: Expert guarantor for the provision of specialized social counseling for women experiencing violence in OZ SAVORE in Banská Štiavnica.

2019/2021: Expert guarantor of the specialized resocialization and educational training program "Risk groups from segregated communities" within the national project of DG ZVJS "Chance to return".

Memberships:

Member of the Association of Educators in Social Services and Counseling.

Member of the Association of Social Work Educators.

Member of the Steering Group of the Advisory Commission of the Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Roma Communities, 2016-2018.

Member of the preparatory committee for the establishment of the Slovak Chamber of Social Workers and Social Work Assistants, 2015.

Education and courses

Certificate for active participation in a workshop within the e-Roma Resource project supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme, 2015.

Certificate of successful completion of the course Facilitation - conducting meetings I. in the scope of 16 hours, 2018.

Certificate of successful completion of the course Negotiation - Effective Negotiation Practices in the scope of 16 hours, 2018.

Certificate of successful completion of the course Depolarization in the scope of 8 hours, 2021.

Certificate of successful completion of the course Communication in Conflict in the scope of 16 hours, 2021.

Other outstanding scientific, professional or artistic activities

Successful participation in an international student creative writing competition entitled "Is it easy to be young?", organized by the Pedagogical Institute in Mikhailovka, Russia, and this essay was among the top 10, Volgograd, 2010.

Letter of thanks on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Department of Roma Culture for the development and support of the Department, 2016.

Most important awards and recognition of scientific achievements

Acceptance by the President of the Slovak Republic, Her Excellency Zuzana Čaputová, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2019.

Date of last update
2024-12-15