Lucie Vidovićová
Mgr. Lucie Vidovićová, PhD. is a sociologist and social gerontologist. Her long-term research interests include sociology of ageing, gerotechnology, active ageing, ageism and social exclusion. She is also involved in research projects in the field of the environmental gerontology, social policy, labour market, family, lifelong learning. She conducts research for national as well as European bodies and works as a consultant on a number of implementation projects. Lucie also cooperates with different governmental and NGO bodies in the field of senior advocacy. She was part of the UNECE Task Force for Ageing-related statistics, and serves as a Vice-president on the Executive Committee of RC 11 Sociology of Aging at the International Sociological Association. Recent projects she has been involved in as a principal investigator include those on age discrimination, ageing in big cities and in rural areas, the issue of role overload in later life, social exclusion from social relationships, the use of humanoid robots for the active ageing, elder abuse and neglect, and older persons in emergency situations. She is a part of the expert advisory group of the Minister for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic since 2022.