Jana Koci
Jana Koci, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health and Well-being Education at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She is a leading researcher and educator on building of academic well-being in her country and she wrote a book Well-being and Success for University Students: Applying PERMA+4. She teaches a popular Student Well-being class for Charles University students and also for students from European Universities off 4EU+ alliance. She organizes a research on students well-being at her university and her sincere care for her students is reflected in her excellent student evaluation. Jana graduated with the honours for outstanding academic achievements and she was honoured for outstanding young researcher contribution by the EFSA European Food Safety Authority committee in 2015. Jana is a visiting professor at Claremont Graduate University in California where she works on independent research in positive psychology and she also spent several semesters at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln designing a nutrition education program for Czech students. She earned her Ph.D. in Pedagogy with concentration in Health Education and she focuses her research on application of positive psychology into academic environment through building well-being of university students, professors and university employees. Jana leads a course on How to Build Well-being of University Students and she also strives to support well-being of teachers, professors and all academic personnel in her Well-being for Academics course. She is a member of Positive Education Consortium and she also enjoys writing books on well-being care for middle schools and high schools. She is a Co-Active well-being coach and founder of Uniwellsity. She deeply respects and appreciates the science of well-being, she enjoys working with her students and she cares for well-being of the whole academic community.
Jana can be reached out at jana@uniwellsity.com.
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