Karolína Letochová

My interest in education began during my involvement with the Czech High School Students Union, which led me to study Education Studies BA at the UCL Institute of Education. I also spent a semester at the University of Helsinki. During my undergraduate studies, I became interested not only in how to describe and understand the process of education at the level of classrooms, schools and education systems, but also in how the process of research itself and the selection of its topics influences what we as a society consider to be the important goals of education. These questions led me to study MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology) at University of Oxford, where, thanks to the support of the Bakala Foundation, I will be able to pursue social science research in education both theoretically and practically.

Among other things, I researched children's curiosity at ScioResearch, described the effects of the 'cost of living crisis' on children in schools in South London, learned Czech and national history with first-year students at the Czech and Slovak School Okénko in London, and analysed social class differences in secondary school choice in the Czech Republic. In my spare time, I like to run, spend time with my cat and friends or expand my imagination by reading political and children's literature.