Professional characteristics

Research Profile

doc. PhDr. Dominika Temiaková, PhD., was born in 1986 in Nová Baňa. She completed her university studies at the Faculty of Education of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, earning her first degree in the social work program and her second in the andragogy program. From 2011 to 2014, she was an internal doctoral student at the Department of Andragogy, and she earned her PhD in the andragogy program in 2014. In the same field, she also passed her rigorous examination in 2014 at the Faculty of Education of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica.

As part of her continuing education, she has completed several accredited training courses focused on social and communication skills, career counseling, lecturing, presentation skills training, and higher education pedagogy.

Since 2015, she has been working at the Department of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education, UKF in Nitra. She is a reviewer of several monographs, college textbooks, anthologies, scientific studies, and projects.

Her publications focus primarily on the education of incarcerated individuals (both accused and convicted) within the prison system, as well as on staff members serving in teaching roles. Another area of her interest is continuing professional education for adults and self-directed learning among adults.

She is the author of two monographs published by a domestic publisher, one monograph published by a foreign publisher, and chapters in monographs published in the UK and the USA; she is also the author or co-author of three college textbooks and six publications indexed in the WoS/SCOPUS databases. 

She received nearly 100 citations for her work. In 2021, she received the Dean’s Award from the Faculty of Education at UKF in the category of domestic publications. She collaborates with the Corps of Prison and Judicial Guards (ZVJS), the State Institute of Vocational Education (ŠIOV), the Association of Adult Education Institutions (AIVD), and the National Institute of Education and Youth (NIVAM).

doc. PhDr. Dominika Temiaková, PhD, has so far participated in two VEGA projects, two KEGA projects, one APVV project, and one international ERASMUS+ project. All the projects in which she has participated have focused on adult education. She actively participates in domestic and international scientific and professional events, where she has also given invited lectures; in 2017 and 2026, she completed a study and lecture visit at Charles University in Prague.

In 2021, she completed her habilitation in the field of pedagogy. The topic of her habilitation lecture was “Curricular Trends in the Education of Correctional Officers,” and the topic of her habilitation thesis was “The Education of Women in Correctional Settings.” She was awarded her habilitation decree in 2022.

Since 2024, she has been working at the Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy at the Faculty of Education of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, where she is one of five instructors in the Bachelor’s program in Education and Adult Education and in the Master’s program in Social Pedagogy and Andragogy as one of five faculty members responsible for the program. She also teaches in the doctoral program (Educational Sciences, PhD.).

By email arrangement, consulting hours is also possible on other days and times, as well as online. 

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