Mgr. Tomáš Hoření Samec, Ph.D.

Education

2018 - Ph.D. : Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

2014 - Mgr. : Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

Focus

• housing and urban studies, financialization of housing, discourse analysis, collaborative housing

Teaching Activities

2018/2019 - Urban Development and Planning in Eastern Europe (University of Vienna)

Foreign Study Visits and Internships

2024-2025: Visiting Fulbright Masaryk Stipend - University of Arizona

2018: Masaryk Distinguished Chair Fellowship - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. Project: Technologies of Financial Education: Comparing the Czech Republic and Israel. 

2017: Research stay University of Vienna supported by Aktion (Austrian OeAD-GmbH /ICM). Project: Performing Housing Debts: Discourses of Mortgages and Intergenerational Transfers 

2015: ECPR Summer School of Methods and Techniques. Course: Analysing Discourse I & II: Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Applications 

Medallion

Tomáš Hoření Samec holds a PhD in sociology and focuses on analysing housing discourses and power relations in the housing context, as well as on examining the opportunities and limits of introducing participative forms of housing provision in the Czech Republic. He has conducted various research visits, for example, at the University of Vienna and the Fulbright Masaryk stipend at University of Arizona. He has published his research in Urban Studies; Housing, Theory and Society; Housing Studies or New Political Economy journals and co-edited a thematic issue of the Czech Sociological Review exploring the Czech housing crisis.