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RNDr. Martin Šimon, Ph.D.

Department: Local and regional studies

Job: researcher

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Phone: 210 310 227

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6389-4051

Themes: City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Age and Aging, Elections and Electoral Research, Lifestyle

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 2012 PhD, General issues in geography, Faculty of Science, Charles University
  • 2008 MSc, Social geography and regional development, Faculty of Science, Charles University
  • 2006 BSc, Geography and cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Focus

  • residential mobility and segregations
  • environmental criminology
  • political and electoral geography
  • geographic information systems (GIS) in social sciences
  • mobilities research, counterurbanisation

Teaching Activities

Methods in Social Geography I, Methods in Social Geography II, Urban Social Geography I, Urban Social Geography II, Selected Chapters from Physical and Human Geography,  (Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague)

Medallion

Martin Šimon is a geographer with research interests in population mobilities and inequalities. His research include projects on demographic change, homelessness, elections, crime and social exclusion. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Otto Wichterle Award, for outstanding early career research. Martin Šimon is principal investigator of the Czech Science Foundation grant Residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens and has published in leading international journals including Cities, Geo Journal and Sociologia Ruralis. Martin Šimon is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and researcher of Urban and Regional Laboratory at Charles University.

Selected Publications

Škola jako integrační partner

Škola jako integrační partner

2021, Leontiyeva, Y., Mikešová, R., Tollarová, B., Šimon, M., Čermáková, D.

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Kde je v Česku periferní venkov?

Kde je v Česku periferní venkov?

2018, Bernard, Josef, Šimon, Martin

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