RNDr. Martin Šimon, Ph.D.
Department: Local and regional studies
Job: researcher
Email:
Phone: 210 310 227
Internal Line: 227
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)
Foreign Study Visits and Internships
2018 - Institute of Criminology, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, June
2018 - The Centre of Sociological Research (CeSO), The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, February-April
2017 - School of Geography & Sustainable Development, The University of St Andrews, Scotland, October-November
2017 - Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, February-March
2008 - Geographisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Erasmus programme, 6 months
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
Kriminalita a COVID-19 v Česku: souvislosti omezení fungování společnosti a nápadu kriminality v regionech
2023, Šimon, Martin, Jíchová, Jana
Škola jako integrační partner
2021, Leontiyeva, Y., Mikešová, R., Tollarová, B., Šimon, M., Čermáková, D.
Projects
Residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens: analysis of neighbourhoods, housing trajectories, and neighbourhood context
Project Duration: 2019 - 2021
Vzdělávání cizinců ve školách a jeho dopad na úspěšné začlenění do české společnosti
Project Duration: 2023 - 2026
Rural amenities transformation and its effects on the rural population
Project Duration: 2019 - 2022