doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.
Department: Local and regional studies
Job: Vice-director of IS CAS, Senior Researcher
Email:
Phone: 210 310 227
Internal Line: 227
ORCID: 0000-0002-9791-4225
Themes: Housing, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1983 - 1988 M.A. in Human Geography and Demography, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
1988 - 1992 postgraduate studies at the Institute of Geography of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The title of the submitted dissertation: "Geography of elections as part of the political geography". Dissertation defended and PhD. obtained at Charles University, Prague.
Focus
Electoral studies - electoral geography, spatial features of the voting behavior. Comparative politics - post-Communist party development, party structures in East-Central Europe. Political geography - development of local democracy, system of local government and territorial administration, interrelations between space and politics. Housing research - interrelation between housing market structure and social inequalities, regional differences in housing market.
Teaching Activities
Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis - regular course "Societies in the new EU Member Countries: Related Topics in Social Change in the East Central Europe"
Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague - regular course "Selected issues in Political Geography"
Foreign Study Visits and Internships
- 1990, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Human Geography, 1 month
- 1993, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Human Geography, 2 months
- 1996-1997, Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars, Washington D.C., USA, 9 months
- 1999, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, 12 months
- 2005-2006, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, CERVL - joint laboratory of Science Po and CNRS, Bordeaux, France, 12 months
- 2006, Fellowship Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris, CERVL - joint laboratory of Science Po and CNRS, Bordeaux, France, 1 month
- 2007-2008, Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 10 months
Medallion
1988 - up to now Member of the Czech Geographic Society
1993 - 1997 Secretary of the Foundation "Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences", Prague
1995 - up to now Member of the Czech Demographic Society
1999 – up to now Member of the Discipline Board (Geography), Charles University, Prague
2002 – up to now Elected Representative of the Institute of Sociology in the Academic Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences
2002 - up to now Elected member of the discipline board of the Grant agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
2000 – up to now Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Sociology, The Czech Academy of Sciences
2004 - up to now Member of the Expert Commission for the Social Sciences and Humanities of the Research and Development Council of the Czech Government.
2006 – up to now Member of the editorial board of journal Evropská politická studia - European Electoral Studies
2009 - up to now Member of Board of Research Committee RC05 - Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics, International Political Science Association
2009 - up to now Member of editorial board of Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geographica, Charles University, Prague
2009 - uo to now Member of Scientific Board of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
2010 - elected representative of the Institute of Sociology in the Accademic Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences
2013 – 2015 Member of Advisory Group for Societal Challenge 'Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies', Horizon 2020
2014 - up to now Member of Scientific Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
2015 - up to now Elected member of Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association
Selected Publications
Quietly does it: Questioning assumptions about class, sustainability and consumption
2015, Smith, Joe, Kostelecký, Tomáš, Jehlička, Petr
Prague Case Study Report
2014, Kostelecký, Tomáš, Věra Patočková, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká, Daniel Čermák
Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich změny a možné příčiny
2014, Tomáš Kostelecký, Renáta Mikešová, Markéta Poláková, Daniel Čermák, Josef Bernard, Martin Šimon
Projects
Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study
Project Duration: 2023 - 2025