Petr Daněk
Project’s principal investigator and lecturer at the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University. His main research concerns are geographical aspects of food self-provisioning and sharing and the geography of food social networks. His research interests outside the project include political and development geography and the theory and methodology of geographical research.
Personal website at Masaryk University
Jan Vávra
Project’s co-investigator, environmental sociologist at the Department of Local and Regional Studies at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His work is focused on environmental and social context of food self-provisioning. Outside the project he focuses on other socio-environmental issues and regional development.
Personal website at Institute of Sociology
Twitter: @hansvavra
Marta Kolářová
Sociologist at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. Her research focus is on food self-provisioning in relation to sustainable consumption and home production. She studies gender aspects of sustainable practices. Outside the project she works on social movements in relation to gender and environment (such as permaculture) and teaches qualitative methodology.
Personal website at Institute of Sociology
Lucie Sovová
Assistant professor at the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and researcher at the Institute of Geography at Masaryk University. Her researche focuses on food practices operating at the margins of the market. She enjoys exploring alternatives to the dominant economic system and growing vegetables.
Personal website at WUR
Petr Jehlička
Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociolog of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on food relocalisation, East European informal food economies, management of household food waste and the implications of these practices for social resilience, food security and environmental sustainability. Most recently this has led to the interest in the unequal geography of knowledge production and context-dependent hierarchies of knowledge claims.
Personal website at Czech Academy of Sciences
Twitter: @jehlicka_petr
The following colleagues have participated in the Spaces of Quiet Sustainability project in 2019-2021:
Miloslav Lapka
That time Associate professor in Sociology at Department of Regional Management, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia. His research interests include sociological and philosophical aspects of sustainable and regional development with special attention to environmental and rural sociology, perception of landscape and interdisciplinarity. In the project he had focused on exploring gardeners’ motivations and informal food networks in rural areas.
Personal website at ResearchGate
Alena Rýparová
Back then PhD candidate in the Regional Geography and Regional Development at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Alena’s doctoral and project research were both focused on non-profit sharing among people unrelated by kinship or friendship. She was interested in how sharing networks emerge and work from the point of view of relational spatiality.
Personal website at Masaryk University
Roman Buchtele
Those days PhD candidate at the Department of Regional Management, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia. In the project team Roman was responsible for technical and administrative project support. His PhD research has focused on environmental and sustainability dimensions of study programmes in economics.
Personal website at ResearchGate
