Petr Daněk
Lecturer at the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University. Petr is the project’s principal investigator and his main research concern 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
Environmental sociologist at the Department of Regional Management, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia. Jan is the project’s co-investigator. His project work is focused on environmental aspects of food self-provisioning and gardeners’ motivations. Outside the project he works on social perception of soil erosion and sustainable development in local communities. More widely, he is interested in the perception of climate change and related problems, energy demand and sustainability.
Personal website at University of South Bohemia
Twitter: @hansvavra

Petr Jehlička
Researcher in Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Petr’s current research focuses on food relocalisation, East European informal food economies 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

Lucie Sovová
Postdoc in the Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University. Her research deals with food self-provisioning as an informal economic practice, investigating how gardens operate as sources of food and how they interact with other sources. Lucie enjoys exploring alternatives to the dominant economic system and growing vegetables.
Personal website at ResearchGate

Miloslav Lapka
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 focuses on exploring gardeners’ motivations and informal food networks in rural areas.
Personal website at University of South Bohemia

Alena Rýparová
PhD candidate in the Regional Geography and Regional Development at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Alena’s doctoral and project research are both focused on non-profit sharing among people unrelated by kinship or friendship. She is interested in how sharing networks emerge and work from the point of view of relational spatiality.
Personal website at Masaryk University

Roman Buchtele
PhD candidate at the Department of Regional Management, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia. In the project team Roman is responsible for technical and administrative project support. His PhD research is focused on environmental and sustainability dimensions of study programmes in economics.
Personal website at University of South Bohemia