Join our dynamic research team for a postdoctoral fellowship within the project “A Mobile Society: Opportunities and Risks of New Forms of Mobility for Czech Society and Economy”, funded by the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (P JAC), Ministry of Education.
Research focus: New forms of socio-spatial mobility in metropolitan areas
The postdoc will explore:
everyday and residential mobility in relation to social inequality
urban processes shaped by migration, digitalisation, and flexible work
Prague metropolitan area as the main case study
either qualitative or quantitative approach (based on applicant’s expertise)
Other information
Location: Urban and Regional Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
Includes opportunities for teaching and developing follow-up grant proposals
Start date: January 1, 2026 | Application deadline: August 1, 2025
The paper on the basis of detailed migration data, shows the structure of in-migration (invasion of gentrifiers) and out-migration (displacement) in Karlín during the 2010-2020 period. In contrast to many authors from CEE countries, Adela and Martin argue that in selected neighbourhoods of Prague, classical gentrification has developed instead of other inner city transformation processes. Foreigners are the main group of gentrifiers, while the Czech population has the highest out-migration rate in recent years.
Members of Urrlab attended the GIS Research UK Conference 2025 (GISRUK), hosted by the University of Bristol from 23 – 25 April. Researchers Martin Fleischmann, Krasen Samardzhiev, and Anna Brazdova presented their contributions on the topics of Simplification of Street Networks, Hierarchical Classification of urban form, and Spatial Modelling of the Relationship between urban form and population data.
From 16th to 17th April 2025 the ISAB (International Scientific Advisory Board) meeting took place within the framework of the currently implemented project P JAC: A Mobile Society: Opportunities and Risks of New Forms of Mobility for Czech Society and Economy. The event was really successful. It was full of stimulating discussions and all the planned activities were implemented.
The members of the International Scientific Advisory Board are:
Prof. Eva Fodor
Prof. Russel King
Prof. Robert Roth
Prof. Tiit Tammaru
On the first day, there was a welcome to the faculty, introduction of the project, presentation of individual research plans and election of the ISAB chairman. On the second day, we prepared excursions for ISAB members in the morning around the Černý Most housing estate, and after lunch, there was an open lecture by one of the ISAB members, Tiit Tammaru, entitled: A Comparative Study of Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities.
⚠️ POZOR ZMĚNA MÍSTNOSTI: AKCE PROBĚHNE VE VELKÉ PALEONTOLOGICKÉ POSLUCHÁRNĚ ⚠️
We would like to invite you to a public lecture of Prof Tiit Tammaru: A Comparative Study of Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: From Segregation to Desegregation?, which will take place on 17 April 14:50 at Albertov and online.
About the lecture
He will present a comparative research on residential segregation in Europe, exploring whether segregation levels continued to rise, have peaked, or show signs of desegregation. He will also focus on how changes in segregation align with shifts in income inequality and occupational structures.ách.
Tiit Tammaru
Tiit Tammaru is a Professor of Urban and Population Geography at the University of Tartu, Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences and Director of Human Geography at the Department of Geography. He is a leading expert on socio-economic and ethnic segregation, urban and neighbourhood transformation, migration, and residential mobility and housing, and is particularly interested in understanding the spatial dimensions of urban poverty and migration and related spatial and social policies. He is interested in the paradigm shift in studies of spatial inequalities from neighbourhood tracking to an activity space approach and how the shift of many activities to digital space affects activities in physical space.
Further information
You can either come to the lecture in person to Velká paleontologická posluchárna at Albertov 6 or listen to it online. Link to watch here: meet.google.com/kef-negb-nwk
Mobility, migration, and socio-spatial inequalities
A new phase of economic and social globalization
Transformational processes in the settlement system and metropolitan areas
The impact of new technologies, big data, and cartographic visualization
The main research goal is to conduct multidisciplinary research through five research objectives. The project aims to generate new insights, methodological approaches, and innovative analytical methods, as well as develop advanced modeling tools and cartographic visualization techniques.
The project is divided into five research objectives, which are interconnected through the composition of research teams from partner institutions, shared theoretical concepts, and methodological approaches.
More information about our research team’s activities can be found at www.urrlab.cz, and soon also on the project’s website, which is currently under development.
You can now follow us on Linkedin in addition to Facebook and X. You can find us there as Urban and Regional Laboratory (URRlab). We’re still rather getting our head around there, but we’ll soon start posting regular updates on important happenings in the team. As well as here.
During autumn, members of our research team published several peer-reviewed articles. All of them we recommend to read. Some of them are in open-access form, so they should be available to everyone.
Public, private and the pandemic: Everyday life in large housing estates during the COVID-19 lockdowns
Authors: Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Marie Sýkora Horňáková, Jana Kočková, Petra Špačková
During the summer months, members of our research team published several peer-reviewed articles. All of them we recommend to read. Some of them are in open-access form, so they should be available to everyone.
Suburban Autonomy? The Case of Inter-Suburban Commuting Outside Prague
We are pleased to announce that a research consortium led by Dr Martin Fleischmann has been awarded a grant to study the structure of cities in Europe in space and time. The project, funded by the European Space Agency, will be carried out in collaboration with academic partners from The Alan Turing Institute, led by prof. Dani Arribas-Bel, and the OECD Geospatial Lab, led by Dr Claudia Baranzelli, and with partners from policy (The Prague Institute of Planning and Development) and practice (4ct).
During the 12 months of the project, the team will develop the the methodological basis for the development of a continental scale urban fabric classification that can be unfolded in time using artificial intelligence applied to Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.
The total value of the funding is €250,000.
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The paper on the basis of detailed migration data, shows the structure of in-migration (invasion of gentrifiers) and out-migration (displacement) in Karlín during the 2010-2020 period. In contrast to many authors from CEE countries, Adela and Martin argue that in selected neighbourhoods of Prague, classical gentrification has developed instead of other inner city transformation processes. Foreigners are the main group of gentrifiers, while the Czech population has the highest out-migration rate in recent years.
