Research focus: Development studies, economic geography, population geography, environmental studies

A note for prospective PhD students: Potential PhD candidates interested in research at the intersection of development studies, economic geography, political geography, population geography, and environmental geography are welcome.

PhD supervision:

• Ongoing PhD projects: Rural transformation in developing countries (Takuya Nakagawa); Post-graduate migration and career paths of international students from Ghana (Mohammed Yeboah); Long-term impacts of development cooperation (Barbora Latečková); Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq (Kristýna Kvasničková); Alternative forms of development in India (Adam Čajka); Menstrual health in developing countries (Michaela Šrámková); Environmental health in Ethiopia (Biruk Getachew Mamo).
• Completed PhD projects: Sanitation in India (František Ficek); Sanitation in Ethiopia (Helena Humňalová); Evaluation of long-term impact of development cooperation (Barbora Latečková); Hunger games: Discourses of the G7 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa (Dagmar Milerová Prášková); Spatial behaviour of immigrants: Analysis of spatial relatedness between migration groups (Jiří Hasman); Social state building in developing countries: A case study from rural India (Jana Kubelková); World regional structures (Filip Polonský); Spatial aspects of social inequality: Czechia in the context of Central East European countries (Vojtěch Nosek).

For more information see the academic profile of Josef Novotný.