RNDr. Robert Osman, Ph.D.

Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

• RNDr. Robert Osman, Ph.D.

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University

Function, current position

• Assistant professor

Education and academic qualifications

• 2014: Ph.D.; Masaryk University; field of study: Regional Geography and Regional Planning; topic of the thesis: Territoriality in a city: the case of Brno.
• 2010: RNDr.; Masaryk University; field of study: Social Geography; topic of the thesis: Behavioral and humanistic conceptualization of human territoriality.
• 2008: Mgr. (MA); Masaryk University; field of study: Social Geography; topic of the thesis: Urban segregation processes.
• 2006: Bc. (BA); Masaryk University; field of study: Human Geography; topic of the bachelor thesis: Employer´s demands versus graduates in Ústí nad Orlicí district.

Professional experience

• 2019–present: Assistant professort at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Brno.
• 2012–present: Researcher at the Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of Environmental Geography, Brno.
• 2010–2018: Researcher at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Brno.

Teaching activities

• 2023–present: Inclusive Design; Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Information and Library Studies.
• 2020–present: Social Geography Research Methods; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2020–present: Fundamentals of scientific work and preparation of scientific publications; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2019–present: Participatory Methods and Techniques in Regional Development; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2018–present: Everyday Mobility; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2016–present: Time Geography; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2016: Qualitative Research in Environmentalism; Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies.
• 2015–present: Qualitative Data Analysis; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2011–present: Qualitative Methods of Social Geographic Research; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2011–2012: Geographical Thought; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2010: Urban Geography; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.
• 2008–2010: Human Geography; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography.

Research activities

• time-geography, rhythmanalysis, critical time studies;
• disability geography, disability studies, critical disability studies;
• crip time, crip temporalities, crip spacetime;
• post-socialist city, cities after transition, crip cities;
• mental maps, semantic maps, representation of timespace;

Other academic activities, research projects, grants

• 2023–2025: Geographies of Crip Temporalities: Time in Everydayness of People with Disabilities (GAČR, No. GA23-05096S) - principal investigator.
• 2023–2025: Accessibility of public transport for people with sensory disabilities (TAČR, No. CK04000163) - principal investigator.
• 2020–2022: Disability geography: visually impaired experience with urban space (GAČR, No. GA20-03708S) - principal investigator.
• 2018–2021: Strategic tools for building a barrier-free city (TA ČR, No. TL01000013) - principal investigator.
• 2017–2019: Geography of recycling urban space (GA ČR, No. GA17-26934S) - member of research team.
• 2017–2019: Spatial injustice of automobility technologies (GA ČR, No. GA17-16097S) - member of research team.
• 2014–2015: Geography of urban rhythms (GA ČR, No. GA14-14547S) - member of research team.
• 2012–2014: Tailored Improvement of Brownfield Regeneration in Europe - TIMBRE (FP7-ENV-2010.3.1.5-2, Contract No. 2653647) - member of research team.
• 2011: Qualitative methods of social geographic research funded through University Development Fund from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (MSMT, No. FRVS/2387/2011/F5/b) - member of research team.
• 2010–2013: Innovation in the teaching approaches to Geography Study Programmes (OPVK, No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0222) - member of research team.
• 2010–2012: Modular system for the further education of teachers in science, math and IT (OPVK, No. CZ.1.07/1.3.10/02.0024) - member of research team.

Non-university activities

• 2023–present: Member of the Expert Platform on Participation of the JINAG Regional Innovation Agency.
• 2017–present: Member of the Advisory Board of the Brno City Council for a Barrier-Free Brno.
• 2013–present: Member of SPOUSTI – the Association for an Organic Ústí.

Major publications

• OSMAN, Robert a Veronika KOTÝNKOVÁ KROTKÁ. ‘You find out what’s important’: the crip spacetime of wheelchair users. Disability & Society. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2025, roč. 40, č. 11, s. 2945-2965. ISSN 0968-7599. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2458017. URL info
• DOBOŠ, Pavel a Robert OSMAN. MAKING AN ACCESSIBLE CITY: A Critique of Cartographic Reason through Emphasis on Corpography. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Wiley, 2025, roč. 49, č. 5, s. 1109-1128. ISSN 0309-1317. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13344. URL info
• SEIDENGLANZ, Daniel; Robert OSMAN a Jiří MALÝ. Intentional Automobility: Mobility Choice Between Socialist and Postsocialist Chrononormativity. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Taylor & Francis, 2024, roč. 114, č. 1, s. 255-275. ISSN 2469-4452. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2249083. URL info
• PORKERTOVÁ, Hana; Robert OSMAN; Lucie POSPÍŠILOVÁ; Pavel DOBOŠ a Zuzana KOPECKÁ. „Wait, really, stop, stop!“: Go-Along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies. Qualitative Research. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024, roč. 24, č. 5, s. 1230-1252. ISSN 1468-7941. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941231224595. URL info
• OSMAN, Robert a Hana PORKERTOVÁ. The social stone: a story of transformation from ableist to accessible topology. Social and Cultural Geography. Routledge, 2023, roč. 24, č. 9, s. 1598-1615. ISSN 1464-9365. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2073606. URL info
• OSMAN, Robert; Petr KLUSÁČEK; Jiří MALÝ a Filip ALEXANDRESCU. Rhythmanalysis and reproduction of space in a brownfield regeneration process: the case of Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic. Eurasian Geography and Economics. Taylor & Francis, 2023, roč. 64, č. 6, s. 705-731. ISSN 1538-7216. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2057348. URL info
• OSMAN, Robert; Ondřej ŠERÝ; Filip ALEXANDRESCU; Jiří MALÝ a Ondřej MULÍČEK. The establishment of inter-municipal cooperation: the case of a polycentric post-socialist region. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. Copenhagen: ROYAL DANISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOC, 2020, roč. 120, č. 1, s. 2-18. ISSN 0016-7223. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2019.1693903. URL info
• OSMAN, Robert a Hana PORKERTOVÁ. „Upoután vozíkový“: absence zdvořilé nevšímavosti jako bariéra při pohybu prostorem uživatelů a uživatelek elektrických vozíků. Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review. 2020, roč. 56, č. 1, s. 85-107. ISSN 0038-0288. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.13060/csr.2020.004. URL info
• OSMAN, Robert; Vladimír IRA a Jakub TROJAN. A tale of two cities: The comparative chrono-urbanism of Brno and Bratislava public transport systems. Online. Moravian Geographical Report. Brno: Institute of Geonics, ASCR, v.v.i., 2020, roč. 28, č. 4, s. 269-282. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0020. info
• ALEXANDRESCU, Filip; Robert OSMAN; Petr KLUSÁČEK a Jiří MALÝ. Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison. Cities. Elsevier, 2020, roč. 98, 10 s. ISSN 0264-2751. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102578. URL info
• OSMAN, Robert; Ondřej MULÍČEK a Daniel SEIDENGLANZ. Regional heteroglossia: the metropolitan region as a dialogical landscape. European Planning Studies. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2019, roč. 27, č. 11, s. 2079-2098. ISSN 0965-4313. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1623866. URL info
• OSMAN, Robert a Ondřej MULÍČEK. Urban chronopolis: Ensemble of rhythmized dislocated places. Geoforum. Oxford: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2017, roč. 85, October, s. 46-57. ISSN 0016-7185. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.013. URL info
• MULÍČEK, Ondřej; Robert OSMAN a Daniel SEIDENGLANZ. Time-space Rhythms of the City – The Industrial and Post-industrial Brno. Environment and Planning A. SAGE, 2016, roč. 48, č. 1, s. 115-131. ISSN 0308-518X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X15594809. Abstrakt, Celý článek info
• OSMAN, Robert; Daniel SEIDENGLANZ a Ondřej MULÍČEK. Urban Place as a Heterochronotopia: A Case Study of a Brno Locality. Sociologický časopis. AV ČR, Sociologický ústav, 2016, roč. 52, č. 6, s. 927-962. ISSN 0038-0288. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.291. URL info
• MULÍČEK, Ondřej; Robert OSMAN a Daniel SEIDENGLANZ. Urban rhythms: A chronotopic approach to urban timespace. Time & Society. SAGE, 2015, roč. 24, č. 3, s. 304-325. ISSN 0961-463X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X14535905. Abstrakt, Celý článek info

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