Petr Meyer Ph.D.

Petr Meyer graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Geography from the Technical University of Liberec and a Master’s degree in Geography from the J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. He completed his Ph.D. studies in General geography at Charles University, where he focused on the issue of catchment areas of primary schools in the Czech Republic. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Department of Geography at the University of Ústí nad Labem, where he teaches courses on cartography, GIS and 3D modelling. His professional activity focuses on the geography of education, more specifically on primary education, catchment areas, school network or school choice and 3D reconstruction of abandoned landscapes.

• 2013 (Bc.) Technical University of Liberec (Applied geography)
• 2015 (Mgr.) J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (Geography)
• 2023 (Ph.D.) Charles University (General Geography)

• 2015 Technical University of Liberec (GIS, summer semester)
• 2015-2020 Liberec Region, Department of Environment and Agriculture (external worker for GIS and 3D modelling)
• 2015- Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, UJEP in Ústí nad Labem

• MEYER, P., KUČEROVÁ, S. R. (2023). Development of the basic school network in Czechia in the last three decades: Changes and current challenges. Geografický časopis, 75(4), s. 393–408. https://1url.cz/U1JDL
• KUČEROVÁ, S. R., MEYER, P., KUČERA, Z., RYBOVÁ, K., ŠMÍD, J. (2022). Venkovská základní škola: Rozmanitost typů v různorodých venkovech. Geografie, 127(1), s. 67–90. https://1url.cz/yKyEN
• DVOŘÁK, D., MEYER, P., KUČEROVÁ, S. R. (2021). Míra meziškolní mobility žáků základních škol v Česku. Orbis Scholae, 15(2), s. 71-96. https://1url.cz/N1JDr
• KUČEROVÁ, S. R., DVOŘÁK, D., MEYER, P., BARTŮNĚK, M. (2020). Dimensions of centralization and decentralization in the rural educational landscape of post-socialist Czechia. Journal of Rural Studies, 74, s. 280–293. https://1url.cz/xziIW
• KUČEROVÁ, S. R., TRNKOVÁ, K., MEYER, P. (2019). Changing structures and the role of education in the development of the educational system in Czechia. In Jahnke, H., Kramer, C., Meusburger, P. (eds.): Geographies of Schooling. Knowledge and Space, 14. Springer, Cham, s. 125–144. https://1url.cz/JziIN
• MEYER, P., KUČEROVÁ, S. R. (2018). Do pupils attend the nearest elementary school to their homes? Factors in school choice in the urban environment of Liberec, Czechia. AUC Geographica, 53(2).

• OP Just Transition (2024 – 2027). RUR – Region to university, university to region, specialist manager
• GA ČR No. 20-18545S (2020-2022). Demanded schools: Conditions of choice of primary school in rural area, team member
• IGA/SGS UJEP No. 2018-53-004-2 (2018-2019). Formation of catchment areas of primary schools in typologically different regions, investigator
• Cooperation Programme Czech Republic – Free State of Saxony 2014-2020 (2017-2019). Values of ecosystem services, biodiversity and green-blue infrastructure in cities with the examples of Dresden, Liberec and Decin, team member
• GA ČR No. 16-01003S (2016-2018). Visual geographic information and its role in geographic education, team member

• Czech Geographical Society (2014–)