My research interests span across multiple domains, combining anthropological perspectives with contemporary challenges. From studying tourism development in New Caledonia to investigating remote work impacts in Europe, my projects focus on understanding how social, cultural, and economic factors intersect in our rapidly changing world.
2024–today
Scientific project Horizon REMAKING, “Remote-working multiple impacts in the age of disruptions: socio-economic transformations, territorial rethinking, and policy actions”, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czech Republic.
Role: Research Fellow
2024–today
Research project “Paradox and Growth: Examining Entrepreneurship in Czech Family Wineries” focused on growth strategies and succession in family wineries in the Czech Republic, Centre for Family Business, Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czech Republic.
Role: Principal Investigator
2018–2022
Scientific project CAPES-COFECUB „National regimes of autochthony. Indigenous Situations and National Question in the Americas and Oceania”, EHESS-IRIS, Paris, France, and Museu Nacional de Antropologia in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
As part of this project, I conducted a two-month research stay at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB) in Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil.
Role: Researcher
2014–2021
Doctoral research project „Tourism Development and Indigenous Communities in New Caledonia”, PSL University & EHESS, Paris, France.
Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork (2014–2018), I investigated how indigenous Kanak communities navigate and respond to tourism development on the Isle of Pines and in Bourail. The research was supported by multiple grants from EHESS, LabEx TEPSIS, and PSL.
Role: Principal Investigator
2017–2018
Scientific project „Legal and social-economic changes in New Zealand”, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Poland.
The research on tourism development in New Zealand culminated in a collaborative publication (Sprengel, 2019) featuring my article „The tourist boom in the land of Middle-earth – the development of tourism”.
Role: Researcher
2012–2016
Scientific project „Departures and comebacks – participation in intercultural exchanges”, Department of General Pedagogy and Research Methodology, Faculty of Ethnology and Educational Sciences in Cieszyn, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
In collaboration with Prof. Barbara Grabowska, I studied the dynamics of international educational exchanges, resulting in multiple co-authored publications.
Role: Researcher