RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Contact and consultation hours *========================================================================================= See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php?do=detailuc&kuc=35349"] . *========================================================================================= * Courses taught *========================================================================================= See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php? do=search&nazev=&kod=&match=substring&srch_nazev=0&srch_nazev=0&srch_nazev=1&srch_pam_a=0& %C5%88%C3%A1k&utyp=3&b=Hledej"] . ****************************************************************************************** * Professional focus ****************************************************************************************** Queer and feminist geographies, geographies of sexualities, minority stress, heteronormati cisnormativity, mental and public health of LGBTQ+ people, sexual and gender diversity (SG identity, stigma, social/human geography, HIV/AIDS destigmatization, SGD public health, so and human rights issues in LGBTQ+ people and social status, discrimination, intersectional methodology and ethics in SGD research. ****************************************************************************************** * Education ****************************************************************************************** • (Ph.D.) Social Geography and Regional Development, 2011 - 2015. Dissertation: Queer geographies of sexualities: sociocultural organization of sexualities in space and (de)construction of heteronormativity. • (RNDr.) Rigorous examination in Social Geography and Regional Development, 2013. • (Mgr.) Master's degree in teaching biology and geography for secondary schools, 2011. • (Bc.) Bachelor's degree in biology and geography with a focus on education, 2008. ****************************************************************************************** * Work experience ****************************************************************************************** NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (NIMH [ URL "http://queergeography.cz/index.php/nudz/" ? researcher, (since 2015) ? head of the working group Mental and Public Health of Sexually and Gender Diverse People QUEER GEOGRAPHY, Z. S. (QG [ URL "https://www.queergeography.cz/"] ) ? founder and chair of a science-popularization association focused on interdisciplinary d dissemination of evidence-based information (since 2017). CHARLES UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF EDUCATION ? member of the research team of the research project LGBT+ identity as a developmental ch settings: individual, social and institutional perspectives (since 2023) CHARLES UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY ? external lecturer and guarantor of the course Selected Topics in LGBTQ+ Psychology: comm work with clients (2021-2023) CHARLES UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE ? external lecturer in the "American Term" study abroad programme (since 2016) CHARLES UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ? external lecturer (2015-2018). OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE • PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE (SZÚ [ URL "http://www.szu.cz/"] ) ? member of the research team in the field of HIV epidemiology (2017, 2018). • ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATIONS: • PRAGUE PRIDE • CZECH AIDS AID SOCIETY • PEOPLE IN NEED • PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER AT HLOUBĚTÍNSKÁ PRIMARY SCHOOL ? teacher of geography and English language (2011-2012) ****************************************************************************************** * Organisational experience ****************************************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGY (ICP 2024 [ URL "https://icp2024.com/"] ) ? keynote speaker, member of the scientific committee, head of the thematic section Sexual Gender Identity VII. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GEOGRAPHIES OF SEXUALITIES (EGSC 2024 [ URL "https://2024.egsconference.com/"] ) ? Member of the Scientific Committee VI. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GEOGRAPHIES OF SEXUALITIES (EGSC 2022 [ URL "https://2022.egsco ? keynote speaker, member of the scientific committee V. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GEOGRAPHIES OF SEXUALITIES (EGSC 2019 [ URL "https://2019.egscon ? main organizer of the international conference, chair of the scientific and organizing c INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGY (ICP 2020 [ URL "http://www.icp2020.com/scientific-pr areas/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identities/"] ) ? member of the scientific committee, chair of the thematic section Sexual orientation and Lead investigator of the community project Queer Geography: Stigma & HIV ? organization of an interdisciplinary workshop with invited experts (2019). ****************************************************************************************** * PUBLICATIONS ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Selected journal articles *========================================================================================= PITOŇÁK, M., ČIHÁK, M., & HORNE, S. G. (2024). LGBT+ people’s vulnerability to suicide in of minority stress-related factors in a high structural stigma context. Psychology of Sexu and Gender Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000785 [ URL "https://doi.org/10.1037/sg PITOŇÁK, M., POTOČÁR, L., & FORMÁNEK, T. (2024). Mental health and help-seeking in Czech s a nationally representative cross-sectional study. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, doi.org/10.1017/S2045796024000210 [ URL "https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796024000210"] PITOŇÁK, M., ČIHÁK, M. (2024). Suicidální ideace LGBT+ osob: psychometrické vlastnosti Šká ideace (SIDAS) na českém LGBT+ vzorku. E-psychologie 18(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.2936 "https://doi.org/10.29364/epsy.492"] PITOŇÁK, M. (2023). Vývojové milníky neheterosexuální orientace a identit v Česku: revize modelu comingoutu. Psychiatr. praxi 24(3), 148-155. https://doi.org/10.36290/psy.2023.028 doi.org/10.36290/psy.2023.028"] PITOŇÁK, M., CSAJBÓK, Z. (2022). Revisiting minority stress theory to understand psycholog among Czech sexual minorities. Studia Psychologica: Theoria et Praxis, 22(1), 5–22. https://doi.org/10.21697/sp.2022.22.1.01 [ URL "https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/s view/11249"] PITOŇÁK, M., & ČIHÁK, M. (2023). Understanding broader LGB+ identity from a post-socialist Assessment of validity of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Scale (LGBIS) on a Czech Československá Psychologie, 67(2), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.67.2.121 [ UR doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.67.2.121"] PITOŇÁK, M., KOŽENÝ, J. & ČIHÁK, M. (2023) Disparities in Psychological Distress between Czech General Population and LGB?+?Community Sample, Journal of Bisexuality, DOI: https:// doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2023.2191590 [ URL "https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2023.2191590 PITOŇÁK, M. (2022). Menšinový stres v perspektivě zdravotních nerovností mezi heterosexuálními a neheterosexuálními lidmi. Psychiatrie pro praxi, 23(2), 100-104. DOI: 10.36290/psy.2022.022 [ URL "https://www.psychiatriepropraxi.cz/artkey/ psy-202202-0007_mensinovy_stres_v_perspektive_zdravotnich_nerovnosti_mezi_heterosexualnimi UHOLYEVA X, PITOŇÁK M. (2022). Chemsex users in Czechia: EMIS survey. Cent Eur J Public He 30(2):86-92. https://cejph.szu.cz/artkey/cjp-202202-0004_chemsex-users-in-czechia-emis-sur "https://cejph.szu.cz/artkey/cjp-202202-0004_chemsex-users-in-czechia-emis-survey.php"] PACHANKIS, J. E., HATZENBUEHLER, M. L., BRÄNSTRÖM, R., SCHMIDT, A. J., BERG, R. C., JONAS, M., BAROS, S., & WEATHERBURN, P. (2021). Structural stigma and sexual minority men’s depre suicidality: A multilevel examination of mechanisms and mobility across 48 countries.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(7), 713–726. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000 "https://doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/abn0000693"] PITOŇÁK, M. (2021). Sexuální orientace jako přehlížená proměnná: terminologická, metodolog kontextuální úskalí v otázce měření sexuality v rámci „reprezentativních“ šetření. Platí s Československá Psychologie, 65(5), 440-458. https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.65.5.440 [ UR doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.65.5.440"] PITOŇÁK, M. (2020). Praha posiluje v boji proti HIV: přistoupila k tzv. síti Fast-track-ci 24(1), 44-45. PITOŇÁK, M., PROCHÁZKA, I., MIČULKOVÁ, V., MALÝ, M. (2019). Venturing beyond the Behavioural MSM: “Sex, Chems, & Satisfaction” in Their Syndemic Contexts. Adiktologie, 19(2), 75–83; https://doi.org/10.35198/01-2019-002-0003 [ URL "http doi.org/10.35198/01-2019-002-0003"] ŠERÝ, O., & PITOŇÁK, M. (2019). „Queer podniky“ v Brně. Sociální Studia, 16(1), 79–102. Re from https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia/article/view/12277 [ URL "https://journals.m socialni_studia/article/view/12277"] PITOŇÁK, M. (2019). Lessons from the “Periphery”: Countering Anglo-Geographic Hegemony ove sexuality and gender. Documents d’An?lisi Geogr?fica, 1573, 1. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev "https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/dag.573"] PITOŇÁK, M. KLINGOROVÁ, K. (2019) Development of Czech feminist and queer geographies: ide barriers, seeking progress, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1563528 [ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1563528?journalCode=cgpc20"] . PITOŇÁK, M. (2018): Rozostření příčin a následků: Syndemie HIV mezi ne-heterosexuálními mu 67-68: . Retrieved from: http://www.biograf.org/clanek.html?id=1038 [ URL "http://www.biog clanek.html?id=1038"] MRAVČÍK, V., PITOŇÁK, M., HEJZÁK, R., JANÍKOVÁ, B., & PROCHÁZKA, I. (2018). HIV/AIDS Epide Republic and Related Factors: Comparison of Key Populations of People who Inject Drugs and with Men. (odkaz [ URL "https://www.addictology.cz/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/07_mravcik.p PITOŇÁK, M. (2017). Faktory ovlivňující šíření infekce HIV mezi ne-heterosexuálními muži: přístup. Ročenka národního programu HIV/AIDS v České republice 2015–2016. Pp. 109-121. PITOŇÁK, M. (2017). Rozdíly v duševním zdraví mezi ne-heterosexuály a heterosexuály: přehledová studie. Ceskoslovenska Psychologie, 61, 6, pp. 575-592. (odkaz [ URL "https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/57927252/final_z_webu_Ebsco.pdf? 1543996056=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename %3DRozdily_v_dusevnim_zdravi_mezi_ne_hetero.pdf&Expires=1638871259&amp JXe9Bd~hdIOpbquap42QIj8qI~q~NwX7sHezLIeQcbw1P-7Q8EtDNrB5P7a29PFbPMbcxx9HHYIoR86ul7KUTOODsc TvkJ12iHiPtuAi3P3ZfYKmwCGlFk~-pMWPVHdiymk9okfxlRp0BcNUwHHu7mTt5w5txcuOdHYClxzVj-aJ5LtPLtwT F2wmD21ibIZT-SINXYGVKUQ-wE8~SIqrU3GV0wvEj7kGmEudLXBMEjbgL1AoQ__&Key-Pair- Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA"] ) PITOŇÁK, M. (2017). Mental health in non-heterosexuals: Minority stress theory and related frameworks review. Mental Health & Prevention, 5, 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.201 "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.2016.10.002"] PITOŇÁK, M., SPILKOVÁ, J. (2016): Homophobic prejudice in Czech youth: a socio-demographic of young people’s opinions on homosexuality. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 13, 3, ISSN 1868-9884. DOI: 10.1007/s13178-015-0215-8 [ URL "https://link.springer.com/article/10 s13178-015-0215-8"] . SPILKOVÁ, J., DZÚROVÁ, D., PITOŇÁK, M. (2014): Perception of neighborhood environment and behaviors in Prague’s teenagers: a pilot study in a post-communist city. International Jou Geographics 2014, 13, n.41. GABIAM, K., PITOŇÁK, M. (2014): Economic, cultural and social factors influencing the deve businesses and places: Evidence from the European Union. Moravian Geographical Reports, 22 (odkaz [ URL "https://www.geonika.cz/EN/research/ENMGRClanky/2014_3_GABIAM.pdf"] ) PITOŇÁK, M. (2014): Urban spatiality in the context of (homo/hetero)sexuality: Introductio theoretical debate in geographies of sexualities. Geogra?e, 119, No. 2, pp. 179–198. (odka geografie.cz/119/2/0179/"] ) PITOŇÁK, M. (2013): Spatiality, institutionalization and contextuality of heteronormativit heterosexual identity negotiation in Czechia. Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research, 14, 2 (odkaz [ URL "https://www.genderonline.cz/pdfs/gav/2013/02/03.pdf"] ) *========================================================================================= * Book chapters *========================================================================================= PITOŇÁK, M. (2023). „5: LGBT+ Activism and Morality Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Understanding the Dynamic Equilibrium in Czechia from a Broader Transnational Perspective“ Feminist Geographies. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. Retrieved Sep 7, 2023, from h doi.org/10.51952/9781529225129.ch005 [ URL "https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529225129.ch005"] PITOŇÁK, M. (2022). A Decade of Prague Pride: Mapping Origins, Seeking Meanings, Understan Effects. In: Blidon, M., Brunn, S.D. (eds) Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places. Springer, Cham doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4_25 [ URL "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4_25"] PITOŇÁK, M. (2020). Strukturální základ menšinového stresu v Česku: Vztah mezi diskriminac zdravím neheterosexuálních a genderově rozmanitých lidí. In M. Šmíd (Ed.), Právo na rovné let antidiskriminačního zákona (pp. 263–282). Praha: Wolters Kluwer. PITOŇÁK, M. (2020). Menšinový stres a duševní zdraví ne-heterosexuálních lidí. In K. Pavli rodiny v systému náhradní rodinné péče: Příručka pro pracovníky*pracovnice v oblasti sociá ochrany dětí (pp. 29–43). Praha: Prague Pride. PITOŇÁK, M. (2019). V sexuálním closetu / Geografie „ne-heterosexuálních lidí“. In R. Osma Pospíšilová (Eds.), Geografie „okrajem“: Každodenní časoprostorové zkušenosti (pp. 147–182 Univerzita Karlova. SPILKOVÁ, J., DZÚROVÁ, D., PITOŇÁK, M. (2015): Fyzické prostředí domova a školy: případová In: Dzúrová, D., Csémy, L., Spilková, J., Lustigová, M., ed. Zdravotně rizikové chování ml Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 2015, s. 72-84. ISBN: 978-80-7071-343-3. PITOŇÁK, M. (2014): Queer space(s). In: MATOUŠEK, R. and OSMAN, R. (eds.): Prostor(y) geog 123-146. ISBN: 978-80-246-2733-5. ****************************************************************************************** * Grants and research ****************************************************************************************** CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC GRANT AGENCY PROJECT ? Project "LGBT+ identity as a developmental challenge in school settings: individual, soc institutional perspectives" (GAČR: 23-07934S; 2023 - 2025) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF THE PROJECT EC JUSTICE JUST ? Rise up against anti-LGBTI hate crimes (RISE UP) project (2021-2022). PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF A RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE GRANT AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC ? project "Minority stress of non-heterosexual people in the Czech Republic" (GAČR: 19-148 2022). PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE GRANT AGENCY OF THE CHARLES UNIVERSI ? project "Queer geography: commodification, segregation and globalization of sexual ident cities?"(2014 - 2015). 7th EU FRAMEWORK PROJECT SOPHIE? Research Associate and Associate Financial Project Admini 7th Framework Project SOPHIE (Evaluating the Impact of Structural Policies on Health Inequ Social Determinants, and Fostering Change) (2012 - 2015) ****************************************************************************************** * Selected lectures ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Invited symposia / Invited symposia *========================================================================================= • International Congress of Psychology (ICP 2024) - SOGIE Psychology in Central and Easter Marginalization to Resilience, Prague 2024. • International Congress of Psychology (ICP 2020) - LGBTQ+ Psychology in Central and Easte *========================================================================================= * Keynote addresses / Keynote lectures *========================================================================================= · 32nd Congress on Sexuality Education - Mental Health of LGBTQ+ People in Czech and Europ • International Congress of Psychology (ICP 2024) - Navigating LGBTQ+ mental health resear socialist contexts in Central and Eastern Europe, Prague 2024. • Support Networks - Pride Business Forum Annual Conference, Prague 2024 • University of Colorado at Boulder - Queer Geographies: International Scholarship & Activ presentation Contours of Resistance: LGBT+ Activism Amid Populism and Moral Politics in Eastern Europe, Boulder, USA, March 2024 • Taste of Equality - The Right Taste of Equality - Pride Business Forum Annual Conference equality for LGBT+ in the Czech Republic a reality?, Prague 2023 • G-VERSITY Summer School Prague - Keynote address "The Intersectionality of Minority Stre Well-being in Sexual and Gender Diverse PEOPLE" Prague 2023 • VI. European Geographies of Sexuality Conference - Dynamic Equlibrium of LGBT+ Activism Eastern Europe. *========================================================================================= * Invited presentations / Invited lectures *========================================================================================= • Central European Masculinities in Comparative Perspective: International Symposium - Con Resistance: LGBT+ Activism, Masculinities and Moral Politics in Central and Eastern Euro Prague. • Rethinking Sexuality in Nordic and Post-Soviet Contexts. ****************************************************************************************** * Foreign experience ****************************************************************************************** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY • Short-term visit, guest lecturer, March 2024 UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY • ERASMUS work placement, visiting researcher. Sheffield, UK, January - May, 2014. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY • Short-term internship. Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, 2014. STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. • ERASMUS study placement at master's level. Stockholm, January-June 2010. ****************************************************************************************** * Membership, voluntary positions ****************************************************************************************** • Member of the Government Committee on the Rights of LGBTI+ People [ URL "https://vlada.gov.cz/cz/ppov/rlp/vybory/ mensiny/vybor-pro-sexualni-mensiny-24225/"] • Member of the inter-ministerial Coordination Working Group of the National HIV/AIDS Prog National Programme to Address HIV/AIDS in the Czech Republic (since 2016) • Member of the HIV/FTC expert group for HIV/AIDS prevention in the capital city of Prague • Member of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society, Founder and Head of the Section of Psychology of Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity [ URL "https://cmpsy.cz/?page=ro (since 2018, 2023) • Member of the international network The European MSM Internet Survey - EMIS network [ URL "https://www.emis-project.eu/emis- network/"] (since 2016) • Representative of the Czech Republic for the Czech MSMPS The International Psychology Ne Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Issues ( IPsyNet [ URL "https://www.apa.org/ipsynet/about"] ) (from 2023) • Member of the Czech Geographical Society • Member of the Global Pride Project [ URL "https://goldseninstitute.org/health/global/"] - an internati network led from the University of Washington • Member and Chair of Queer Geography [ URL "https://queergeography.cz/o-nas/"] • Member of the EUPHA [ URL "https://eupha.org/sexual-and-gender-minority-health"] section on sexual and health (since 2018) ****************************************************************************************** * Awards ****************************************************************************************** • The National Psychiatric Award of Professor Vladimír Vondráček in the category of scienc for a study on suicidal ideation among LGBT+ people in the Czech Republic (2024). • Prof. Václav Příhoda Award for the best graduates of Charles University (2012) • EUPHA (European Public Health Association) award for young scientists focused on sexual minority health research. ****************************************************************************************** * Popularization ****************************************************************************************** Contributions to Seznam Medium [ URL "https://medium.seznam.cz/autor/michal-pitonak-2406"] Posts on blog.respekt.cz [ URL "https://pitonak.blog.respekt.cz/index.html"] Some texts on the Queer Geography [ URL "https://queergeography.cz/"]