Filip Vostal

Adjunct Lecturer
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Anglo-American University
Czech Republic

Biography

Filip Vostal holds Ph.D. in sociology from University of Bristol, UK. He has published several articles on acceleration in/of academia and is the author of Accelerating Academia: The Changing Structure of Academic Time (2016, Palgrave/Springer). He is a junior researcher at the Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Filip tweets at @filvos.

Research Intrest

Critical Social Theory, Sociology of Time & Speed, Social Studies of Science

List of Publications
2012 - Knowledge mediators and lubricating channels: on the temporal politics of remissioning the university. TOPIA – Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 28 (Fall 2012): 143-164.
2015 - Academic life in the fast lane: the experience of time and speed in British academia. Time & Society, 24 (1): 71-95,
2015 - Speed kills, speed thrills: constraining and enabling accelerations in academic work-life. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13 (3): 295-314,