Sarah Komasová

Postdoctoral Researcher


Sarah Komasová is a postdoctoral researcher at Peace Research Center Prague. She is also an analyst in STEM: Empirical Research for Democracy and a researcher at the Department of Air Transport, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague.


Research focus

In her research, Sarah currently focuses mainly on data analysis. Nevertheless, in her work, she uses also qualitative and mixed methods. She is interested in Actor-Network Theory inspired approaches, which are her original research background.

Empirically, Sarah focuses on the issues of terrorism, airport and aviation security or UAVs but deals also with a broader array of sociological topics such as the quality of living or disinformation.


Selected Publications

KOMASOVÁ, Sarah (2021) Airport security as translation through division and movement. Social Studies of Science, 52(1), 35–52.

KOMASOVÁ, S., TESAŘ, J., SOUKUP P. (2020) Perception of drone related risks in Czech society. Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 61

KOMASOVÁ, Sarah (2021) Possible Inspiration: Drone-Related Literature and its Potential for Public Perception Research. J Intell Robot Syst 103, 54


BACKGROUND

Sarah Komasová obtained her doctoral degree in the Department of Security Studies, at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University.



Contact

Email address: sarah.komasova@fsv.cuni.cz