Senior lecturer in School of Geography Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University
Geographies of landscape, the geographies of memory, and the geographies of conflict, and shapes the wider interdisciplinary fields of memory studies, peace and conflict studies, and landscape studies.
Reimagining Landscape
Landscape remains a key concept in human geography. Human life and practices have always occurred through engagements with the landscape. New landscape research in human geography has returned to landscape representations and landscape-objects, focused on the more-than-human and practices, materialities, and ecologies in landscape, and has explored landscape creatively and experimentally in a variety of media, incorporating new technologies. This long-term project seeks to create alternative histories of the day-to-day making of living and working landscapes with local communities and relates to contemporary changes in thinking and writing landscape following concurrent creative and material returns in the discipline.
Professor of Geography, University of Helsinki; Adjunct professor, University of Nairobi, Adjunct professor, University of Turku, Visiting professor, Wuhan University
The use of remote sensing data and methods in environmental and natural resource mapping and in ecological research; the study of land use and land cover changes in Africa and their impacts on water resources, biodiversity, local climate, and human populations
Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki
Russia's energy and natural resource policy