Prof Craig Young

Who am I?

I am a Human Geographer with a wide variety of research and teaching interests! I have worked since the early 1990s on geographical change in the former Eastern Europe, looking at urban and socio-cultural changes during 'post-socialist transformation' after 1989. A particular focus is on the intersection of the past, heritage and the cultural politics of identity, from cities to the nation. I am also interested in urban policy, specifically policy making and responses in the area of the 'creative city' and the use of culture, particularly in European cities, notably Stockholm, Sweden. A third key area which I have developed recently is the engagement of Geography with the discipline of Death Studies, particularly understanding contemporary encounters with the dead body.

Words of wisdom

As a Human Geography student you should do one thing above all else - read, read and read more! Really develop your engagement with and understanding of the academic research literature. And remember to enjoy Human Geography, which is one of the most dynamic and interesting of university subjects!

How I’ll teach you

I use a variety of methods and activities in class! Sometimes I lecture and sometimes it's necessary to get some information across. Otherwise, for the most part I believe in a 'co-production' of knowledge ie. I don't believe in standing up and lecturing 'at you', I think we should develop knowledge and ideas together through your thinking and discussion. I tend to use group activities, different kinds of activities in class (reading exercises, analysing short media pieces, discussion) so that we develop material together which can be summarised at the end.

My main teaching is on: Field and Research Techniques in Human Geography -  qualitative methods in Human Geography, the Year 2 Berlin field trip; at third year level on history, memory, landscape, death and the politics of identity; supervising final year Projects on a variety of HG topics.

Academic and professional qualifications

BSc (Hons) Geography, University of Edinburgh.

PhD Geography/Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh.

Other academic service (administration and management)

Director, MMU Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences (RCASS).

Why study Human Geography?

I say study Human Geography because it is a fascinating and diverse subject which is of huge contemporary relevance to changes going on in the world around us! You can engage in a great variety of topics and explore things which fascinate you about society and the world in great depth. Students are often surprised - and then fascinated - by what Human Geographers get up to. While I work on cities I also work on death - that's an area that I never imagined Human Geography would lead me to, but it has been immensely rewarding. It really is a subject where you can develop your own ideas and passions. It's also a great subject for developing transferable skills, either for research and/or workplace.

Undergraduate courses

I contribute to Human Geography units across all three years. I particularly teach on the Year 2 Berlin fieldtrip research methods course and at Year 3 offer a unit on space, memory and the cultural politics of identity. I supervise final year Projects on a variety of Human Geography topics.

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

I supervise PhDs in a variety of areas of Human Geography. I have supervised 9 PhDs previously and am currently involved in a number of supervisions. These include topics such as national identity in Albania and exploring encounters with death in Dark Tourism.

External examiner roles

PhD External Examiner at the universities of Hull, Gloucester, Exeter and Tartu, Estonia.

Research expertise

Human geography. Qualitative methods.

Geographical change in post-socialist countries and regions, especially East and Central Europe.

City marketing, urban image and urban identity under capitalism and post-socialism.

History, memory and the cultural landscapes of state- and post-socialism.

The 'creative city' - creative city policy, understanding creativity as a locally contingent process, studying creative producers (Stockholm, Gdansk, UK).

Deathscapes and corpse geographies; contemporary encounters with dead bodies.

Academic collaborations

Bournemouth University.

University of Bucharest, Romania.

East China Normal University, Shanghai.

University of Gdansk, Poland.

Stockholm University, Sweden.

JISC-mail email list moderator for the Cities after Transition network, a network of over 250 academics across Europe, East and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and N. America.

Publications

• Featured Works

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  S. Hristova, O. Pachenkov, I. Savchak, C. Young (2009). Public Space in European Cities. Lviv, Ukraine: Lviv Publishing House.

  J. Binnie, S. Millington, JJ. Holloway, C. Young (2006). Cosmopolitan Urbanism. Routledge.

  S. Liszweski, C. Young (1997). A comparative study of Lodz and Manchester. Geographies of European cities in transition. Lodz University Press.

• Journal articles

  T. Borén, P. Grzyś, C. Young (2021). Policy-making as an emotionally-charged arena: the emotional geographies of urban cultural policy-making. International Journal of Cultural Policy. 27(4), pp.449-462.

  KW. Chan, M. Gentile, N. Kinossian, T. Oakes, C. Young (2020). “More-than-viral” Eurasian geographies of the covid-19 pandemic: interconnections, inequalities, and geopolitics. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 561(4-5), pp.343-361.

  T. Borén, P. Grzyś, C. Young (2020). Intra-urban connectedness, policy mobilities and creative city-making: national conservatism vs. urban (neo)liberalism. European Urban and Regional Studies. 27(3), pp.246-258.

  R. Rose-Redwood, J. Vuolteenaho, C. Young, D. Light (2019). Naming rights, place branding, and the tumultuous cultural landscapes of neoliberal urbanism. Urban Geography. 40(6), pp.747-761.

  KW. Chan, M. Gentile, N. Kinossian, T. Oakes, C. Young (2018). Editorial–theory generation, comparative analysis and bringing the “Global East” into play. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 59(1), pp.1-6.

  T. Borén, C. Young (2017). Artists and creative city policy: resistance, the mundane and engagement in Stockholm, Sweden. City, Culture and Society. 8, pp.21-26.

  T. Borén, C. Young (2016). Conceptual export and theory mobilities: exploring the reception and development of the “creative city thesis” in the post-socialist urban realm. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 57(4-5), pp.588-606.

  D. Dumbraveanu, D. Light, C. Young, A. Chapman (2016). Exploring women's employment in tourism under state socialism: Experiences of tourism work in socialist Romania. Tourist Studies. 16(2), pp.151-169.

  C. Young, D. Light (2016). Interrogating spaces of and for the dead as ‘alternative space’: cemeteries, corpses and sites of Dark Tourism. International Review of Social Research. 6(2), pp.61-72.

  C. Ye, R. Chen, C. Young (2014). Nian: when Chinese mythology affects air pollution. Lancet. 383(9935), pp.2125-2125.

  J. Cheng, C. Young, X. Zhang, K. Owusu (2014). Comparing inter-migration within the European Union and China: An initial exploration. Migration Studies. 2(3), pp.340-368.

  S. Hirt, C. Sellar, C. Young (2013). Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc: Resistance, Appropriation and Purification in Post-Socialist Spaces. Europe - Asia Studies. 65(7), pp.1243-1254.

  T. Borén, C. Young (2013). Getting creative with the 'creative city'? Towards new perspectives on creativity in urban policy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 37(5), pp.1799-1815.

  C. Young, C. Sellar, S. Hirt (2013). Guest edited theme issue: Actually existing neoliberalisms: How do basic neoliberal concepts shift meaning in the post-socialist world?. Europe-Asia Studies. 65, pp.1243-1376.

  D. Light, C. Young (2013). Urban space, political identity and the unwanted legacies of state socialism: Bucharest's problematic Centru Civic in the post-socialist era. Nationalities Papers. 41(4), pp.515-535.

  T. Borén, C. Young (2013). The Migration Dynamics of the "Creative Class": Evidence from a Study of Artists in Stockholm, Sweden. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 103(1), pp.195-210.

  C. Young, D. Light (2013). Corpses, dead body politics and agency in human geography: Following the corpse of Dr Petru Groza. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 38(1), pp.135-148.

  T. Borén, J. Eriksson, C. Young (2012). Hotell och urban hållbarhet Lokalisering och fragmentering i Stockholm. Ymer. pp.191-214.

  D. Light, C. Young (2011). Socialist statuary as post-socialist hybrids: Following the statues of Dr Petru Groza in Romania. Journal of Historical Geography. 37(4), pp.493-501.

  D. Light, C. Young (2010). Political Identity, public memory and urban space: A case study of Parcul Carol I, Bucharest from 1906 to the present. Europe - Asia Studies. 62(9), pp.1453-1478.

  D. Light, C. Young (2010). Reconfiguring socialist urban landscapes: the ‘left-over’ spaces of state-socialism in Bucharest. Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography. 4(1), pp.5-16.

  C. Sellar, C. Staddon, C. Young (2009). Twenty years after the Wall: Geographical imaginaries of 'Europe' during European Union enlargement. Journal of Cultural Geography. 26(3), pp.253-258.

  D. Light, C. Young (2009). European Union enlargement, post-accession migration and imaginative geographies of the 'New Europe': Media discourses in Romania and the United Kingdom. Journal of Cultural Geography. 26(3), pp.281-303.

  C. Young, S. Kaczmarek (2008). The socialist past and postsocialist urban identity in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of Łódź, Poland. European Urban and Regional Studies. 15(1), pp.53-70.

  J. Binnie, T. Edensor, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2007). Mundane mobilities, banal travels. Social and Cultural Geography. 8(2), pp.165-174.

  J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2007). Mundane geographies: alienation, potentialities, and practice Alienation, subjectification, and the banal. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE. 39(3), pp.515-520.

  J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2007). Mundane geographies: Alienation, potentialities, and practice. Environment and Planning A. 39(3), pp.515-520.

  C. Young, M. Diep, S. Drabble (2006). Living with difference? The 'cosmopolitan city' and urban reimaging in Manchester, UK. Urban Studies. 43(10), pp.1687-1714.

  C. Young (2005). Meeting the New Foreign Direct Investment Challenge in East and Central Europe: Place-Marketing Strategies in Hungary. 23(5), pp.733-757.

  C. Young (2005). Meeting the new foreign direct investment challenge in East and Central Europe: place-marketing strategies in Hungary. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY. 23(5), pp.733-757.

  C. Young (2004). Geography, law and the centralizing state: Wages arrestment in nineteenth- and twentieth- century Scotland. Area. 36(3), pp.287-297.

  C. Young (2004). From place promotion to sophisticated place marketing under post-socialism: the case of CzechInvest. European Spatial Research and Policy. 11(2), pp.71-84.

  L. Venn, P. Hooper, M. Stubbs, C. Young (2003). Quality assurance in the UK agro-food industry: a sector driven response to addressing environmental risk. Risk Management: an international journal. 5(1), pp.55-66.

  C. Young, TB. Spires (2003). The official records of the British quarrying industry, c.1840-1950: an overview and evaluation. Journal of Industrial History. 6(2), pp.90-106.

  C. Young, D. Light (2001). Place, national identity and post-socialist transformations: An introduction. Political Geography. 20(8), pp.941-955.

  C. Young, S. Kaczmarek (2000). Local government, local economic development and quality of life in Poland. GeoJournal. 50(2-3), pp.225-234.

  C. Morris, C. Young (2000). 'Seed to shelf', 'teat to table', 'barley to beer' and 'womb to tomb': discourses of food quality and quality assurance schemes in the UK. JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES. 16(1), pp.103-115.

  C. Young (2000). Local government and local economic development in Poland. European Spatial Research and Policy. 7, pp.51-70.

  C. Young, S. Kaczmarek (2000). Lodz: sposob zarzadzania misatem. Spojrzenie brytyjskie. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica. 3, pp.91-111.

  C. Young, S. Kaczmarek (1999). Changing the perception of the post-socialist city: Place promotion and imagery in Lodz, Poland. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. 165, pp.183-191.

  C. Morris, C. Young (1997). Towards environmentally beneficial farming? An evaluation of the countryside stewardship scheme. GEOGRAPHY. 82(357), pp.305-316.

  C. Morris, C. Young (1997). Towards environmentally beneficial farming? An evaluation of the countryside stewardship scheme. Geography. 82(4), pp.305-316.

  C. Young, J. Lever (1997). Place promotion, economic location and the consumption of city image. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 88(4), pp.332-341.

  C. Young (1997). Never mind the environment, feel the ‘quality’: a discussion of the agri-environmental potential of quality assurance schemes. The North West Geographer. 1, pp.36-47.

  C. Young (1997). Political representations of geography and place in the United Kingdom Asylum and Immigration Bill (1995). Urban Geography. 18(1), pp.62-73.

  C. Young (1996). Production, social reproduction and gender in the micro-scale enterprise: A case study from rural Scotland, c 1928-c 1960. Area. 28(2), pp.199-210.

  C. Young (1996). Rural independent artisan production in the east-central Lowlands of Scotland, c.1600-c.1850. Scottish Economic and Social History. 16(1), pp.17-37.

  C. Young (1995). Financing the micro-scale enterprise: Rural craft producers in Scotland, 1840-1914. BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW. 69(3), pp.398-421.

  C. Young, C. Morris (1995). Agriculture and the environment in the UK: towards an understanding of the role of ‘farming culture'. Greener Management International. 12, pp.63-80.

  C. YOUNG (1994). THE ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SMALL CRAFT BUSINESSES IN RURAL LOWLAND PERTHSHIRE, C1830-C1900. BUSINESS HISTORY. 36(4), pp.33-52.

  C. Young (1994). The content and use of Scottish sequestrations: businesses in Lowland Perthshire, 1856-1913. The Local Historian. 24, pp.4-14.

  C. YOUNG (1993). A BITTER HARVEST - PROBLEMS OF RESTRUCTURING EAST-CENTRAL-EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. GEOGRAPHY. 78(338), pp.69-72.

  C. Young (1991). An assessment of Scottish sequestrations as a source in historical analysis. Journal of the Society of Archivists. 12(2), pp.127-135.

  C. Young (1991). Women's Work, Family and the Rural Trades in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Revue of Scottish Culture. 7, pp.53-58.

• Chapters in books

  C. Young, T. Boren (2018). Policymobilitetens spektrum och diffuser lärande - kulturpolicy i Stockholm. In: Globala floden och lokala praktiker - policymobilitet i tid och rum. Svenska Sallskapet for Antropologi och Geografi,

  C. Young, D. Light (2017). Heritage of Death. M. Frihammar, H. Silverman. In: Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice. Routledge, pp.92-104.

  C. Young (2017). Post-Socialist East and Central Europe. In: Contested Worlds. Routledge, pp.251-286.

  C. Young, D. Light (2017). The politics of toponymic continuity: The limits of change and the ongoing lives of street names. R. Rose-Redwood, M. Azaryahu, D. Alderman. In: The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes Naming, Politics, and Place. Taylor & Francis, pp.185-201.

  C. Young, D. Light (2017). Memory, Commemorative Landscapes and Transitional Justice. L. Stan. In: Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania.. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.145-155.

  C. Young, D. Light, D. Dumbrăveanu (2017). Public space, memory and protest during post-socialist transformation: The emergence of Piaţa Universităţii (University Square), Bucharest, as a space of protest. In: Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation. pp.75-88.

  C. Young, D. Light (2016). Multiple and contested geographies of memory: Remembering the 1989 Romanian ‘revolution’. D. Drozdzewski, S. de Nardi, E. Waterton. In: Memories, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict. Routledge, pp.56-73.

  D. Light, C. Young (2016). Urban space, political identity and the unwanted legacies of state socialism: Bucharest's problematic Centru civic in the post-socialist era. In: From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities: Cultural Politics of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Identity in Eurasia. pp.29-49.

  T. Boren, C. Young (2012). Hotels in Stockholm, strategic spatial plans and urban sustainability. L. Smas. In: Hotel spaces: Urban and economic geographical perspectives on hotels and hotel developments. Stockholm University, pp.39-60.

  T. Boren, J. Eriksson, C. Young (2012). Hotell och urban hållbarhet. Lokalisering och fragmentering i Stockholm. L. Tonell. In: Hållbar utveckling. Samhällsplanering, lokala villkor och globala beroenden. Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, pp.191-214.

  D. Light, C. Young, M. Czepczyński (2009). Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World. DJ. Timothy, GP. Nyaupane. In: Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World: A Regional Perspective. Routledge, pp.224-245.

  D. Light, C. Young, M. Czepczynski (2009). Heritage tourism in East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. D. Timothy, G. Nyaupane. In: Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World. Routledge, pp.224-245.

  J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2009). Cosmopolitanism. R. Kitchin, N. Thrift. In: International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, pp.307-313.

  C. Young, K. Horschellmann (2007). Identity under Communism and post-Communism. T. Herschell. In: Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition: Geographies, societies, policies. London: Routledge, pp.283-305.

  C. Young (2007). Marketisation, democracy and inequality in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Global geographies of post-socialist transition : geographies, societies, policies. London: Routledge, pp.768-789.

  C. Young, D. Light (2006). ‘Communist heritage tourism’: between economic development and European integration. D. Hassenpflug, B. Kolbmüller, S. Schröder-Esch. In: Heritage and Media in Europe – Contributing Towards Integration and Regional Development. Weimar: Bauhaus Universität, pp.249-263.

  C. Young, J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington (2006). Introduction: Grounding cosmopolitan urbanism: Approaches, practices and policies. J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young. In: Cosmopolitan Urbanism. London: Routledge, pp.1-34.

  C. Young, J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington (2006). Conclusion: The paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism. J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young. In: Cosmopolitan Urbanism. London: Routledge, pp.246-253.

  J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2006). Conclusion: The paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism. Routledge, pp.246-253.

  J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2005). Introduction: Grounding cosmopolitan urbanism: Approaches, practices and policies. pp.1-34.

  C. Young (2005). The post-socialist transformation of East and Central Europe. M. Phillips. In: Contested World. London: Ashgate, pp.251-286.

  C. Young (2005). Place marketing for foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe. D. Turnock. In: Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Ashgate, pp.103-122.

  C. Morris, C. Young (2004). Geographies of Commodity Chains. A. Hughes, S. Reimer. In: Geographies of Commodity Chains. Routledge, pp.83-101.

  C. Morris, C. Young (2004). Re-imaging ‘quality’ food. S. Reimer, A. Hughes. In: Geographies of Commodity Chains. Routledge, pp.83-101.

  C. Young (1999). Middle-class ‘culture’, law and gender identity: married women’s property legislation in Scotland, c.1850-1920. AJ. Kidd, D. Nicholls. In: Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism. Middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.133-145.

  C. Young, C. Morris (1998). A preliminary analysis of UK quality assurance schemes: ‘new deals’ for the rural environment?. A. Ferjoux. In: Environement et nature dans les campagnes. Agriculture de qualite et nouvelles fonctions. Nantes: Presses Universitaires Rennes, pp.33-48.

  C. Young (1998). Governing place marketing. D. Medway. In: Marketing and Managing Urban Centres. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, pp.63-76.

  C. Young (1998). Political representations of geography and place in the introduction of the U.K. Asylum and Immigration Act (1996). F. Nicholson, P. Twomey. In: Current Issues of UK Asylum Law and Policy. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.34-51.

  S. Millington (1997). Local Governance and Local Economic Development in Manchester. S. Liszewski, C. Young. In: Liszewski, S. & Young, C. A Comparative Study of Lodz and Manchester. . 297-307.. Lodz: Lodz University Press, pp.297-307.

Expert reviewer for journals and publishers

Reviewer for: Area, Regional Studies, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning B, Environment and Planning C, Environment and Planning D, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Social Geografie, European Urban and Regional Studies, Geography, Sociologica Ruralis, Journal of Historical Geography, The Geographical Journal, Political Geography, Geographica Polonica, Antipode, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Urban Studies, European Journal of American Studies, GeoJournal, Geoforum, Urban Affairs Review, International Planning Studies, Moravian Geographical Reports, Social & Cultural Geography, Geography Compass, Urban Geography, International Political Sociology, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Polar Geography, Mortality, Safer Communities Journal, Geographica Helvetica, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies, Bulletin of Geography (Poland), Cultural Geographies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Grants

1. Creativity from below: Understanding the socio-political construction of 'creativity' in the European city - Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet/VR), £300,000 (2016-19). In collaboration with the Dept. of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden. The project explores new ways of thinking about creative city policy and critically analyses creative city policy and the views of creative producers in Manchester, Stockholm and Gdansk. A previous pilot project was funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Co-operation in Research (STINT).

2. On Encountering Corpses: Political, Socio-economic and Cultural Aspects of Contemporary Encounters with Corpses - ESRC Research Seminar Series award, £30k (2014-17). This research seminar series considers a variety of contemporary encounters with dead bodies in various contexts including the politics of (re-)burial, trade in body parts, dark tourism, body donation, diaspora and bodily disposal, the ethics of excavation, 'green' burial and theological perspectives on the dead body. Co-Is are from York, Durham, Bath, UClan and Hull York Medical School.

3. Holiday-making in socialist Romania, 1945-89 - this project is run in collaboration with Bournemouth University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, funded by the MMU Research Centre for Social Science Research. The project explores the nature of holiday-making in Communist Romania and examines its relationship to everyday life and people's relationship to the socialist state and its ideological policies (eg. was tourism a further projection of state ideology or a space for various 'escapes').

4. History, memory and identity in post-socialist Romania - in collaboration with Bournemouth University and the University of Bucharest (MMU funded). It focuses on the continuity of urban cultural landscapes from the state-socialist period and how landscape elements play a role in post-socialist identity formation. A particular focus of the project is on deathscapes and the geographies of the corpse.

5. Post-socialist urban identities - funded by a Research Programme Grant from the Royal Geographical Society and the Swedish Rijskbanken Jubileumsfund. The project involved two international workshops on post-socialist urban identities (in Stockholm and Krakow) creating a network of international researchers from the UK, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Croatia, and North America.

6. Public space in European cities in transition - Euro 100,000 EU-INTAS grant (2006-8). The project focused on the changing nature of public space in European cities in transition - Manchester, Sofia, Lviv and St. Petersburg - concluding with a major international conference in St. Petersburg. The partners in the project were from Russia, Bulgaria and Ukraine.

Projects and initiatives

Co-organiser of public engagement event "Encountering Corpses II" 2016 at Manchester Southern Cemetery Crematorium Chapel.

Co-organiser of public engagement event "Encountering Corpses" 2014 at the Manchester Museum, including tours of Manchester's Southern Cemetery and a photography exhibit and community arts project at Sacred Trinity Church, Salford. Project partners are Manchester Museum, Manchester Guided Tours and Sacred Trinity Church.

ESRC Research Seminar Series 'Encountering Corpses' engages with a number of professionals in the 'death industry' including funeral directors, embalmers, government officials and policy makers (Ministry of Justice and Human Tissue Authority), faith leaders and clergy.

Expert reviewer for external funding bodies

Member of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College.

Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, (FWO - Flanders Research Foundation, Belgium).

HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area).

Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, Georgia.

Visiting and honorary positions

2012: Flaherty Visiting Research Fellow, Research Centre for Urban Cultural History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.  

2010: Invited Professor, GEOREG Summer School, University of Olomouc, Czech Republic.

2009-10: Guest Researcher, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden.

2009: Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

2007: Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

2006: Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Neofit-Rilsky South-West University, Bulgaria.

1998: Visiting Professor, Department of Urban Geography, University of Lodz, Poland.

Editorial board membership

Editor-in-Chief of Eurasian Geography and Economics

Editorial Board member for International Review of Social Research.

Editorial Board member for Human Geographies.