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My research stay in Italy unfolded in a different way than anticipated due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Consequently, the seminars that had I planned to give at the University of Bologna in

UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands the CSPS Seminar has been postponed until further notice. I am scheduled to give a talk during the Centre for Space Place and Society Seminar “WE’VE

MQ Lighthouse – Macquarie University’s in-house and online publisher –  has showcased my recent research in the below article (published 16 March 2020). To view this article in High Definition on the MQ Lighthouse website,

Research time…. In the upcoming months I will be dedicating myself fully to new research projects with colleagues in Europe and writing a manuscript for a book that will be published with Palgrave Macmillan in

The bi-annual Critical Tourism Studies Asia-Pacific Conference took place in Wakayama, Japan this year. Besides giving a paper presentation there myself, I moderated a session on ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism’ and attended numerous other

This is the third time that I have delivered a guest lecture in the ‘Tourist Experiences‘ course at Wageningen University. The course “examines the conceptualisation and management of the tourism experience in the context of

I visited the International University of Languages and Media (IULM) in Milan, Italy on 11 November to discuss future collaborations with colleagues at the Faculty of Arts, Tourism and Markets. Additionally, I delivered a guest

Together with my colleagues Dr Richard Carter-White and David di Muro from Macquarie University Library, we have delivered a presentation at the Immersive Technologies Interest Group (ITIG) Exchange. The presentation discusses our experience with the

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) conference took place in London (UK) this year and there were a couple of great sessions that I had the pleasure to attend. The Overtourism

The IAG Conference is the annual meeting of the Institute of Australian Geographers. The 2019 conference – entitled Geographies of emergence, divergence and convergence – was held at Wrest Point in Hobart (Tasmania, Australia), a

Good news reached our inboxes this week: together with Michael Rampe (principal investigator), Dr. Ronika Power and Dr. Bénédicte André, based at Macquarie University, we have succeeded in our application for an Echo360 Research Grant. 

For the third time since I started my position at Macquarie University, I have delivered a guest lecture in the Sustainable Urban Regions postgraduate course. In this lecture, I discuss the rise of the ‘platform

On 21 May I delivered a guest lecture in the Living in the Anthropocene postgraduate course at Macquarie University, Australia. The unit focuses upon how we should live in the Anthropocene and respond to the

On 6 May, I give a guest lecture in the Urban Strategic Planning undergraduate course at Macquarie University. This course focuses on urban strategic planning at the regional and local government level in the Australian

I presented a paper on ‘The Tourism Worker and the Platform Economy’ at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington (DC, USA) on 4 April. The presentation was part of the session ‘Towards

This is the second time that I give a guest lecture in the Leisure, Tourism and Environment: Experiences and Environments postgraduate course at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Having been an MSc student at Wageningen University

On 14 January, I gave an invited talk at the Department of Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany. The talk was part of the Café Geographique seminar series and centered on the work that I have

Together with Claudio Minca, I was invited to deliver a keynote at the Faculty of Tourism and Geography at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain) on 11 January. The presentation reflected on the cultural geographies

The Critical Tourism Studies network Asia-Pacific (CTSAP) held its Inaugural Conference on 3 – 6 March at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Together with Claudio Minca, on 5 March I gave a paper on the

In November and December 2016, I had the privilege to spend time with colleagues at both Tokyo University and Rikkyo University (Japan). During my visiting scholarship, I also delivered lectures at both host institutions. The visit

Call for Papers NKG 2016 Together with my colleagues Heide Bruckner and Petra Wlasak at the Institute of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, I am organizing a session on “Integrating Feminist Geographies”. Please

From 1 September to 9 October 2014 I took part in the “Didactic Skills” course offered by the Education and Competence Studies Group at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). The course focuses on the development of

The second year of my studies at Wageningen University included an 8-month internship at Bureau BUITEN (October 2010-May 2011), a notable consultancy firm in Utrecht (the Netherlands) specialized, among other fields, in the leisure- and