We are pleased to welcome professor Rachel Pain as speaker for the CSPS Annual Lecture 2023! Rethinking Public Safety as Care in spaces of hyperunsafety (public parks) In this lecture, I present some recent research on experiences of violence and harassment in public parks in North East England, where high rates of abuse and fear […]
Curious to know who we are and what we do as a Centre? Watch our new video, with great animations from Scratch Graphics! Produced in preparation for our upcoming Peer Review on September 8th, 2021.
“During the event over 60 participants learnt about methods to render visible the past and current ties between Dutch universities and fossil companies, like Shell, and reasons to do so.” Last week on March 16, 2023 the Mapping fossil ties symposium organised by S4F Wageningen was held in Wageningen, to deepen our knowledge about the […]
The WUR Transformative Learning Hub in collaboration with the Centre for Unusual Collaborations organizes: Workshop: Embracing multiperspectivity Registration required: Registration for CUCo’s Embracing Multiperspectivity Workshop (google.com) What can we learn from artists in our daily struggle when collaborating with others? How do artists use their senses, give meaning to emotions & feelings and collaborate with […]
Would you like to join us exploring a new, salutogenic perspective on coping with climate anxiety? If yes, then register for the free webinar organised by Laura Bouwman (HSO, Wageningen University), Leah Rosen (HSO, Wageningen University) and Marguerite Daniels (University of Bergen) on March 24th, 13:00-15:00 PM. We would like to invite you to join […]
Event description Lula’s victory in the 2022 Brazilian election was accompanied by a solid commitment to tackle climate change, including the goal of zero deforestation by 2030. A new Plan to Halt Deforestation is expected, comprising all Brazilian biomes beyond the Amazon alone. Action to confront illegal operations has already begun, for example in the […]
Text and photos Merissa Gavin Re-negotiating precarity: Migrant fruit pickers in southern SpainFor my ongoing thesis research, I am interested in how migrant workers in Spain’s agri-food industry navigate politically induced precarity. Precarity, within the scope of this research, refers to the instability of immigrants’ status in society as they embody the paradox of being […]
Date: March 16 2023 Time: 15.15- 18.00 Venue: Gaia 1+2, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Wageningen You can register here: https://forms.gle/7tzVSSa8hauuBXeDA Organized by: S4F Wageningen, CSPS and W*O*L*F* Key-notes Brigitte Wear Researcher and writer at The Jester and student of Wageningen University. Vatan Hüzeir Researcher-activist, advisor in climate change & energy, PhD-candidate on climate activism, director Changerism, […]
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson & Monique Dufour (2023) The Productivity Trap:Why We Need a New Model of Faculty Writing Support, Change: The Magazine of HigherLearning, 55:1, 24-30, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2023.2151800 Read full article
The ETC Summerschool 2023 will be held from the 18th of June – 30th of June 2023 and will be hosted by the University of Chester, UK. The theme of this years summerschool is “Strengthening Community Health and Wellbeing: putting the Art back into Public Health”. We have a very attractive and creative programme (click […]
Carving out the space: A reflexive workshop on PAR With special guests: Rachel Pain, Katy Jenkins, Bettina van Hoven and Sonja Marzi Date and time: 8 March 2023, 9:00-12:30, followed by lunch Location: Wageningen University – B: 351 R:0031 Dance Room C:018 (Clockhouse, Generaal Foulkes 37, Wageningen 6703BL) Registration required: https://forms.gle/WxXWNUp35JGQz5s86 Max. no of participation: […]
This summer school will enable PhD students to unravel the multiple relations surrounding tourism and its development in a range of settings, equipping students with a nuanced appreciation of the social and cultural dimensions of power manifest in tourism destination development, in tandem with an appreciation of the production and material aspects of tourism and […]
Come and join us on February 16th at Wageningen Campus to co-create new perspectives on today’s role of health promotion! The symposium ‘From Ottawa to Wageningen’ precedes the inaugural lecture of Health and Society new professor Spencer Moore.During this symposium, we invite you to think creatively with us about the importance of settings in health promotion. […]
Tourism@WUR is very happy to invite you to the movie screening ‘In the Name of Wild’ and Q&A with the makers In the Name of Wild tells the story of a five-year journey across ten countries in search of the meanings of wild. The documentary film and interactive documentary explore wildness in UNESCO World Heritage […]
From Feb 20 – March 16, we will be running the 3rd edition of the TPAR PhD Course, on Transformative and Participatory Qualitative Research Approaches and Methods. For the first time, we will run it in person, in Wageningen. The TPAR course offers participants conceptual and hands-on methodological engagement with transformative, participatory and action research […]
Picture by https://www.phddefencephoto.com/ On the 6th of December, dr. Marja de Jong successfully defended her dissertation entitled: “Voorstad on the move to better health”. Four questions to Marja about combining her PhD research with a job as advisor of the Municipal Health Service (GGD). Why did you start this combination, a PhD in addition to your job […]
Kai-Sean Lee, Stefanie Benjamin, The death of tourism scholarship… unless…, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 98, 2023, 103520, ISSN 0160-7383. “Our graduate students need to publish more,” says Professor Publish. “If they want to compete in today’s higher education job market, they will need at least three publications by graduation, maybe five to be safe.” […]
Friday December 16, 2022, during a ceremony from 13.30-15.00, Marta Nieto Romero will defend her PhD thesis ‘(Re)building historical commons. Exploring forest commoning as a transformative practice in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula‘ in the auditorium of the Omnia building of Wageningen University and Research. See here for more information and a link to the live broadcast or recording of […]
By Bram Büscher and Han Wiskerke Dutch farmers have worked extremely hard to keep themselves afloat in an unsustainable farming system. This self-defeating success is now at its end. Farmers should get support and realistic options to shift to a sustainable system. And science and politics must draw lessons from this for the even greater […]
Friday, 2 December 13:30 – 15:00 Linda Yevoo (SDC) | Maternal and newborn clinical decision-making in context. Linda’s research is part of the project on maternal and newborn health care in Ghana, an NWO funded programme to investigate the cause of maternal and newborn deaths in a hospital setting in Ghana. More info. Tuesday, 6 […]
Elective course: Resistance, Power & Movements (SDC53806) What is an effective movement? How do you feel about activism? Do you want to learn tools on how to be politically relevant? Do you want to join a course that seeks to create a space to explore and reflect on agency and power with a focus on combining […]
In October, four of our CSPS PhD candidates successfully defended their dissertation. We are so very proud of them. congratulations to all! Two questions to dr. Tara Ruttenberg and dr. Rodrigo Alves Rolo about their experience as a PhD researcher at WUR. dr. Tara Ruttenberg (SDC) | Decolonizing Surf Tourism: Alternatives to Development, Surfer Subjectivity and […]
Drawing your attention to a new free choice course starting in P6 this academic year – RSO58806 Beyond Sustainability: Theorizing Post- & Anti-Capitalist Food Futures The course is co-taught by RSO (Mark Vicol and Oona Morrow), GEO (Chizu Sato) and SDC (Lerato Thakholi) staff. The focus of the course is a deep dive into radical […]
Political ecology@WUR invites you to a double book presentation 17th of November: Endangered species conservation: Illegal trafficking, security and transnational networks – a political ecology perspective Prof. Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield) will present her book, “Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade”, Yale University Press Dr. Annah Lake Zhu (WUR, ENP) […]
Duurzaamheid is inmiddels niet meer weg te denken uit toerisme, de luchtvaart overigens ook niet. Deze luchtvaart afhankelijkheid van toerisme is daardoor een van de grootste barrières op weg naar duurzaamheid. De 1) ‘Techno-fix’ (de belofte dat technologische innovaties klimaatverandering kan beperken), de 2) verantwoordelijkheid afschuiven op de consument en 3) zelfregulering (verduurzaming overlaten aan […]
Duurzaamheid is inmiddels niet meer weg te denken uit toerisme, de luchtvaart overigens ook niet. Deze luchtvaart afhankelijkheid van toerisme is daardoor een van de grootste barrières op weg naar duurzaamheid. De 1) ‘Techno-fix’ (de belofte dat technologische innovaties klimaatverandering kan beperken), de 2) verantwoordelijkheid afschuiven op de consument en 3) zelfregulering (verduurzaming overlaten aan […]
Monday, 10 October, 13.30 – 15.30 Rodrigo Alves Rolo (GEO) | Spaces for Planning Evolution. Path, inter and goal dependencies in the revival of spatial planning in Argentina More information Monday, 17 October, 16.00-18.00h Tara Ruttenberg (SDC) | Decolonizing Surf Tourism: Alternatives to Development, Surfer Subjectivity and Surfscape Commons Governance More information Tuesday, 18 October, […]
The Environmental Sciences Group (ESG) at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is looking for a talented and enthusiastic science manager to advance our visualization efforts with a focus on eXtended Realities (XR). The WAgeningen iNitiative on aDvanced Extended Realities (WANDER) is a WUR wide hub for advancing the science and opportunities of advanced visualization and XR across the domains of WUR. eXtended Realities and […]
Wednesday 19th of October 2022 A symposium on Green Salutogenic Environments in Orion C2035 14:00-15:00 Talks by Prof. Catharine Ward Thompson – OPENspace, The University of Edinburg Prof. Paolo Contu, PhD, MD – Università degli Studi di Cagliari 15:00-16:00 A nature walk on the campus with walk & talk coach Oda Salomons 16:00-17:30 PhD-defense in […]
The Cultural Geography group, together with CSPS, cordially invites you to the upcoming Wageningen Geography lecture: Chris McMorran (NUSingapore) – Ryokan: mobilizing hospitality in rural Japan Tuesday Sept 27th, 15:30 Gaia Building, 1st Floor Atrium, Wageningen University Campus Followed by Q&A and a drinks reception What does it take to produce one of Japan’s most […]
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