Programmme director of the BSc/MSc Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning & Lecturer at the Cultural Geograhy Group.

My research agenda concerns conservation tourism practices across various African and European destinations (e.g. Namibia, Kenya, Spain and Portugal). I am further broadly interested in understanding how emerging tensions contribute to the formation of conservation landscapes, tourism practices, and wider socio-political relations. 

Towards sustainable tourism practices in national parks (2021). A project commissioned by the Dutch National Parks Bureau to explore lessons learned to better govern tourism challenge in national parks. This has resulted into a guidebook of interesting approaches from across European parks. 

MOOC professional certificate Tourism in Transition: Exploring a Sustainable Future - in this online professional certificate program on Edx, learners around the world can engage on some of the pressing challenges in the ongoing development of tourism and its interrelationships with the economy, society and the environment. 

PhD project: Conflicts Forever (2014-2019).

In this project I explore the evolution and performativity of conflicts in the context of conservation tourism, a policy intervention that aims at local economic development and biodiversity conservation through tourism development.For more information and related publications, see here.

Erasmus Intensive Program European Wilderness Entrepreneurship (2013 & 2014)

WURKS NatuurToGo (2013)

samenwerkingsproject in het groene onderwijs tussen Wageningen Universiteit, Van Hall Larenstein en Helicon opleidingen om onderwijs rondom natuurondernemerschap en toerisme te ontwikkelen. Onderdeel van het project is de inzet van een documentaire over Rewilding Europe.