I am a lecturer at the Cultural Geograhy Group. My research focusses on the role of conflicts in conservation tourism practices across Namibia, Kenya, Spain and Portugal. I explore how conflict potentially help to shape related conservation landscapes, tourism enterprises, and wider socio-political relations.

MOOC professional certificate 'SustainabIe Tourism' - 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. Currently we work on a third tourism course that is themed around the relationship between Tourism and Climate Change (upcoming in 2021).

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.

I contribute to the following courses (unlisted in the WUR study handbook):

• [online] Sustainable Tourism: Society and Environmental Aspects
• [online] Sustainable Tourism: Re-thinking the Future
• [PhD-course] CSPS Winter School Natural resources and Conflict

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