The aim of a Visiting Scholar is to discuss and share ideas with another academic in our Department who works within the same, or closely related, field of interest. From this mutual collaboration may come ideas, joint publications and grant applications for future joint research projects.
Our Visiting Scholars have a PhD degree, are carrying out research and looking to collaborate with academics in the Department of Geography at Cambridge while they are taking a sabbatical from their home institution. While a Visiting Scholar will have a prime point of contact – their ‘host’ – we hope that they will engage more widely with our research activities, through attending meetings of our Thematic Research Groups and through discussions with individual researchers in the Department. And we encourage links with researchers in other Faculties and Departments in Cambridge over the course of their stay.
The Department of Geography accepts Visiting Scholars from a wide range of backgrounds and research fields. They can be either supported by their institutions or self-funded.
Current Visiting Scholars in the Department:
Dr Tito Arosio, collaborating with Prof Ulf BĂĽntgen Research: Tito Arosio is a post-doc supported by the Swiss National Foundation. |
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Dr Agata Buchwal, collaborating with Prof Ulf BĂĽntgen Research: Agata Buchwal is a visiting scholar supported by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). |
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Dr Leon Hirt, collaborating with Prof Mike Hulme Research: Leon Hirt is a postdoctoral researcher supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, working on the project entitled, “Imagining negative emission technologies: looking to the past and present to contemplate futures”. This project seeks to illuminate how scientists imagine negative emission technologies in the case of human-induced climate change and in relation to climate mitigation and adaptation measures. Leon undertook his PhD at the University of Geneva jointly in the Geneva School of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Sciences. His doctoral research focused on uncovering the socio-technical transition dynamics around solar photovoltaic (PV) in Switzerland and provided insights into short-term and practical actions to accelerate the uptake of PV as well as indications of long-term socio-political transformations spurred by this technology. |
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Dr Mathias Ingholt, collaborating with Dr Romola Davenport Research: (Details to follow) |
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Dr Jakub Kronenberg, collaborating with Prof Chris Sandbrook Research: Jakub Kronenberg is an ecological economist working on environmental values and the institutional context of nature conservation, in particular with regard to urban green spaces and birds. Among other things, he investigates problems with the neoliberal governance of nature. |
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Dr John Marazita, collaborating with Prof Mike Hulme Research: (Details to follow) |
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Research: Dr. Snizhana Zahorodnia, Senior Researcher, Department of Environmental Research, Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine. She defended her Ph.D. on the topic "Evaluation of the ecological state of the nature reserve fund using geoinformation technologies" from the specialty "Environmental safety." The main directions of scientific research are ecological safety of the system of nature management, lake ecosystems, wetlands, and territories of the nature reserve fund of Ukraine using the toolkit of geoinformation technologies and methods of remote sensing of the Earth. Cartographic support for managing the nature reserve fund using geoinformation systems, combining remote and on-site research. Key subjects are developing models for analyzing anthropogenic factors' influence on the ecosystem of the nature reserve fund and improving the technology of ecological cartographic assessment of the ecological state of natural objects using geoinformation systems to support management decision-making regarding environmental safety. |