Igu international Geographical Union

Teaching Profile

Research-oriented and research-based teaching in geography forms the main focus in my courses. In courses on basic academic skills and urban geography projects for first year bachelor students human geography and urban and regional planning, courses on qualitative research methods and field work for second year bachelor students, thesis projects for third year bachelor students and thesis preparation and thesis seminar for master students in human geography students are actively engaged in designing a research proposal, in field-work based data collection and data analysis and in writing reports and theses. Other courses relate to introduction in human geography, urban geography and geography and gender. Between 1990 and 1998 I coordinated the ERASMUS-SOCRATES network Geography and Gender, funded by the European Commission. This network of six European universities organized eight times a successful intensive programme for undergraduate and graduate students. As part of this intensive programme I have given classes on gender themes at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1993 and 1998, at the University of Durham in 1991 and 1996, at Roskilde University Center in 1994 and at the Technical University of Athens in 1995. I have published on teaching geography in higher education in Journal of Geography in Higher Education, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, Geographica Helvetica and Documenti d’Analisi de Geografia.