Courses
Biogeography in a Changing World
University of Helsinki, 24-25 October 2012
The course familiarizes the students with the current topics, theories and methods of biogeographical research. It is a combination of lectures and seminar. The course concentrates on modern quantitative biogeography and macroecology in the context of global change. It also familiarizes the students with research process from building study designs to writing up research. Further information
Earlier courses
Researching Politics and the Politics of Research , University of Oulu, 2012
New Trends in Geoinformatics, Modeling our Environment , University of Eastern Finland, 2011
Economy, Culture and Power , University of Turku, 2011
Designing qualitative research and empirical analysis, University of Tampere, 2011
Geographies of Tourism, Power and Global Change, University of Oulu, 2011
Geoinformatics Applications in Monitoring and Analysis of the Changing Environment, University of Helsinki, 2010
Spatial Modelling in Physical Geography, University of Oulu, 2010
Firms and regions - coevolutionary perspectives , University of Turku, 2010
Political, social and cultural geographies of Europeanization , University of Turku and University of Helsinki, 2010
Dialogues of Development , University of Eastern Finland, 2010
New geographical theories and methodologies , University of Oulu, 2009
Fieldbased physical geography in boreal and subarctic environments , University of Turku, 2009
Geographies of Boundaries and Borderlands , University of Joensuu, 2009
Teaching plan of permafrost course , University of Helsinki, 2009
Regions, Cultures and Governance: Regional policy perspectives , University of Oulu, 2008
Local, Regional and Rural Development in the European North , University of Joensuu, 2008
Re-Grounding Globalization , University of Tampere, 2008
Globalization, competitiveness and changing state spaces , University of Turku, 2008
Effective Communication as a Rewarding Strategy , University of Helsinki, 2007
Governance and local development , University of Vaasa, 2007
Understanding changes and dynamics in landscapes: methods, processes and implications , University of Turku, 2007
Spatial and Social Natures: New Topographies of Local-global Change, University of Joensuu, 2007
Geography, place and mobility theory, methods and research practice , University of Oulu, 2007
Economic Geographies: New Theories, Methods and Representations , University of Joensuu and Helsinki School of Economics, 2007
How to survive in a Ph.D. thesis process? From research design to publishing practice , University of Oulu, 2006
Uudet sosiaaliset ja alueelliset jaot - Kaupunkiseutujen rakenteellisen kehityksen ulottuvuudet , University of Helsinki, 2006
Composing a Doctoral Thesis in Geography, University of Joensuu, 2006
Periglasiaali-seminaari (Julian Murton, Miska Luoto, Jan Hjort and Matti Seppälä), University of Helsinki, 2006
Transformation and development of rural resource peripheries in the European North (Stephen Fortescue and Andrew Bond), 2005
Regions, Boundaries and Socio-spatial Change , University of Oulu, 2005
Geography as Spatial, Visual and Environmental Science: New Methodological Possibilities , University of Turku, 2005
Just in Case - Questions of Case Study Methodology , University of Tampere, 2005
Tourism, geographical transformation and "new mobilities" (Micheal Hall, Michael Haldrup and Dieter Muller), 2004
Development processes in rural areas, borderlands and peripheries (Walter Leimgruber, Peter Jurczek and Harley Johansen), 2004
Power and Responsibility in Urban Development (John Allen and Peter Ambrose), 2004
Spatial modelling of permafrost in mountain areas (Martin Hoelzle and Stephan Gruber), 2004
Politicisation of nature - new phases of cultural/nature research (Anders Sandberg and David Demeritt), 2003
Cities at Risk (Robert Beauregard and Sophie Body-Gendrot), 2003
Interdisciplinary approach to development questions in international marginal regions, 2003
Geography, landscape and environment - challenges of contemporary research, 2003
Local development dynamics and potential in peripheral areas (Ole Bärenholdt, Andrew Bond and James Walsh), 2003
Governance and Networks (Peter Garside and Carlo Salone), 2003
Peripherial regions with shared resources and problems - developing tools for regional planning, 2003
Re-thinking "the Political" in Society and Research (Joe Painter), 2002
Urban-rural dichotomy (Keith Halfacree), 2002
Contemporary approaches in cultural geography II (Joanna Sharp and Philip Crang), 2001
Dynamics of settlement patterns in Northern Europe (Riccardo Cappellin, John Lovering and Erik Vatne), 2001
Multicultural City (Audrey Kobayashi and Paul White), 2001
Methodological features in regional research (Jouni Häkli and Markku Sotarauta), 2000
Contemporary approaches in cultural geography I (Rob Shields and Mike Crang), 2000
Different landscapes/landscape differences (Mona Domosh, John Gold and Roy Haines-Young), 2000
GIS and ArcInfo in georaphical research, 1999
New methodologies in Geography (Ash Amin), 1999
Urban growth machine - then and now (John Logan and Harvey Molotch), 1997
Conflicting constructions of nature - local/global interfaces in environmental research (Jacquelin Burgess and Anders Hjort), 1997
Rethinking Geography (Stanley D. Brunn and Gunnar Olsson), 1997
Regionalization in Europe - the changing area of the Baltic Sea (Patsy Healey and Åke Andersson), 1997
Urban futures (Michael Deara and Paul Knox), 1996
Northerness and peripheries - contested categories (Serge Payette and John R. Short), 1996
GIS and society (John Pickles), 1996
Lake sediments as archives of environmental change (John Dearing), 1995
New theoretical approaches in human geography (Derek Gregory and Peter Jackson), 1995
Changing spatial order and internationalization (Ray Hudson and Peter Maskell), 1995