"It's been a year since we first launched the Bitterzoete Route tour, and now we want to move further towards achieving our goal: to raise awareness about fe...

PhD training in the social sciences at Wageningen The University's Centre for Place, Space and Society's (CSPS) aims to facilitate and advance creative, crit...

Starting in February 2020, I'll be part of a 6-month-long project 'Building capacity for transformative learning' (herein 'the Project'), which received fund...

Wageningen, 17 December 2019. The Netherlands is today home to an estimated 2.5 million people with disabilities, and this number is on the rise with the cou...

'The cities of the Migrantour network offer intercultural urban walks, a form of responsible tourism at kilometer zero, which sees as protagonists fellow cit...

Where: Lumen Building (aka ‘Building 100’), Room 2, Wageningen University Campus, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB Wageningen When: 11:30-14:00, 11 November 20...

New PhD position available! Prof. Edward Huijbens and I, at the Cultural Geography group at Wageningen University, are bringing on a PhD student to examine c...

I contributed a session called 'Migration, heritage politics and the role of tourism' to the 2019 MeditHerity summer school (blog) in late September. Many th...

Haarlem, 18 June 2019. The National Geographic Society has awarded a grant to Roots Guide: The Dutch Stories, an educational social inclusion project taking ...

I'm really looking forward to talking about the work I'm doing as part of the Roots Guide project during the two-part Conveying Geographical Collaborations: ...

Heidi Kaspar (Careum Forschung, Switzerland) and I have a chapter in the newly released Routledge Handbook of Global Urban Health, edited by Igor Vojnovic, A...

New special issue on transnational medical travel in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) now available!

Those of us working in academia are increasingly required to identify not only the academic impact of the work that we do but also its societal impact. This ...

This event takes place on Sunday, 24 March 2019, at Thuis in Wageningen. Participation is limited to 16 applicants -- please see link to the application below...

Award objectives The Expatriate Archive Centre (EAC) is keen to celebrate and reward talents who produce outstanding master’s theses that help to further und...

The wonderful Heidi Kaspar and I have published a chapter on South-South medical tourism in the new Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations, a volume edi...

As someone who left her country of birth more than 20 years ago and has lived in many places since, I wish all fellow migrants and descendents of migrants (i...

As curator of the Roots Guide: The Dutch Stories, I'm now always on the lookout for opportunities to learn from and share with others working in areas and pr...

In Autumn 2018, Meghann Ormond joined forces with social entrepreneurs Ingi Mehus and Daniel Wurpel of Pocket Stories, photographer Rehab Eldalil and photogr...

The MSc Tourism, Leisure and Environment (MLE) programme received the rating 'Excellent' from the Dutch national accreditation office (NVAO). Because of thi...