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Curriculum VitaeBirthdate: 30 August 1972 Birthplace: Bramsche (Germany) Nationalities: Dutch/ German Marital Status: married (2 children: 2005, 2009)
Education/qualification 1999 PhD “Made in the GDR- the changing geographies of women in the post-socialist rural society in Mecklenburg-Westpommerania”, University of Plymouth, UK 1998 SEDA (Teaching Associate), University of Plymouth, UK 1997 GTA (Teaching Assistant), University of Plymouth, UK 1997 PGDip(Postgraduate Diploma) University of Plymouth, UK (with distinction) 1996 BSc “Impact of management on old growth forest ecosystems of Southeast Vancouver Island”, University of Plymouth, UK 1991-1994 Biology, University of Osnabrück, Germany 1992-1994 Biology and Geography for ‘Lehramt Gymnasium’, University of Osnabrück, Germany ‘Sachkunde’ and Arts for ‘Lehramt Grundschule’, University of Osnabrück, Germany Research Projects
2010- current Geographies of ageing and wellbeing principal investigator (projects with Louise Meijering and Aleid Brouwer)
About this research: This research is embedded in the Faculty Research Network 'Ageing and Wellbeing' and explores attachments of older people to their neighbourhoods and homes and the strategies employed to retain a sense of mobility and empowerment. This research has begun to compile insights through several smaller studies in collaboration with student researchers. These studies have addressed the experiences of older people at different geographic scales. They include: homemaking in nursing homes; place attachment in Groningen' s first post-war expansion neighbourhood, Selwerd; place attachment by an intentional, migrant community in the neighbourhood of Lewenborg; place attachment of older people in Durham (UK); and place attachment in a Dutch retirement community Netherville in New Zealand. The research conducted in Selwerd and the Veldspaat has featured in an episode on care by the university programme 'Adams Appel' (see http://www.rug.nl/corporate/nieuws/adamsAppel/archief2011/afl07_2011) as well as 'RUG Opinie' (see http://www.rug.nl/corporate/nieuws/opinie/2011/opinie26_2011). Outcomes are currently being processed in the form of publications such as a special issue for 'European Spatial Research and Policy' (guest editors: Brouwer, van Hoven and Meijering).
2007- current Geographies of the Great Bear Rainforest (Canada), principal investigator About this research: Funded largely by the Gratama Foundation, this research, first of all, aimed at producing a video documentary as part of a teaching pack for secondary schools (van Hoven and Logtmeijer 2009a. See video at: mms://wmvideo.service.rug.nl/bdk/ber/frw/GBR.wmv%20). Using the voices of some of the stakeholders, the documentary presents the Great Bear Rainforest as a social construction, and explores different meanings and values assigned to the forest by these stakeholders. The medium video utilizes a sequence and/ or combination of spoken word, differently paced visuals and music in order to relay an emotional dimension of the issues portrayed, and engage the viewer more by offering these additional sensory experiences (when compared to a written, academic article). The research has been influential in shaping the Cultural Geography curriculum at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences (RUG) as it contributes to a great extend to thinking about and producing place representations. Amongst others, the project led to the inclusion of a video production workshop into the MSc CG curriculum. The workshop has been named as example of 'good practice' by Jean Andrews of Ohio Landscape Productions (USA) in her various presentations. The research has been presented in teaching within the Faculty as well as the University of Plymouth (UK) (by video conference), the Hanze University and the University of Wageningen. In 2009, the project was included in the episode 'Grond'by the University programme 'Adams Appel' (see http://www.rug.nl/corporate/nieuws/adamsAppel/archief2009/afl17_2009) and was the subject of an article in Broerstraat 5 'Het bos, de beer en de beleving' (see http://www.rug.nl/alumni/magazine/magArchief/pdf/Broerstraat5_2009_3.pdf [PDF]). The research was also at the centre of a one-hour radio show 'Hoe?Zo! Radio' 'Op zoek naar de beren' in 2010 (see: http://educatie.ntr.nl/radio/134903/hoe-zo-radio/item/2932134/op-zoek-naar-de-beren/). The documentary has been presented at several national and international conferences. The research has also brought embodied ways of producing knowledge to light and this has been subject to academic publications as well. Results from this aspect of the research were presented twice during the Nacht van de Kunst en Wetenschap held in Groningen in June 2011. You can listen to a presentation given at the 'Without destination- practicing nature-based tourism' conference in Reykjavik (Feb 2011) at: http://vimeo.com/20328934. Overall, the research has been published as follows: van Hoven and Logtmeijer 2009a, b, c; van Hoven, 2010; van Hoven and Meijering, 2011; van Hoven 2011; van Hoven and Logtmeijer forthcoming 2011; van Hoven, forthcoming
2007- current Youth and wellbein g principal investigator (e.g. study on youth and belonging on Vancouver Island in 2007, funded by the 'International Council for Canadian Studies') and co-promotor PhD project on youth in Estonia by Elen-Maarja Trell- promotor P.P.P.Huigen)
About this research: This research explores important locations in the everyday lives of youth in order to examine people, place and process in developing place attachment, and assess the impact of place attachment of wellbeing. The research adopts participatory methods which include training youth as co-researchers, conducting in-depth interviews, walks and producing photos and videos. The subject of place attachment has also been explored as part of Master theses in the context of projects in the Netherlands, Indonesia and Uganda. Results from this research have been published as follows: van Hoven, 2008; Trell and van Hoven, 2010; van Hoven and Meijering, 2011; Trell and van Hoven, forthcoming 2011; Trell, van Hoven and Huigen, forthcoming). I am currently developing a research project on wellbeing and children in the context of transportation and liveability in neighbourhoods together with Femke Niekerk and Taede Tillema (Department of Planning at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences).
Past research:
2003- 2007 Imprisoned geographies, principal investigator (NWO-VENI funded project)
About this research: This study involved conducting case studies in three prisons (two in the Netherlands and one in the United States). Themes that emerged from the data became the focus of the study: masculinities, surveillance and anxiety. Results from the research have been published as follows: van Hoven and Hörschelmann 2005a,b; van Hoven and Sibley, 2008; van Hoven and Hopkins, 2009; Sibley and van Hoven 2009; van Hoven and Hopkins, 2010; Peace and van Hoven 2010; van Hoven and Meijering 2011; van Hoven 2011.
2002- 2006 Intentional Communities in rural Western Europe, PhD co-supervisor of Louise Meijering (promotor: Prof P.P.P. Huigen) About this research: This research uses a number of cases of different intentional communities in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK in order to explore the life-course of these communities. Results from the research have been published as follows: Meijering, van Hoven and Huigen, 2005; van Hoven, Meijering and Huigen, 2005; Meijering, van Hoven and Huigen 2007a, b; Meijering van Hoven and Huigen 2007. The research currently provides the inspirastion for a new research proiject and NWO Onderzoekstalent proposal on intentional communities and older people (with Debbie Lager, Aleid Brouwer and Paulus Huigen)
2000 Gender and work in Hollywood, exploratory project, principal investigator About this research: Based on in-depth interviews with different key informants and employees in the film industry, this research addressed gendered workplace experiences. An article on this research was published in 2003 (van Duinen and van Hoven, 2003).
1996- 1999 Made in the GDR the changing geographies of women in the post- socialist rural society in Mecklenburg-Westpommerania, PhD research, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK (supervisor Prof M. Blacksell) About this research: This research critically analyses the impact of social transformations resulting from German unification on women in rural areas. It illustrates, in detail, the gendered nature of everyday experiences and demonstrates to what extent such experiences are determined by dominant patriarchal power structures. The thesis draws on a number of analytic concepts developed within a (white Western) feminist geographic framework. It predominantly utilises qualitative data, including correspondence, in-depth interviews and focus groups, for exploring experiences at the local level, whilst also consulting statistics and documentary evidence to establish links with the regional, national and, less frequently, international levels.
In addition to conference presentations and professional publications, this research has been subject of several publications with a focus on either the PhD-research alone (van Hoven 1999; van Hoven 2001; van Hoven, 2002; van Hoven 2003; van Hoven 2004d), as a part of comparative work (Horschelmann and van Hoven 2003; van Hoven and Pfaffenbach, 2003; van Hoven 2004 a,b, c; van Hoven et al., 2004), as a case in a Dutch textbook on regions (van Hoven and Groote, 2002, 2005 and forthcoming) and as an example in a methods handbook (van Hoven 2003, 2010).
1998 ‘Street prostitution in Boston’, research assistant to Dr. M. Hawk, Suffolk University, Boston, USA
1997 ‘Property reclamation in Gotha (former GDR)’ research assistant to Prof. M. Blacksell [PDF], University of Plymouth, UK
Research interests The Departmental research theme is ‘Geographies of belonging and identities’. This theme summarises my own research focus as well. Upon my employment at the Faculty, my work focused on gender issues and Otherness. I have worked on projects on the following topics: women in Eastern Europe, diaspora and migration, institutions, ethnicity, sexuality, disabilities, youth and nature.
In 2003, I received a grant through the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the study ‘Imprisoned Geographies’ (-2007). This study involved conducting case studies in three prisons (two in the Netherlands and one in the United States). Themes that emerged from the data became the focus of the study: masculinities, surveillance and anxiety. Related subprojects have addressed: spatial planning and prisons in the Netherlands, prisons and heritage, prisons and youths, and representations of prisons.
More recently, my research focus has shifted to address more explicitly the concept of place attachment. In doing so, I utilized a people-centered approach as well as a place (and even non-human)-centered approach. For example, I have conducted projects with young people in Canada and, as part of a PhD project, in Estonia (with Elen Trell). In Groningen, I have begun to collate in-depth interviews on older people’s place attachment in several smaller case studies (with Louise Meijering). The outcomes of these studies have begun to give interesting insights in the usefulness and limitations of the concept place attachment and has brought into light a range of issues related to wellbeing in place for both age groups. In Canada, I took as a starting point the largest intact, temperate old growth forest, the Great Bear Rainforest, to explore how different kinds of attachment to this place result in different views on nature management. This project took the form of a video documentary but has also lead to spin off projects addressing actor-network theory, non-representational theory and emotional geographies.
In all of my work I have been keen to attend to better ways of capturing, rigorously analyzing and reporting my respondents’ voices. Aside from gaining expertise in Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software, it encouraged me to explore more participatory and visual methods.
Teaching focus My aim is to provide students with a good theoretical foundation by introducing and critically discussing key texts and cultural geographical ideas. In my teaching, I create opportunities for linking course contents to personal lives and living environments through a variety of exercises. In addition, I provide opportunities for students to apply cultural geographical ideas in small research projects to demonstrate the use and usefulness of 'abstract' theoretical knowledge. Teaching includes in-class teaching as well as utilizing opportunities to obtain and critically discuss knowledge in contexts such as a museum or a conference (for example, in 2010, when students addressed representations of biodiversity by analysing academic texts, an exhibition in the museum in Leiden, as well as joining an international symposium on biodiversity organised by the University of Wageningen in Leiden). I am also part of the group of lecturers that develop and carry out foreign fieldtrips such as the one to Canada (from 2008) and a new one to Iceland and New York.
In conveying knowledge to students in different, interactive ways, I have made use of newer available technologies as well. When in Canada (in 2007), I taught an entire course using video conferencing, podcasts, chats and Wikis (see http://rjh.ub.rug.nl/index.php/pictogram/article/viewFile/536/522). In the course Representing Places, the students learn to present findings in ways other than academic writing and thus reach different audiences, for example through using photography or video documentary.
I try to actively involve students in teaching and seek out collaborations with external partners to enhance their learning experience. In the past (2007), I collaborated with student researchers in making a documentary on the human-nature conflict in British Columbia, Canada (funded by the Gratama foundation). This documentary still receives local, national and international interest and is currently updated and re-edited for distribution in North America. This academic year (2010-11), we collaborated with the VPRO programme Tegenlicht when exploring regional identities, as well as the municipality of Groningen in exploring older people’s place attachment. These research projects with students as a part of teaching received some attention by the media as well. As noted, students contributed to VPRO programme 'Tegenlicht. De nieuwe Noorderling' (see the VPRO website http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/nieuws/nederland/onderzoek/studenten-groningen.html), the magazine Geografie used some of the student research on 'Oost Groningen' ( R. Boeve and G.J. Hospers (2011), Groningen als thuishonk, Geografie, 20 (4), pp. 9-11) and the programme on care by 'Adams Appel' also drew on student research. At the moment, two Master students are carrying out research in Karamoja, in collaboration with Florence Naduk, field officer to the Government of Uganda.
In the past years, I have been able to offer students the opportunity to work with me on ongoing research projects and thus gain deeper insights into the everyday practicalities of research including its problems and excitement. This has resulted in several (peer) reviewed publications with Master students (van Hoven et al. 2011; van Hoven and Elzinga, 2009; Elzinga and van Hoven, 2006; van Hoven and Meijering, 2005; ; Poelman and van Hoven, 2003; Meijering and van Hoven, 2003; van Hoven and Poelman, 2003; van Duinen and van Hoven, 2003; van Hoven and Jager, 2001)
In 2005, I founded the Herta Macht Dissertation Prize to help stimulate talented young student researchers (see http://www.rug.nl/alumni/magazine/magArchief/pdf/Broerstraat5_2004_4.pdf). See also FRW website: http://www.rug.nl/frw/onderwijs/scriptieprijs/index
Tasks within the Faculty of Spatial Sciences Teaching: Bachelor:
Master:
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Founder Herta Macht Dissertation Prize (since 2005) Information about background here [PDF] Information about regulations and submission here Article about the first winner in Universiteitskrant 32 of May 11th 2006 (‘Ik vond het zelf meer een zevenenhalf’) and the second winner in UK 27 of March 29th 2007 ('Een tweede plek om de gestorvene te bezoeken') Report about the second winner in 'Adams Appel' here
Award and Grant activities In 2003, I received the NWO-VENI research grant for innovative research (200,000 euros). I have received several smaller grants since then for workshops and smaller projects. These range from 4,000 euros to 20,000 euros.
Visiting Fellowships
Conference and workshop organisation
Editorial Boards
Occasional Reviewer
Co-promotor March 2002 to October 2006: Louise Meijering (Title: ‘Making a place of their own’) (Promotor: Prof. Paulus Huigen, University of Groningen) October 2008- ongoing: Elen-Maarja Trell (Title: ‘ “In the Frontline of Change: Young People’s Sense of Belonging in Transitional Estonia.” ) (Promotor: Prof. Paulus Huigen, University of Groningen)
2010-ongoing: Co-promotor Clemens Bernhardt (promoter Huib Ernste, Nijmegen), PhD on ‘making place’ in AZC
External Examination 2004 External Examiner PhD Anke Strüver, ‘Stories of the “Boring Border”. The Dutch-German Borderscape in People’s Minds’, University of Nijmegen
Memberships At this time, I am an active member and co-founder (with Aleid Brouwer and Louise Meijering) of the "Wellbeing and Ageing research network" within the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, a member of the "Institute for Integration and Social Efficacy" at the RUG, the "Canadian Studies Centre" at the RUG, and the "Without destination" international research network on nature-based tourism.
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