Complex networks | Machine learning | Innovation policy | Geography of Innovation | Geography of Sustainability Transitions 

I have been conducting research on combining the notions of technological change, the evolution of knowledge networks and geography. I have been engaged in developing machine learning techniques to give a better understanding of the interplay of industrial dynamics and micro-forces of knowledge networks (e.g., R&D networks), which brings about innovation and technological change.I am passionate about conducting research on the nexus between ‘geography of innovation’ and ‘data science’. I use newly developed machine learning techniques and alternative data to map and investigate the geography of economic activities, knowledge production, and knowledge relations.

Economic Geography, Spatial Economics, Regional Science, Social and Spatial Inequalities,  Happiness and Well-being, Migration, Spatial Microsimulation, Geoinformatics

Organizational Psychology, Social Dynamics, Labor Markets

Especially interested in perception, when spaces becomes places and how such processes are influenced by the strategy and governance of the marketing and branding of cities, regions and countries.In addition, interested in every aspect of the historical and contemporary position of cities in the world.

Economic Geography; Broader Wellfare, (sustainable) entrepreneurship, regional development and resilience, ageing in place, vulnerable groups; quality of life and subjective wellbeing;  living environment; digital inclusion, mixed methods.

Globalization, Economics of agglomeration, Economic Geography, Productivity Analysis, International business

Dr. Arjan Conijn has an interest in the interaction of people and water. He mainly studies this interaction from a landscape perspective he developed during his interdisciplinary studies Landscape Architecture (BSc at Wageningen University) and Landscape History (MA at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). Arjan wrote a dissertation on the changing mentalities on flooding in the Upper Rhine valley at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After finishing his dissertation he was curious to understand the practice of flood management and started working at a engeneering consultancy firm. As for today he combines work in the field of flood management with elaborative research in the Living dikes project at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
 
Arjan has a particular interest in topics:
- Flood and water management;
- Water related heritage;
- Interdisciplinary landscape approach;
- European landscapes;
- Interaction between practice and academia.

Living dikes
A NWO financed project led by dr ir Bas Borsje from Twente University. Together with dr. Mans Schepers, I investigate how the history of coastal landscapes can be used for new coastal defence strategies.

The Economic Geography of Real Estate Markets

Sustainable development, Energy, Arctic, Canada, Nunavut, place identities

Student Exchange, Double Degrees Programmes, Secundary Education, Fieldwork, Quality Assurance in Education, Employability

Subjective Wellbeing, Ageing, Qualitative research, In-depth interviewing, Participatory research

Go to https://spatial-panels.com/?page_id=2 for Matlab software of spatial panels and spatial econometric model.
July 5, 2023: Jean Paelinck Award for Distinguished Sustained Scholarship in Regional Science Methods pdf with motivation

How can entrepreneurs and business contribute to solving complex social problems? The answer to this question becomes more pressing in a world where existing solutions are not delivering enough impact. Traditionally, we have looked at governments, charities and NGO’s to contribute solutions to problems such as poverty, unemployment, climate change and inequalities in education and healthcare. More recently however, the practice of taking a business approach to solving these social problems has become more widespread. The phenomenon of social and sustainable entrepreneurship is on the rise, and we need to understand under what circumstances these entrepreneurs can emerge, thrive and be the most successful.

Social enterprises can engage in innovation to shed light on grand challenges that are often too complex to be solved by a single agent or government. Because social enterprises oftentimes emerge from and are embedded in local communities, they have a unique understanding of how grand challenges manifest locally. This enables them to come up with innovative processes, products or services to create social impact. With my research, teaching and collaborative projects I try to make a contribution to learning more about social enterprises and entrepreneurship.

Research
My research has the aim to understand under what conditions social entrepreneurship can thrive, how social entrepreneurs deal with organizational challenges and how they create social impact on a community level. My main lines of research are the following:
1)Comparative (social) entrepreneurship; comparing institutional conditions across spatial contexts to asses why (social) entrepreneurs emerge and thrive in certain locations.
2) Collective and community entrepreneurship
3) Sustainable entrepreneurship education

Example research projects in line no. 1:
-A model of solidarity and social entrepreneurship: how do different forms of solidarity in the population i.e. informal, religious and welfare state solidarity influence regional social entrepreneurship rates? https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2017.217.
-Listening to the Buzz: Firm Creation and Regional Relational Structures as Reflected by Social Media: using Twitter data to tell us something about the innovative milieu of regions and the connection to local entrepreneurship rates: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.206 (project funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme foundation).

Example research projects in line no. 2:
-Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge: how do urban energy communities discover and implement opportunities for the purpose of energy demand reduction? Also, how can these energy communities generate social benefits beyond energy demand reduction? https://www.creds.ac.uk/social-entrepreneurship-at-the-grid-edge/. This project is funded by the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS).
-Social entrepreneurship and place-based change: qualitative research using in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs who are aiming to reduce inequality in their communities. Purpose of the research is to unpack the change mechanisms that social entrepreneurs use.

Example research project in line no. 3:
Teaching entrepreneurship for sustainability (TES): Erasmus+ funded project on integrating entrepreneurship and sustainability teaching focused on developing a new teaching module. Collaboration with Uppsala (Sweden) and Nord University (Norway).

Teaching
In my teaching I try to create an inclusive learning environment where students’ prior knowledge and capabilities are valued and valuable. By including international and Dutch case studies in my teaching, students are able to connect academic insights to practical examples. The three main courses that I teach are all embedded in the MSc Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Campus Fryslân: Sustainable Organisation: what drives organisations to act sustainably, and how are they different from enterprises? Sustainable Performance: how can we know the social and sustainable impact that sustainable organisations (claim to) make? Research Methods: learning about research design and answering research questions.

Engagement
Rigorous and foundational scientific research into sustainability issues in a broad sense is hugely important, while at the same time we need to spend time talking to entrepreneurs, business and civic leaders to learn about the questions that we need to find solutions for and co-create new knowledge.I participate in thematic events around social entrepreneurship, as a speaker or co-organiser. At the moment I am involved in a collaboration with StichtingVerbindMij to organize a series of events for vulnerable young adults and children around the Sustainable Development Goals – creating awareness and knowledge that might guide them on their way to new careers. The series is planned for the end of 2020 and spring 2021. Follow the progress of this project on Instagram https://instagram.com/conn.act_

Cultural heritage

Sexuality education; reproductive autonomy and decision-making, sexual and reproductive health and rights; qualitative research; Uganda

Qualitative Methods
Anthropology
Social Impact Assessment
Environment, Social and Governance
International Development
Ethnography
Indigenous Ethnology
Project Management

Ecological and environmental economics
Agricultural economics
Economics and policy
Rural development
Nature inclusivity

Sustainability, Place-based development, Climate change and adaptation, Socio-Spatial Planning and Spatial Transformation, (Inter-)subjective aspects of planning, Citizen initiatives and resourceful communities, Sense of Place, Values, Leadership, Coalitions and Cooperation, Sustainable spatial (urban/rural/regional) Development, Place Branding.

Environmental and Infrastructure Planning, Design Methods, Quality Assurance in Education.

Human Geography, Regional Planning, Rural Sociology, Applied Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Water Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Disaster Risk Governance and Management, Social Impact Assessment, Community Resilience, Community Engagement, Community Empowerment, Community Development, Transformative Learning, Sustainability Transformation, Social Sustainability, rural and mountain regions and communities.

Political Geography, Economic Geography, Regional Science, Social and Spatial Inequalities, Happiness and Well-being, Migration

Regional Economic Development and Entrepreneurship
Regional Labour Markets and Skills
Regional Socio-economic Disparities

Development of medieval and early modern land surveying in Western Europe

I research the geography of inequality, poverty, and social exclusion, especially in cities. My expertise is in the following domains and their interactions;

- experiences of poverty and social exclusion
- coming of age in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
- social & spatial justice
- initiatives and interventions in the neighbourhood
- social infrastructure
- intergenerational poverty

View my research minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlpQR18n2Uc

Qualitative research methods
Health Geography
Older adult mobility experiences

Palaeoecology / Palaeoclimatology
Climate science
Artificial Intelligence

Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences,
Qualitative Data Analysis (Atlas.ti) ,
Social Network Analysis (including basics of statistical modelling via ERGM and SAOM)

Regional Economics, Applied Econometrics, Economic and Political Geography, Social and Spatial Inequalities, Digital Divides

Death Studies, Ritual Studies, Psychology of Religion, Geography of Religion

My research focuses on the conditions under which governance arrangements lead to the reduction of vulnerability and the enhancement of resilience of people exposed to climate-related and other hazards.  It has involved mainly a comparative approach whereby case studies are drawn from contexts as diverse as South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.  Characterised by mixed qualitative and quantitative methods and co-production with local partners, my research is ultimately informed by a disciplinary background rooted in political science, law and sociology.  

Urban & Rural Inequality, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods

Themes: place attachment, home-making, well-being, mobility, health literacy
Target groups: older adults, stroke survivors 
Methodology: qualitative research, participatory approach, geographical analyses (GIS)

Physical geography, Landscape, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Soil science, Hydrology, Historical Geography, GIS

Geography, GIS, Smart Buildings

My research expertise is on the history of international thought (1800s-on), with special interest on concepts of geopolitics, territory, political spatiality, and global environment governance. In my present work I am interested in tracing how geographers and international thinkers wrote about the connections between environmental crises and world orders, from the 1890s-1960s. In tracing these histories, I want to contribute towards new critical stances about the geopolitics of the Anthropocene today. In previous work, drawing on my doctoral thesis, I analyzed nineteenth century debates about the politics of territorial order, through the unusual imaginations of three anarchists.

Expert in the field of Real Estate Development including financial, legal, spatial and managerial aspects

Embodiment, mobilities, technology, digital geographies, methods.

- entrepreneurial governance
- institutional transformations
- planning and property market dynamics
- residential property investment
- planning theories

Mobility and infrastructure 
Transport geography
Active and sustainable mobility
Cycling and e-bike mobility
Sustainble city logistics
Research and consulting

Geography
Transport & Mobility
Regional Economic Development

Social networks and environmental change (at different levels and scales); environmental inequality; global trade networks and inequality; resilience; adaptation; climate change; participatory stakeholder networks; social learning and participatory modeling; research methods training and teaching.

Arctic bird ecology, human geography, science and technology studies, nature conservation policy, post-humanism

Mobility hubs; multimodal integration; rural accessibility

- PhD candidate at the department of Cultural Geography, researching digitalisation initiatives in rural areas
- Project researcher for the INTERREG VB project CORA, the follow-up project COM3 and the ERASMUS+ project iSHRINK

Rural Development
Community Development
Cultural Geography
Social Exclusion

Spatial Planning
Environmental Policy
Well-being
Data analysis

place attachment, spiritual and cultural tourism, well-being, spiritualities and sacred sites in Japan, critical research methods

Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations.

Climate Change Adaptation
Environmental Governance
Sustainability Transformations
Digital Democratic Innovations
FinTech Innovation and Climate Finance

Innovation diffusion, Relatedness, Spatial analysis

Tourism Geography, Sustainable Tourism, Cultural Studies, Qualitative Methods, South Asia

Value of nature and landscape; Economics and space; Real estate and green; Evaluation ecology versus economy; Cost-Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Analysis.

Economic Geography, Mixed Methods / Multimethodology, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Clusters, Geography of Innovation, Business Networks, Institutions

rural and agricultural development; Mansholt chair

Animal Ecology, Physiological Ecology, Wild Immunology

Overall, my work centers around the ‘social side’ of spatial planning. I am predominantly interested in the role of local level initiatives, social innovation and collective action in creating more resilient and sustainable places. The themes I explore within this context include: community resilience and the relevance of cooperative action in declining (rural) areas, flood resilience and local flood action groups, urban food systems and food policy, and the governance of renewable energy initiatives. In my more recent projects I have critically analyzed the ways in which the concept ‘resilience’ can be translated into spatial planning practice and the ways the concept is influencing the governance of vulnerable places. I am specialized in using qualitative, visual and (inter)active research methods such as (participatory) video, mental mapping and go-along interviews. In my previous research projects I explored young people’s place attachment and influential aspects for well-being of rural youths (problem behavior; gender roles; citizenship) in their everyday context.

I am an assistant professor of environmental planning at the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences. My main research and teaching interests are situated in the broadly defined field of political ecology with empirical attention to environmental conflicts, energy infrastructures, social movements, and climate mobilities mainly (but not exclusively) in Turkey, the larger Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Thematically, I am interested in exploring and supervising topics around climate justice and energy democracy.

Before moving to Groningen, I was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment in Stockholm between 2016 and 2020. Previous to that, I held 2014/2015 Mercator-IPC Fellowship on climate change at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in environmental studies from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2014) and my B.Sc. in environmental engineering from Middle East Technical University (2008).

My academic work appeared in edited volumes and journals such as Dialogues in Human Geography, Environmental Science & Policy, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Frontiers in Energy Research, Applied Energy, Energy Research and Social Science, Turkish Studies, Sustainability Science, WIREs Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, Ecological Economics, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Nature Climate Change,  New Perspectives on Turkey, and Journal of Political Ecology. Previously, I co-edited the volume Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements (together with Onur Inal, Routledge Environmental Humanities Series, 2019).

Currently, I am co-editing a book titled "Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation" (together with Marco Armiero and Salvatore Paolo de Rosa, forthcoming from Amsterdam University Press). I also co-edited a recent special issue of Social Text (Duke University Press) titled "Urban Climate Insurgency".

I serve as an editorial board member of Dialogues in Human Geography (SAGE), as an editor for Sustainability Science (Springer) and as an associate editor for open-access journal, Climate Action (Nature Springer).

I am interested in people and places, which is why I work as an assistant professor at the Department of Spatial Planning & Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences (FSS). In my position I am involved in academic research and education. My research interests include arts and culture in communities (in terms of community development, liveability, dealing with place change, etc.), how the arts can be used in community engagement and participation processes, and creative research methods. In my teaching activities, I am involved in various courses at both the Bachelor and Master level at the FSS, as well as at the Honours College.

Keywords to describe research:
social impact assessment; social impact management; project induced displacement & resettlement; social licence to operate; social sustainability; extractive industries & society; business & human rights; human rights impact assessment; Indigenous rights; Free, Prior & Informed Consent (FPIC); benefit sharing; community engagement; public participation; avoiding the resource curse; shared value; corporate social responsibility; university social responsibility; sense of place; place attachment; endogenous regional development; rural communities; social aspects of climate change; applied social research; rural sociology; environmental sociology; natural resource sociology; sociology of agriculture & food; human geography; cultural geography.

Other matters to note:

Prof Vanclay was awarded the 2014 Individual Award from the International Association for Impact Assessment for his sustained contribution to the theory and practice of social impact assessment.
 
Prof Vanclay has been a visiting professor with: the University of Eastern Finland, 2012; the University of Sao Paulo (San Carlos campus), Brazil,  2012; the University of Southern Queensland, 2016; National Taiwan University, 2017; and the North West A&F University, China, 2017. 

Prof Vanclay was President of the International Rural Sociology Association from 2000 to 2004. He also has a long affiliation with the International Association for Impact Assessment including past member of its Board of Directors, and various Committee Chair appointments. He was Program Chair for the Tenth World Congress of Rural Sociology (Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 2000).

conflict and security studies; political ecology; political geography

Urban Economics, Public Economics, Land Economics, Housing, Real Estate Development

My research interests mainly span the fields of geography and sociology. I am particularly interested in spatial justice, the geography of discontent, spatial divides and environmental justice. My research activities primarily concern revealing spatial inequalities in the distribution of resources and risks, cultural recognition, and political representation. In doing so, I conduct mixed-methods such as spatial patterning, policy analysis and ethnography in local communities. 

As a researcher, I am Mainly interested in the social and spatial consequences of contemporary socio-economic and institutional developments. My expertise is centered around the following topics and their interaction:

- Housing
- Housing Market Dynamics
- Urban Inequality
- Social / Spatial Justice
- Welfare States
- Urban governance