Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- p.niewiadomski@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272349
- Office Address
Geography & Environment
School of Geosciences
University of Aberdeen
St. Mary's Building
Elphinstone Road
AB24 3UF
Aberdeen
Room B24
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
1999-2004 - MA, Geography of Tourism and Hotel Business, University of Lodz (Poland)
2005-2006 - MA, Human Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
2006-2011 - PhD, Economic Geography, The University of Manchester (UK)
2011-2012 - Research Fellow / Tutor in Geography, The University of Manchester (UK)
2012-2014 - Teaching Fellow in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK)
2014-2022 - Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK)
2022-to date - Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK)
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Director of MSc in Sustainability Transitions
- Member of the Quality Assurance Committee (QAC)
- Member of the School of Geosciences Education Committee
- Library Representative for Geography & Environment
- External Memberships
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- Associate Editor of Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Place, Space and Environment
Latest Publications
Bricolage or breakthrough?: Entrepreneurial responses to tourism development in a regional tourism destination
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 247-269Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFrom niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination
Tourism Geographies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 173-193Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTransitioning towards sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides: An evolutionary investigation
Tourism Geographies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 214-236Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFrom ‘Sustainable Tourism’ to ‘Sustainability Transitions in Tourism’?
Tourism Geographies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 141-150Contributions to Journals: EditorialsSpecial Issue on Sustainability Transitions in Tourism
Tourism Geographies, vol. 26, no. 2Contributions to Journals: Special Issues
- Research
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Research Overview
The international tourism production system:
- History and development of the tourism industry
- Worldwide expansion, global production networks, business models and post-entry behaviour of tourism TNCs (i.e.. hotel groups, airlines)
- Economic, environmental, and socio-cultural impacts of tourism
- Interactions between tourism TNCs and various institutional contexts in host countries
- Deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation of the international aviation industry
- Sustainable tourism
Sustainability transitions
- Sustainability transitions and their various forms in different countries
- Factors fostering and/or hampering sustainability/energy transitions
- Governance of sustainability transitions
- Political economy of the natural environment
- Sustainability transitions in tourism
Post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE):
- Political, economic and social aspects of post-communist transformations in CEE
- The emerging variety of post-communist capitalisms in CEE and their path-dependent nature
- The processes of (uneven) economic development in CEE after 1989
- The role of tourism in fostering post-communist transformations and economic development in CEE
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, January start
Teaching Responsibilities
Course coordination:
MSc Sustainability Transitions:
GG5072 Sustainability Transitions - Challenges and Opportunities
GG5084 Introduction to Energy Transition
GG5557 Governance and Political Economy of Sustainability
3rd/4th year Geography (UG):
GG3576 / GG3587 / GG4586 / GG4587 Globalisation
Other teaching responsibilities:
1st year Geography (UG):
GG1010 Creating the Anthropocene (GG1010)
GG1512 The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Our World
2nd year Geography (UG):
GG2014 Space, Economy & Society
3rd year Geography (UG):
GG3069 Remote Sensing & Geographical Information Systems
GG3574 Research Design
MSc Sustainability Transitions:
GG5516 Research Methods
Supervisory responsibilities:
Geography (UG):
GG4023 Geography Dissertation
MSc Sustainability Transitions:
GG5913 Sustainability Project