Gästande forskare & doktorander

Hello Katherine Burlingame, visiting PhD student within Sustainable Heritage Research Forum! Please tell us more about yourself and what you are doing at our department.

I am a PhD student at Lund University’s Department of Human Geography. My research focuses on bringing together concepts from landscape geography and heritage studies in the development and management of historical landscapes. It has been an incredibly rewarding few weeks on Gotland through dynamic and critical discussions with researchers from other fields, laying the groundwork for future collaborations, offering several lectures for students and faculty, and making great progress on my dissertation. I have really appreciated being part of such a collaborative and engaging research environment.

Hello Þórný Barðadóttir (Thorny Bardadottir), visiting researcher financed by Sustainable Heritage Research Forum! Tell us more about yourself and your stay on Gotland.

I work as a researcher at the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre. For the past three years I have been directing my research focus on the on-land service of cruise ships and the local tourism linked to it. I have also been investigating procedures, roles, lines of communication and decision making in the Icelandic cruise sector. Besides the overall joy of visiting Gotland, the stay has created new contacts into different fields of research as well as providing great opportunity to learn about the cruise procedures here after the building of the new cruise pier. Hope to be back soon!