Department of Geography

My research focuses on second homes, mobility, and development in sparsely populated areas. 

Andreas Back is an assistant professor in human geography. His research is about second-home tourism, regional development, public planning and housing.

E. Carina H. Keskitalo is Professor of Political Science with a focus on environmental policy (almost twenty books and over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles/book chapters)

My PhD project focusses on stakeholders’ perspectives on a large-scale increase of fast-growing broadleaves as part of a broadleaf transition in Swedish forests.

Cenk is a researcher and lecturer focusing on skiing, tourism, climate change, and geographic information systems.

Charlotta Hedberg is Professor in Human geography. Her research focusses on migration in relation to international labour, transnational networks and downshifting.

I am Deputy Vice-Chancellor of research and postgraduate education within the social sciences and humanities at Umeå University. I am also Professor of Social and Economic Geography.

Doris Carson is a human geographer, researcher and docent with an interest in the socio-economic development of small communities in sparsely populated areas.

Researches labor market issues, labor mobility, and regional transformation. Is a university lecturer in human geography and affiliated with the Center for Regional Science (CERUM).

I am associate Professor in Human Geography. I am also Head of Department at Department of Geography. My main reserach interrest is interregional migration in Sweden. 

Researching the area of population mobility, such as commuting and migration, and teaches courses in spatial planning, GIS and quantitative methods.

Professor of Human Geography. Research on migration and population ageing.

PhD, and senior lecturer in human geography, His research and teaching focus on tourism, regional development and planning, population geography, and GIS.

I am a doctoral researcher working on a dissertation combining theories of migration, place and emotion.

I became PhD in 2006 and associate professor in 2011. I have since worked at the Department of Geography in a number of research projects but also with teaching and pedagogical issues.

I have a PhD in Geography and work as an associate professor. I do research on spaces’ of gendered fear of violence, intersections of race and gender, and planning for safe urban environments.

Louise Eriksson is a docent in psychology and work as a researcher in environmental psychology.

Most recent research project is about the housing situation for newly arrived refugees. Teaching classes in planning and qualitative methods

I am program coordinator for the Master's Programme in Human Geography with specialisation in Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

My research is based on interviews in sparsely populated areas about incoming migrants and lifestyle entrepreneurs’ contributions to rural development.

My research focuses on sustainability transitions and regional development with a particular interest in governance processes, organisation and the relationships between public and private actors.

Professor of Economic Geography with special interest in employment, structural change and regional development. Associate head of department (Geography) and co-director at Cerum.

Dr. Roger Marjavaara is associate professor in tourism geography. Focus of the research is towards the causes and effect of human mobility, especially in tourism, retail and the geography of death.

I study regional economic resilience from the perspective of human agency. Particularly, my research focuses on peripheral areas of Scandinavia. 

Research Interests: Economic Geography, Regional Economics, Economic History, Generalized Darwinism

Deputy Director at the Arctic Centre and research communications officer at the department of geography.

I am a doctoral student working at the intersection of human geography and gender studies. My research project focuses on informal elder care workers in Sweden.

I am currently the director of undergraduate studies at the department of geography.