THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND LAW UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG

THE VISITING PROFESSOR PROGRAMME

2014-18 2015 edition

“Increasing the presence of highly qualified international professors at the School furthers the exchange of ideas, strengthens important strategic research areas and creates possibilities for improved and deepened cooperation with the highest ranking universities and business schools globally.” Per Cramér, Professor, Dean

VISITING PROFESSOR PROGRAMME - THE STORY The Visiting Professor Programme (VPP) is a product of strategic partnerships between the business community in western Sweden and the School of Business Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. In order to strengthen the quality and international competitiveness of the School, corporate donors have supported the establishment of a 5-year programme to engage leading professors in the fields of business, economics and law from around the globe. This brochure briefly presents the visiting professors who are active in the programme. Typically, professors are recruited for three years and spend one month per academic term at the School contributing to both teaching and research. Engagement with the visiting professors exposes faculty and students at the School to cutting edge research in a wide variety of fields.

The School is grateful to the following companies for their generous financial support in helping to create this unique programme: • • • •

Elanders AB Stena AB Stiftelsen Richard C Malmstens minne Volvo Group

“I really enjoy venturing into unexplored knowledge areas with a view to making new discoveries” Neville Harris, The University of Manchester

GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE & INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES The visiting professors bring a wealth of experience of addressing problems relating to sustainable growth and business-society relations in different contexts and at different scales throughout the world. The Visiting Professor Programme therefore makes a contribution to wider society by sharing these experiences in public fora and executive dialogues and cooperations, and also in courses delivered to the students who constitute the next generation of the professional work-force.

THE PROFESSORS: Kees Bastmeijer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Laetitia Dablanc, IFSTTAR/University of Paris-East, France Axèle Giroud, The University of Manchester, Alliance Manchester Business School, U.K Neville Harris, The University of Manchester, UK Ron Kaniel, University of Rochester, USA Ann Langley, HEC Montréal, Canada Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Aalborg University, Denmark Laura Mayoral, Institute for Economic Analysis (CISC), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE), Spain

“I have always favoured collaboration in research, it is stimulating, productive and leads to more innovative thinking” Axèle Giroud, Alliance Manchester Business School

Ryo Okui, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Kyoto University, Japan Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Lidija Polutnik, Babson College, USA Andrew Popp, Liverpool University Management School, UK Rosemary Rayfuse, UNSW Australia Regina Scheywens, Massey University, New Zealand Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford, UK Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics, India

“Many people appreciate nature but why is it so hard to protect wild species and ecosystems effectively?” Kees Bastmeijer

KEES BASTMEIJER TILBURG UNIVERSITY

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • BIODIVERSITY & WILDERNESS • POLAR REGIONS • INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Kees considers law to be an instrument to solve societal problems such as the loss of biodiversity and wilderness. He is aiming to inform and advise policy makers, companies and the general public. He is able to do this through membership of advisory committees, contract research, parliamentary hearings and popular publications. He also provides advice to the Dutch government on legal policy developments with regard to the Polar Regions. A large part of your research focuses on the role of law in protecting nature? It facinates me that many people appreciate nature while at the same time the functioning of our society results in so many threats to nature. More than 150 years of nature protection law could not prevent about 80% of Europe’s biodiversity falling into an unfavourable state. This stimulates me to relate my legal research to other research disciplines, for instance, knowledge on human behaviour, the functioning of different types of societies and philosophical concepts regarding human-nature relationships. What is your latest research collaboration project? My latest project is a book on the role of international, European and national law in protecting wilderness in Europe (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2016), in which 30 experts in nature conservation law from all parts of Europe participated. You have been participating in the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings since 1992? Yes, I very much appreciate this combination of research and

advisory work as it provides the best chances of contributing to a more effective protection of nature for the benefit of humans and nature itself. Teaching is something you value highly? Yes, for the longer term good education may be the most promising path towards a sustainable society. Through my teaching I hope to provide students with a good understanding of environmental law, but my aim is to get beyond ‘knowledge transfer’: I hope I may encourage students to think about the role of law in establishing a sustainable society for people, in which there is also space and good conditions for healthy natural ecosystems.

Would you like to meet Kees or learn more about his research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

LAETITIA DABLANC IFSTTAR/UNIVERSITY OF PARIS-EAST

Laetitia has been trained as an urban planner, and developed a strong interest in transportation, especially freight transportation. Her research actually combines these two strong focuses, trying to answer the following question: what does freight mobility represent in the life of large metropolitan areas? You are cooperating a lot with the City of Paris? By identifying issues, collecting data and analyzing trends, our team has influenced the way cities in France manage and regulate freight mobility. We have close ties to the City of Paris as well as the Region of Paris (called Ile-de-France), and we participate in numerous forums, working groups and initiatives to help them identify a freight strategy. They see us as their external freight experts and it is always a great pleasure to work with local practitioners and business groups. This results in mutually increased knowledge and understanding for all stakeholders. Freight transport is a key facilitator for our global economy, and it also has a major impact on our societies. What specific passions or concerns particularly inspire you in your work? Research is freedom of thought combined with the opportunity to test ideas. I have enjoyed the early part of my career, when I was working as a practitioner and a planner. However, entering the academic world became a necessity for me because I wanted to reflect on and analyse what I had seen in the “real world”, and go further and provide new ways of thinking and acting. Only research can provide the time, intellectual resources, and the interactions with colleagues and students to achieve this. Which of your publications would you regard as the most significant and why? I am quite happy about several recent publications on what I call “Logistics Sprawl”, looking at spatial patterns of warehousing developments in large metropolitan areas around the world. With the rise in global supply chains and new consumer demands such as e-commerce, logistics facilities have increased at a fantastic rate these past ten to twenty years, and a new logistics landscape has emerged in the

outskirts of many major metropolitan areas. This previously undocumented phenomenum is key to understanding metropolization, its benefits and impacts to people and companies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • URBAN FREIGHT • LOGISTICS SPRAWL • FREIGHT - ENVIRONMENT, PLANNING & POLICY Would you like to meet Laetitia or learn more about her research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

“Freight transport is an essential part of our metropolitan lives” Laetitia Dablanc

AXÈLE GIROUD

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, ALLIANCE MANCHESTER BUSINESS SCHOOL AREAS OF EXPERTISE • MULTINATIONAL FIRMS STRATEGY & STRUCTURE • INTER-FIRM LINKAGES • TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER Axèle’s field of interest is international business, and more specifically multinational enterprises’ impact on host countries through inter-firm linkages. She initiated this stream of research in the late 1990s, studying Southeast Asia at a time when few researchers paid attention to these questions in this part of the world. How does your research have influence beyond the academic world? My scholarly work has had a measureable impact on practice and policy, as well as on the academic community. For example, I have worked for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD) making major contributions to the World Investment Report, one of UNCTAD’s flagship publications. How is teaching a part of your academic life? Teaching is an essential part. I enjoy sharing knowledge and expertise with students, whether I address myself to inexperienced undergraduate students, experienced MSc or MBA students or very experienced managers or senior government officials within Executive programmes. I prefer teaching smaller groups in an interactive way, integrating case studies and results from my own research into classroom activities while encouraging participants to share their own knowledge on the topic. What inspires you in your work? I am fascinated by the global activities of firms, how innovative they are when operating across borders, what this means for host developing countries, and what the potential risks of interconnectivity are. This has an impact on us all.

“Multinationals present threats and opportunities for local firms in host countries” Do you have any publication that you regard as the most significant? My paper ‘Heterogeneous FDI in transition economies’ published in World Development in 2012 best illustrates my work. It makes a significant contribution because it challenges existing assumptions and points to the important role of individual subsidiaries. What are you hoping to achieve during your time as a Visiting Professor in Gothenburg? There are excellent researchers in Gothenburg, as well as very good links with business practitioners, and the university actively promotes international collaboration. I am keen to bring in my own expertise in international business and multinational management, exchange knowledge and develop long term research projects.

Would you like to meet Axèle or learn more about her research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

NEVILLE HARRIS UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • REGULATION OF EDUCATION • SOCIAL SECURITY LAW AND POLICY • SOCIAL RIGHTS Neville is interested in the legal relationship between citizen and state, particularly in relation to the area of welfare. His research focuses on not only what entitlements the state provides but also how these are legally defined and how effectively citizens are able to gain access to them. How does your research have influence beyond the academic world? My research into dispute resolution has led to an advisory role with the Department for Education in the UK in its development of a new legal and policy framework on the education of children with special educational needs. I have also been involved in a number of international projects seeking to inform or influence policy in specific areas. What particular method or approach would you say characterises your teaching? I believe in guiding students towards the acquisition of a good framework of knowledge while also encouraging a critical perspective on the law and its underlying policy. My teaching covers a wide range of controversial subject areas, so it is important to channel debate effectively. What specific passions or concerns particularly inspire you in your work? I have always been drawn to areas of the law affecting the basic welfare rights of citizens. When I first embarked on my legal studies many years ago these areas were largely overlooked by lawyers and scholars. This has, thankfully, changed, but there is still a need to throw light on these

areas to increase general awareness of the implications of legal changes for people affected. I am still committed to playing a part in this. Which of your publications would you regard as the most significant and why? In the area of welfare law I would say that my book Social Security Law in Context, published by Oxford University Press, has had the greatest impact. For example, the Academy of Social Sciences at Beijing University commissioned a Chinese translation of the book, published by Peking Press in 2006, and the UK’s highest court cited the book in an important judgment in 2008. What are you particularly hoping to achieve during your time as a Visiting Professor in Gothenburg? I aim to offer a UK perspective on various social law and policy issues of interest to colleagues and others, and to facilitate comparative analysis. Ultimately, an aim is that a lasting collaborative relationship with some of the colleagues will be established. I also hope to benefit from the cultural experience of spending time in Gothenburg.

“Laws which determine citizens’ social rights need to be placed under the microscope”

Would you like to meet Neville or learn more about his research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

RON KANIEL

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

Ron has research interests in the areas of asset pricing, financial intermediation and investment. His work on the end-of-quarter gaming behaviour of equity mutual funds played an important role in publically exposing this shady practice, both to the public at large and to regulators. This has led to a significant decline in the practice. - My research is focused on understanding mutual funds’ investment decisions. I have examined how they impact on security prices, the impact of endogenous community effects on investment decisions and equilibrium prices, and the predictive role of changes in trading volume and investors’ order flow on security returns. Some hedge funds have implemented trading strategies based on my work on the predictive roles of extreme trading volume and individual investor order flow, for stock returns. Which of your publications would you regard as the most significant and why? “Equilibrium Prices in the presence of Delegated Portfolio Management”. While the published version came out in 2011. The first draft was written long before the financial crisis. This is the first paper to analyze equilibrium asset pricing implications of portfolio delegation in a dynamic setting. Today, especially after the financial crisis, we all understand that financial intermediaries have an important role in financial markets and their actions can have a significant impact on asset prices. However, when we first wrote this paper agency problems were not incorporated into asset-pricing models and many still believed that financial institutions were irrelevant for determing prices.

“Agency conflicts have significant impact on capital markets”

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • PORTFOLIO DELEGATION • ASSET PRICING • RELATIVE WEALTH CONSIDERATIONS • CAPITAL MARKETS Would you like to meet Ron or learn more about his research?

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ANN LANGLEY HEC MONTRÉAL

Ann believes in learning by doing, and learning by reflecting collectively on practice. Thus in her classes students develop their own research or publication projects, and engage with each other to discuss and improve their work.

“Planned change fails when the actual process of changing is not part of the plan”

- In class my role is one of coach and facilitator, creating occasions for mutual learning. I am interested in understanding the strategic management processes and practices that are appropriate to “pluralistic” settings, such as organizational contexts where objectives and values are multiple and ambiguous, where power and influence are shared among a variety of stakeholders, and where the knowledge required to make decisions is distributed among people at many levels and in different positions. This leads me to consider processes of strategic change, collective leadership and the use of managerial tools in such settings. How does your research have influence beyond the academic world? I have conducted qualitative research in health care organizations examining different approaches to change, and analyzing interventions such as mergers, restructuring and changing forms of governance that have important practical implications. I have served on the boards of a health care agency, and I teach a regular segment in the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) at McGill University. I believe that much organizational scholarship tends to dismiss considerations of time, and that this is a serious problem in terms of its potential value and usefulness. In all my research I am very conscious of fluidity, activity, temporality and flow, and I try to reflect this in my scholarly outputs. What are you hoping to achieve during your time as a Visiting Professor in Gothenburg? I would like to work with like-minded colleagues on issues of interest to me relating to strategic processes and practices in pluralistic settings. For example, I am very interested in the work being done in health care organizations and would very much like to collaborate with colleagues at University of Gothenburg on these issues.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: • STRATEGIC CHANGE • COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP • MANAGERIAL TOOLS • COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS Would you like to meet Ann or learn more about her research?

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“Innovation requires strategic experimentation” Astrid Heidemann Lassen

ASTRID HEIDEMANN LASSEN AALBORG UNIVERSITY

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • INNOVATION MANAGEMENT • KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP • GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT Astrid’s research focuses on user-centered innovation/open innovation, high-tech vs. low-tech innovation and knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship. Core to this is her passion for researching the process of developing organizational innovation capabilities based on a balanced approach to exploration and exploitation. She studies this in the context of both established companies and entrepreneurial ventures. Cooperation outside the academic world is an integral part of your work? I am a strong believer in the dual responsibility of academics to advance scientific knowledge and to demonstrate the empirical value of such knowledge. Therefore, my research often includes extensive work with industrial partners on actually developing organizational capabilities for innovation. I have worked on such matters with a range of globally leading companies as well as small entrepreneurial high-tech companies. How about teaching? Teaching is an important element of academic knowledge dissmination. I am responsible for several courses at Master and MBA level in the area of Entrepreneurship and Innovation & Change Management. What specific passions particularly inspire you in your work? It is highly inspiring to me to be able to work with my field across several different settings; small vs. large company, high-tech vs. low-tech; national vs. global. I believe this continuously provides me with insights which inspire, challenge and push my understanding of innovation management.

Tell us about one of your most significant publications! I am particularly fond the book ”Managing Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship” which I co-authored with Maureen McKelvey from The School of Business, Economics and law at the University of Gothenburg, and enjoy seeing it making an impact on students’ knowledge of the domain. What are you looking forward to as Visiting professor in Gothenburg? Playing an active role in both research and teaching. In particular working in close collaboration with talented PhD candidates will be very rewarding. My hopes are that this will create the foundations for significant future research collaboration and joint projects.

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LAURA MAYORAL CISC, BARCELONA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AREAS OF EXPERTISE • ANALYSIS OF CONFLICT • DEVELOPMENT & CULTURAL ECONOMICS • APPLIED ECONOMETRICS

“Civil conflict is becoming the primary cause of poverty in the world”

1.5 billion people live in areas affected by conflict or large-scale organized crime. These people are more than twice as likely to be undernourished and to see their children die before the age of five as those in other developing countries. They are also more than three times less likely to be able to send their kids to school. - No conflict-affected country has yet to achieve a single United Nations Millennium Development Goal. Thus, beyond violence being just one more cause of poverty, it’s safe to say that it’s rapidly becoming its primary cause. Understanding what drives conflict is therefore key to pulling these countries out of the poverty trap. Your passion lies in understanding the causes of conflict? In particular I investigate the connections between economic conditions, such as poverty or inequality and non economic markers like ethnicity or religiosity and conflict. I am also interested in analyzing the long term effects of violence as well as conflict prevention and recovery. And you teach as well? Yes, I teach regularly in different master and PhD programs at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. I have also taught internationally including at the Paris School of Economics and New York University. Which of your publications would you regard as the most significant and why? I’d like to highlight my paper “Ethnicity and conflict: Theory and Facts” (joint with Debraj Ray and Joan Esteban), published in Science (2012). This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the causes of civil conflict around the World. What are you particularly hoping to achieve during your time as a Visiting Professor in Gothenburg? There is a very active group of researchers in development and conflict in Scandinavia in general and in the University of Gothenburg in particular. During my time here I hope to be able to strengthen my links with this community, to get to know their research better and to start joint projects. I am also very interested in working in the PhD program advising young researchers interested in these topics.

Would you like to meet Laura or learn more about her research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

RYO OKUI VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM /KYOTO UNIVERSITY AREAS OF EXPERTISE • ECONOMETRICS • DYNAMIC PANEL DATA ANALYSIS • MODEL AVERAGING

“Analyzing paneldata is the key to understanding the dynamics of our economy”

Ryo Okui believes that for understanding the reality of economic situations using data is the key to providing better policies and, ultimately, building a better society. For example, consider the problem of income inequality. We need to understand to what extent income inequality is persistent before we implement any policy. We thus need to analyze data, and to do so we need to know how to analyze data. This is what econometrics is about! Sounds like you are very passionate about your work? I love the power of statistical analysis and am very excited about developing new methods to analyze data. For example, when we just look at income distribution, we cannot say much about income inequality even if we find that the income distribution is very diverse. This is because we cannot distinguish two sources of the diversity of income. The income distribution is diverse because of some permanent income inequality or it is because incomes are very fluctuating so people face different incomes in different years. If we have panel data on income, we observe the incomes of the same set of individuals for several years and we can distinguish these two sources. This is the power of statistical reasoning and I am in love with it. What are you particularly hoping to achieve during your time in Gothenburg? I am very excited about this opportunity. The University of Gothenburg has a brilliant group of applied economists and I look forward to working with them and to contributing by combining my econometric skills and their empirical skills.

Moreover, Sweden is known to have great data sets, and I am looking forward to seeing them. I also find that the economics department has a very active group of PhD candidates who are conducting empirical research. I look forward to interacting with them and participating in the process of creating a new generation of active empirical researchers.

Would you like to meet Ryo or learn more about his research?

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HANNE PETERSEN UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

A Danish professor who loves to teach, works with women in the Middle East and in China, has evaluated hundreds of research applications for the European Research Council and who believes that we need to combine competition with contributions to achieve common goals. Hanne - can you tell us about your research? I dealt with legal pluralism very early as a way to understand the role of women in a labour market organized acording to male norms and traditions. Since the expansion of the EU and the collapse of the Soviet Union, interest has been growing in legal pluralism and legal culture. Western, national, and legal culture under historical masculine domination will increasingly be influenced by the challenges from a reconstituted world. Passions and concerns? I have recently taken up research which links China and the Arctic. The collisions between, and combinations of, welfare and market economies and values and their normative consequences are crucial for the world today. The challenge of creating sustainable balances in the future should concern all coming generations. I think we need to combine competition with contributions to the common good. Teaching experiences? I have always loved teaching – especially the possibility of teaching in new fields and developing new courses. Recently I co-taught a course with a much younger Chinese lawyer on Chinese legal culture and business law. That was a great learning experience and an inspiration for both ourselves and the students. I also have enjoyed teaching international and interdisciplinary classes, where comparisons and discussions of diverse legal cultures come very naturally.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • LEGAL CULTURE • ASIAN AS WELL AS ARCTIC PERSPECTIVES • GENDER ISSUES & SUSTAINABILITY

Influence beyond the academic world? I had a grant at the European University Institute and years of interdisciplinary cooperation with colleagues there. I have facilitated research in Africa and taught interdisciplinary courses in the Arctic for a decade - lived in Nuuk and been professor in Tromsø. I have evaluated hundreds of research applications for the European Research Council. I have worked with women in the Middle East since 2008 and in China since 2009.

Would you like to meet Hanne or learn more about her research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

“The challenges of creating sustainable balances in the future should concern all coming generations” Hanne Petersen

“Pricing is becoming increasingly important for business success” Lidija Polutnik

LIDIJA POLUTNIK BABSON COLLEGE, USA

How do companies decide on the best prices for their products and services? And who should make these decisions? Lidija Polutnik, a visiting professor from Boston who researches strategic pricing, is convinced she knows who should not decide: “Prices will be far too low if you leave pricing to the sales department.” Can you tell us about your research? One of my fields of interest is strategic cost management. This is based on analysis of the relationship between the firm’s costs and customers’ value and the influence of this relationship on the firm’s profit. I also do research within public finance which is focused on the role institutions play in market economies and specifically in countries in transition. What specific passions or concerns particularly inspire you in your work? I have the spirit of an entrepreneur. I like researching new ideas, learning new things and challenging myself. I’m driven to find success factors for businesses. How to work strategically with the creation of value is my passion. Take strategic pricing for example - if you instead of leaving it entirely to the sales department, gather a team with experts from strategy, financial analysis and sales, and make them responsible for formulating and following up on pricing structures and instruct the sales force, you’ll create a lot more value for the company. How does your research have influence beyond the academic world? I have extensive consulting and executive teaching experience for U.S. and international companies. I also regularly teach at the Executive MBA programme of Alma Graduate School at the University of Bologna, Italy. My research has led to the development of a value-creation model that tracks what qualities and attributes the customers actually value. This in turn affects how an organisation allocates its resources. What are you hoping to achieve during your time in Sweden? The School of Business, Economics and Law’s contacts provide opportunities to initiate research projects for companies like Volvo and Ericsson.

I also find that companies in Sweden are very open to new knowledge and inquisitive about how they can improve their activities. And that is something I really value highly.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • PRICING • PUBLIC FINANCE • STRATEGIC COST MANAGEMENT Would you like to meet Lidija or learn more about her research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

ANDREW POPP UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

“I strive to understand how society and business evolve together over time”

Andrew is a historian who is concerned with understanding both change and continuity as processes that unfold through time. He has contributed to various different types of media production, hoping of casting an illuminating historical perspective on a range of issues. - History perhaps has less immediate and obvious application to today’s problems than some other disciplines: it should never be mistaken as a source of easy lessons. Still, increasing numbers of companies are recognizing that a better understanding of history can be a source of considerable value. Some of the work I am doing on corporate archives with a colleague in Gothenburg is directed at better understanding how history can be used to create meaning and value today. Teaching is still a significant – and enjoyable – part of your working life? My philosophy and approach are simple; my task is not simply to impart knowledge (though that can still be important) but to challenge students to ask the difficult questions and to think again about what they think they know. It might be worth noting that although I’m an historian I teach in a management school. It’s important that management students know a little history! What specific passions or concerns particularly inspire you in your work? I find history to be an incredibly powerful tool for thinking about our own world, the one in which we live today. Obviously, history can help us to better understand how we got to where we are today. But reflecting on past lives forces us also to reflect on our own lives. The gaps, and connections, between then and now are fascinating.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • HISTORY & SOCIETY • ENTERPRISE • CULTURES Would you like to meet Andrew or learn more about his research? Please contact: [email protected], or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

Throughout her career Rosemary has made significant contributions to teaching and learning, aiming to inspire intellectual interest and ethical commitment in relation to some of the important issues of our times. She is also the first Australian woman to attempt to ski from the North pole to Canada.

ROSEMARY RAYFUSE UNSW AUSTRALIA

Rosemary, can you please tell us about your research? My work has been described by others as being ‘at the cutting edge of issues in the law of the sea’ and ‘innovative and forward thinking’. In particular, my research focuses on: emerging issues relating to polar oceans and deep seabed mining; the role of regional fisheries management organisations in their conservation and management; the protection of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction; the legal aspects of sea level rise, ocean acidification and marine geoengineering. What specific passions or concerns particularly inspire you in your work? Developing and implementing equitable, effective and enforceable international frameworks for the use of the oceans and the conservation and sustainable use of their resources is of importance to both international peace and security and to the continued existence of humans on the Earth. Save the oceans and we save ourselves. What more inspiration could one need? How does your research have influence beyond the academic world? In 2006 I became the first Australian woman to attempt to ski from the North Pole to Canada. This was in order to raise awareness of the need for regulatory responses to climate change in the polar regions. I am a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and the ILA’s Committee on Sea Level Rise and International Law. I regularly advise governments and organisations and have held visiting appointments at research and academic institutions around the world. What are you hoping to achieve during your time in Sweden? I look forward to engaging with colleagues, students and the wider community to explore, in both general and fine grained detail, issues relating to the protection and preservation of the marine environment and broader oceans governance. I hope to learn more about the ‘private’ side of ‘maritime law’ to develop a broader, more holistic view of ocean issues, and to inspire research and other efforts towards ensuring the environmentally sustainable use of the oceans.

“Healthy oceans are critical to humankind’s continued existence”

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW • GLOBAL OCEANS GOVERNANCE • MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Would you like to meet Rosemary or learn more about her research? Please contact: [email protected],or visit handels.gu.se/vpp

REGINA SCHEYVENS MASSEY UNIVERSITY

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT • SUSTAINABLE TOURISM • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY • SMALL ISLAND STATES

“Sustainable development is a responsibility of every business, government and citizen on this planet”

Regina’s core research explores the potential for tourism to bring greater benefits to developing countries. She is passionate about overcoming injustice, and about identifying strategies by which aid organisations, businesses and communities can make this world a better place. - I am actively involved in DevNet, the International Development Studies Network of Aotearoa New Zealand – we hold a biennial conference in which academic research is shared with development policy makers and practitioners. I am also on the Development and Relief Committee of Caritas NZ, having input into the policy and programme funding decisions of this NGO. And you still do a lot of teaching? Yes, especially at postgraduate level. I am an advocate of active learning, finding ways to really engage students in the learning process, whether face-to-face or using an online environment. I am constantly inspired by my students who are now working for various non-governmental agencies or donors and advocating for the human rights and wellbeing of all people. Which of your publications would you regard as the most significant and why? My book, ‘Tourism and Poverty’ (Routledge, 2011) because it shows the multifaceted ways in which the tourism industry can both cause poverty, and help to alleviate poverty. Also my edited book, ‘Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide’ (2014) because it provides

useful practical and philisophical advice to postgraduate students planning cross-cultural field research, and helps them to conduct this in an ethical and responsible manner. What are you particularly hoping to achieve during your time as a Visiting Professor in Gothenburg? I’m hoping to be able to share my knowledge with colleagues and with students via seminars, teaching opportunities, and casual conversations; I’m also hoping to learn about Swedish

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TIM SCHWANEN UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

What is your approach to teaching? My teaching revolves around offering students different perspectives on a given issue and expecting them to form their own views and opinions on those perspectives. I have a preference for small group teaching that is more conversational in style and based on active participation by students

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • MOBILITY & TRANSPORT • CITIES • WELLBEING • ENERGY

Do you particularly hope to achieve something during your time as a Visiting Professor in Gothenburg? Sweden is known for the availability of extensive and high quality data on mobility and other aspects of everyday life. It would be great to develop innovative research projects utilising these. I am also keen to interact with students to discuss approaches for making everyday mobility more sustainable, and to establish new contacts and productive working relationships with academic staff at the University of Gothenburg.

Tim’s current research primarily revolves around the question of how the everyday mobility of people can be durably reconfigured in a socially just manner so that greenhouse gas emissions are radically reduced and transport makes a positive contribution to the wellbeing of people and communities. Within his research projects he interacts intensively with policy makers, providers of transport services and other stakeholders in various ways. - I have for instance interviewed them as research participants and regularly give seminars and presentations about my research and thinking. In Oxford I teach on intensive courses and a MSc programme for professionals who come from all over the world to learn about sustainable urbanism and transport. What specific passions or concerns particularly inspire you in your work? I am particularly concerned about how economic growth is frequently prioritized over emission reductions and climate change in many policy and governance processes, and about the often inflated expectations about the role of technology and economic instruments in addressing emissions and climate change effects. Such expectations can be found in many domains of society, and transport is no exception to this. Much more comprehensive changes are required in how mobility is practiced, thought about and governed.

“We need to do better in making transport sustainable”

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“The quality of development in the world’s emerging economics will be driven by the ability of their leaders to solve major urban and environmental problems, and in their willingness to debate questions of inequality and social identity”

Rohini Somanathan

ROHINI SOMANATHAN DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: • INEQUALITY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY • POLITICS OF REDISTRIBUTION • POVERTY MEASUREMENT Rohini is working on a variety of questions within the broad area of development economics. For the past three years she has been on the board of directors of Oxfam India. She has also recently joined the board of a promising grassroots NGO in India called SRIJAN whose mission is to help foster community organizations that can generate their livelihoods based on local resources. - As part of my engagement with these organizations, I have tried to help them create the infrastructure to evaluate their programs and, by involving my graduate students, I have tried to better link academia with activism. I work on a variety of questions within the broad area of

development economics.

I have done both theoretical and empirical research on the political economy of public goods, microfinance, poverty measurement, the deteminants of schooling and more recently on environmental change. I am especially interested the intellectual and ideological environment within which state policy is created and justified. Is teaching still a significant part of your working life? I regularly teach at the Delhi School of Economics in India. For masters’ students, my main objectives are to teach them how to think critically about policy and to use and interpret numbers carefully. Developing the Ph.D program at the Delhi School of Economics has been an important goal for me

because it is these students that can actively question and inform economic policy and can also help improve the quality of higher education in India after they graduate. What specific passions or concerns particularly inspire you in your work? Open and vibrant intellectual debates are central to academic and civic life. My passion as an academic is to create more space in which these can occur and develop. What are you particularly hoping to achieve during your time as a Visiting Professor in Gothenburg? Gothenburg has a very active group of researchers working on environmental issues in developing countries. I hope to engage actively with them and also to build links between the the Universities of Delhi and Gothenburg, and more broadly between the two countries.

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