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Michael Jones

 

 

Michael Jones
Born 16th December 1944

Present position:
Professor, Department of Geography, NTNU
N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +47-73591918, Fax +47-73591878
E-mail: Michael.Jones@svt.ntnu.no

University degrees:
Ph.D. (Geography) University of London 1972
B.A. Hons. (Geography) University of London 1966

Appointments:

  • Visiting research professor, Section for Landscape, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark (six months, 1996-7)
  • Academic advisor, Centre for Environment and Development (part-time 1993-96)
  • Head of Department, Department of Geography, University of Trondheim (1990-92 and 1978-81)
  • Professor, Department of Geography, University of Trondheim (from 1985)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Trondheim (1981-84)
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Trondheim (1975-81)
  • Research Fellowship, Department of Land Consolidation and Planning, Agricultural University of Norway (1972-75)
  • Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Helsinki (part-time 1970-1)
  • Research Scholarship for Finnish Studies, Ministry of Education, Helsinki (autumn 1971)
  • Researcher and English language editor, Department of Forest Economics, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki (1969-72)
  • Lecturer in Geography, Enfield College of Technology, London (part-time 1968)
  • Research Scholarship, Department of Geography, University College London (1966-69)

Other activities:

  • Co-editor, Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography (from 1999), member of editorial board (1981-98)
  • Convenor, 18th session of Permanent Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, Røros and Trondheim (1998)
  • Member, international evaluation group to assess Norwegian World Heritage Sites of Urnes Stave Church (1995) and Røros and Bryggen in Bergen (1993)
  • Member of steering committee, Research Programme on Cultural Landscape, Research Council of Norway (1991-96), co-editor of the book Jordbrukets kulturlandskap. Forvaltning av miljøverdier (Universitetsforlaget 1998)
  • Visting professor, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (six weeks 1992)
  • Visiting professor, University of Turku, Finland (one week in 1993, two weeks in 1995)
  • Visiting research scholar, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (one year 1985-86)

Research interests:

Michael Jones has undertaken research in historical geography and landscape studies. His interest in landscape and law goes back to the 1960s, when in his doctoral thesis he examined the interaction between central legislation, local customary institutions and landscape on emergent coastlands in western Finland. He is at present participating in a project financed by the Research Council of Norway on customary rights, cultural practice and biodiversity, and is involved in a Nordic book project conceptualizing landscape in relation to national, regional and local identity. He is currently also working on a study of geographical manifestations of customary udal law in Orkney and Shetland. Interactions between central legislation and local institutions in shaping the landscape, and processes of continuity and change in customary law institutions, are his main foci of interest.