Dr Daniel Bos | University of Chester

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Combined Honours Geography Programme Leader

Dr Daniel Bos is a senior lecturer in Human Geography and Combined Honours Geography Programme Leader at the University of Chester, UK. His contributions to undergraduate teaching cover a wide range of topics within the discipline of Human Geography, and he also supervises postgraduate research. As a cultural-political geographer, Daniel has broad research interests in geopolitics, landscape, and visual cultures and technologies.

Daniels' teaching responsibilities include:

Undergraduate Teaching:

GE4012 People and Places (Module Leader)

GE4013 Changing the World (Tutorials Strand Leader)

GE4015 Researching Environments (Human Geography Strand Leader)

GE5014/18 Social Research Methods and Geomatics (Module Leader)

GE5016 Geopolitics and the Global Economy (Module Leader)

GE6001/2 Dissertation (Human Geography Strand Leader)

GE6019 International Fieldwork Barcelona

GE6025 Smart Places

Postgraduate Supervision:

Fulons Solbakken (2023-Present) Exploring effective communication and visualisation for flood risk management amongst transient populations using extended reality.

Olalekan Aduloju (2022-Present) Analysis of Brownfield Sites in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Dr Daniel Bos’s research interests focus on three areas:

Landscape: Daniel’s more recent research explores the historical and contemporary human-environmental encounters with the mountains and landscapes of Wales, utilising creative and in-depth qualitative methods.

Popular Geopolitics: Daniel is interested in the role of popular culture, particularly video games, in reinforcing and challenging popular understandings of geopolitics, national identity, and cultures of militarism.

Visual Culture and Technologies: This area of research focuses on the role of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies in shaping social-spatial relations and the pedagogical impact of such technologies on teaching and learning in geography. In 2021, Daniel created the Experimenting with Digital and Immersive Technologies (EDIT) university-wide special interest group.

Books

Dittmer, J and Bos, D. (2019) Popular Culture, Geopolitics and Identity, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: US.

Journal Articles

Bos, D., Miller, S., & Bull, E. (2022). Using virtual reality (VR) for teaching and learning in geography: fieldwork, analytical skills, and employability. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 46 (3), 1-10.

Bos, D. (2021). Playful Encounters: Games for Geopolitical Change. Geopolitics, 1-25.

Bos, D. (2021) Geography and virtual reality. Geography Compass, 15(9).

Bos, D. (2020). 'Popular geopolitics ‘beyond the screen’: Bringing Modern Warfare to the city'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(1), 94-113.

Bos, D. (2018) Answering the Call of Duty: Everyday encounters with the popular geopolitics of military-themed videogames. Political Geography, 63, 54-64.

Bos, D, Finlay, R., Hopkins, P., Lloyd, J., Richardson, M. (2017) A review of the ESRC internship scheme for postgraduates. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 41 (1), 106-118.

Rech. M. F., Bos. D, Williams,. A, Woodward R, Jenkings N and (2015) Military geography and critical war studies. Critical Military Studies, 1 (1), 47-60.

Jenkings, K. N., Megoran, N., Woodward, R. and Bos, D. (2012) Wootton Bassett and the Political Spaces of Remembrance and Mourning. Area, 44 (3), 356–363.

Jenkings, K. N., Woodward, R., Williams, A. J., Rech, M. F., Murphy, A. L. and Bos, D. (2011) Military Occupations: Methodological Approaches and the Military–Academy Research Nexus. Sociology Compass, 5 (1), 37–51.

Book Chapters

Bos, D. (2023) Military Geographies of Popular Culture. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Bos, D. (2021) Nationalism, Popular Culture and the Media In Adams, P. C and Warf, B. Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies, Routledge: UK.

Bos, D. (2018) Popular Geopolitics and the Landscapes of Virtual War in Saunders, R. and Strukov, V. Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline, Routledge: UK, 216-234.

Bos, D. and Jenkings. N, (2016) Analysing newspapers: considering the use of print media sources in military research In Williams A, Woodward R, Jenkings N and Rech M F (Eds) The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods, Routledge: UK, 58-70.

Bos, D. (2016) Critical Methodologies for Researching Military Videogames, In Williams A, Woodward R, Jenkings N and Rech M F (Eds) The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods, Routledge: UK, 332-344.

Bos, D. (2015) Methods/Videogames/Geopolitics, Special Edition E-IR: World Politics and Popular Culture E-International Publishing, 101-109.

Book Reviews

Bos, D. (2017) ‘Popular Geopolitics and Nation-Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm’, Robert Saunders. Book Review in Social and Cultural Geography, 18 (8), 1197-1199.

Bos, D. (2016) ‘How to Do Things with Videogames’, Ian Bogost. Book Review in Journal of Consumer Culture.

BA Geography (Newcastle University)
MA Human Geography (Newcastle University)
PhD Human Geography (Newcastle University)

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
SEDA PDF Learning, Teaching and Assessing Certificate