Dr Daniel Bos
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Combined Honours Geography Programme Leader
Biography
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.
Teaching and Supervision
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.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
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.