Tallinn University
Tallinn University is the third largest university in Estonia.
The University’s School of Humanities offers both graduate and post-graduate education and hosts the Centre for Landscape and Culture working group which aims at progressing landscape theory, problem-solving approaches and contributions to landscape and management and planning. Its goal is to facilitate both the application of landscape research to practice, and the feedback from practice into research.
The centre combines cultural heritage and landscape studies looking at questions of change, practice and meaning-making as well as cultural sustainability.
Hannes Palang
Team
The scientific team consists of Hannes Palang, Raili Nugin, and Saara Mildeberg.
Prof. Dr. Hannes Palang is the professor of human geography at TLU, and head of the Centre for Landscape and Culture. He has been the leader/PI of numerous research projects, most recently “Landscape Approach to Rurbanity” (2019-2023), “Social and Innovative Platform on Cultural Tourism and its Potential Towards Deepening Europeanisation” (SPOT; 2020-2022), “Land-Sea Interactions Advancing BlueGrowth in Baltic Sea Coaslal Areas” (2019-2021), “Culturescapes in Transformation: Towards an Intergrated Theory of Meaning Making” (2013-2018), “Landscape Practice and Heritage” (2007-2012), and many others.
Raili Nugin (PhD) is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Landscape and Culture, School of Humanities, Tallinn University. She has been working in youth research for 15 years, studying transition to adulthood, rural youth, youth mobilities and socially excluded youth. She has conducted research in several research projects, including European Commission research projects (FP7 and HORIZON programmes) and several RAY programmes (Research Based Analysis of Youth Programmes). Her main interests include mobilities, identities and memory. During the recent years, she has been active in a research grant studying rural-urban relationships. She has extensively published in different scientific journals and edited volumes. She has also published a monograph about coming of age in 1990s and edited volumes about generations and youth studies. She has a PhD in sociology (2011).
Saara Mildeberg is a junior research fellow at the Centre for Landscape and Culture at Tallinn University. Her background is in photography and ethnology. Her previous research projects include SPOT (2020-2022) and the Young People Network for Balticness (2022-2024).
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