Lecturer (fixed-term)
Leopold LUCAS is currently a fixed-term lecturer in geography at University of Lausanne. He gives lectures in the Master of Arts in Tourism Studies and a member of the research team "Cultures and Natures of Tourism". Previously, he was a Visiting Research Fellow in the department of geography in University College of London, thanks to an 'Early PostDoc Mobility' Grant of the Swiss National Science Fundation. Before that, he did a PhD at University of Lausanne, with Prof. Mathis Stock as supervisor. During this time, he was working as 'Teaching Assistant' in the Tourism Studies Unit at IUKB.
Teaching:
'Tourism and Environment'
'Urban dimensions of tourist places'
'From theory to survey. Methodology in Social Sciences'
Research fields:
Geography, urban studies, tourism studies, tourist practices, theory of practices, philosophy of action, sociology of knowledges, skills of spatialities, urban process, metropolis, Los Angeles.
