Roger Marjavaara

Dr. Marjavaara is acting as an Associate Professor, specializing in tourism, at the department of Geography. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 on a dissertation dealing with second home tourism and displacement in Sweden (download here), and have previous experience from work in the Swedish tourism industry as sales representative, product coordinator and tourism office manager.

Research:
Marjavaara's research interest is primarily within tourism and human mobility, and especially second home tourism. Other interest lie in the field of retail, shopping tourism, package holidays, AirBnB's, caravans and RVs, and the effect of artificially modified environments. Roger have also acted as PI in several research projects on the geographies of death.

Marjavaara have been a visiting scholar at the University of the West of England (UK) and the University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

He is a member of several international research networks, such as International Geographical Union - Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change (IGUST), Nordic Tourism and Hospitality Research Society (NORTHORS) and International Smalls Island Studies Association (ISISA).

Marjavaara's profile on Google Scholar.

Academic merits:
Associate professor (Umeå University-2016), Assistant professor (Umeå University-2009), Ph.D. (Umeå University-2008), MSc (Umeå University-1998), BSc (University of Kalmar-1997)

Teaching:
Roger teaches primarily on courses in tourism geography, but also on courses in retail geography, places development, and geographical information systems (GIS). He frequently supervise students on bachelor- and masters' level and also act as supervisor for Ph.D. students, and is also involved in teaching on the Geography teachers education.

In 2012, Dr. Marjavaara was awarded the pedagogical prize of the Social science faculty at Umeå University, for best teacher.