Welcome to the third blog post in the series: NWO Vidi grant application journey (#NWOVidi2025diaries). You can check out the first blog post here and the second blog post here. In the second blog post I mentioned that I had to do a "revise and resubmit" after the first administrative checks of my submission. In … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” III: Under review (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
Welcome to the second blog post in the series: NWO Vidi grant application journey (#NWOVidi2025diaries). You can check out the first blog post here where I wrote about how I wrestled with whether to apply or not to apply. In this second blog, I offer a quick update on the process which can be summed … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” II: Revise and resubmit (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
In the end, I buckled under the allure of the saying that "many hands make light work" and the potential possibility of maybe, I might, likely, perhaps, be in a position to fund another PhD student and a postdoc. Do you realise the tentativeness of the previous sentences? The caveats and the hedges made? Well, … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?”: The NWO Vidi grant application journey (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
1st April is beginning to feel like one of my favourite dates. Some pretty significant milestones of my professional life has been marked by this 1st April date - and it's no joke 😉 This is especially in relation to my academic career trajectory in the Netherlands. Prior to my transition from being a professional … Continue reading FRICTIONS starts today!: lift-off time for my ERC Starting Grant project (Frictions of space: the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism)
Today 1st January 2025 marks my official promotion to the position of Associate Professor in the Cultural Geography Chairgroup at Wageningen University and Research. This makes it is exactly 4.5 years since I entered the Tenure Track system at the Assistant Professor 2 level -and some 5.7 years since relocating from Sheffield Hallam University as … Continue reading Associate Professor: storytelling and the tourism geographies of slavery and colonial heritage
*Rejection Notice*You win some, you lose some. You get some, you are denied some. Back in January 2024, I applied for an NWO (Dutch Research Council) Impact Explorer grant to do some pretty cool stuff - or so I thought 😀 The decision came back today and (un)fortunately my proposal has been rejected! It is … Continue reading Rejection notice
I am delighted to have been awarded a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Early Career Partnership Grant. With this grant award I can organise the upcoming the international "Tourism, memory and heritage" conference on 1 - 2 June 2023 in Amsterdam in relation to my ongoing Veni research project More info about … Continue reading Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Early Career Partnership Grant Award
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 