Michael Jones#
| Membership Number: | 4118 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ntnu.edu/geography |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1985 - present Professor, Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (formerly U. Trondheim) (elected Head of Department 1990-92) (Professor Emeritus from 2015)
- 1996,8 - 1997,1 Visiting Research Professor, Section for Landscape, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark
- 1993 - 1996 Part-time Academic Adviser, Centre for Environment and Development, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (formerly U. Trondheim)
- 1981 - 1985 Associate Professor, Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (formerly U. Trondheim)
- 1975 - 1981 Senior Lecturer, Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (formerly U. Trondheim) (elected Head of Department 1978-81)
- 1973 - 1975 Research Fellow, Agricultural University of Norway
- 1970 - 1971 Part-time Lecturer, Geography, University of Helsinki
- 1969 - 1972 Research Assistant, Finnish Forestry Research Institute
- 1968 Part-time Lecturer, Enfield College of Technology, United Kingdom
Fields of Scholarship
- Cultural geography
- History of cartography
- Landscape change
- Environmental management
- Legal geography
- Geographers' biographies and autobiographies
- Scandinavia
- Finland, Norway, Orkney and Shetland
- Agricultural policy
- Cultural landscape concept
Honours and Awards
- 1972 Corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Finland
- Cuthbert Peek Award from the Royal Geographical Society (UK) in 1995, for contributions at the meeting ground of physical and human geography
- 1999 Foreign member of the Academy of Letters, Antiquities and History, Stockholm
- 2000 Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Trondheim
- 2003 Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (History group)
- Principal co-editor of Norwegian Geographical Journal in1999; editor-in-chief 2006-2014; honorary consulting editor 2015
- 2008 Elected honorary member of the Norwegian Geographical Society
