Emeritus Professor of Geography, Canterbury Christ Church University
Kent-Related Research Interests
Geographer with research interests in cartography, landscape history, ecology and heritage. I was involved in drafting the Green Heritage Manifesto
Current work focuses on map and fieldwork in school education to support the history and geography, including use of contemporary and historic OS maps and LiDAR imagery.
Based in the Cotswolds I am Secretary of the Gloucestershire Branch of the Geographical Association) and Secretary of the BIG CHALK’s Health, Wellbeing and Engagement Topic Group
Editor of 'Maplines' the British Cartographic Society BCS magazine, and Editorial Board Member (and former Editor) The Cartographic Journal.
Recent or Forthcoming Publications
- Heath, D. and Vujakovic, P. (in press) Entanglements: ‘Story telling for earthly survival’ in Bainbridge, A. and Kemp, N. (eds) Educating for Sustainability in Universities: Working Together to Create Good Education, Routledge : London.
- Vujakovic, P. and Finn, L. (2023) Landscape detectives, Primary Geography, No.110, 16-17.
- Vujakovic, P. (2021) ‘Map as biography: maps, memory, and landscape – thoughts on Ordnance Survey map, Sheet TR04, 1:25,000 Provisional Edition, Ashford’, International Journal of Cartography, 7(2), 190-197.
- Vujakovic, P. (2021) Dark cartographies: the mapping of slow violence, chapter in O’Lear, S (ed.) Geographies of Slow Violence: A Research Agenda, Edward Elgar Press, 205-223.
- Vujakovic , P. (2018) Prehistoric ‘Taskscapes’: Representing Gender, Age and the Geography of Work, Visual Culture in Britain, 19(2), 255-278.
Links
Meaningful Maps project - http://meaningfulmaps.org/
Kent Maps Online - https://www.kent-maps.online/
BIG CHALK - https://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/looking-after/big-chalk/
