Dr Daniel Bos

Responsibilities

• Combined Honours Geography Programme Leader 
• Disability Link Tutor

Undergraduate Teaching

• GE4012 People and Places (Module Leader)
• GE4013 Changing the World (Tutorials Strand Leader)
• GE4015 Researching Environments (Human Geography Strand Leader)
• GE5014/18 Social Research Methods and Geomatics (Module Leader)
• GE5016 Geopolitics and the Global Economy (Module Leader)
• GE6001/2 Dissertation (Human Geography Strand Leader)
• GE6019 International Fieldwork Barcelona 
• GE6025 Smart Places

Postgraduate Supervision

Olalekan Aduloju (2022-Present) Analysis of Brownfield Sites in Ilorin, Nigeria.

My research interests focus on three areas

Landscapes

My more recent research interests investigate the historical and contemporary human-environmental encounters with the mountains of Wales, drawing on archival and qualitative research methods.

Popular Culture and Geopolitics

I am interested in how popular understandings of geopolitics and national identity are reinforced and challenged through popular culture and the media.  

Critical Military Studies

I study how cultures of militarism are expressed and encountered in everyday geographies. This has included research projects on the politics of memorialisation; military landscapes; military-themed videogames; and methodological approaches to studying the military.   

I am also interested in using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies for teaching and understanding geographical and environmental issues.  

Responsibilities

• Experimenting with Digital and Immersive Technologies (EDIT) University Group Leader 
• Communities, Culture and Sustainability Research Group Co-ordinator

Books

Dittmer, J and Bos, D. (2019) Popular Culture, Geopolitics and Identity, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: US.

Journal Articles

Bos, D., Miller, S., & Bull, E. (2022). Using virtual reality (VR) for teaching and learning in geography: fieldwork, analytical skills, and employability. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 46 (3), 1-10.

Bos, D. (2021). Playful Encounters: Games for Geopolitical Change. Geopolitics, 1-25.

Bos, D. (2021) Geography and virtual reality. Geography Compass, 15(9).

Bos, D. (2020). 'Popular geopolitics ‘beyond the screen’: Bringing Modern Warfare to the city'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(1), 94-113.

Bos, D. (2018) Answering the Call of Duty: Everyday encounters with the popular geopolitics of military-themed videogames. Political Geography, 63, 54-64. 

Bos, D, Finlay, R., Hopkins, P., Lloyd, J., Richardson, M. (2017) A review of the ESRC internship scheme for postgraduates. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 41 (1), 106-118.

Rech. M. F., Bos. D, Williams,. A, Woodward R, Jenkings N and (2015) Military geography and critical war studies. Critical Military Studies, 1 (1), 47-60.

Jenkings, K. N., Megoran, N., Woodward, R. and Bos, D. (2012) Wootton Bassett and the Political Spaces of Remembrance and Mourning. Area, 44 (3), 356–363.

Jenkings, K. N., Woodward, R., Williams, A. J., Rech, M. F., Murphy, A. L. and Bos, D. (2011) Military Occupations: Methodological Approaches and the Military–Academy Research Nexus. Sociology Compass, 5 (1), 37–51.

Book Chapters

Bos, D. (2023) Military Geographies of Popular Culture. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Bos, D. (2021) Nationalism, Popular Culture and the Media In Adams, P. C and Warf, B. Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies, Routledge: UK.

Bos, D. (2018) Popular Geopolitics and the Landscapes of Virtual War in Saunders, R. and Strukov, V. Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline, Routledge: UK, 216-234.

Bos, D. and Jenkings. N, (2016) Analysing newspapers: considering the use of print media sources in military research In Williams A, Woodward R, Jenkings N and Rech M F (Eds) The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods, Routledge: UK, 58-70.

Bos, D. (2016) Critical Methodologies for Researching Military Videogames, In Williams A, Woodward R, Jenkings N and Rech M F (Eds) The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods, Routledge: UK, 332-344.

Bos, D. (2015) Methods/Videogames/Geopolitics, Special Edition E-IR: World Politics and Popular Culture E-International Publishing, 101-109.

Book Reviews

Bos, D. (2017) ‘Popular Geopolitics and Nation-Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm’, Robert Saunders. Book Review in Social and Cultural Geography, 18 (8), 1197-1199.

Bos, D. (2016) ‘How to Do Things with Videogames’, Ian Bogost. Book Review in Journal of Consumer Culture.

• BA Geography (Newcastle University)
• MA Human Geography (Newcastle University)
• PhD Human Geography (Newcastle University)

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• SEDA PDF Learning, Teaching and Assessing Certificate