Kelsey Johansen

Kelsey Johansen

@kelseymjohansen.bsky.social

Research Scientist at Natural Resource Institute of Finland (Luke) working on the EU-funded @verneproject.bsky.social. Adjunct Professor @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social #Tourism | #OutdoorRecreation | #Trails #DigitalNature | #Wellbeing | #Landscapes

110 Followers 168 Following 50 Posts Joined Dec 2024
6 months ago
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Absolutely fantastic final day at #WLC2025! Great sessions on 1) virtual reality use in leisure, 2) nature experiences and 3) the restorative effects of nature and a fantastic keynote on VR & AR in Leisure.

#PostdocLife #LeisureStudies #LeisureScholar #RestoratativeLandscapes #NatureImmersion

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6 months ago
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Toured the BUas #ExperienceLab what technologies they are using and innovating, and the types of theoretical and applied research being conducted there. Very inspiring to discuss my research with other academics working at the nexus of #tourism, #leisure, #DigitalExperienceDesign, and #technology.

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6 months ago
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Unbelievable Day 3 of #WLC2025: CETHL hosted an Industry day with a talk from the national DMO, case studies in community engagement for #TourismDevelopment, and workshops on the future of tourism and #Storytelling through #TourismRoutes

#PostdocLife #Placemaking #ExperienceDesign #CollectiveImpact

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6 months ago
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Great second day of #WLC2025 at BUas including a keynote on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a debate on social and ecological sustainability at leisure destinations, and the beginning of the week's plenary sessions.

#WorldLeisureCongress2025 #PostdocLife #LeisureStudies #WorldLeisureOrganization

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6 months ago
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Fabulous kick-off to #WLC2025 at the Grote Kerk - truly inspiring keynotes on Leisure and Cultural Heritage from Ilja Simons and Bert Smit discussing stories, stages and the soul of the City and Van Gogh's legacy respectively.

#PostdocLife #LeisureStudies #WorldLeisureCongress2025

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6 months ago
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Looking forward to #WLC2025 this week at Breda UAS in the Netherlands and presenting the findings of my @uniuef.bsky.social #Postdoc on #Restoratative #VirtualNature #DigitialExperienceDesign.

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8 months ago
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Day 1 of the 3rd Sustainable Sports Symposium hosted by @sportainable.bsky.social at @unileipzig.bsky.social is underway!

#SustainableOutdoorSport #OutdoorSport #PostdocLife

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8 months ago
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Next stop #Leipzig for the 3rd Sustainable Sports Symposium hosted by Universität Leipzig and @sportainable.bsky.social!

#SustainableOutdoorSport #PostdocLife

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8 months ago
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New article accepted for publication in Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism on #Fatbiking and #ClimateChange. Huge thank you to my co-author Harvey Lemelin from @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social for the collaboration!

#FatBiking #ORVAs #ClimateChange #AdaptiveStrategies

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8 months ago
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All set for the first day of #ATLAS2025 in Vila-seca, Spain!

#AcademicMobility #ConferenceTravel

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9 months ago

Looking forward to sharing my paper on 'Fascinating Landscapes and Nature Based Recreation and Tourism Design' and to Chairing two sessions of Special Track 10 – Ecosystem Services and the Impacts of Nature-Based and Adventure Tourism on Tourism Destinations at a Crossroads while at #Atlas2025!

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9 months ago

Thank you to #Liikesivistysrahasto, the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education for making this possible through their generous travel grant.

#TravelGrant #PostdocLife

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9 months ago
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Living the Quiet Car dream aboard VR Finland. 🚅

Next stop Helsinki, where I'm overnighting before heading to #ATLAS2025 in Villa-Seca Spain!

#AcademicMobility #PostdocLife #ConferenceTravel

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9 months ago
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At tomorrow's Tourism Industry Day at the #UEFSenseLab we'll be sharing how the Lab can be used for teaching, learning and research and discuss opportunities for tourism stakeholders to collaborate with the Tourism Research Group.

#TourismResearch
#ExperienceDesign #VirtualTourism #VirtualNature

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9 months ago
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I'm speaking at Synergies in Forest Bioeconomy Research, a collab b/wn @uniuef.bsky.social and the European Forest Institute. Join us June 5th, 2025 from 14:00 - 17:00 in AU110. Presentation and registration details below.

#UEFTourismBusiness #TourismResearch #BioEconomyResearch #LandscapeResearch

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9 months ago
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 30th, 2025 at 5pm!!

Join us IN-PERSON June 4th, 2025 from 13:30 to 16:00 @uniuef.bsky.social's Joensuu Campus for the Tourism Industry Day co-hosted by UEF Business School's Tourism Business Research Group and UEF Water.

RSVP: link.webropol.com/ep/tourismin...

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9 months ago
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This week, I led the En Bloc Field Trips for HRF Rottenburg exploring sustainable regional development, conservation, and human-nature connection through water and forest based outdoor sport in the Franconian Lake District.

#OutdoorSport #SustainableRegionalDevelopment
#AcademicMobility

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9 months ago

After, students will write reflection papers on their experiential learning case study activities. Then, during an end-of-term online reflection day we'll bring it all together to consider the implications for professional practice as students prepare to enter the workforce in their chosen fields.

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9 months ago
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I'm in #Germany teaching 'Nature & Outdoor Sport' for HRF Rottenburg. Last week, students did theory presentations. Next week, we will explore Franconian Lake District case studies.

#FlippedClassrooms #ExperientialLearning #BlendedLearning #FieldCourses #OutdoorSport #TeachingMobility

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10 months ago
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Join @uniuef.bsky.social's Tourism Business Research Group June 4th 2025 from 1:30pm to 4:00pm at the #UEFSenseLab for a Tourism Industry Day!

Register at: link.webropol.com/ep/tourismin...

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11 months ago
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Great to be in #TheSix for two weeks writing and spending time with the #FamJam.

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11 months ago
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Designing transformative nature-based wellbeing tourism experiences: a case study from the Finnish Lakeland Region Customer insights are essential to the tourism co-design process. However, diverse processes can be employed to gather them. Responding to the scarcity of research on facilitators’ roles in the co-...

You can read the #OpenAccess co-authored article that today's talk was based on here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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11 months ago
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This week, I've been lecturing as part of my Research and Teaching Stay at @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social. Each year I visit my #AlmaMatter in my role as Adjunct External Professor of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism to present my @uniuef.bsky.social work to their undergraduate ORPT students.

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1 year ago
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Lovely evening on #LakePyhäselkä recording #soundscapes and taking #360DegreePhotos with my #Insta360X4 for the next round of my #UEFSenseLab Experiments exploring the impact of the #LookingListeningCongruence of #TherapeuticLandscapes on #Restoration, #SubjectiveVitality and #VisitIntention.

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1 year ago
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Faciliating today's @uniuef.bsky.social TMM Masters Thesis Seminar: The Philosophy of Science, Research Problems and Research Ethics. Looking forward to a great day in the classroom!

#ThesisSupervision #MastersThesisSeminars #UEFTMM #TeachingPedagogy #TeachingPraxis #ScaffoldedLearning

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1 year ago
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Great day yesterday testing out my new #Insta360X4 at #Koli National Park! Looking forward to using the #360DegreePhotos in my next round of #UEFSenseLab #TourismLandscape and ##TourismSoundscape #Experiments!

#TherapeuticLandscapes #RestorativeSoundscapes #ExperimentalDesign

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1 year ago
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Exciting News: I will be presenting a paper 'Considering the Restorative Potential of Multi-Component Landscapes - Looking Beyond Blue & Green Spaces' at the #18thWorldLeisureCongress August 25 - 28 2025 at @bredauniversityas.bsky.social!

#TourismLandscapes #RestorativeLandscapes #TourismResearch

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1 year ago
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Lovely to host Rose Keller from NINA - Norweigian Institute for Nature Research at the #UEFSenseLab today to discuss collaborations on #multisensory #tourism #landscape and #soundscape #research - a great follow up from yesterday's #SustainingNature Webinar.

#TourismResearch #Soundscapes

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1 year ago
Touristisches Reiseverhalten im raumzeitlichen Kontext - News - Fakultät für Tourismus - Hochschule München News - Fakultät für Tourismus

Learn more about the #LivingLab here: tourismus.hm.edu/aktuelles/ne...

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1 year ago
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Last week, I visited the Faculty of Tourism at Hochschule München. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet with Dr. Elisabeth Bartl, incoming Operations Manager of the Faculty's Living Lab in Tourism, Sustainability and Quality of Life and discuss collaboration opportunities with the UEF SenseLab.

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