Selected projects with funding agencies per research theme:

Urban tourism and commercial gentrification

Bas collaboratively guides the project on touristification of and overtourism in the urban consumption landscape and strategies of commoning to achieve a sustainable balance (funded by Dutch Research Council, 2017-present). This project includes a supervised PhD-project on urban tourism, retail development and commercial gentrification in Amsterdam. Another supervised PhD-project looked at processes of crowding and encounters between mainland Chinese tourists and local residents in the consumption landscape of Hong Kong (funded by Chinese Scholarship Council, 2016-2020).

Consumption spaces and everyday mobilities

Bas supervises a PhD project investigating human decision making for and subjective experiences of urban mobilities (walking, cycling, public transport, etc.) with a focus on city events and festivals (funded by Utrecht University and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, 2023-present). He collaboratively guided the project on digital marketing strategies of entrepreneurial collectives in city centres (funded by Dutch Research Council, 2015-2018). This project continues with a supervised PhD-project on digital marketing activities on the attractiveness of shopping streets (funded by Dutch Research Council, 2017-present). With a focus on Utrecht city centre, Bas led the project on walking and cycling mobilities in the Beurskwartier area (funded by European Institute of Innovation & Technology, 2016-2017) and the project on shopping trajectories and walking experiences (funded by City of Utrecht, 2013-2014). He also collaboratively led the ‘Urban trajectories’ project on cycling mobilities and experiences of division and cohesion in Utrecht (funded by Netherlands Architecture Fund and Doen Foundation, 2012-2013).

Differentiation processes and public space

Bas collaboratively led the EUROCORES-project ‘(Un)familiarity as signs of European times’ on historical representations of otherness and contemporary daily life in European cross-border regions (funded by European Science Foundation and the Belgian, Danish, Dutch and Finnish Research Councils, 2010-2014). This project included a supervised PhD-project on cross-border shopping practices and experiences of (un)familiarity in borderlands. The theme continued with a supervised PhD-project on differentiation and familiarization between asylum seekers and local residents in public spaces in Augsburg (funded by Dutch Research Council, 2015-2019). Another supervised PhD-project zooms in on Nigerian migrant traders and processes of everyday bordering in Guangzhou (funded by Chinese Scholarship Council, 2017-present).