Selected projects with funding agencies per research theme:

Urban tourism and commercial gentrification

Bas supervises a PhD-project on the impact of social media-driven tourism gentrification on the place identity of shopping streets in Shanghai (Funded by Fujian Zhiye Scholarships, 2025-2029). He also leads a project on international travel guides and the evolution of tourism landscapes (Funded by the Delta Climate Center / DCC, 2025). He guided the project on touristification of and overtourism in urban consumption landscapes and strategies of commoning to achieve more sustainable tourism development (funded by the Dutch Research Council / NWO, 2018-2023). This project included a supervised PhD-project on urban tourism, retail development and commercial gentrification in the city of Amsterdam (funded by the Dutch Research Council / NWO, 2018-2023). 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 the Chinese Scholarship Council / CSC, 2015-2019). 

Consumption spaces and everyday mobilities

Bas supervises a PhD-project investigating decision making processes for and subjective experiences of walking and cycling mobilities in mixed-use city centre streets (funded by Utrecht University and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research / UU & TNO, 2023-2027). He also leads a project on when and how (not) to use walk-along interviews as mobile research method (funded by the Utrecht Education Incentive Fund / USO, 2025-2026). He guided the project on digital marketing strategies of entrepreneurial collectives in Dutch city centres (funded by the Dutch Research Council / NWO, 2015-2018). This project continued with a supervised PhD-project on the implications of digital marketing activities for the attractiveness of shopping streets in the Netherlands (funded by the Dutch Research Council / NWO, 2018-2023). With a focus on Utrecht city centre, Bas led both the project on walking and cycling mobilities in the Beurskwartier area (funded by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology / EIT, 2016-2017) and the project on shopping trajectories and walking experiences (funded by the City of Utrecht, 2013-2014). He also led the ‘Urban trajectories’ project on cycling mobilities and experiences of division and cohesion in Utrecht (funded by the Netherlands Architecture Fund and the Doen Foundation, 2012-2013).

Social differentiation and public space

Bas led the EUROCORES-project ‘(Un)familiarity as signs of European times’ on historical representations of otherness and contemporary daily life in various European cross-border regions (funded by the European Science Foundation and the Belgian, Danish, Dutch and Finnish Research Councils / ESF, FWO, DASTI, NWO & AKA, 2010-2015). This project included a supervised PhD-project on cross-border shopping practices and experiences of (un)familiarity in European borderlands (funded by the Dutch Research Council / NWO, 2010-2014). With a focus on the city of Utrecht, he supervised a project investigating the publicness of the Uithof university campus (funded by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council / TUBITAK, 2012-2013). He also supervised a PhD-project on differentiation and familiarization between asylum seekers and local residents in various public spaces in Augsburg (funded by the Dutch Research Council / NWO, 2015-2019). Another supervised PhD-project zoomed in on Nigerian migrant traders and everyday life and multi-scalar bordering processes in Guangzhou (funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council / CSC, 2017-2021). He also led the ‘Mobility as meeting’ project exploring train carriages as public space, providing opportunities for social interaction and meeting spaces (funded by the Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment / IenM, 2022). 

This research theme on social differentiation and public space mainly continued with thematic emphasis on urban tourism and commercial gentrification (see the research projects mentioned above).