Professor
Head of School
Chief Course Adviser and Senior Arts Adviser
BA(Hons)(Rhodes)
MA(Witw)
PhD(Rhodes)
Richardson Building, room 4C8
Office Hours: See Reception (Rm 4C9) to make an appointment.
Tel +64 3 479 8548
Email etienne.nel@otago.ac.nz
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Etienne's Inaugural Professorial Lecture "Dealing With Difference: Responses to uneven geographical development" is available as an audio and video file.
Teaching
- GEOG 214 Economic Geography of the Post-World War II Era
- GEOG 374 Economic Geography of the Post-World War II Era
- GEOG 457 Advanced Urban Geography
Etienne also contributes to:
- ENVI 111 Environment and Society
- GEOG 102 Human Geography
- GEOG 215 Urban Geography
- GEOG 280 Research Methodologies in Human Geography
- GEOG 380 Field Research Studies (Arts)
- GEOG 384 Urban Geography
Research interests
Etienne's research interests are as follows:
- Local Economic Development
- Urban Entrepreneurialism/Urban Economic Developments
- Community Economic Development
- Small Towns
- Economic Policy
- Marginality
- Regional Development
- Local Government
Current research
Etienne is currently undertaking research in the economic and urban history and development in South Africa, local development and urban agriculture in Zambia and regional, local and small town development in New Zealand. He is currently leading a National Sciences Challenge investigation of rural and small town New Zealand.
View previous research projects
Postgraduate student supervision
Students (current)
- Fleener, R. Governance in South Africa
- Uko, E. Urban Farming in Nigeria
- Floyd, A. Place based development – New Zealand
- Forsyth, C. Perceptions of crime - New Zealand
- Basubas, D. Working for water - South Africa
- Wither, D. Resilience in New Zealand
- Soal, E. Water Management - New Zealand
- Quashie-Harry, R. Childhood poverty - Caribbean
PhD - students (completed)
- Bateman, J. Rural Development - Sierra Leone
- Latai, A. Climate Change - Samoa
- Ross, J. Rural Nursing - New Zealand
- Smart, J. Urban Agriculture - Zambia
- Gibb, M. Local Economic Development in South Africa
- Ironside, J. Land reform - Cambodia
- Motteux, N. Participatory Rural Appraisal
- Thornton, A. Urban Agriculture
- Vista, B. Land reform - Philippines
- Tamimi, M. Environmental Education - Palestine
- Farminer, A. River appreciation - New Zealand
MA/MBA/MPlan/MSoc – Students current and completed
- Bergen, S. Evolutionary Economic Geography – New Zealand
- Stirling, S. Christchurch Rebuild
- Brown, L. Counter-Urbanisation in Canterbury
- Anderson, C. Development of Dunedin
- Watson, R. Tourism Development in Niue
- Alebiosu, O. Integrated Development Planning
- Buthelezi, S. Response to Economic Change
- Douma, A. Land reform - Tanzania
- Gibb, M. Training for Development
- Goodenough, C. Corporate Social Responsibility/Local Economic Development
- Goodwin, R. Conservation farming in Zimbabwe
- Hale, M. Tourism
- Husband, M. Shrinking Towns - New Zealand
- Keyse, M. Industrial Development - New Zealand
- Lefusto, D. Urban Transport
- Liddle, E. Groundwater - Zambia
- Maka, E. Regeneration - New Zealand
- Meyer, S. Corporate Social Responsibility
- Mkize, N. Urban Agriculture and Entomology
- Pio, E. Small Town Development
- Taine, K. Tourism - Samoa
- Trotter, D. Nature-based Tourism.
- Anderson, C. Economic Development - New Zealand
- Baird, S. Local Development - Tauranga
- Fitchett, R. Urban Agriculture - Lusaka
- Gilroy, J. Small Town Development
- McNaughton, C. Small Town Development
- Price, S. Regional Development - New Zealand
- Stevenson, T. Strategic Planning - New Zealand
- White, R. Small Town Development
- Williams, R. Cycling Policy - New Zealand
- Topp, F. Sustainability on Campuses