Biography 

Visiting Professor at the RAU. 

Peter joined the Royal Agricultural University as a Visiting Professor in 2025. 

He is also an Emeritus Professor of Geography at Canterbury Christ Church University (Centre for Kent History and Heritage).

Qualifications 

  • PhD Royal Holloway, University of London
  • BSc Newcastle University

Professional Memberships 

  • British Cartographic Society
  • Geographical Association
  • Society for Landscape Studies
  • Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Research

Research keywords

Geography, landscape studies, heritage, cartography, ecology/biogeography.

Teaching

Guest lectures

Publications

Publications 

  • Heath, D. and Vujakovic, P. (2024) Entanglements: ‘Story telling for earthly survival’ in Bainbridge, A. and Kemp, N. (eds) Good Education in a Fragile World, Routledge, 110-124.
  • Vujakovic, P. (2021) Dark cartographies: the mapping slow violence, in O’Lear, S (ed.) (2021) Geographies of Slow Violence: A Research Agenda, Edward Elgar Press, 205-223.
  • Vujakovic, P. (2021) ‘Map as biography: maps, memory, and landscape – thoughts on Ordnance Survey map, Sheet TR04, 1:25,000 Provisional Edition, Ashford’, International Journal of Cartography, 7(2), 190-197.
  • Vujakovic, P. (2019) Battle of the Giants: plants versus animals in idealised landscapes of ‘deep time’, Plants People Planet, 1 (3), 188-196.
  • Vujakovic, P. (2019) Empire as Spectacle - Harmsworth's Atlas of the World and Pictorial Gazeteer with Atlas of the Great War, in Kent, A., Millea, N, and (eds) Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea, Springer.
  • Vujakovic, P. (2019) Engagement with trees as Long-life learning for sustainability, in Fihlo, W. et al. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Life on Land, Springer Reference.
  • Vujakovic, P. (2018) The map is the story: the U-shaped line in western news media coverage of the geopolitics of the South China Sea, International Journal of Cartography, doi.org/10.1080/23729333.2018.1541581

  • Vujakovic , P. (2018) Prehistoric ‘Taskscapes’: Representing Gender, Age and the Geography of Work, Visual Culture in Britain, 19(2), 255-278.

  • Kent, A. and Vujakovic, P. (eds) (2018) The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, Routledge.

External Engagement and Impact

 

  • British Cartographic Society (BCS), editor of Maplines and Editorial Board Member of the Cartographic Journal
  • Secretary of the Gloucestershire Branch of the Geographical Association
  • Member of the Centre for Kent History and Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University https://ckhh.org.uk/