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Tilen Kolar

Tilen Kolar

Profile

I am a recipient of an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) 1+3 postgraduate award for an independent PhD research project, focusing on the production of queer spaces in Slovenia and other small countries in the region through mobilities. My research explores how people create spaces through movement within cities and between urban areas and their hometowns, and how these movements intersect with spatial scales.

During my studies at Leeds, I have also collaborated on the research project Queer Memorials, specifically examining memorialization practices at the Homomonument (Amsterdam) and the inclusivity surrounding it. This work has sparked my interest in the temporal dimensions of the spaces and practices around us.

I currently teach at the School of Geography, leading seminars on Analysing Cities at the master’s level, as well as Population, Society and Space and Citizenship and Identity at the undergraduate level. Previously, I have led seminars on The Urban Age, Global Geopolitics, Migration and Uneven Development, and Political and Development Geographies. Additionally, during my fieldwork in Slovenia, I delivered a guest lecture on Writing Sexual Spaces at the Faculty of Geography, University of Maribor.

Publications

  • Zebracki, M., Kolar, T., & Collis, P. (2024). Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory? Memory Studies.

Research Groups and Institutes

  • Postgraduate Research Representative, Space, Sexualities, and Queer Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
  • WRDTPA Digital Technologies, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence Pathway.
  • Social Justice, Cities, and Citizenship Research Cluster, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
  • GeoInclusive Task Force, School of Geography, University of Leeds

Research interests

Geographies of Sexuality. 

Mobilities.

Queer Mobilities.

Geographies of Encounter. 

Thinking through temporalities.  

European semi-peripheries. 

More-than-representational thinking. 

Art, memory and space. 

Challenging the ontology of the urban–rural binary. 

Space and time in the context of consumption. 

Qualifications

  • MA Social Research, University of Leeds
  • BA Economics and Geography, University of Leeds