Prof  Maria Kaika - Further information

• 2010 - Coordinator (for Manchester University) International PhD Workshop and Summer School on Cities and Environmental Conflict. Funded through the ERASMUS European PhD student exchange programme. Participants: Autonoma University of Barcelona, University of Manchester, University of Lund, and European University Institute at Budapest.
• 2010 - Coordinator (for Manchester University) ERASMUS European PhD exchange programme with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2010 - Coordinator: Transforming Cities Institute Initiative. Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester
• 2010 - Organiser and Coordinator: Transforming Community Landscapes in Spain, Greece and the UK. Workshop. Manchester, 1-4 November
• 2009 - Organiser and Coordinator: 1st Graduate Student International Forum  for Human Geography: Institute of British Geographers Conference, Manchester, August
• 2009 - Organiser and Coordinator (with P Devine-Wright and G Baeten) 'Urban Imaginaries: Utopian and Dystopian Thought and Praxis on Nature and the City', RGS-IBG Conference, Manchester, August
• 2009 - Organiser and Coordinator (with K Furlong) 'Technology, Materiality and the City: Urban Techno-natures and STS', RGS-IBG Conference, Manchester, August
• 2008 - Coordinator of European Science Foundation Urban Research Programme Forum
• 2008 - Co-organiser (with CRESC and CITY journal) Invited Seminar: Loic Wacquant, University of Manchester, 29 May

Editorial Boards - International Journals

• 2005 - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
• 2004 - City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory
• 2005 - Guest Editor: City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory. Special issue on 'Iconic Building'

Visiting Appointments

• 2007 - Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of London
• 2007-08 - Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Leuven

International Foundations, Boards & Advisory Bodies

• 2007 - European Science Foundation Peer Reviewer
• 2007 - Georgian Scientific Society and Georgian National Science Foundation (GNSF) Peer Reviewer
• 2007 - Invited Professor: EUREX, European Seminars on Urban Transformation, Poverty, Spatial Segregation and Social Exclusion
• 2007 - Advisor to Edexcel (the British Educational Excellence Board) on restructuring A level Urban geography teaching
• 2006 - Trustee, Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS)
• 2005 - Invited Expert, European Science Foundation 'Forward Look on Urban Science' programme
• 2005 - External Assessor: Masters Programme on 'Gender and Space', School of Architecture National Technical University of Athens

Industry / Policy Advisory Roles

• 2003 - Invited Expert, Thames Water Forum on Water as a Commodity (St Antony's College, Oxford)
• 2001 - Invited Expert, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Forum on Water Pricing (Brussels)

Participation in International Academic Networks

• EUREX, European Seminar on Urban Transformation, Poverty, Spatial Segregation and Social Exclusion
• RC 21: The Research Committee for the 21st Century, on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association
• INURA: International Network for Urban Research and Action
• URBISnet Network on Urban Sustainability
• IWHA: International Water History Association
• PUBCITGOV: Public services, liberalisation, citizenship, and governance
• PARADOX Methodologies of Integrated Water Resources Management and Transboundary Issues
• SIWAM Network for sustainable and integrated water management