18/09/2026
Foreign scholars deliver lectures at Zhubanov University
Within the framework of the programme for attracting foreign scholars, researcher Marko Petrović from Serbia and Professor Semra Günay from Turkey have arrived at Zhubanov University and are taking part in the educational process at the "Geography and Tourism" department of the Faculty of History and Geography.
From 14 to 27 September, the foreign scholars will deliver lectures to students of the educational programme "Tourism" and share their research and professional experience.
Marko Petrović is a principal research fellow at the Department of Social Geography of the "Jovan Cvijić" Geographical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as an honorary research fellow at the University of Wisconsin in the USA. The scholar researches human geography, rural development and the tourism sector. His research areas include the geographical aspects of tourism, rural development, agritourism, assessment of tourism's impact on territories, community-based economic planning, spatial aspects of tourism, geoheritage and tourism, as well as research methodology. The scholar's Hirsch index is 21 in the Web of Science database and 22 in the Scopus database.
Semra Günay is a professor at the Faculty of Tourism of Anadolu University in Turkey. Her scientific interests cover such fields as social sciences and humanities, geography, human geography, tourism and hospitality management, demography, agriculture and geographic information systems. The scholar is the author of 208 scientific publications, of which 33 are indexed in the Web of Science database and 31 in the Scopus database. The scholar's Hirsch index in the Web of Science and Scopus databases is 8.