I’ll be speaking at this Inside Government event on 7th December in London. My talk will examine the links between economic development and tourism in the UK, in the context of the economic crisis. Click on the image below to go straight to the event booking page which has a list of all the invited… [Read more…]
This is the presentation that Charles Bladen and I gave at yesterday’s SHIFT 2011 conference at the University of Greenwich. It sets out some of the framework of ideas behind a research project that we are developing, in which we are taking a critical perpsective on the ethics and practicalities of voluneering by event management… [Read more…]
Graham Symon and I have had an abstract accepted for a paper we will present at the Future Cities 2011 conference, being held in London on 15th & 16th December this year. The paper builds on an idea that came from some work on localism we were doing earlier in the year for the Economic… [Read more…]
Our paper on seaside towns and local enterprise partnerships has just been published in the proceedings of the 2010 ATHE conference. Click here to go to the ATHE website where you order a copy of the proceedings. The abstract is below: Despite their huge popularity as holiday destinations, seaside towns have generally been under-researched. Existing… [Read more…]
This is a copy of a presentation that myself and a colleague, Samantha Chaperon, were due to give at the ATHE 2010 conference last week. Sadly the weather conspired against us, but the organisers have been kind enough to let us submit the full paper for the proceedings, which I will post a link to… [Read more…]
I’ve been working on some new research with a colleague, Samantha Chaperon, which uses dependency theory as a framework for analysing the development of seaside towns. In particular, we’re interested in what light this research can shed on the new Local Enterprise Partnerships that affect these towns. We’ll be presenting the early stages of our… [Read more…]
This is the presentation that I gave at the ‘Cultural Journeys’ conference at University Centre Folkestone on 9th September. It is mainly images, but if you download it you can read my notes in the PowerPoint file that include references to some useful sources about cultural regeneration.
This is the presentation that I gave today at the Global Events Congress IV, in Leeds. It is a case study of the event experience and sustainability, based on the application of micro-ethnographic methods. The primary research was carried out by my colleague, Rebekah Sitz. The full paper from this study is published in the conference… [Read more…]
The Association for Tourism in Higher Education is pleased to announce its Annual Conference and Call for Papers and Call for Papers ATHE Annual Conference 2010 1st – 3rd Dec 2010 BACK TO THE FUTURE: RESTATING THE CASE FOR TOURISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION http://www.athe.org.uk/conference/default.aspx Hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University and Canterbury… [Read more…]
Wesley Rykalski and I will be presenting a paper based on our research for the arcades / promenades project at this conference. Once the paper is finished we’ll post more details up on our project blog, along with a programme for the event, once it is available. You can read the abstract for our… [Read more…]
November 3, 2011
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