I’ve just had this article published in the Journal of Town and City Management. The abstract is below. If you’d like to know more about this paper and don’t have access to read it online, please get in touch. “British seaside towns have been subject to numerous attempts at regeneration and rebranding since the collapse… [Read more…]
February 1, 2011
Samantha Chaperon and I have had a paper accepted for a Regional Studies Association event on ‘Innovation Processes and Destination Development in Tourist Resorts’ that will be held in Östersund, Sweden from 30th March-1st April this year. Our paper is titled ‘Local Enterprise Partnerships and Seaside Towns: an analysis of a framework for the governance… [Read more…]
December 8, 2010
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…]
November 9, 2010
I was very pleased to be invited last week to speak to a group of Japanese scholars from Oita University who were on a visit to Kent to investigate cultural regeneration led by Teresa Smith from the University of Oxford. I spoke about my research into the social impacts of cultural regeneration and we had a… [Read more…]
October 20, 2010
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…]
September 7, 2009
I’m planning on going to this conference in October,which for some reason I only found out about today! SeaScape Conference – Butlins, Skegness, PE25 1NJ Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd October 2009 This is a two-day international conference exploring culture as a regenerative force for coastal communities. Bringing together cultural strategists, architects, and regeneration experts… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
I think this conference looks very interesting….the timing isn’t great for those of us with big teaching loads, but the setting alone is tempting! Researching Coastal and Resort Destination Management: Cultures and Histories of Tourism 19th – 20th October 2009 Girona, Catalonia, Spain 2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of the formal designation of the Costa… [Read more…]
March 26, 2009
BBC1 show ‘The Apprentice’ is taking on the re-branding of Margate in Kent as one of the tasks for it’s contestants in the latest series, which started last night. Contestants will be tasked with designing a brand for the seaside town that can capture the town’s aspirations as a 21st century seaside destination.
March 10, 2009
Along with Wesley Rykalski, I have just embarked on an online project that seeks to examine the role of the seaside promenade in the imagination and practices of late modernity, through a critical encounter with Walter Benjamin‘s ‘The Arcades Project’. In his final project, Benjamin was attempting to critique the ‘bourgeois experience of nineteenth century… [Read more…]
February 2, 2009
This is a copy of an article published this month in Kent Profile magazine, based on an interview with me about Kent’s seaside towns. Click on the image to read it. Share this:
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