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Unlock & Revive: The ingredients needed to deliver accessible online cultural and heritage events that bring positive benefits to people living with dementia

Report
Stewart, H., Smith, S., Baxter, R., Ali-Knight, J., & Kerr, G. (2022)
Unlock & Revive: The ingredients needed to deliver accessible online cultural and heritage events that bring positive benefits to people living with dementia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University
Unlock & Revive is a multi-disciplinary action-research project that involves multiple partners. It is a highly collaborative project aimed at supporting the wellbeing of peop...

Symbolic, Experiential and Functional Consumptions of Heritage Tourism Destinations: The Case of Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia: Heritage Destination Consumption

Journal Article
Chen, C., Phou, S., & Leask, A. (2016)
Symbolic, Experiential and Functional Consumptions of Heritage Tourism Destinations: The Case of Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia: Heritage Destination Consumption. International Journal of Tourism Research, 18(6), 602-611. doi:10.1002/jtr.2077
This study empirically investigates the effects of three destination consumptions (namely symbolic, experiential and functional) on tourists’ destination attachment and satisf...

Festivals, Cooperative Stakeholders and the Role of the Media: A Case Analysis of Newspaper Media

Journal Article
Robertson, M., & Rogers, P. (2009)
Festivals, Cooperative Stakeholders and the Role of the Media: A Case Analysis of Newspaper Media. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 9(2-3), 206-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250903217019
Image, brand narrative and stakeholder collaboration each represent pivotal paradigms in the analysis, evaluation and formation of good management practice for festivals. The ...

Promoting Sustainability From Above: reflections on the influence of the European Union on tourism governance

Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C. (2011)
Promoting Sustainability From Above: reflections on the influence of the European Union on tourism governance. Policy Quarterly, 7(4), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v7i4.4403
Due to the long-standing absence of direct and legally-binding competencies in tourism, European Union (EU) tourism policy has mainly influenced tourism governance through ind...

Affect and materiality of Graffiti in times of crisis

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2023, December)
Affect and materiality of Graffiti in times of crisis. Paper presented at Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language, Nicosia, Cyprus
The impetus for this visual-based presentation comes from serendipitous encounters with certain types of graffiti in Edinburgh during the covid-19 lockdown. As a flâneuse (El...

Exploring cultural aspects of student mobility – what do we know about students’ perceptions of their own and host culture of learning.

Presentation / Conference
Foster, M. (2015, May)
Exploring cultural aspects of student mobility – what do we know about students’ perceptions of their own and host culture of learning. Paper presented at SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference 2015: Internationalising the Curriculum: What does this mean? How can we achieve it?, Manchester, UK
In an increasingly globalised education, with universities aiming to develop student mobility through exchange and study abroad programmes (Sweeney 2012), this study used the ...

Every picture tells a story: using selfie-inspired activities to enhance social relations and encourage self-reflexivity.

Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (2016)
Every picture tells a story: using selfie-inspired activities to enhance social relations and encourage self-reflexivity. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in learning and teachingMerchiston Publishing
This chapter explores the results of a study in Thailand that capitalised on the popularity of the selfie, providing second-year English language students with an opportunity ...

The Impact of Negatively-valenced Influencing Behaviour

Conference Proceeding
Azer, J., & Alexander, M. (2018)
The Impact of Negatively-valenced Influencing Behaviour. In SERVSIG-2018-Proceedings, (845-850
Influencing behavior as a form of Customer Engagement Behavior (CEB) has the potential to affect other customers’ attitude and behavioral outcomes and likewise the value and p...

Scenarios for the future of events and festivals: Mick Jagger at 107 and Edinburgh Fringe

Book Chapter
Yeoman, I., Robertson, M., McMahon-Beattie, U., & Musarurwa, N. (2014)
Scenarios for the future of events and festivals: Mick Jagger at 107 and Edinburgh Fringe. In I. Yeoman, M. Robertson, U. McMahon-Beattie, E. Backer, & K. Smith (Eds.), The Future of Events and Festivals. , (36-50). (1). Oxon, UK: Taylor & Francis
Introduction: a tipping point The power of festivals and events is multifarious. As both historic artefacts and barometers of current beliefs, opinions and the state of societ...

Gender and Employment Flexibility within Hotel Front Offices

Journal Article
Bird, E., Lynch, P., & Ingram, A. (2002)
Gender and Employment Flexibility within Hotel Front Offices. Service Industries Journal, 22(3), 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/714005084
This article describes a study of the contemporary nature and extent of gendered employment flexibility within hotel front offices in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Previous ...
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Failure to plan is planning to fail: An evidence informed approach to sustainable tourism planning

2022 - 2024
A comparative analysis between Ireland and Scotland which examines the extent to which local authorities plan for sustainable tourism. This study uses mixed methods, both content analysis and intervie...
Funder: British Academy of Management | Value: £3,999

Qatar National Research Fund - Leveraging the 2022 Qatar World Football Cup for the promotion of green and active living. A multiple stakeholder evaluation of strategic options

2013 - 2016
Generate an audit of current activities of various Qatari based institutions (public, private and voluntary sectors) linked to the promotion of green and active living via events. Elicit constructive ...
Funder: Qatar National Research Fund | Value: £40,512

Senior Visitors to Visitor Attractions

2017 - 2018
This project aims to develop a new and innovative structured visit programme focused on the needs and wants of this increasingly significant older population group. Specifically aimed at the over 75 y...
Funder: Edinburgh Innovations Ltd | Value: £9,972

Festival UK* 2022

2020 - 2021
Festival UK* 2022 is bringing Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, Artists and Mathematicians together to collaborate on big ideas. To ensure the work created for Festival UK* 2022 is open, original...
Funder: The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | Value: £5,175

Destination Organisations in Scotland: types, issues and characteristics

2014 - 2015
The aim of this project is to carry out a comparative study of the adaptation of destination organisations to their policy and operating environment in Scotland and Denmark with the view of identifyin...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £585

Channel Scheme - Egypt

2015 - 2017
The aim of the research is to investigate and analyze the ability of the tour guide in Egypt to achieve intercultural rapprochement between Egypt's and Spain's cultures depending on the guide's functi...
Funder: Egyptian Education Bureau | Value: £11,740

Research in Scotland on the Water Business: Strathpeffer Spa c.1850-2014

2014 - 2017
To analyse the rise, decline, and rise again of Strathpeffer Spa, c.1850-2014. This project will provide insight into the history and development of a distinctive, business-related highland community...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £1,000

Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery

2023 - 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic devastated Edinburgh’s tourism sector. This research project examines how the city can reimagine the long-term sustainable role of tourism in post-pandemic times. It considers ho...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £4,950

Regionalism & cooperation in tourism- S'th Africa

2008 - 2010
Regionalism & cooperation in tourism- South Africa
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £1,527

Spring into Methods 2023

2023 - 2024
The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) are collaborating on Spring into Methods to commission interactive, interdisciplin...
Funder: Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

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Sustainable festivals and events - an enquiry of leadership and futures

2015 - 2017
As a societal phenomenon, festivals and planned events are discussed in a wide policy context. They have entered a broader discus...
Dr Martin Robertson | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Jane Ali-Knight

The role of interactive technology in the co-creation of experience in Scottish visitor attractions

2014 - 2019
" As a sector that is reliant on the creation and management of memorable experiences, visitor attrac...
Dr Ellis Urquhart | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Dr Ivana Rihova

Heritage interpretation challenges and management issues at film-induced tourism heritage attractions: case studies of Rosslyn Chapel and Alnwick Castle

2011 - 2015
Although previous research has widely acknowledg...
Dr Justyna Bakiewicz | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Paul Barron

Monitoring and evaluation indicators for just transition to net zero in tourism and events

2024 - date
Sebastian Lattekamp | Director of Studies: Dr Constantia Anastasiadou | Second Supervisor: Dr Alexandra Witte

Revelling in policy: between cultural and administrative festival imaginaries

2001 - 2009
Dr Kirstie Jamieson | Director of Studies: Matthew Turner | Second Supervisor: Prof Chris Atton

Localising Sustainability: An Analysis of Business Sustainability Management within the Hospitality Sector of a Small Island Developing State

2018 - date
Ryan Jones | Director of Studies: Dr Xavier Pierron | Second Supervisor: Prof Paul Barron

Barriers and Enablers to a Circular Economy in Small Island Destinations: The Case of the Orkney Islands, Scotland

2019 - date
Angelo Sciacca | Director of Studies: Dr Constantia Anastasiadou | Second Supervisor: Dr Gavin Urie

A Critical Evaluation of the Factors that Influence Visitor Engagement with UK Slavery Heritage Museums: A Blended Passive Symbolic Netnographic Study

2020 - 2023
There is a substantial body of literature in slave...
Dr Shemroy Roberts | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Wight | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

Mission, people, values: Use of a sequential mixed methods approach to understand the role of charity CEO

2019 - date
Martin Crewe | Director of Studies: Dr Martin Robertson | Second Supervisor: Dr Xavier Pierron

Women, festival leadership and social transformations: The case of Edinburgh, the world's leading festival city

2019 - date
This research looks at the situation of women working in arts festivals in Edinburgh, try...
Bene Piccio | Director of Studies: Dr Louise Todd | Second Supervisor: Dr Martin Robertson

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Dr Louise Todd's research-informed tourist gaze artwork featured in The Smart Leisure Guide (October 2022)

31 October 2022
'Louise Todd specialises in visual culture, Festivals, events and tourism as Associate Professor at Napier University. This academic research informs her artwork through the observation of people and ...

Craig Wight speaks to the New York Times about Dark Tourism Trends

27 October 2022
This article explores recent trends and examples of global travel that is recognisable as dark tourism, the attraction of death and disaster. Craig Wight specialises in genocide themed tourism attrac...

Co-presenter 'Engaging your future workforce' webinar for ASVA

15 August 2022
Co-presented webinar on 'Engaging with your future workforce' with City of Glasgow College and Robert Gordon University for Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions.

Arion’s Summer Get-Together at The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh. August 2021. Artmag. Visual art review featuring the work of Louise Todd and four other artists: 'Louise Todd teaches a postgraduate course, Tourism, Society and Visual Culture at Edinburgh Napier University and she creatively explores her academic knowledge in her artwork... These charismatic paintings are so original and imaginative studying the hidden art of tourism and travel. These are not selfies but taken on a camera at a distance by a father, sister, friend – quick Kodak moments to preserve the relaxing, romantic reminiscences captured with nostalgic, dreamlike vision.'

28 August 2021
Arion’s Summer Get-Together at The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh. August 2021. ArtMag. Visual art review featuring the work of Louise Todd and four other artists: 'Louise Todd teaches a postgraduate c...

Delivering India’s first digital Festival Academy

4 March 2021
On Monday mornings, Edinburgh Napier Business School’s Dr Gary Kerr and Professor Jane Ali-Knight help deliver the first digital India Festival Academy for the British Council. “Without doubt, these s...
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Academics Online: Building your research profile in the digital age

The Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart Campus
1 May 2017

Visual Methods and Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research

The Business School
6 March 2019 - 4 June 2019

Visual Methods and Ethnography Research Seminar and Workshop

The Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart Campus
11 May 2015

Universities of Scotland Events Conference, 2017 (USEC2017)

The Business School Edinburgh Napier University Craiglockhart Campus Colinton Road Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
24 March 2017

Tourism Subject Area Awards Luncheon

Craiglockhart Campus
28 November 2019

Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm

Craiglockhart Campus
4 May 2022

Festival Frontiers: The Festival City.

Edinburgh International Science Festival, Lomond Room, Pleasance, Edinburgh
8 April 2019

Dementia Engagement Event

Online
11 November 2021

The Fringe - my BFF. Everyday branded products, from instant coffee to cars, have long been imbued by marketers with human traits as a means of appealing to consumers’ self-image. Indeed an interpersonal relationships metaphor is applied to some products, with them viewed as people – such as friends, partners, family members and even enemies. Since its origination in 1947, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has grown in a relatively organic way to become the largest and most renowned festival in the world. My talk will consider if a phenomenon like the Fringe is considered in similar interpersonal terms by its consumers as they organise, attend, support, and participate in their various stakeholder roles, from audience members to performers, and beyond. I will discuss my research where I interviewed consumers about their relationships with the Fringe. I discovered that the Fringe is viewed in numerous interpersonal terms, from casual, childhood and best friendships; to marriages and flings; and even in darker obsessive terms. My research also uncovered that many relationships with the Fringe are life-long, change over time, and can impact upon important life decisions. What does this tell us about ourselves and how we relate to something which is neither another human being nor a valued product, but an experience?

Skeptics on The Fringe 2017, Edinburgh Skeptics Society, Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh
14 August 2017

An Edinburgh Festival City Map for Wester Hailes. This public engagement with research initiative was delivered as part of Explorathon 2019: European Researchers' Night. It involved a participative drawing and collage activity where members of the local community were asked to contribute to an Edinburgh Festival City Map for Wester Hailes

Whale Arts, Wester Hailes
27 September 2019