Dr Ziene Mottiar is a lecturer in the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. Ziene has a range of research interests, in particular in the areas of entrepreneurship, inter-firm relations, coastal areas and regional development. She has publications in a variety of journals including Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Current Issues, Leisure Studies, International Small Business Journal and Journal of Vacation Marketing. In addition she has written a number of book chapters in the area of tourism entrepreneurs and regional development.
Dr Bernadette Quinn works in the College of Arts and Tourism at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She is a Human Geographer whose research interests lie in tourism and cultural change, arts festivals and events, and leisure & social inclusion. Her research has been published in leading geography, leisure and tourism journals including Gender, Place and Culture, Social and Cultural Geography, Leisure Studies, Urban Studies and Annals of Tourism Research. Last year she published Key Concepts in Event Management with Sage. She teaches a number of tourism and event related modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is Programme Tutor of the MSc Event Management at the DIT.
Dr Theresa Ryan is a lecturer and researcher in the College of Arts and Tourism at DIT. Her background is in marketing and international business and her current research interests include; tourism, memory and interpretation, tourism history, destination development and entrepreneurship. Her PhD research involved investigating the factors that underpinned tourism development in tourism areas in Ireland. She has presented at a range of international conferences and has published in the area of destination development and entrepreneurship.
Ziene Mottiar, Bernadette Quinn and Theresa Ryan
Speakers
Seascapes: The Cultural Life of Seaside Towns
Professor Brian Wheeller is Visiting Professor of Tourism at NHTV Breda and currently holds honorary tourism research posts at four UK universities. He has degrees in Economics, in Applied Economics, in the Economic Impacts of Tourism, and in American Literature. His doctorate is in Critiquing Eco/Ego/Sustainable Tourism, a subject he has published extensively on over the years. In addition to issues related to tourism development, Brian’s current research revolves around the links between travel, tourism and popular culture – in particular literature, art, film and music and their relevance to contemporary tourism thinking. His interests also embrace humour, the visual and the use of image in tourism and tourism education.
Brian Wheeller, Key Note Speaker
As an urban economist who read Economics at the University of Cambridge, then studied City Planning at the University of Nottingham, Professor Robert Maitland became interested in tourism because of its growing importance in shaping how cities develop. He has now been researching and teaching on tourism in cities for 20 years. His research focuses on tourism in national capitals; tourism and everyday life; visitors’ role in creating new tourism areas in major cities; and social tourism. He is a regular speaker at international conferences on these themes, as well as writing articles, books and advising government. He has strong international links and collaborations, including as founding Chair of ATLAS City Tourism and National Capitals Research Group.
Robert Maitland, Conference Chair
Dr Kate Bedford is a Reader in Law at Kent Law School (University of Kent, Canterbury). Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and international political economy. She has a background in development, and has conducted research on the World Bank's gender and development lending; the UN's Commission on the Status of Women; and the World Economic Forum. Her previous work has explored social reproduction, care policy, and heteronormativity in development lending. She is currently researching the feminist political economy of gambling liberalization, with a particular focus on bingo (http://www.kent.ac.uk/thebingoproject/index.html).
Her recent publications include Developing Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality and the Reformed World Bank (2009, University of Minnesota Press); ‘Feminists Theorize International Political Economy: The State of the Field,’ in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2010), co-written with Shirin Rai, and ‘Getting the bingo hall back again? Gambling law reform, economic regeneration, and the gendered limits of ‘casino capitalism’ in Social and Legal Studies (2011).
Kate Bedford
Dr David Jarratt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, within the School of Sport, Tourism and The Outdoors: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/sport_tourism_outdoors/index.php. He currently leads courses in Tourism, Hospitality and Event and Management. David held educational positions in the UK and abroad before entering academia and has an industrial background in heritage attraction management.
David is particularly interested in seaside resorts. He recently completed research into the visitor experience and sense of place with specific reference to the seaside resort of Morecambe, Lancashire. His work is multi-disciplinary and is influenced by Humanistic Geography. David's book chapter on sense of place at the seaside is to be published by Palgrave in 2014 in Landscapes of Leisure: Space, Place and Identities by Elkington and Gammon. He intends to publish further findings more from his research in the near future.
To follow David on Twitter see: https://twitter.com/DavidJarratt1
David Jarratt
Professor Peter Vujaković is Head of the Department of Geographical and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ, Co-convenor of the British Cartographic Society’s (BCS) Map Design Group and former editor of the Cartographic Journal. Peter has written extensively on map design in education, the news media and in relation to the concept of ‘sense of place’.
Dr Alex Kent is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University. Alex is currently Vice-President of the British Cartographic Society (BCS) and Co-convenor of the BCS Map Design Group. Alex is the National Representative to the International Cartographic Association (ICA) General Assembly and Vice-Chair of the ICA Commission on Map Design.
Peter Vujaković and Alex Kent
Phil Hubbard
Professor Phil Hubbard is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Kent. He has published 10 books and over 70 papers on urban studies and geography, witha particular focus on the social life of cities. Major projects have included studies of community opposition to sex work; asylum seeker reception and the relations of town and gown. He is currently working on the future of the British high street and attitudes towards ‘controversial’ premises including lap dancing clubs, betting shops, pay day loan lenders and tattoo parlours. With colleagues he is also tracing the flows of those displaced from London by housing benefit reform to the Kent coasts. His books include Cities and Sexualities (Routledge, 2011) and The City (Routledge, 2006).
Peter Vlachos is Principal Lecturer in Events Management, Department of Marketing, Events and Tourism at University of Greenwich. A political scientist by academic training (University of Toronto), he then gained over 15 years of practical experience in events and venue management both in the UK and North America.
Peter's areas of expertise are in arts and entertainment labour economics, the night-time economy, creative industries and urban development, and related government policy, legislation and regulation. His current research explores cases of urban redevelopment in the UK and Canada. He heads the university's London Centre of Events Management.
Peter Vlachos
Professor Owen Evans is Professor of Film and Faculty Champion for the Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice at Edge Hill University (UK). He has published widely on European cinema and film festivals, and has research interests in arts, health and wellbeing. He is co-‐founding editor of the journal Studies in European Cinema (Routledge).
Tristi Brownett is a registered nurse with a BSc in Occupational Health and a PG Cert in Evaluation Research from Canterbury Christ Church University (UK), where she is studying part-time for an MSc in Public Health and Health Promotion and is a sessional lecturer. She works as an Occupational and Public Health professional, is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and the Royal Society for the Arts, and has a strong interest in community wellbeing.
Additional Input: Sue Jones (Director) and Catherine Herbert (Strategic Manager) of the Whitstable Biennale.
Owen Evans and Tristi Brownett
Nick Ewbank has been director of cultural regeneration consultancy Nick Ewbank Associates (NEA) since 2010, and was previously director of the Creative Foundation in Folkestone. He has recently been completing an analysis of the social capital generated by the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, on behalf of ESCC. Working in partnership with CCCU, NEA was selected to take part in the AHRC’s Cultural Value project, investigating social, health and wellbeing impacts in Margate, Folkestone and Bexhill as they undergo culture-led regeneration.
Sally-Ann Lycett is Director of External Relations at the De La Warr Pavilion. She has had almost 30 years experience in arts communications, working with leading theatre and visual arts organisations in London and throughout the UK. Sally led the Public Relations programme for the re-launch of two leading arts organisations after re-furbishment - the Tricycle Theatre, London in 1989 and the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill in 2005. In the past 5 years, she has taken on more strategic roles, as Director of External Relations at the De La Warr Pavilion, as Chair of the Sussex Tourism Partnership (November 2009-December 2011) and project manager for www.frameandreference.com.
Nick Ewbank and Sally-Ann Lycett
Dr Anya Chapman is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Tourism Management at Bournemouth University. Anya has worked in academia for over ten years, and previously worked as an attractions manager at seaside resorts in the UK. Anya's PhD research explored the motives for misbehavior amongst employees working in amusement arcades. Her current research interests and publications include work on the regeneration of coastal resorts; tourism development in Malta; tourism employment; and traditional attractions at British seaside resorts such as fairgrounds, piers, and amusement arcades. Anya is an active member of the National Piers Society and has visited all 58 seaside piers in the UK.
Dr Duncan Light is a Lecturer in the School of Tourism at Bournemouth University and Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has research interests in heritage tourism, tourism and identities, and the nature of tourism development in socialist societies. He is the author of The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania (Ashgate, 2012).