Dr Frank Faulkner
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
Email: f.faulkner@derby.ac.uk
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Latest news
- Winner: 'Best Paper of Conference', 3rd Annual International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure, Bangkok, Thailand, 6-9 July, 2009. Incorporation to Editorial Board, Journal of Management, Shinawatra International University. Bangkok, Thailand. September 2011. Guest lecturer/visiting scholar: Prince of Songkhla University, Hat Yai campus, Hat Yai, Thailand, June 2011.
Recent publications
- Faulkner, F. Moral Entrepreneurs and the Campaign to Ban Landmines. Amsterdam/New York Rodopi, Summer 2007. ISBN: 978-90-420-2230-0.
- Faulkner, F. et al. (Eds.) Tourism, leisure and Development: emerging themes and research. Bangkok: Shinawatra University Press, Autumn 2008. ISBN: 978-974-94397-3-9.
- Faulkner, F. 'Get your kicks on route 666, or why the devil has all the best tunes: trekking through the darker side of Heavy Metal music.' In: Balmain, C. and L. Drawmer. (eds.) Something wicked this way comes: essays on evil and human wickedness. Amsterdam New York Rodopi. March 2009. ISBN: 978-90-420-2550-9.
- Faulkner, F. 'Can I play with madness? the psychopathy of evil, leadership, and political mis-management.' in Billias, N. (ed.) Promoting and Producing Evil. Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi, 2010. ISBN: 978-90-420-2940-2.
- Faulkner, F. An Encyclopaedia of Weapons of Mass Destruction: the Armoury of Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Warfare. London: I B Tauris, 2014. ISBN: 978-138-64861-8.
- Faulkner, F. The Thais that divide? fracture, dysfunction and the prospects for resolution and reconciliation in the Land of Smile I B Tauris. Forthcoming 2014
- Faulkner, F. 'Strictly in confidence: Thai economic virility, internal angst, and The Market. So - what's next, then?' Journal of Management, 1,1, Shinawatra International University Bangkok thailand June 2011.
Experience in Industry
Wide personal and practical experience in commerce and industry, including positions in management. Former member, HM Armed Forces (Army).
Department: Sociology/Global Politics
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Education
Subject Area: Social Science
Senior Lecturer in Sociology. I am also an active researcher.
Teaching responsibilities
I teach on the following modules: Feminism and Society; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Origins of Terrorism: Struggle and Conflict in the 20th Century; Terrorism: the World and the Sociological Imagination; Groupwork and Team-building; Work, Well-being and Identity; Safeguarding and Promoting Childrens' Rights and Welfare; Childrens' Voices; Deviance and Difference.
Professional interests
Global, South East Asian/Indo-China, and European politics; international security; the arms trade; child soldiers; landmines and cluster bombs; the legality of war. Terrorism: theoretical and empirical studies.
Research interests
Terrorism; global politics; landmines/cluster munitions; civil society; the sociology of tourism and leisure; the sociology of business, management and staff relations.
International Experience
Service in HM Armed Forces worldwide.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- Member: Editorial Advisory Boards - Leisure and Tourism and Business and Management Research Groups for the following organisations: Shinawatra University, Bangkok, Thailand; Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand; Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman.
- Member: ASCS Research Ethics Committee;
- Member, Senior Researcher: Society, Religion and Belief Research Group;
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Management, Shinawatra International University Bangkok Thailand
Recent Conferences
- Faulkner, F. 'Strictly in confidence: Thai economic virility, internal angst, and The Market. So - what's next, then?' 4th International Colloquium on Business and Management. Bangkok, Thailand, 24-27 January, 2011.
- Faulkner, F. 'Towards a Thematized Exploration of Tourism and Leisure; the Evolutionary Morphing of 'Westworld' into 'Wizarding World of Harry Potter': Analysis, Investigation and Discussion.' 4th Annual International Colloquium of Tourism and Leisure. Bangkok, Thailand, 6-9 July, 2010. Note: KEYNOTE SPEECH*
- Faulkner, F. 'Corporate Social Responsibility: Classic Oxymoron, or Moral Marker for Post-Recession Behaviour?' 3rd Annual International Colloquium on Business and Management. Bangkok, Thailand, 25-28 January, 2010.
- Faulkner, F. 'Get your war on: Risk, adrenalin and and fulfillment in high-attritition tourism. A considered analysis.' 3rd Annual International Colloquium of Tourism and Leisure. Bangkok, Thailand, 6-9 July, 2009. Winner: 'Best Conference Paper' prize.
- Faulkner, F. "'The customer is always right.' An exploration of the ethical tensions at the vendor-buyer interface, with special reference to management-staff relations." 2nd International Colloquium on Business and Management. Bangkok, Thailand, 17th-20th November, 2008.
- Faulkner, F. Tripping the "Fright Fantastic"?: Prospects for a Terror-Free 21st Century Global Leisure and Tourism Industry'. 2nd International Colloquium on Leisure and Tourism. Chiang Mai, Thailand, 4-8 May, 2008.
Media experience
BBC TV and Radio, Sky News, ITV News, Heart FM, Saga, national and international print media: Recent IRA activity in Northern Ireland; Afghan-Pakistan border security; the security situation in Iraq, 2009; Israel-Palestine, variously: the use of cluster weapons, Gaza invasion, Lebanon invasion, Flotilla interdiction; Thai political upheavals, 2006-2010 and onwards; the concept of 'doom voyeurism' - The Derby Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal, (London edition) the Scotsman, Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Herald Scotland; 9/11 annual anniversary interviews, including the tenth anniversary remembrance; War on Terror and general terrorism research - periodic media updates and interviews on an ongoing basis.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA (Hons) Peace Studies (Politics and Sociology), University of Bradford
Postgraduate qualifications
- PGCLT, University of Derby
Research qualifications
- PhD Political Science (The Campaign to Ban Landmines as sub-state actor), Nottingham Trent University
