About

Experienced lecturer of Higher Education in the Management of Service Sector Industries with specialism in Tourism Development and Planning, Sustainable Development, Political Economy of Development and Crisis Management.

I have worked with UDOL for a number of years as an Associate Academic, undertaking academic consultancy, tutoring and developing materials across a range of Business and Hospitality modules.

In addition to this, I hold a combined role at Nottingham Trent University, within Nottingham Business School. Primarily, as Course Leader of the Online MBA. Secondly, as a core member of the NBS Personalisation Project. Finally, as Senior Lecturer in Marketing, leading the final year, undergraduate, International Tourism: Development, Impact and Sustainability module.

In addition to my posts at UDOL and Nottingham Trent University, I undertake freelance work, through which I have completed a wide range of collaborative projects related to education at all levels. This includes employability projects with Ideas4careers, AB Tutoring and the Me2Work programme, materials authoring, academic consultancy and online tutoring for Magna Carta College, visiting lecturing and dissertation tutoring for the University of Bedfordshire.

Research interests

I completed my PhD in 2012 which concerned the influence of political economy and interpretations of sustainability within the post-disaster tourism redevelopment of Koh Phi Phi Island., Thailand. My historical research has focused upon the political economy of post disaster tourism re-development and interpretations of sustainability.

Currently however, I am pursuing research in the field of tourism and leisure behaviour; more specifically in respect of travel and nightlife consumption, neo-tribalism and the non-conformist behaviours of the cognitively young.

I maintain an interest in the ethics and sustainability of tourism development and am currently planning to pursue pedagogical research concerning personalised and experiential learning.

Membership of professional bodies

• Institute of Hospitality Management
• Leisure Studies Association
• Higher Education Academy (Fellow)
• Chartered Institute of Marketing - Associate

Qualifications

• PhD “Post Disaster Tourism Development of Phi Phi Island (Thailand): Political Economy and Interpretations of Sustainability” - University of Bedfordshire, Business School
• PGCE: Post Graduate Certificate in Education: Post Compulsory Education – Nottingham Trent University
• BA (Hons) Contemporary Tourism Management – First Class Honours – Staffordshire University