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Subject: ATLAS list Save the date: Biennial PhD Colloquium - Postgraduate Research in Leisure and Tourism
With the usual apologies for crossposting.
Biennial PhD Colloquium: Postgraduate Research in Leisure and Tourism
Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
What The Colloquium is a small and informal get-together of PhD students and aims to offer opportunities to
· present research
· meet other PhD students and create wider academic networks amongst peers
· discuss research issues with experienced academics and other up-and-coming researchers
· reflect on your future professional development through a series of workshops
Who PhD research students, at any stage of their research.
When Thursday, 9th - Friday 10th July 2015
The PhD colloquium is sandwiched between the 7th-9th Annual Conference of the Leisure Studies Association (July 7th-9th at the University of Bournemouth) and the Contemporary Perspectives in Tourism and Hospitality Research: Policy, Practice and Performance (12th-14that the University of Brighton).
Where Bournemouth University, UK
Cost The registration fee will be communicated in due course.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Cara Aitchison (as part of the Annual Conference of the Leisure Studies Association), Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of St Mark & St John, is most widely known for her research on social and environmental justice as well as sustainable development in leisure, sport and tourism. She has published Leisure and Tourism Landscapes: Social and Cultural Geographies, co-authored with Nicola Macleod and Stephen Shaw (Routledge, 2001), Gender and Leisure: Social and Cultural Perspectives (Routledge, 2003), Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities (Routledge, 2007) and, with Peter Hopkins and Mei-Po Kwan, Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging (Ashgate, 2007). Prof Aitchison was Chair of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) Sub-Panel 26: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism and a member of the Main Panel for Social Sciences for REF 2014.
Professor Andrew Church, Director of Research & Development (Social Sciences) in the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton, has written extensively on tourism and leisure geographies (particularly water-based sport, gardening and gardens) and urban regeneration, transport and labour markets. He has recently lead with colleagues from the University of Brighton three projects on the strategic planning of water-related sports and recreation in England and Wales and has previously completed an AHRC funded project on 'Writing the landscape of everyday life: lay narratives of the home garden'. He has published Tourism, Power and Space co-authored with Tim Coles and is on the editorial board of Local Economy.
Colloquium Background
Through its links with the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), this conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary dialogue around the wider aspects of the conference theme and to provide an opportunity for contemporary, tourism and leisure related research issues to be explored. The conference theme provides a platform for many exciting and critical topics that call for discussion where students from all disciplines which locate tourism and/or leisure within its boundaries are welcomed.
The colloquium will be hosted by the University of Surrey Tourism Research Centre (STRC) with the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (SHTM). STRC and SHTM not only foster inter-disciplinary and creative research pursuits, but the SHTM also holds the number 1 ranking for tourism education in the UK, and is ranked 5th on a global scale for its teaching and research capabilities within the tourism and hospitality disciplines. Combined with the support of the RGS-IBG's Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG), this colloquium promises to provide an engaging and thought-provoking forum with those at the forefront of tourism, leisure and hospitality research.
Conference format
To make the conference as interactive and informative as possible for all delegates, we have three different types of sessions to enable participation on a number of levels.
Paper presentations
Participants will present their research in a paper session, where each student will be given 15 minutes to present their research, and respond to any questions.
Research conversations
Sessions will be offered where delegates can discuss and constructively critique theirs and others' work in a relaxed environment. Depending on your research area, you will be divided into small groups and given 1 hour to discuss current themes and issues. Following this, there will be half an hour for each group to present a summary of their discussion to everyone.
Workshops and panel discussion
In addition to the paper sessions and research conversations, there will be workshops providing students with an opportunity to ask questions and receive answers to issues related, but not limited to: starting a career in academia or research consultancy, as well as general research advice.
These sessions will be open to all and provide an opportunity for researchers to seek advice from experienced academics. Proposed workshop topics include:
· Job strategies in a changing higher education landscape
· Moving into Industry
· Working overseas with your PhD
· Teaching in Higher Education
· Managing the PhD as a mature student
· Publishing from your PhD
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Dr Jan Mosedale
Chair of the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG)
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)
University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur
Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0) 81 286 3901
Mail jan.mosedale@htwchur.ch
Web www.htwchur.ch/itf, www.janmosedale.com,
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Mosedale/,
http://htwchur.academia.edu/JanMosedale