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An investigation of the rotation patterns of international association meetings and events (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drake, C., Lockstone-Binney, L., Robertson, M., & Thi Phuong Dung, L. (2024, February). An investigation of the rotation patterns of international association meetings and events. Presented at The 34th Annual Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference, Hobart, Tasmania

International association meetings and events (IAMEs) are a significant segment of the business events sector. Noting the dearth of longitudinal research to confirm how these events rotate globally, regionally and over time, this study conducted an a... Read More about An investigation of the rotation patterns of international association meetings and events.

Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M., Roubelat, F., & Marchais-Roubelat, A. (2024, September). Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown. Presented at Anticipation 2024, Lancaster, UK

Building from years of piloting novel methods for future visioning through group engagement, this curated session will take attendees through a fast-tracked, yet fully- immersive scenario planning workshop. The prompt is, “What does 2034 look like if... Read More about Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown.

Creative Informatics: how data driven innovation has transformed the creative workplace (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paneels, I., & Patrick-Thomson, H. (2024, September). Creative Informatics: how data driven innovation has transformed the creative workplace. Paper presented at Transdisciplinary Workplace Research Conference

The creative economy is a workforce with a high proportion of freelancers and SMEs. This paper reflects on new ways of working, accelerated by the digital pivot of the creative workplace caused by the global pandemic. Whilst the impact of digital tec... Read More about Creative Informatics: how data driven innovation has transformed the creative workplace.

21009 (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hejjas, K., Gilek, M., & Bratton, A. (2024, August). 21009. Paper presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024), Chicago, Illinois

Social exchange theory is used to understand the relationship between leadership and employee corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement in a hybrid work environment. Using interview data from managers (5), CSR champions (6), and employees (17)... Read More about 21009.

Biased Foresight: A Facilitator’s Playbook (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M. (2024, June). Biased Foresight: A Facilitator’s Playbook. Paper presented at 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

A series of lab and field studies were conducted with managers, executives, and postgraduates to test the hypothesis that priming effects exist within any given scenario planning workshop (Crawford, 2021). The studies show that priming scenario pract... Read More about Biased Foresight: A Facilitator’s Playbook.

The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Leask, A. (2024, June). The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking. Paper presented at ATLAS Annual Conference 2024 Leisure & Tourism 2030: Navigating the Future, Breda, Netherlands

We will present initial findings from our research which considers how Edinburgh’s (UK) festivals and tourism sectors can deliver sustainable community engagement. Our study applies co-designed participative action research (PAR) (Goebel et al., 2020... Read More about The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking.

Pedagogical paradox or tension? What our research on assessment deadlines is telling us about constructive alignment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2024, June). Pedagogical paradox or tension? What our research on assessment deadlines is telling us about constructive alignment. Presented at The Gathering: Edinburgh Napier's Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh, UK

In this 15-minute talk, we present the theoretical twists and turns of our research on deadline extensions at The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University. We share preliminary findings of our quantitative data analysis on high-stakes assessments... Read More about Pedagogical paradox or tension? What our research on assessment deadlines is telling us about constructive alignment.

Low-cost carriers and carry-on baggage; innovative but for whom? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvanitis, P. (2024, June). Low-cost carriers and carry-on baggage; innovative but for whom?. Presented at THE INC, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Low-cost carriers have been renowned for innovation and disruption since their emergence. Over the last two decades, low-cost carriers have forged the way people fly, including their attitude towards baggage, especially cabin baggage also known as ca... Read More about Low-cost carriers and carry-on baggage; innovative but for whom?.

Curriculum Review through external engagement (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvanitis, P. (2024, June). Curriculum Review through external engagement. Poster presented at The Gathering, Edinburgh Napier University

The current curriculum provision in the Tourism & Intercultural Communications Subject Group is going under an extensive review to reflect the needs of current and future demand. The changing nature of the discipline, student demographics, opportunit... Read More about Curriculum Review through external engagement.

New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Patrick-Thomson, H., Lawson, A., & Lapok, P. (2024, April). New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor. Paper presented at Digital Business and Society Consortium, Royal Holloway, University of London

Work in the creative and cultural industries is often seen as “good” because it offers people a chance to earn money while engaged in their passion (McRobbie, 2018), to have autonomy over when, where and how they work (Smith and McKinlay, 2009), and... Read More about New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor.

Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Neil, J., & Ivancheva, M. (2024, April). Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?. Paper presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen

Precarious work that becomes a ‘stepping stone’ to decent work (McGuiness and Wooden 2009, Nunley et al 2017; Munoz-Comet and Steinmetz 2020) is the bargain struck for many learners leaving education and accessing employment, typically via placements... Read More about Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?.

From “dirty” oil and gas to green energy: Workers’ views on skills transition (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Heidl, B., O'Neil, J., & Bratton, A. (2024, April). From “dirty” oil and gas to green energy: Workers’ views on skills transition. Presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen

As the environmental agenda progresses worldwide, it is clear that the move to sustainable forms of energy is both crucial and inevitable. For UK workers currently employed in the traditional energy sector including oil and gas, this transition prese... Read More about From “dirty” oil and gas to green energy: Workers’ views on skills transition.

Will slow tourism slow down air traffic demand? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvanitis, P. (2024, July). Will slow tourism slow down air traffic demand?. Presented at LSA Conference, University of West Scotland

The air transport industry has experienced almost ceaseless growth (Graham, 2000) despite numerous factors that contributed to its slowing down. This growth comes from new travellers and present ones taking more or longer holidays. This trend is gett... Read More about Will slow tourism slow down air traffic demand?.

Bringing equality, diversity, and inclusivity to academic integrity (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harte, P., & Khaleel, F. (2024, March). Bringing equality, diversity, and inclusivity to academic integrity. Presented at Advance HE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2024, Liverpool, UK

This session is aimed at academics who are designing assessment for taught postgraduate (TPG) students. The session will contextualise the problem of plagiarism, use of generative artificial intelligence and highlight common characteristics of assess... Read More about Bringing equality, diversity, and inclusivity to academic integrity.

Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2024, March). Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times. Paper presented at Gender and Sexuality Research Symposium, Edinburgh, UK

In pandemic times, there were couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there was me, uncoupled, unchilded: a bubble of one. In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my type as “rebel women who talked back,... Read More about Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times.

Were rules made to be broken? Academic misconduct and best practices for conducting oral exams (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chu, A., & Sisson, A. (2024, May). Were rules made to be broken? Academic misconduct and best practices for conducting oral exams. Presented at CHME (Council for Hospitality Management Education) 2024, Leeds

Internationalisation has become the trend in education, as a strategic choice in economic development, not only benefits in monetary (revenue) but also a means of higher education reputation (de Wit, 2020). Simkin and McLeod (2010, p. 442) are concer... Read More about Were rules made to be broken? Academic misconduct and best practices for conducting oral exams.

‘Who do you think you are?’ A longitudinal study of Scotland’s destination management (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & Hejjas, K. (2024, June). ‘Who do you think you are?’ A longitudinal study of Scotland’s destination management. Presented at ATLAS Leisure & Tourism 2030: Navigating the Future, Breda, Netherlands

Organizational structures and models for destination management have been changing in response to disruptions in the operational environment (Dredge, 2016) requiring traditional DMOs to shift their organisational models, leadership behaviours and col... Read More about ‘Who do you think you are?’ A longitudinal study of Scotland’s destination management.

How Do Partnerships Between Academia, Communities and Organisations Foster “Real World” Learning? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harte, P., Hosanoo, Z., Borthwick Saddler, S., Hill, E., & Fonseca, A. P. (2023, April). How Do Partnerships Between Academia, Communities and Organisations Foster “Real World” Learning?. Presented at AMPS: Applying education in a complex world, Toronto, Canada (online)

Education takes place within dynamic and multifaceted complex systems. Recognising the volatile-uncertain-complex-ambiguous (VUCA) environment, the digital transformation of the higher education sector calls for a novel approach to curriculum and emp... Read More about How Do Partnerships Between Academia, Communities and Organisations Foster “Real World” Learning?.

A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., Pyke, J., & Drake, C. (2023, February). A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne. Presented at 33rd Annual Conference of the Council for Australasian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education, Fremantle, Western Australia

Business events can support the needs of access, equality, and learning for work and social inclusion, and determine a greater range of benefits than had been previously considered (Edwards, Foley, & Schlenker, 2011; Foley, Edwards, & Schlenker, 2014... Read More about A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne.