Recognition (109)

Measuring and Awards for Postive Impacts: Business Events Shaping Tommorow (BEST) (2023)

Measuring Business Events Shaping Tommorow (BEST) (2023) (Convention Bureau Edinburgh )

External Examiner MBus Cultural Events Management/ PGDip Business & Cultural Event Management - Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin (2023-2025)

"Roles of Festivals for Promoting Scottish Pilgrimage" for the conference "Pilgrimage Today: Routes to Flourishing Communities & Enterprise", Ancient Connections (2023)

'Mega-event, major events, innovation and linkages to Event Studies' Event Studies Special Interest Group, CAUTHE 2023 (2023)

"Mega-events: the ethical, environmental & social cost" - Online seminar for the Law Society of Scotland (2022)

External Opponent (PhD) - Mid-Sweden University (2022) (Martin Wallstrom)

b-side Arts Festival Non-Executive Director (Sustainability) (2017-2018)

Committee Member (and Logistics Manager) Yaraville Arts Festival (2008-2011/2)

Sport events and rural destination narrative. UCI MB Championship (leader/ internal) (2012-13)

ICCA Commission (team member): Investigating Ambassador Programmes: Motives for Bidding for International Meetings and Events Bureaus� (2012-2013)

Pathways to sustainability: festival leaders and transformative futures (leader/ internal) (2017)

Arts Council England Catalyst Small Grant Application (Bournemouth University & b-side Multimedia Festival CIC) (Awarded 2018)
2017 - 2018

Recognition Type	Pre-Napier Funded Projects
Description	COntributed research instrument and half of plan for b-side Multimedia Festival CIC Arts England Council Catalyst Small Grant Application for £27,750 (awarded) Catalyst project et to extend the skills and capacity of staff, artists and community to a
Research Areas	Festivals and Events Leadership Management Tourism
Research Themes	AI and Technologies Culture and Communities Health
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Org Units	Business School

Developer, Coordinator and Trainer: Professional Diploma in Event Management, Office of Knowledge Exchange, Victoria University (leader) (2013-14)

Committee Member, Western Melbourne Tourism (2012-2015)

Secretary, Tourism Society Scotland (2002-2005)

PhD (Victoria University, Melbourne): Micaela Joy Spiers (Families with adolescents: vacation decision making) (Professor AM Hede, Dr R. Garma & Dr. M. Robertson) (Awarded 2017)

Board of Directors/ Committee Member, b-side Multi-Media Arts Festival, Portland (2016-2018)

Association of Event Management Education (member)

Member, The Tourism Society