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A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai (2013)
Book
Stanley, P. (2013). A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai. London: Routledge

Tens of thousands of Western ‘teachers’, many of whom would not be considered teachers elsewhere, are employed to teach English in public and private education in China. Little has previously been known, except anecdotally, about their experiences, a... Read More about A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai.

Guest editorial (2018)
Journal Article
Platt, L., & Ali-Knight, J. (2018). Guest editorial. Journal of Place Management and Development, 11(3), 262-265. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpmd-08-2018-131

Authors are guest editors of special issue of Journal to Place Management and Development.

Special Issue: Grassroots Festivals and Place Making (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Special Issue: Grassroots Festivals and Place Making. Journal of Place Management and Development, 11(3),

Authors are editors of the special issue to Journal of Place Management and Development.

Dissemination of Solar Energy Technologies for Rural Electrification in Kenya – Challenges & Opportunities (2014)
Report
Kerr, G., & Amakobe, W. (2014). Dissemination of Solar Energy Technologies for Rural Electrification in Kenya – Challenges & Opportunities. Nairobi, Kenya: African Centre for Technology Studies

Understanding the challenges and opportunities in the solar energy technology value chain is essential for key actors in order to disseminate these technologies for rural electrification in Kenya. Once the challenges and opportunities have been iden... Read More about Dissemination of Solar Energy Technologies for Rural Electrification in Kenya – Challenges & Opportunities.

A critical assessment of mountaineering tourism on Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan: Current issues and potential solutions
Report
Komissarov, V., & Taylor, S. (2019). A critical assessment of mountaineering tourism on Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan: Current issues and potential solutions. Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz Republic Ministry of Culture, Communication and Tourism

This report was produced for the Ministry of Culture, Communication and Tourism of the Kyrgyz Republic. It provides an assessment of the environmental and economic impacts of tourism located on and around the 7,134 metres Lenin Peak on the Kyrgyzsta... Read More about A critical assessment of mountaineering tourism on Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan: Current issues and potential solutions.

Managing the co-creation of narratives in the heritage sector: The case of the Surgeons' Hall Museum, Edinburgh (2019)
Book Chapter
Urquhart, E., & Leask, A. (2019). Managing the co-creation of narratives in the heritage sector: The case of the Surgeons' Hall Museum, Edinburgh. In Experiential Consumption and Marketing in Tourism with a Cross-Cultural Context. Goodfellow Publishers

The objectives of this chapter are to: - Link together theoretical approaches to storytelling and narrative creation with the co-creation of heritage experiences; - Identify and discuss management practices and associated opportunities for narrati... Read More about Managing the co-creation of narratives in the heritage sector: The case of the Surgeons' Hall Museum, Edinburgh.

After-hours events at the National Museum of Scotland: a product for attracting, engaging and retaining new museum audiences? (2019)
Journal Article
Easson, H., & Leask, A. (2020). After-hours events at the National Museum of Scotland: a product for attracting, engaging and retaining new museum audiences?. Current Issues in Tourism, 23(11), 1343-1356. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2019.1625875

Cultural heritage is recognised as one of the major contributors to the economy and has traditionally been funded from the public sector. Museums have had to become more commercial as a result of declining core funding sources and changing visitor ex... Read More about After-hours events at the National Museum of Scotland: a product for attracting, engaging and retaining new museum audiences?.

Practice-based segmentation: taxonomy of C2C co-creation practice segments (2019)
Journal Article
Rihova, I. (2019). Practice-based segmentation: taxonomy of C2C co-creation practice segments. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 31(9), 3799-3818. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-01-2018-0096

Purpose: This paper explores and evaluates practice-based segmentation as an alternative conceptual segmentation perspective that acknowledges the active role of consumers as value co-creators. Design/methodology/approach: Data comprising various as... Read More about Practice-based segmentation: taxonomy of C2C co-creation practice segments.

Business Events - the application of design and transforming access (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., & McLachie, J. (2019, May). Business Events - the application of design and transforming access. Paper presented at Atlas Business Tourism 2019 Special Interest Group Conference, Porvoo, Finland

This work introduces and critically reviews the changing notion of social responsibility in the behaviour and actions of Business Event provision and its management. In particular, the work focuses on the development of inclusive practice in Business... Read More about Business Events - the application of design and transforming access.

Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour (2019)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2020). Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour. Mobilities, 15(2), 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1696038

This paper investigates a nascent, primarily online community of so-called 'unlikely hikers', united in the premise that hiking is good for everyone's mental and physical health and that diversity can and should extend to outdoor spaces including nat... Read More about Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour.

Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Wight, A. C. (2020). Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis. Tourism Management, 81, Article 104142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104142

This study presents a netnographic discourse analysis of social media content generated around three high profile European Holocaust heritage sites: Ann Frank’s House in Amsterdam, The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland, and the Jewish... Read More about Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis.

City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2019, April). City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze. Paper presented at Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Edinburgh Napier University

Increasingly, travel and tourism practices have become a strategy for taking and sharing photographs. This is particularly apparent through the exponential growth of digital social media platforms as means of recording and displaying tourism settings... Read More about City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze.

GCHQ Cyber Zone at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator) (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Kerr, G. GCHQ Cyber Zone at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator). [https://issuu.com/cheltenhamfestivals/docs/science_festival_2019_brochure]. 4 June 2019 - 9 June 2019. (Unpublished)

Step into a fascinating digital world…come into the GCHQ Cyber Zone and see what it’s like to be a code cracker, ethical hacker and cyber security expert. Escape to cyber space using our VR headsets and try your hand at coding, solving puzzles and g... Read More about GCHQ Cyber Zone at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator).

The highs and lows of acclimatising: Strategies and stories from Lenin Peak (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, S. (2019, November). The highs and lows of acclimatising: Strategies and stories from Lenin Peak. Presented at British Mountain Medicine Society (BMMS) Science Day, Bamford

Presentation given to British Mountain Medicine Society at its 2019 Science day on November 13th, 2019. Based on research carried out on Lenin Peak in Kyrgyzstan, the issue of acclimatisation was examined based on data collected from a number of pri... Read More about The highs and lows of acclimatising: Strategies and stories from Lenin Peak.

Marketing Archaeological Heritage for Tourism (2020)
Book Chapter
Fyall, A., Leask, A., & Barber, S. (2020). Marketing Archaeological Heritage for Tourism. In D. J. Timothy, & L. G. Tahan (Eds.), Archaeology and Tourism - Touring the Past (69-86). Bristol: Channel View Publications

Abstract not available.