Projects (7)

Responding to the "Great Resignation": Can Corporate Social Responsibility improve the tourism and hospitality employees' experience? Aug 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
With many choosing not to return to tourism and hospitality employment following the pandemic, the industry
faces acute labour shortages with more than 400,000 vacancies. This is due in part to challenges of compensation, career progression,... Read More about Responding to the "Great Resignation": Can Corporate Social Responsibility improve the tourism and hospitality employees' experience?.

Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery Jun 15, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic devastated Edinburgh’s tourism sector. This research project examines how the city can reimagine the long-term sustainable role of tourism in post-pandemic times. It considers how Edinburgh’s tourism sector can sustainably adapt... Read More about Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery.

STO Research - VisitScotland Feb 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2024
Business Objectives
• To support the Observatory’s aim to make tourism data in Scotland easier to find
• To enable the Insight team to move quickly to share or signpost data and to identify where there are data gaps – i.e. where needs a... Read More about STO Research - VisitScotland.

An Industry in Crisis: Seeking Solutions to Employment Challenges in Tourism and Hospitality Mar 31, 2025 - Mar 31, 2027
Tourism and hospitality (T&H) face acute labour shortages, with unprecedented attrition being described as the “great resignation”. This creates significant challenges for the recovery of the industry following Covid-19 and has substantial social and... Read More about An Industry in Crisis: Seeking Solutions to Employment Challenges in Tourism and Hospitality.

Evaluating the benefits of hosting professional events for academic scholars, their institution, and the city of Edinburgh Nov 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
The significance of conference and conference facilities have received extended media coverage, and research support by and for the business event sector, and for related associations and other membership groups (see multiple outputs from JMIC www.th... Read More about Evaluating the benefits of hosting professional events for academic scholars, their institution, and the city of Edinburgh.

Craigmillar Growers: Cultural Diversity Through Agronomy Jan 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2024
I was awarded £1,500 from Edinburgh Napier's Public Engagement Fund to conduct a public engagement project with Craigmillar Growers to explore cultural diversity through agronomy. The aim and objectives of the project are to:

1. Explo... Read More about Craigmillar Growers: Cultural Diversity Through Agronomy.

BFI - Evaluation Project with Counterculture Aug 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2026
We are working with Counterculture Partnerships LLP to conduct an evaluation of a project with they have received Lottery Funding for. The project is based on the 'Job Quality in the Creative Industries Report' which is project report. A programme of... Read More about BFI - Evaluation Project with Counterculture.