People
The Sustainable Travel and Tourism Advanced Research Centre (STTAR Centre) is located at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School and draws on the a diverse group of expert researchers and practitioners from across the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and our national and international network.
It is led by an interdisciplinary leadership team of experts in sustainable development, economics, human geography, marketing, sociology, philosophy, and evaluation methodologies.
Leadership team
Professor Marina Novelli
Director of STTAR Centre
Dr Carol Zhang
Deputy director of STTAR Centre
Theme lead for travel culture.
Dr Brendan Canavan
Theme lead for authenticity and experience design.
Professor Scott McCabe
Theme lead for consumption, marketing and management.
Professor Jillian Rickly
Theme lead for accessibility and inclusivity.
Professor Patricio Sanchez Campos
Theme lead for politics, policy and practice.
Industry board members
Elizabeth Bailie
International development and sustainable tourism expert (previously Head of Tourism and Trade at GIZ Malawi)
Ian Corbett
Group Head of Sustainability, TUI
Jon Danks
Director of COMMERCIAL X
Judy Kepher Gona
Founder and Lead Consultant, Sustainable Travel and Tourism Africa - STTA
Jayni Gudka
Founder of Sama Sama Iternational
Megan Powell Vreeswijk
Chief Executive of Marketing ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½shire
Members
- - (University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil)
- - (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½)
- Mayada Belal (Helwan University, Egypt)
- Esther Bott (Staff - School of Sociology and Social Policy)
- (University of Algarve, Portugal)
- Dr Mary-Ann Cooper (Universidad Andres Bello)
- Dr Tin Cugelj (Staff - Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies)
- Clare Foster (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- (Swansea University)
- Andri Georgiadou (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- Mike Heffernan (Staff - School of Geography)
- Julian Henderson (Staff - School of Humanities)
- Sally Hibbert (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- Abigail Hunt (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School, China)
- Abbie-Gayle Johnson (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- Ken Kamoche (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- Helen Kennedy (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Trent University)
- Chris King (Staff - School of Humanities)
- Parvathi Kumaraswami (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- Robert Lambert (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- Charlotte May (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½)
- (Birmingham Business School)
- Simon, Mosey (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- (Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) at The University of the West Indies)
- Samuel Ogundipe (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- (Staff - External Relations)
- Koushik Pathak (PhD Researcher - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- (University of Genoa)
- Jean-xavier Ridon (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- Patricio Sanchez Campos (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School)
- (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa)
- Lino Trinchini (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Trent University)
- (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Business School, China)
- Ross Wilson (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- Yuwei Xu (Staff - School of Education)
- (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Trent University)
- Dr Nahid Yazdani (Staff - ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ University Busiess School)
Get in touch
We are open to collaborations with academic and non-academic stakeholders across the tourism value chain and other directly and indirectly linked fields of enquiry such as agriculture, innovation, entrepreneurship and the creative economy at a local, national and international level.
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