About

My research focus is within business events, with particular interest on conferences and their contribution towards career development opportunities and new learning. In my previous research I focused on the individual attendee’s conference journey, developing an understanding of the impacts it creates over a lifetime of multiple conference attendances. One of the research areas I am interested in exploring is the relationship between career progression/development and attendance at business events.

My teaching areas are greatly aligned with my research interest areas and previous industry experience. I teach across both undergraduate and postgraduate courses within event management, mostly within modules on business events, research, and finance. Many students find modules within these areas of limited interest early on in their studies. I take great pride in delivering my teaching so that students, at the end of the module delivery, find these topic interesting and worthwhile pursuing, or at the very least understand the importance of them and can apply their knowledge of them within their professional lives.

I am an experienced supervisor of undergraduate research projects and postgraduate dissertations on a variety of topics within events management. I also deliver workshops for doctoral students about the importance for academics to attend conferences and the impact the attendance can have on their research and career progression.

My research interests in relation to business events include:

• Conferences

• Learning; Development and Sharing of Knowledge

• Career Development

• Communities

• Experience, Design, and Co-creation

• Impact, Value, Evaluations and Outcomes

If you are an organisation, academic, or student interested in these areas, with or without links to business events, or any other aspects of business events, please get in touch - I am happy to discuss any ideas you have.

Senior Lecturer

Teaching

Department of Service Sector Management

College of Business, Technology and Engineering

Events Management

Courses taught:

BSc (Hons) Events Management

BA (Hons) Festival and Entertainment Management

MSc International Events Management

Modules taught:

Delivering Successful Business Events

Strategic Event Design

Academic Research Skills

Finance and Data Interpretation

Research

• Social and Economic Research Institute

Publications