100 PhD Studentships in Tourism available at Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds Metropolitan University is currently recruiting 100 PhD students as part of our centenary celebrations for Leeds Metropolitan University’s presence in Headingley. So if you are an enthusiastic high achieving individual who would welcome the opportunity to complete a full time funded PhD in a vibrant and supportive research environment in one of the research areas. The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) is coordinating applications in tourism as well as responsible tourism. Each studentship will have a bursary of £12,300 per annum, together with payment of fees of £3120 per annum and will be for a period of three years subject to satisfactory progress. The closing date for applications is Friday 27th October 2006.
Research studentships in Tourism are being coordinated through the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change in the Faculty of Arts and Society by Professor Mike Robinson.
Applications are welcome for the following research projects or for proposals from the applicant that address the Centre’s research themes set out below, and for projects that cross the boundaries of any of the identified research agendas:
1. Diaspora Communities, Cultural Festivals and Tourism : This project focuses on diaspora community festivals in contexts of inter-culturalism, community cohesion, cultural change and tourism.
2. Tourism and Cultural Policies in European Union Accession States .
3. The Role of the Archaeologist in Tourism Development : In various economies where archaeological remains are mobilised as heritage attractions, or hold potential to be so, the archaeologist has a role to play. However, the type and extent of such a role is varied in scope and influence. This project will examine the changing role of the archaeologist, and of archaeology, in the processes of contemporary tourism development, policy and management and will have particular reference to the Levant.
4. Music in the Tourist Experience
6. The Politics of Festival and Event Tourism
7. SMEs and Tourist Destination Development
8. Pro-poor tourism policy and micro-enterprise development
9. Corporate social responsibility in travel and tourism
Applications are also welcomed based on proposals to study in any of the following areas relating to the broad and exciting research programme of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. These areas include:
Heritage tourism – tangible and intangible heritage; Tourism and cultural landscapes; Symbolic cultural economies and tourism; Tourism aesthetics; Mobilisation of material cultures in tourism; Cultural tourism development; Tourist behaviours, encounters, exchanges and contact zones; Tourist/tourism narratives; Tourism and performance – ritual, festivals/festivity, liminality and play; Tourism, the media and popular culture; Tourism and visual culture – photography, film etc.; Ethics of tourism – global mobilities, exclusion, development politics etc.
Contact: Professor Mike Robinson, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Faculty of Arts & Society, Leeds Metropolitan University, email: m.d.robinson@leedsmet.ac.uk