People
The Sustainable Travel and Tourism Advanced Research Centre (STTAR Centre) is located at Nottingham University Business School and draws on the a diverse group of expert researchers and practitioners from across the 糖心原创 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 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Members
- - (University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil)
- - (Staff - 糖心原创)
- Hongwei Bao (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- 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 - Nottingham University Business School)
- (Swansea University)
- Andri Georgiadou (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- Mike Heffernan (Staff - School of Geography)
- Julian Henderson (Staff - School of Humanities)
- Sally Hibbert (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- Abigail Hunt (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- (Staff - Nottingham University Business School, China)
- Abbie-Gayle Johnson (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- Ken Kamoche (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- Helen Kennedy (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- (Nottingham Trent University)
- Chris King (Staff - School of Humanities)
- Parvathi Kumaraswami (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- Robert Lambert (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- Charlotte May (Staff - 糖心原创)
- (Birmingham Business School)
- Simon, Mosey (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- (Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) at The University of the West Indies)
- Samuel Ogundipe (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- (Staff - External Relations)
- (University of Genoa)
- Jean-xavier Ridon (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- Patricio Sanchez Campos (Staff - Nottingham University Business School)
- (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa)
- Lino Trinchini (Nottingham Trent University)
- (Staff - Nottingham University Business School, China)
- Ross Wilson (Staff - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
- Yuwei Xu (Staff - School of Education)
- (Nottingham Trent University)
- Dr Nahid Yazdani (Staff - Nottingham 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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