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From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, E., & Urie, G. (2025, May)
From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education Conference (CHME) 2025, University of Essex, UK
This paper reflects on innovative assessment practice on an undergraduate tourism and hospitality module. Following an extensive redesign to adopt an active learning and dialo...

Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning

Journal Article
Kitchen, E., Goh, E., Steriopolous, E., Harkison, T., Drake, C., Robertson, M., Losekoot, E., & Waterston, L. (online)
Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2420868
Authentic learning is a critical pedagogy and curriculum requirement in higher education to better prepare students for future workforce requirements. As such, educators adopt...

Introducing hospitable destinations

Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C., Lugosi, P., & Todd, L. (2024)
Introducing hospitable destinations. Hospitality and Society, 14(2), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00082_2
This editorial introduces the concept of hospitable destinations and sets the context for the Special Issue articles. It begins by exploring the complex nature of destinations...

Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchen, E., Steriopoulos, E., Harkison, T., Drake, C., Goh, E., Robertson, M., Waterston, L., & Losekoot, E. (2023, February)
Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience. Presented at 23rd Annual Conference of the Council for Australasian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education, Fremantle, Western Australia
This paper focuses on the factors that influence the authentic learning practices in the Tourism, Hospitality, and Events (THE) education context from a teacher’s perspective....

An ethical approach to sustainability and recovery operations in hotels

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bryde, M., Hejjas, K., Hannibal, C., & Foster, S. (2023, July)
An ethical approach to sustainability and recovery operations in hotels. Paper presented at Production and Operations Management Society (OOMS), Paris, France
The climate disaster is here and as a result, the intensity and frequency of disasters, whether that is humanitarian, biological or natural, is set to increase (Institute for ...

“I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2023, May)
“I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad. Paper presented at Imagining and Experiencing Hospitalities in a Mobile World, Edinburgh Napier University

Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of Covid-19 on Women in Tourism

Book Chapter
Muldoon, M. L., Witte, A., & Xu, Y.-H. M. (2023)
Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of Covid-19 on Women in Tourism. In Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in Covid-19 Affected Destinations (159-178). Channel View Publications. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845418762-012

Liquid Otherness - Network Commensality and the transient social interactions of others

Presentation / Conference
Urie, G. (2021, May)
Liquid Otherness - Network Commensality and the transient social interactions of others. Paper presented at 29th Annual Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME) Conference, Sheffield Hallam University [Online]

“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream

Other
Kulpa, R. (2021)
“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream. [Magazine article]. Warsaw
A week after the premiere of the fourth season of "The Crown", the British media announced that viewership records were broken. Diana's story is the main theme in it. What is ...

Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis

Journal Article
Wight, A. C. (2020)
Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis. Tourism Management, 81, Article 104142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104142
This study presents a netnographic discourse analysis of social media content generated around three high profile European Holocaust heritage sites: Ann Frank’s House in Amste...

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Lean Talent Management & Dynamic Innovative Capability in the Hotel Sector The Case Study of the Scottish Hotel Sector

2022 - date
Homa Rahimi | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Barron | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

An assessment of the sustainable practices required of both pilgrim and host on the Camino Frances

2022 - 2025
Assessing elements of environmental, economic and socio-cultural sustainability. This PhD. Research on...
Christopher Barnes | Director of Studies: Dr Louise Todd | Second Supervisor: Dr Gary Kerr

A critical evaluation of the factors that influence visitor engagement with UK slavery heritage museums: a blended passive symbolic netnographic study

2020 - 2024
There is a substantial body of literature in slave...
Dr Shemroy Roberts | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Wight | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

An investigation of university and employer perceptions of barriers and enablers of work based learning (WBL) partnerships in the tourism sector in Scotland

2015 - 2020
An investigation of perceptions of work base...
Dr Lynn Waterston | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Barron | Second Supervisor: Dr Matthew Dutton

The role of interactive technology in the co-creation of experience in Scottish visitor attractions

2014 - 2019
" As a sector that is reliant on the creation and management of memorable experiences, visitor attrac...
Dr Ellis Urquhart | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Dr Ivana Rihova

Journey into Higher Education: A study of postgraduate Indian students' experiences, as they make the educational journey, to a new teaching and learning environment in the UK

2014 - 2020
Dr Pauline Gordon | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Lynch | Second Supervisor: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith

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Confronting "Anti-Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances

Date: Monday, March 3, 2025; 9:30–16:30 CET (Warsaw time); Online & In-person: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Staszic Palace (Pałac Staszica), Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland Registration link (for both online and in-person participation): Click here https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/253ecaa8-ddf1-45bc-a765-f82099fcc299@99e0dc58-9c4b-4820-8617-04c386c254c6 Agenda (PL time zone) 09:30–10:00 Arrival, coffee, informal networking 10:00–11:00 Presentation of RESIST Project Findings from the Case Studies in Poland and Belarus.  Panel discussion (hybrid, online transmission). The RESIST team members will introduce the project and speak about the effects of, and resistances against “anti-gender” politics in Belarus and Poland in 15-minute presentations followed by a Q&A. Adrianna Zabrzewska (RESIST Project, Edinburgh Napier University), Understanding ‘Anti-gender’ Politics Across Europe: An Overview of the RESIST Project. Ekaterina Filep (RESIST Project, Université de Fribourg), Lived Experiences and Resistances to the ‘Anti-gender’ Mobilisations in Belarus. Roberto Kulpa (RESIST Project, Edinburgh Napier University), Lived Experiences and Resistances to the ‘Anti-gender’ Mobilisations in Poland. 11:00–11:15 COFFEE BREAK 11:15–12:30 Feedback session and idea exchange workshop.  This workshop (in-person only) aims to facilitate engagement with the project findings and share insights. We invite everyone to reflect on the following questions: How do “anti-gender” politics manifest differently in  Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia and what factors contribute to these variations? In what ways do queer-feminist movements in these countries collaborate or support one another? What barriers (both external  and internal) do they encounter in building solidarity? What role does intersectionality play in shaping the experiences of individuals affected by “anti-gender” politics in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia? 12:30–13:45 LUNCH BREAK 13:45–15:00 Gender, Sexuality, Migration: Intersectional Identities, Competing Priorities, and Queer-Feminist Resistances Against “Anti-Gender” Politics. Panel discussion (hybrid, online transmission). In this session, our guest speakers will deliver 15-minute presentations on their respective research, followed by Q&A. Chaired by Dorota Hall, IFiS PAN. Olga Sasunkevich (University of Gothenburg), The frames of war: state-led homophobia in Russia and the war against Ukraine and the West in the context of transnational anti-gender mobilisation. Olga Plakhotnik (University of Greifswald), Maria Mayerchyk (Rhine-Waal University), Between “Gender” and “Anti-Gender”: (Trans) Necropolitics at the Buffer Periphery. Sarian Jarski (Migration Consortium/ Queer Without Borders), ‘Queer’ and at the ‘green border’: LGBTQI+ displacement and intersectional solidarity at Polish borders with Belarus and Ukraine after 2021. 15:00–15:20 COFFEE BREAK 15:20–16:30 Anti-Gender Violence across Migration Routes. Personal Experiences, Theoretical Approaches, Academic Trials and Tribulations.  Experience-sharing session (in-person only). In this session, we invite all in-person attendees to reflect on the questions below. Moderated by: Anna Cze Czerwińska HerStory Archivist and Independent Expert. How do experiences of “anti-gender” violence differ among individuals navigating various migration routes? What coping mechanisms and strategies of resistance are employed? How does the experience of migration impact one’s academic and/or activist engagements? Do queer-feminist scholars in these four national contexts experience the limitation of academic freedoms due to “anti-gender” mobilizations? In what ways? How can theories of post-colonialism and peripheralization be applied to understand the unique challenges faced by queer-feminist movements in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia and across these national contexts? Reminder: Please note that both in-person and online attendees need to register for the event by following this link. We will not be able to admit unregistered participants. Presentation Abstracts: Olga Sasunkevich The frames of war: state-led homophobia in Russia and the war against Ukraine and the West in the context of transnational anti-gender mobilisation This presentation is based on a forthcoming book chapter that analyses how state-led homophobia in Russia served as a discursive framing of country’s decision to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The argument is built on theoretical concepts of (un)grievable life and queer necropolitics to illuminate how questions of gender equality and sexual rights increasingly become the question of life and death in the contemporary geopolitical climate.   Applied to the Russian context, these concepts reveal the potential of state-led homophobia to incite affective violence and economies of hate. The presentation analyses Russia’s case at the transnational background of anti-gender mobilization where struggles around gender and sexuality become a central field of contestation in contemporary (geo)politics. Thus, the cruelty of Russia in relation to “ungrievable” segments of its own population and the citizens of Ukraine should be seen as a warning suggesting that the boundary between symbolic and outright violence of anti-gender mobilization is fragile. Olga Plakhotnik and Maria Mayerchyk Between “Gender” and “Anti-Gender”: (Trans) Necropolitics at the Buffer Periphery We use the concept of necropolitics (Mbembe 2003) in two dimensions. First, we zoom in on the situation of transgender people in Ukraine. On the one hand, they are vulnerable to transphobic hatred fuelled by transnational “anti-gender” movements. On the other hand, opposing “anti-gender” discourse, feminist activists and academics might rely on the grammar of binary gender, thus producing overt or covert transphobia. In addition to many levels of human insecurity caused by the full-scale Russian war on Ukraine, the condition of martial law and militarization of feminist and LGBT+ activisms in Ukraine practically delegitimize transgender lives. In the second part, we employ the analytics of the “buffer periphery” to decipher how “progressive” gender and sexual politics are being instrumentalized in the context of EU- and NATO aspirations of the Ukrainian state and Western financial and military aid. Zooming out to a global scale, we apply the concept of necropolitics to examine how both Western and Russian imperial powers project the Ukrainian population as marked by colonial difference, and what queer feminist responses to this projection might look like. Sarian Jarosz ‘Queer’ and at the ‘green border’. LGBTQI+ displacement and intersectional solidarity at Polish borders with Belarus and Ukraine after 2021 The sudden intensification of mobility on Poland's eastern borders - first in 2021 on the border with Belarus, then in 2022 on the border with Ukraine - has forced Polish informal border solidarity infrastructures to develop ad hoc intersectional response to LGBTQI+ displacement. Based on the framework of engaged ethnography and the in-depth work of the cross-border research collective Queer Without Borders, I aim to present the different forms of queer humanitarianism and risks of its criminalization during humanitarian crises after 2021. This analysis exposes how both the experience of minority stress and state criminalization of queer/border solidarity in Poland in 2017-2023, shapes the methods and data collection regarding LGBTQI+ individuals on the move, conducted by the informal border activists at both Polish borders (Guyan 2022; Sandberg 2018). The emphasis is on testimonies of those engaged in queer migration research or humanitarian and legal data collection, who directly apply such data into cross-border work in Poland and Ukraine (Queer Without Borders 2022). Participant bios: Anna Cze Czerwińska is a longstanding feminist activist, past member of the Manifa 8go Marca, OŚKa, co-founder of Feminoteka and STER. She is a leading expert and organiser of herstory archives of Polish activist women in politics. Dorota Hall is an Assoc. Prof. at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, interested in religion, new spiritualities, gender, sexualities, minoritization and various forms of marginalization. She was a member of expert networks, such as the Network of Socio-economic Experts in the Anti-discrimination Field (SEN) established by the European Commission. Sarian Jarosz is a Research Coordinator at Migration Consortium, Humanitarian LGBTQI+ Advisor at Save the Children Poland and co-founder of Queer Without Borders, non-formal coalition of organizations assisting LGBTQI+ refugees in Poland. With Save the Children and Plan International he published two reports on humanitarian response to LGBTQI+ displacement in Poland. Formerly Investigator on LGBTQI+ rights and migration at Amnesty International Poland. His focus is on criminalization of LGBTQI+ solidarity after 2017, research conducted in Poland, Belarus, Russia and Uganda. Maria Mayerchyk is a Deputy Professor at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and, together with Olga Plakhotnik, a joint editor-in-chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies. Maria’s research interests include a decolonial perspective on gender, sexuality and body, queer and feminist movements and epistemologies of Eastern Europe, diaspora and migration studies, and folklore. Olga Plakhotnik is a Chair for Ukrainian Cultural Studies at the University of Greifswald and a PI of the project "(Un)Disciplined: Pluralizing Ukrainian Studies—Understanding the War in Ukraine” . As a scholar-activist and educator, Olga works in the area of feminist/queer epistemologies, critical citizenship studies, and feminist/queer pedagogies. Volha/Olga Sasunkevich is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg. She is a PI for EU Horizon Project MAGnituDe. Migration, Affective Geopolitics and European Democracy in Times of Military Conflicts and Research School FUDEM – Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises. Olga's research interests revolve around the questions of gender, sexuality, migration and ethnicity in Eastern Europe. RESIST Project Team Members: Katya Filep (Université de Fribourg) is a social geographer specialising in gender, with a regional focus on Central Asia and Eastern Europe. She has a professional background in research, project management, translation and interpreting. Katya coordinates the RESIST Project's case study of Belarus and Hungary. Roberto Kulpa (Edinburgh Napier University) is a social scientist interested in transnational sexual politics, especially dynamics between Central-Eastern Europe and ‘the West’, as well as in critical epistemologies. He coordinates the RESIST Project’s case study on Poland and leads on Stage 5: Communication and Dissemination. Adrianna Zabrzewska  (Edinburgh Napier University) is a feminist philosopher and co-editor of Gender, Voice, and Violence in Poland (2021). Adrianna combines a professional background in content marketing with interdisciplinary research expertise to implement RESIST’s impact plan and contribute to the case study on Poland.
3 March 2025

Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University

Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
6 March 2024