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Navigating Culture, Religion and Controversy: The Penitensya Rituals in the Philippines as a Dark Event

Book Chapter
Victoria, M., & Wight, C. (in press)
Navigating Culture, Religion and Controversy: The Penitensya Rituals in the Philippines as a Dark Event. In B. Wyatt, H. Stewart, J. Kennell, & P. R. Stone (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Dark Events. Routledge
This paper navigates the complex interplay between cultural tradition and controversy through an in-depth exploration of Penitensya, a Filipino Lenten ritual known for its vio...

Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions

Journal Article
Wight, C., Podoshen, J., Wyatt, B., & Lennon, J. (in press)
Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions. Tourism Recreation Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2025.2521277
This study invited dark tourism practitioners to comment on the salient academic discourses concerning dark tourism and propose new ways forward for research. Through a genre ...

The intersection of feminism, tourism, events and festivals research: progress and prospects.

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Orea-Giner, A., & Todd, L. (2025, May)
The intersection of feminism, tourism, events and festivals research: progress and prospects. Presented at CHME 2025: Transforming the Hospitality Sector Through Innovation, University of Essex, UK

A Summer Sunday Evening

Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]

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Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]
An experimental Short Documentary After a busy summer weekend at one of southern England’s most beautiful beaches, people gather for BBQs, dip their feet in the sea, snap pho...

Artademic: Art practice as research

Digital Artefact
Todd, L. (2025)
Artademic: Art practice as research. [Blog post]
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ (origins unknown) is a much-repeated quote. Although (arguably) simplistic, there is something to this! I am an artist. I’m also an inter...

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...

Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2024, November)
Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs. Presented at 2nd Tourism Futures Convention 2024 (TFC), Heilbron, Germany
This research presentation discussed the importance of future and foresight thinking (visioning) and the utility of scenario building as part of active design thinking as peda...

Three original painting based on visual arts-based tourism research selected for national exhibition, "What in the World?" by A New Primer

Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. Three original painting based on visual arts-based tourism research selected for national exhibition, "What in the World?" by A New Primer. [Oil on canvas]. 12 October 2024 - 19 October 2024

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Todd, L. Three original painting based on visual arts-based tourism research selected for national exhibition, "What in the World?" by A New Primer. [Oil on canvas]. 12 October 2024 - 19 October 2024

Engaging secondary stakeholders with Edinburgh’s festivals and tourism sectors: Staycations, localisation, community, and placemaking.

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Leask, A. (2024, August)
Engaging secondary stakeholders with Edinburgh’s festivals and tourism sectors: Staycations, localisation, community, and placemaking. Presented at 35th International Geographical Congress 2024, Dublin, Ireland
Our research considers how Edinburgh’s festivals and tourism sectors can advance through sustainable community engagement, such as facilitating staycations, by responding to c...

Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness”

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2024, August)
Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness”. Presented at 5th International Conference on Tourism and Business (ICTB) (Rethinking Tourism Sustainability: The Role of Destinations), Bangkok, Thailand
Through case study research, this conference paper consider the work of events as destination dynamics (Robertson, Mair, Lockstone-Binney & Duignan, 2022) and the significance...
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Connecting the dots: the transformative potential of African-Caribbean-Scottish heritage tourism

2025 - 2026
According to Visit Scotland (2023) and Historic Environment Scotland (2023), over 18 million visitors (48% of total visitors) with an average spend of £3.2 billion are drawn to Scotland for ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £5,000

MeCCSA 2025 Conference: Identity and Belonging

2024 - 2025
Media and culture play a crucial role in shaping identity, especially in contemporary contexts marked by economic struggles, conflict, and migration. The significance of identity is heightened as indi...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

ARCS proposal: Peterhead Prison Museum

2023 - 2027
Prison museums are part of Scotland’s cultural heritage tourism portfolio, and they are, by consequence, iconic public history venues that interpret historical and contemporary narratives of crime, pu...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £63,592

Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery

2023 - 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic devastated Edinburgh’s tourism sector. This research project examines how the city can reimagine the long-term sustainable role of tourism in post-pandemic times. It considers ho...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £4,950

Failure to plan is planning to fail: An evidence informed approach to sustainable tourism planning

2022 - 2024
A comparative analysis between Ireland and Scotland which examines the extent to which local authorities plan for sustainable tourism. This study uses mixed methods, both content analysis and intervie...
Funder: British Academy of Management | Value: £3,999

Senior Visitors to Visitor Attractions

2017 - 2018
This project aims to develop a new and innovative structured visit programme focused on the needs and wants of this increasingly significant older population group. Specifically aimed at the over 75 y...
Funder: Edinburgh Innovations Ltd | Value: £9,972

Gastronomy and Creative Entrepreneurship in Rural Tourism

2017 - 2017
Sustainable landscape management in rural areas requires the creation of opportunities that treat landscapes in the context of their historical, cultural and social factors. The growing popularity of ...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £50,266

12 Closes Community Co-design Project, Phase 1

2016 - 2022
12 Closes is a 4 year project partnership with Edinburgh World Heritage to re-invigorate and redesign a series of the Royal Mile's pedestrian closes. The projects will be developed through a process o...
Funder: Edinburgh World Heritage | Value: £57,600

Channel Scheme - Egypt

2015 - 2017
The aim of the research is to investigate and analyze the ability of the tour guide in Egypt to achieve intercultural rapprochement between Egypt's and Spain's cultures depending on the guide's functi...
Funder: Egyptian Education Bureau | Value: £11,740

Destination Organisations in Scotland: types, issues and characteristics

2014 - 2015
The aim of this project is to carry out a comparative study of the adaptation of destination organisations to their policy and operating environment in Scotland and Denmark with the view of identifyin...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £585

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Monitoring and evaluation indicators for just transition to net zero in tourism and events

2024 - date
Sebastian Lattekamp | Director of Studies: Dr Constantia Anastasiadou | Second Supervisor: Dr Alexandra Witte

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

Barriers and Enablers to a Circular Economy in Small Island Destinations: The Case of the Orkney Islands, Scotland

2019 - 2023
Angelo Sciacca | Director of Studies: Dr Constantia Anastasiadou | Second Supervisor: Dr Gavin Urie

Sustainable festivals and events - an enquiry of leadership and futures

2015 - 2017
As a societal phenomenon, festivals and planned events are discussed in a wide policy context. They have entered a broader discus...
Dr Martin Robertson | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Jane Ali-Knight

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

Heritage interpretation challenges and management issues at film-induced tourism heritage attractions: case studies of Rosslyn Chapel and Alnwick Castle

2011 - 2015
Although previous research has widely acknowledg...
Dr Justyna Bakiewicz | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Paul Barron

Governance of protected areas: the case of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park

2010 - 2016
Dr Stephen Taylor | Director of Studies: Dr Eleni Theodoraki | Second Supervisor: Dr Monika Foster

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Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University

Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
6 March 2024

Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm

Craiglockhart Campus
5 May 2022

An Edinburgh Festival City Map for Wester Hailes. This public engagement with research initiative was delivered as part of Explorathon 2019: European Researchers' Night. It involved a participative drawing and collage activity where members of the local community were asked to contribute to an Edinburgh Festival City Map for Wester Hailes

Whale Arts, Wester Hailes
28 September 2019

Festival Frontiers: The Festival City.

Edinburgh International Science Festival, Lomond Room, Pleasance, Edinburgh
9 April 2019

Visual Methods and Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research

The Business School
6 March 2019 - 5 June 2019

The Fringe - my BFF. Everyday branded products, from instant coffee to cars, have long been imbued by marketers with human traits as a means of appealing to consumers’ self-image. Indeed an interpersonal relationships metaphor is applied to some products, with them viewed as people – such as friends, partners, family members and even enemies. Since its origination in 1947, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has grown in a relatively organic way to become the largest and most renowned festival in the world. My talk will consider if a phenomenon like the Fringe is considered in similar interpersonal terms by its consumers as they organise, attend, support, and participate in their various stakeholder roles, from audience members to performers, and beyond. I will discuss my research where I interviewed consumers about their relationships with the Fringe. I discovered that the Fringe is viewed in numerous interpersonal terms, from casual, childhood and best friendships; to marriages and flings; and even in darker obsessive terms. My research also uncovered that many relationships with the Fringe are life-long, change over time, and can impact upon important life decisions. What does this tell us about ourselves and how we relate to something which is neither another human being nor a valued product, but an experience?

Skeptics on The Fringe 2017, Edinburgh Skeptics Society, Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh
15 August 2017

Academics Online: Building your research profile in the digital age

The Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart Campus
2 May 2017

DLP 2016 Open for Applications!

22 April 2016

Visual Methods and Ethnography Research Seminar and Workshop

The Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart Campus
12 May 2015