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Denise Cardwell

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Lecturer in Sport Tourism

Denise Cardwell

Profile

Qualifications

  • Currently undertaking a PhD in environmental psychology in relation to significant sport sites.
  • BA (Hons) Travel and Tourism/Leisure Management (Joint)
  • HND Business and Finance
  • Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Sector

Vocational Qualifications

  • Diploma in Environmental Management
  • Post Graduate Certificates in: Environmental Conservation; Waste Management; Environmental Law
  • Certificate in Risk Assessment
  • IOSH Managing Safely Certificate

Research Group Memberships

  • 'Valuing Historic Environments'
  • AHRC ‘Sport, History and Heritage’ Research Group

Membership Bodies

  • Leisure Studies Association
  • Institute for Learning

Teaching Expertise

  • Sport Tourism Management (Year 2)
  • Sport Mega Events (Year 3)
  • Sport Tourism (Masters)
  • Sport, Tourism and Cities (Masters)
  • Planning for Tourism and Leisure Provision (Masters)
  • Human Resource Management (Distance Learning Foundation Degree)

Research Degree Supervision

  • 3rd year undergraduate projects
  • Masters Dissertations

Other Responsibilities

  • Course Leader MSc Sport Tourism Management
  • The development of foundation degrees and CPD courses in Tourism and Leisure for business
  • Project Manager – Fd(A) in Tourism Operations Management
  • CPD/Work Based Learning co-ordinator and project manager for the Division of Tourism and Leisure

Research Interests

  • To explore why some sport attractions and sites of sport have special meanings for visitors and can generate feelings of deep attachment. In particular to famous stadia and venues associated with mega or hallmark events or birthplaces of a particular sport which have often created their own mystique and sense of place
  • The heritage and history of sport sites

Research Grants and Consultancy

  • Project Leader - winning bid for £50,000 to repurpose online teaching materials for the hospitality and events sector for Foundation Degree Forward and EBTA
  • Co-consultant - Market Research, Adventure Research Centre: Commercialisation of intellectual property (Research, Consultancy and Course Development) study for the School of Adventure Studies, West Highland College (WHC) of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 489354
E: denise.cardwell@beds.ac.uk
Bedfordshire University

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