Position
Head of Tourism and Leisure
Profile
Qualifications
- Associate, Higher Education Academy
- PhD Tourism Geography
- MA Tourism and Sustainability
- BA (Hons) History
Teaching Expertise
- MSc Tourism and Environmental Management, Course leader
- Research Practice (Level 7)
- Contemporary Issues in Tourism (Level 7)
- Visitor Management (Level 2)
- Research Methods (all levels)
- International Tourism MSc dissertation supervision
Research Degree Supervision
- Currently supervising five PhD students
- Examined two PhD student
- Supervised two PhD students to completion
Research Interests
- Applied research and consultancy relating to food and drink tourism
- Visitor management, marketing and heritage interpretation
- Theorising social and cultural tourism geographies and related critical discourses
- Rural regeneration and the impact of tourism development in peripheral destinations
Research Projects
- Visitor Survey Report 2010, Bedford Borough Council, £500 (2011)
- Foundation Degree Forward - repurposing online teaching materials for the hospitality and events sector, £50,000 (2011
- Central Bedfordshire Council Research into Business Engagement for Experience Bedfordshire, £4,185.97
- The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Principal applicant and researcher on a large food strand project on Developing food tourism: delivering social, cultural and environmental sustainable development in rural regions and communities with Miller Research Ltd. (2009)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). (in collaboration with University of the West of England), Principal Investigator. (January-June 2009)
- ss Great Britain Trust, Bristol. Development and Analysis of the Membership Scheme (2009)
- PhD thesis (funded by the University of the West of England). Food tourism in the 'Celtic' periphery. (2005 - 2008)
- Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre funded project. Investigating the effectiveness of ICT in mediating the student learning process. Co-investigator (2008)
External Roles
- Treasurer, Leisure Studies Association (2010 -)
- Associate of the Higher Education Academy
- Executive Committee Member, Leisure Studies Association (2008 -)
- Steering Group Member, Central Bedfordshire Council’s Destination Marketing Organisation 'Experience Bedfordshire' (2009)
Publications
- Everett, S. (in press) Production Places or Consumption Spaces? The Place-making Agency of Food Tourism in Ireland and Scotland. Tourism Geographies.
- Everett, S. (2010) Production places/consumption spaces: the place-making agency of food tourism. In M.Stuart-Hoyle and J.Lovell (eds) Leisure, Space and Place. Leisure Studies Association.
- Everett, S. (2010) Lessons from the field: reflecting on a tourism research journey around the ‘Celtic’ periphery. Current Issues in Tourism 13 (2), pp.161-175.
- Everett, S. (2008) Beyond the visual gaze? The pursuit of an embodied experience through food tourism. Tourist Studies 8 (3), pp. 337-358.
- Everett, S. and Aitchison, C. (2008) The role of food tourism in sustaining regional identity: a case study of Cornwall, South West England. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 16(2), pp. 150-167.
- Casado-Diaz, M; Everett, S., Wilson, J. (eds) (2007) Social and Cultural change: Making Space(s) for Leisure and Tourism. Leisure Studies Association.
Conference Presentations
- Everett, S. (2011) Food tourism: a vehicle for economic regeneration and environmental sustainability? Invited seminar presentation as visiting researcher. Høgskolen i Finnmark, Alta, Norway. October 2011.
- Everett, S. (2011) Food tourism and economic development. Destination Suffolk Conference. Invited keynote.
- Everett, S. (2011) Food tourism: a vehicle for poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability? International Tourism Sustainability Conference, Mauritius. 21-24 September 2011
- Everett, S. (2011) Delivering food tourism policy agendas through web-facilitated industry partnerships. Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference. Southampton Solent University.
- Everett, S. and Slocum, S. (2010) Online research solutions: developing a national food tourism network through multi-agency collaboration. iSustainability Workshop, 12-13 November 2010, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
- Everett, S. and Slocum, S. (2010) Web-based Collaboration in Food Tourism: Developing cross industry partnerships. The Sustainable Food in Tourism Conference at Linnaeus University. Kalmar, Sweden
- Low, T. and Everett, S. (2010) Consumer Preferences for Sustainability in the Luxury Hotel Sector New Zealand Tourism & Hospitality Research Conference. Auckland. November.
- Everett, S. and Slocum, S. (2010) Food Tourism Initiatives: Resistance on the ground. Fourth International Conference on Sustainable Tourism. 7 -9 July. New Forest, Wessex.
- Everett, S. and Slocum, S. (2010) Online research solutions: developing a national food tourism network through multi-agency collaboration. British Academy of Management. Hospitality, Leisure, Tourism and Events Track. Sheffield. September.
- Everett, S. (2009) Culinary conduits: the role of restaurants in sustaining rural industries and initiating urban transformation. A case study of Galway City. RGS- IBG Conference, Manchester. August.
- Everett, S. (2009) Production places/consumption spaces: the place-making agency of food tourism. Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference. Leisure Experiences: Participating, Planning, Providing. Canterbury Christchurch University. July.
- Everett, S. (2009) ‘Worldmaking’ through food tourism: spatial, social and cultural resistance. Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Zadar, Croatia. June
- Everett, S.. (2009) Navigating the City: supporting the unfamiliar urban traveller. FUTURES ‘Transport in cities’ conference. Supported and hosted by the London Transport Museum, London. May.
- Everett, S. (2007) Lessons from the field: reflecting on a tourism research journey around the ‘Celtic’ periphery. Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Split, Croatia. June.
- Everett, S. (2007) Beyond the visual gaze? The pursuit of an embodied experience through food tourism. Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Split, Croatia. June.
- Everett, S. (2006) Making space for food tourism: reconceptualising the relationship between tourism consumption and regional identity. Making Space: Leisure, Tourism and Renewal, Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference, University of the West of England, July.
- Everett, S. (2006) The role of food tourism in sustaining regional identity: a case study of Cornwall, South West England. Food and History: Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity, University of Central Lancaster, Preston, June.
Contact Details
T: +44 (0)1234 793273
E:
sally.everett@beds.ac.uk
