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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
Professor Hollinshead researches the use–value
of tourism, particularly in psychic, societal, and political rather than
'economic' terms.
He probes the inventive,
world-making role of tourism within
contemporary society.
Hence, Professor Hollinshead is a broadly–based analyst of the cultural identities and cosmological inheritances which are deeply–embedded within representations of peoples, places, and pasts in international tourism.
Originally a 'Marketing' specialist, he has become (since obtaining his Ph.D. in the USA) an eclectic theorist drawing insight from Anthropology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Human Communications, and Continental Philosophy amongst a wide mix of domains –even an adisciplinary rather than a trans-disciplinary thinker.
Having worked for most of his management life in Australia – where he was, for instance, Promotions Manager of the Yulara International Tourist Resort (at Uluru [Ayers Rock] in Central Australia) in 1983–4, and then Convenor of the Second Australian National Folklore Conference in Sydney in 1986 – Professor Hollinshead has recently worked as Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University [TAMU].
TAMU is in fact the university which has a large global lead in the production of both PhD's in Tourism Studies / Tourism Sciences and publications on 'tourism' within the Academy.
While his current research interests generally concern the axial and collaborative role of tourism in the political manufacture of the public culture of places, Professor Hollinshead's long-haul research agendas specifically cover:
