Senior Lecturer in Tourism

I am a Cultural Geographer schooled at the University of Cambridge and now work as a Lecturer in Tourism Studies at the University of Bedfordshire.

Currently completing a doctorate on the changing identity of British Muslim women through travel, I am deeply interested in matters of Islamic modernity.

My other research interests concern geopolitical issues as they relate to the traditional / transitional use of space and place today, and I have published articles and chapters in the realm of public culture, the politics of tourism, issues of representation and cultural mobility.

I am a keen thinker on the application of emergent critico-interpretive / soft science approaches in the humanities (in general), and on spirituality (in particular).

Qualifications

• BA Geography - University of Cambridge
• MRes Cultural Geography - Royal Holloway University of London
• PhD (Current) on matters of mobility, being and becoming of British Muslim women - University of Bedfordshire

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching Expertise

I teach on both Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes. My main subject expertise is within the following areas:

• Heritage
• Culture and Society
• Research Skills
• Strategic Management for Tourism, Hospitality and Events

Research Interests

• Religious Tourism (with a specific focus on Islamic Tourism)
• Diaspora Tourism
• Mobilities
• Identity and Belonging
• Tourism Geographies
• Advanced Qualitative and Interpretative Methodological Approaches

External Roles

• Vice President of ISA
• Assistant Reviews Editor: Tourism, Culture and Communication

Research Publications

• Hollinshead, K., Suleman, R. and Nair, B. 2019 (In Press). The Unsettlement of tourism studies: Positive Decolonisation, Deep Distening and Dethinking. Tourism Geographies. [Currently going through approval]
• Hollinshead, K. and Suleman, R., 2018. The Everyday Instillations of Worldmaking: New Vistas of Understanding on the Declarative Reach of Tourism. Tourism Analysis, 23(2), pp.201-213.
• Hollinshead, K. and Suleman, R., 2017. Time for Fluid Acumen: A Call for Improved Tourism Studies Dialogue with the Decolonizing World. Tourism Culture and Communication, 17(1), pp.61-74.
• Ali, N. and Suleman, R., 2017. (Im)Mobilities of Older Pakistani Female Migrants and Material Culture: a Multigenerational Perspective on Gift‐Giving. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), p.e2067.
• Hollinshead, K. and Suleman, R. (2018) ‘Tourism Studies and the Metaphysics of Presence: Matters of Ontology and the Enlightened Eye’, in Mura, P. and Khoo-Lattimore, C. (eds). Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism. Springer, Singapore pp 23 - 50.
• Hollinshead, K. and Suleman, R. (2018) ‘Tourism Studies and the Lost Mandates of Knowing: Matters of Epistemology for the Inscriptive/Projective Industry’, in in Mura, P. and Khoo-Lattimore, C. (eds). Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism. Springer, Singapore pp 51 – 79.
• Suleman, R. and Qayum, B. (2018) ‘Religion and Islamic Tourism Destinations’, in Jamal, A., Raj, R. and Griffin, K (eds).  Islamic Tourism: Management of Travel Destinations. CABI: Wallingford, UK, pp 26 – 37.
• Suleman, R. and Qayum, B. (2017) ‘Consciousness in Conflict’, in Raj, R. and Griffin, K. Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism. CABI: Wallingford, UK, pp.13-22.
• Hollinshead, K. and Suleman, R. (2016) ‘Tourism and New Collective Effervescence: The Encoding of ‘Aboriginality’ – A Worldmaking Critique of Special Events and Special Places’, in Pernecky, T. (ed). Approaches and Methods in Events Studies. Oxon: Routledge pp 120 – 146.
• Hollinshead, K. and Suleman, R. (2016) ‘Events and the Framing of People and Places: Acts of Declaration/acts of Devilry’, in Pernecky, T. (ed). Approaches and Methods in Events Studies. Oxon:Routledge pp 179 – 204.
• Hollinshead, K. and Suleman, R. (2016) ‘Politics and Tourism’, in Lowry, L. L. (ed). The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage publications.

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743760
E: rukeya.suleman@beds.ac.uk