Festivals and Events: Beyond Economic Impacts
July 6-8, 2005, Napier University, Edinburgh

CHAIR: Jane Ali-Knight	j.ali-knight@napier.ac.uk   Jane is currently Programme Leader for the new Leisure and Festival Management programme at Napier University, Edinburgh. She has presented at major international and national conferences and has published in the areas of wine tourism, tourism marketing and management. Jane is an Advisory Board Member of the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management (ILAM), Leisure Studies Association (LSA) and Vice Secretary of The Tourism Society Scotland. She is currently conducting research into tourist motivation and in experiences in wine regions; wine festivals and regional transformation and the role and impacts of Festivals to the Edinburgh economy. She has extensive experience in conference organisation in Australia (Marketing/PR Co-ordinator for Regional and Rural Tourism - Strength Through Diversity Conference in Albany, WA, July 30-31st 2001;Member of organising committee for Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference 2002 and World Marketing Congress 2003) She was also conference convenor for the recent 'Running Events in Scotland: International, National and Local Perspectives' Conference.
Elizabeth Carnegie	Elizabeth is programme leader for the MSc Event and Festival Management. She has presented at major international and national conferences and has published extensively in the areas of museums management and interpretation, pilgrimage and religious tourism and oral and social history. Current research areas include museums and audiences and the role of the post-industrial museum, community festivals and events including Melas. She is currently undertaking research in pilgrimage and charity treks, and historical re-enactment. She has considerable experience of the museums and galleries sector having worked as a curator of history with Glasgow Museums and participated in a number of high profile and award winning projects including setting up the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art (1993) and redisplaying the People's Palace in 1998. She was on the Interpretation Panel of the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (1993) and subsequently became deputy director of North East Lincolnshire Museums Service. She is a committee member of the Oral History Society and is reviews editor of Oral History Journal and is on the editorial panel of Public History Review, Sydney.
Donna Chambers	Dr. Donna Chambers is Programme Leader for the MSc. International Tourism. Previously she spent five years in the tourism public sector in Jamaica where she was integrally involved in the development of tourism public policy and the overall administration of the various sectors of the tourism industry. She has published in refereed academic journals and her research interests include tourism politics and public policy, tourism as a development option for less developed countries and the representation of minority cultures and heritages in and through tourism.
Anna Leask	Anna is Senior Lecturer in Tourism in the School of Marketing and Tourism at Napier University Business School. Anna is mainly involved in teaching and research activities in the areas of heritage visitor attraction management and conference management. She has presented at a number of international and national conference and training events, and has published in a variety of quality journals and texts. Two significant publications were as lead editor of Heritage Visitor Attractions ­ An Operations Management published in 1999 and joint editor of Managing Visitor Attractions in 2002. Anna also has considerable teaching experience at under and postgraduate level both in the UK and abroad, in addition to her involvement in various consultancy projects. She is a Committee member of the Tourism Society Scotland and recently participated in the planning of their 'Running Events in Scotland: International, National and Local Perspectives' Conference. She has also been involved in the successful management of several small events in the visitor attractions, leading from her experience and publications into the 'unusual venues' sector of the meetings industry.
Martin Robertson	Martin is lecturer and programme leader for the undergraduate Tourism Management degree programmes in the School of Marketing and Tourism, Napier University, Edinburgh. He has presented conference papers and authored published texts in the areas of urban tourism and events management; events management and destination marketing, and the management of narrative as a leisure management function. He has co-edited two publications, Managing Tourism in Cities ­ Policy, Process and Practice (1998) and Festival and Events Management ­ An International and Culture Perspective (2003). His areas of research focus are urban tourism planning and development; events and urban tourism; strategic destination marketing, and the social science of leisure and urban tourism. He has worked in both the public and private sectors of the tourism industry in the UK, as well as having had extensive work experience in the conference management and travel industries, respectively, in the UK and overseas. He is Secretary of Tourism Society Scotland.
John Schulz	Dr. John Schulz is a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, where he teaches courses in sport management, outdoor recreation, and research methods. His current research interests include investigating the nature of volunteerism in sport and recreation organisations, and exploring how individuals understand leisure, sport, and recreation.
Diana Woodward	Professor Diana Woodward is University Director of Research at Napier University, with responsibility for research development and research degrees. In the late 1980s and 1990s she was one of the pioneers of the feminist critique of leisure studies, contributing papers on women's leisure to a number of LSA conferences. She still occasionally reviews papers for Leisure Studies. More recently she has been publishing work on equal opportunities in employment and higher education. She has extensive experience of research degree administration, supervision and examination, having chaired Research Degrees Committees at two universities, and is an Executive member of the UK Council for Graduate Education. She is chairing the Postgraduate Students' sessions at the conference.

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