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Dr Gaynor Bagnall
Dr Gaynor Bagnall
is Deputy Head of the School of English, Sociology, Politics
and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. A Senior
Lecturer in the Sociology of Culture, Gaynor's main area of research
is culture, consumption and identity. Within this she has an
interest in social and cultural capital, culture-led and urban
regeneration, social and cultural life in cities, and audiences,
museums and heritage. She has researched and published widely
on these topics including; an investigation into the performativity
of museum audiences; an exploration of what it means to belong
'locally' in a global world and, and an examination of cities,
memory and the cultural imaginary.
Recent book length publications
include Globalization and Belonging (2005) and
Introducing Cultural Studies (2008). Gaynor is the founder
of the British Sociological Association Museums and Society Study
Group, and is an editorial board member for Sociology, and Museums
and Society. Currently, she is co-directing a Hefce funded research
project, Engaging Communities through the Arts, which
is evaluating the role that culture-led regeneration can have
on community engagement and community cohesion. Gaynor is also
conducting research on visitor responses to the Imperial War
Museum North, which is to be published as part of an edited collection
on The Future of Memory (2008). For further details of
research and publications, see http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/
sociology/ staff/gaynor.php
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Prof. David Crouch
Emeritus, Cultural
Geography, University of Derby. Member of Conflict Representation
and Identity Research Centre, and the University's Culture, Media
and Communication research team, and Culture, Lifestyle and Landscape
Research Group co-Director. Professor Crouch's research builds
cultural geography thinking to explain ways through which, as
individuals and frequently together, we encounter the world through
our life journeys and our interactions with the spaces we engage.
Through how we negotiate spaces, we can be creative, even hopeful,
doing so-called 'mundane' or 'exotic' things, for example as
artists, in everyday life such as allotment holders, or 'tourists'.
David's investigations have both contributed to understanding
the world and human opportunity, and changed government policy.
His international profile includes
several Visiting Professorships; research advisory roles; international
journal editorial positions; conference and research seminar
presentations, doctoral supervisions and disciplinary networks.
Over twenty of his chapters have been published in the last half-dozen
years in a range of related disciplinary fields, and in the same
time, papers including special guest edited editions, in Leisure
Studies, Geoforum, Environment and Planning,
Social and Cultural Geographies, Tourist Studies,
and Tourism, Culture and Communication. David is currently
at work on two new books: a monograph Space, Journeys and
Creativity, and editing the Oxford University Press Dictionary/encyclopaedia
of Leisure and Tourism, with Brian Garrod. His latest paper,
'Unravelling Landscapes Complexities', will be published in Cultural
Geographies. Further current writing includes papers in leisure/tourim
consumption, and leisure/tourism and cultural studies. Professor
Crouch is a longstanding member of the Leisure Studies Association
and has served as a member of the Executive Committee.
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Prof. Graeme Evans
Professor Graeme Evans
is director of the Cities Institute at London Met University
where he was previously director of the Centre for Leisure &
Tourism Studies. He was formerly Dean of Research at Central
St Martins, University of the Arts London. He has undertaken
national studies for the Department for Culture Media & Sport,
including: Evidence of Culture's Contribution to Regeneration,
and Social Impacts of Lottery Spending. Recent chapters
include: London2012: Regeneration Games, in Olympic Cities
(Golds, Routledge); Creative Spaces, Tourism and the City, in
Tourism Creativity & Development (Richards & Wilson,
Routledge), and Branding the City of Culture-the Death of City
Planning?, in Culture, Urbanism & Planning (Ashgate).
He is currently developing a national Cultural Planning Toolkit
for DCLG, DCMS and regional agencies in housing growth areas,
under an HM Treasury programme: Creating Cultural Opportunities
in Sustainable Communities, which will be launched in 2008
under the Living Places initiative.
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Dr Beatriz Garcia
Dr Beatriz Garcia is a Lecturer
in Sociology and the Director of Impacts 08 - The Liverpool Model,
a longitudinal research programme into the impact of Liverpool's
becoming European Capital of Culture jointly undertaken by the
University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University.
Beatriz is a researcher in cultural policy and event-led regeneration
focused in the development of models for the longitudinal assessment
of the cultural impact and legacy of regeneration initiatives.
Recent projects directed by Beatriz assess the legacy of cultural
programming within major events such as the European Union Capital
of Culture (ECoC) (Glasgow 1990 and Liverpool 2008), the Olympic
Games (Barcelona 1992 onwards, including Beijing 2008 and London
2012) and the Commonwealth Games (Manchester 2002). She has been
funded by the AHRC, the ESRC, the British Academy, the IOC-Olympic
Museum and the International Olympic Academy. She has acted as
academic collaborator to the Palmer/Rae team evaluating the impact
of previous ECoCs for the European Commission, is an advisor
to the Cordoba 2016 ECoC Bid, and has been academic advisor to
the London 2012 Culture and Education team since the bid stage.
Beatriz has published extensively on her research and is co-Editor
of the Culture @ the Olympics magazine. [For more information:
www.beatrizgarcia.net, www.impacts08.net, www.culturalolympics.org.uk]
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Greg Richards
Greg Richards is a
partner with Tourism Research and Marketing (TRAM), a consultancy
specialising in tourism and events. With TRAM he has worked on
projects for numerous national governments, national tourism
organisations and municipalities. He also worked extensively
in tourism research and education, with posts at London Metropolitan
University (UK), Tilburg University (The Netherlands), Universitat
Roviria I Virgili, Tarragona (Spain) and currently as a Senior
Research Fellow the University of the West of England (UK). He
was also recently a European Union Marie Curie Fellow at the
Interarts Foundation in Barcelona.
He is a European Executive Member
of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS)
and has directed a number of ATLAS projects for the European
Commission on topics including cultural tourism, crafts tourism,
sustainable tourism, tourism education and labour mobility in
the tourism industry. His major publications include Cultural
Tourism in Europe (1996); Tourism and Sustainable Community
Development (2000); Cultural Attractions and European
Tourism (2001); Tourism and Gastronomy (2002); The
Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice (2004);
Cultural Tourism: Global and local perspectives (2007)
and Tourism, Creativity and Development (2007). He has
recently been a member of the Palmer/Rae team evaluating the
impact of the European Cities of Culture for the European Commission,
a contributor to the European Travel Commission study of City
Tourism and Culture and an adviser on the development of national
cultural tourism policy in Austria. He is currently working on
a global study of the economic, social and cultural impacts of
youth travel, researching resident attitudes to tourism in Barcelona,
and directing a 6th edition of the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research,
gathering data on cultural tourism consumption in 20 countries.
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Prof. Gareth Stratton
Since starting his
professional career as a physical education teacher he has been
particularly drawn to the relationships between physical activity
exercise and health in children. He joined Exeter University's
children's health and exercise unit in 1988 and decided to investigate
whether physical education made a significant contribution to
children's physical activity levels. Since his arrival in Liverpool
in 1990 he has developed his interest in physical education and
other contexts where physical activity is allowed to occur. These
contexts have varied with studies on diabetes, coronary risk,
and back-pain, the results from which demonstrated the health
promoting effects of exercise on school age children. He has
also been interested in whether fitness, lifestyle and behaviour
in the whole population changes over time. In 1997 the Sportslinx
project was started and we now measure the fitness, dietary behaviour
and lifestyle of nearly all 9-10 year olds across the city. The
most recent project (A-CLASS) is investigating the effect of
a typical after school club approach on children's heart, bone
and muscle health as well as their fitness, physical activity
and fundamental movement skills.
Finally, in bringing all this activity
together, Professor Stratton formed the REACH (Research into
Exercise Activity and Children's Health) group in 2001. The REACH
group has flourished, sharing and disseminating work across the
world, and continues to pursue research toward the better understanding
of children's physical activity and fitness.
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