Professor Williams awarded prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship
Thursday 14 April 2011
Professor Allan Williams of the Tourism Subject Group has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Research Fellowship to study the role of risk and uncertainty in explaining human mobility. Risk and uncertainty are inherent in all forms of human mobility but are rarely explicitly theorised and analysed.
Drawing on behavioural economics, this project will examine individual experiences of, and attitudes to, four different types of mobility: organized tourism, individual tourism, temporary migration and permanent migration.
The project will analyse the extent to which measures of attitudes to risk and uncertainty can predict attitudes to different forms of mobility, and whether past experiences of holidays and migration influence attitudes to different forms of future mobility.
The grant of £36,500 will fund a part time research fellow to assist in analysing a specially commissioned large, representative sample of the UK population.