Dr Jingjing Yang bestowed with Emerald Award
Friday 8 February 2013
Dr Jingjing Yang, Lecturer in Tourism Development in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, has been bestowed a Highly Commended Award in the Hospitality Management Category of the 2012 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Jingjing’s PhD thesis, entitled “Functions of Social Conflict in Tourism: Tourism’s Impacts on the Kanas Tuva and Kazakh Settlements, Xinjiang, China” was recognised in terms of its significance/implications for theory and practice, originality and innovation, and appropriateness and application of the methodology.
For her research, she lived with the nomadic Tuva and Kazakh people in north-west China for a year. The harsh weather in winter sees the villages without electricity, running water, privacy or any other modern comforts. In the photo, Jingjing was cooking the local food for the family she was living with.
The Hospitality Management Category of the Awards, sponsored by the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, selected 4 excellences from among the applicants who have completed and satisfied examination requirements for a Doctoral award in the last three years.
