People
Our staff have diverse academic backgrounds and a critical perspective, encouraging students to understand different ways of thinking, generating industry relevant research and creating training for organisations facing real-world challenges.
Head of School
Professor Iis Tussyadiah
Head of School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Professor of Intelligent Systems in Service
Academic staff
Elizabeth Ashcroft
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Mark Ashton
Senior Teaching Fellow; Director of Teaching and Learning
Professor Susanne Becken
VC Research Fellow
Dr Jason Chen
Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Events Management, Director of Postgraduate Research
Marco Ciraulo
Principal Teaching Fellow & Project Director Learning Hotel, Director of Industry Partnership
Nicole Cocolas
Lecturer in Transport Management
Professor Scott Cohen
Professor of Tourism and Transport, School Director of Research
Dr Emma Delaney
Senior Teaching Fellow
Dr Michael Duignan
Head of Department and Reader in Events
Professor Anita Eves
Professor of Hospitality Management
Dr Viachaslau Filimonau
Reader in Hospitality Innovation
Professor Xavier Font
Professor of Sustainability Marketing
Sylvia Ganbert
Senior Teaching Fellow
Christy Hehir
Programme Leader and Lecturer in Events
Dr Nadine Itani
Lecturer in Air Transport Management
Karen Kelly
Programme Leader for International Hospitality Management, Module Coordinator for Restaurant Operations and Restaurant Management
Dr Bora Kim
Lecturer
Dr Yoo Ri Kim
Lecturer
Dr Albert Kimbu
Reader, Head of Department of Tourism and Transport
Professor Gang Li
Professor of Tourism Economics, Director of International Relations, Director of the Centre for Competitiveness of the Visitor Economy
Dr Yanning Li
Lecturer in Events Management
Dr Erin Ling
Lecturer in AI and the Future of Work
Dr Daisy Liu
Lecturer in Hospitality
Na Liu
Research Fellow
Dr Thomas Lunt
Senior Teaching Fellow (Events Management)
Professor Nigel Morgan
Professor of Social Sustainability
Dr Frankie O'Connell
Reader in Air Transport Management
Dr Pablo Pereira Doel
ESRC Research Fellow
Dr Sumeetra Ramakrishnan
Senior Teaching Fellow
Dr Emma Reardon
Teaching Fellow and Programme Leader BSc (Hons) International Hospitality and Tourism Management
Dr Alector Ribeiro
Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management
Dr Isabel Rodriguez
Lecturer
Professor Caroline Scarles
Professor of Technology in Society, Director of Centre of Digital Transformation in the Visitor Economy
Professor Daniel Scott
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow
Dr Maltika Siripis
Teaching Fellow
Dr Jonathan Skinner
Reader in the Anthropology of Events
Whitney Smith
Lecturer
Dr Brigitte Stangl
Senior Lecturer in Tourism
Dr Nikolas Thomopoulos
Senior Lecturer in Transport
Professor Iis Tussyadiah
Head of School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Professor of Intelligent Systems in Service
Dr Lorna Wang
Deputy Head, Department of Hospitality
Professor Allan Williams
Chair in Tourism and Mobility Studies
Anke Winchenbach
Lecturer and Programme Leader BSc ITM & ITMwT
Zhenni Wu
Lecturer
Dr Tracy Xu
Senior Lecturer in Hospitality
Dr Leon van Achterbergh
Senior Teaching Fellow
Visiting staff
Professor Chris Cowls
Visiting Professor
Cristina Figueroa-Domecq
Visiting Fellow
Dr Sarah Golding
Visiting Fellow
Paul Pike
Visiting Professor
Vlatka Skokic
Visiting Fellow
John Telfer
Visiting Professor
Emeritus staff
Professor David Airey
Emeritus Professor
Professor Brian Archer
Emeritus Professor
Professor Leo Jago
Emeritus Professor
Professor Peter Jones
Emeritus Professor
Professor Andrew Lockwood
Emiritus Professor of Hospitality Management
Professor Michael Riley
Emeritus Professor
Professor John Tribe
Professor of Tourism
Stephen Witt
Emeritus Professor
Postgraduate research students
Abdullah Alnabati
Postgraduate Research Student
Ruhual Amin
Postgraduate Research Student
Serge Chamelian
Postgraduate Research Student
Rachel Chang
Postgraduate research student
Jiaolong Cheng
Postgraduate Research Student
David Cloarec
PhD Researcher
Vanessa Cumper
Postgraduate Research Student
Sara Dalir
PhD researcher
James Ellerby
Postgraduate Research Student
Marietta Fragkogianni
Postgraduate Research Student
Lori Hoy
PhD Researcher
Rachel Hu
Postgraduate Research Student
Mohamed Ibrahim
Postgraduate Research Student
Nusrat Jahan
PhD Researcher
Brana Jianu
Postgraduate Research Student
Minhee Jung
PhD Researcher
Sanda Kam
Postgraduate Research Student
Wanwisa Khampanya
Postgraduate Research Student
Youngsoo Kim
PhD researcher
Max Li
PhD Researcher
Tingyu Liang
PhD Researcher
Gabrielle Lin
Postgraduate Research Student
Xinyang Liu
Postgraduate Research Student
Adrienne Liu
Postgraduate Research Student
Xiaotong Ma
Postgraduate Research Student
Gilang Majid
Postgraduate Research Student
Elisa Mameli
Postgraduate Research Student
Clemens Marggraf
Postgraduate Research Student
Alice Marques Da Silva Alegria Brazã
PhD Researcher
Jose Francisco Melenez Roman
PhD Researcher
Luigina Montano
PhD Researcher
Batilda Moshy
Postgraduate Research Student
Ikram Nur Muharam
Postgraduate Research Student
Harald Rice
PhD Student
Shoukry Rozek
Postgraduate Research Student
Prosanjit Saha
Postgraduate Research Student
Roz Sherman-Davies
Postgraduate Research Student
Bert Smit
Postgraduate Research Student
Whitney Smith
PhD Student
Jenny Suno Wu
Postgraduate Research Student
Darina Svobodova
PhD Researcher
Katy Tse
Postgraduate Research Student
Yiqi Wang
Postgraduate Research Student
Anke Winchenbach
Lecturer and Programme Leader BSc ITM & ITMwT
Zhenni Wu
PhD researcher
Xiaoyi Xu
Postgraduate Research Student
Min Jung You
Postgraduate Research Student
Weizheng Zhang
PhD Researcher