
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