Requirements

Participants are expected to be enrolled as PhD students within fields related to tourism, leisure, recreation, hospitality, mobilities/transport, social/cultural geography, cultural studies or similar. Students at all stages of their PhD research project are welcome. In order to apply for the seminar, the student must submit a research paper (approx. 1000-2500 words). The paper must relate to leisure and tourism, and sustainability, sustainable development, the UN’s SDGs well-being and/or regenerative tourism. The paper should engage theoretically, methodologically, empirically or ethically with the PhD candidate’s research. Ideas for what the paper might include or look like could include (but are not limited to) a first draft of a journal article, a chapter or conference presentation. It may (in)directly engage with the UN’s SDGs or challenge assumptions about sustainability. The paper may be a personal reflection on the PhD candidate’s journey or may discuss methodological challenges in researching these areas.

The participant’s papers will form part of the discussions during the PhD event, in particular the workshop. In sharing and discussing the papers and the aims/purposes/meanings behind them, the PhD seminar strives to foster a space of insight into possible futures for sustainability in tourism and leisure. The seminar will provide the opportunity to consider how the viewpoints of the PhD candidates involved coalesce, differ, intertwine, diverge and build upon each other to lead to innovative, thought-provoking and engaged futures for those studying and researching in these areas.

Participants should be enrolled as PhD candidates within fields related to tourism, leisure, recreation, hospitality, mobilities/transport, social/cultural geography, cultural studies or similar. Candidates at all stages of their PhD process are welcome.