Tourism and international development
The deadline for 2012 Doctoral College Studentships has now passed.
The Brighton Doctoral College is pleased to welcome applications from self-funded or externally sponsored students for programmes of research in this or a closely related area, beginning from September 2012. Applications are welcome from students wishing to study full time or part time, and applications are welcome from students in employment who have the support of their employers.
- Based in the Faculty of Education and Sport
- Supervisors: Dr Marina Novelli; Professor Peter Burns.
Application deadline
The university cannot guarantee that students can start at their requested date unless deadlines are met.
- UK/EU students: The deadline for the university to receive applications for an entry date of October is the 1 August, for January entry it is the 1 November and for May it is the 1 March.
- International students: The deadline for the university to receive applications for an entry date of October is the 1 June, for January entry it is the 1 September and for May it is the 1 January.
Globally, tourism is increasingly being defined as a sector that may contribute to sustainable development.
International organisations, such as the UN World Tourism Organisation and the World Bank, national and regional bodies, such as Ministries and regional development agencies, third sector organisations such as NGOs and volunteering associations, see tourism as an important tool for regional development, cross-sector integration and socio-economic development. Tourism is seen as a motor for local socio-economic diversification and regeneration. However, despite these high expectations, research shows that tourism as a development tool offers many complications.
Within the literature on tourism and international development, sustainable tourism has been defined in a variety of ways and the consumptive process related to this sector has led to the identification of a number of tourism development approaches (i.e. community based, responsible, ethical, pro-poor tourism) with variable level of success and development outcomes.
Development priorities are reshuffled in relation to political agendas, power relations, democracy, social justice and inclusion, protection of local cultural meanings, preservation of natural resources, ‘fair trade,’ ethics, poverty reduction, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy and climate change, all dimensions at the core of the post-2015 UN Millennium Development Goals and Rio+ agendas and debates.
To celebrate a decade of successes in applied research, consultancy and generation of new knowledge in the field of Sustainable Tourism in Local Economies (STILE), the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS) is interested in candidates willing to address some of the most prominent and challenging debates in the field of tourism and international development and specifically those indicated on the STILE webpage.
In the context of the growing critical interest into the role of tourism in international development, the proposed supervisors (Dr Marina Novelli and Prof. Peter Burns) are particularly interested in applications addressing one or more of the following aspects of research:
- Tourism and the ‘new’ sustainability debates, post-2015 UN Millennium Development Goals and Rio+.
- The global aid agenda and tourism.
- Travel philanthropy in its multiple forms.
- Tourism and development in fragile states.
- Leisure, Tourism and Global Citizenship.
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