Dr Catherine Palmer PhD, MA, BSc(Hons)
Principal Lecturer
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Darley Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7UR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643629
Email: C.A.Palmer@brighton.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Palmer is a social anthropologist within the tourism team where she teaches in the area of social anthropology and tourism. Examples of modules include Tourism, Landscape and Materiality, Tourism and Visual Culture and also Research Methods.
Dr Palmer was awarded her PhD in 1999 for research on Englishness and heritage tourism. Subsequent research, publications and conference papers (including invited presentations) have consolidated and extended this focus under the overarching theme of Tourism, Space and Place.
Research within this theme explores how tourist space is 'used' - imagined, remembered and memorialized. Encounters with the buildings, monuments, objects and 'things' of space and place can reveal much about the ways in which tourism mediates knowledge and understanding of self, other and the wider world.
Dr Palmer has been supervising research students to completion since 2000. She is keen to encourage applications focusing on projects that align with the above theme. Potential applicants are warmly encouraged to contact Dr Palmer for an informal chat prior to submitting an application.
Affiliations
Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Elected member of the Association of Social Anthropologists
Research Interests
- Embodiment and the sensory experience of tourism
- Culture of the coast / the seaside
- Identity and tourism
- Material and visual culture of tourism (e.g. souvenirs, postcards, photographs etc)
Conference Papers
Examples include:
Lester, J., and Palmer, C. (2011) Literary landscapes, fantasy worlds and the enchanted forest. Royal Geographical Society/ IBG Annual International Conference. London 31 August-2 September.
Lester, J., and Palmer, C., (2007) Narrating a life through Photographs. Things that move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel. Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, 19-23 July.
Palmer, C., and Lester, J. (2007) Confessional Tales: Dramas and encounters experienced in the research field. The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Promoting an Academy of Hope?' 2ND International Critical Tourism Studies Conference. Zagreb. Split, Croatia, 20-23 June.
Palmer, C., and Sofronas, I. (2005) Tourist at Play: A quest for the authentic self. International Conference on Critical Tourism Studies. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 30 June - 3 July.
Palmer, C., Lester, J. (2004) The Enchanted Forest': Creation of Tourist Space and the Pilgrim Journey. Tourism and Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth. Sheffield Hallam University, Harrogate, 22-26 July.
Palmer, C., Selwyn, T. (2004) Meaning and Interpretation in Ethnographic Research of Heritage. 6th Cambridge Heritage Seminar: Making the Means Transparent: Research Methodologies in Archaeological Heritage Studies, University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology, March 22nd-24th.
Palmer, C. & Lester J. (2003) 'Stalking the cannibals: tourist behaviour on the Sepik River'. Tourism and Photography: still visions-changing lives. Sheffield Hallam University 20-23 July.
Palmer, C. (2002) Experiencing the nation in everyday life: Heritage.
tourism and English national identity. 5th Cambridge Heritage Seminar: Exploring Research Methodologies in Heritage Studies. University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology, 16th November.
Palmer, C. & Burns, P. (2002)Kandinski or Mondrian: Which one is best? A critical review of the quantitative vs. qualitative research debate. Tourism Research 2002. University of Wales in Cardiff, Cardiff 4-7th September.
Palmer, C. (2000) Heritage Tourism and English National Identity. Tourism 2000 - time for celebration? Sheffield Hallam University, 2-7th September.
Research Publications
Burns, P.M., Palmer, C.A. and Lester, J. (2010) Introduction In: Burns, P.M., Palmer, C.A. and Lester, J., eds. Tourism and Visual Culture, Volume 1: Theories and Concepts. CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK, xv-xxi. ISBN 1845936094
Burns, P.M., Palmer, C.A. and Lester, J., eds. (2010) Tourism and Visual Culture, Vol 1: Theories and Concepts CABI, Oxfordshire, UK. ISBN 9781845936099
Palmer, C.A., Cooper, J. and Burns, P.M. (2010) Culture, identity, and belonging in the “culinary underbelly” International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 4 (4). pp. 311-326. ISSN 1750-6182
Gouthro, M. and Palmer, C.A. (2010) Pilgrimage in Heritage Tourism: Finding meaning and identity in the industrial past In: Conlin, M. and Joliffe, L., eds. Mining heritage and tourism: a global synthesis. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415560900
Palmer, C.A. (2009) Reflections on the Practice of Ethnography in Heritage Tourism In: Sørensen, M.L. and Carman, J., eds. Heritage Studies. Methods and Approaches. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 123-139. ISBN 978-0-415-43185-9
PALMER, CATHERINE (2009) Moving with the times: visual representations of the tourism phenomenon Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice, 1 (1). pp. 74-85. ISSN 1757-031X
PALMER, CATHERINE (2008) 'Just like our family’: Royalty, national identity, heritage and tourism In: Long, P. and Foster, N., eds. Royal tourism: excursions around monarchy. Tourism and cultural change . Channel View, Clevedon, UK. ISBN 9781845410803
Palmer, C.A. and Lester, J. (2007) Stalking the cannibals: photographic behaviour on the Sepik River Tourist Studies, 7 (1). pp. 83-106. ISSN 1741-3206
Church, A., Gilchrist, P., Heys, B., Palmer, C.A., Ravenscroft, N., Rogers, G., Sharp, G. and Watson, J. (2007) Tourism, Culture and Creativity: Preparing Hastings for economic regeneration through education and workforce development in te creative and cultural sectors of the local economy University of Brighton, UK. (Submitted)
Ritchie, B.W., Burns, P.M. and Palmer, C.A. (2005) Introduction: reflections on the practice of research In: Ritchie, B.W., Burns, P.M. and Palmer, C.A., eds. Tourism research methods: integrating theory with practice. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK, pp. 1-8. ISBN 0851999964
Ritchie, B.W., Burns, P.M. and Palmer, C.A., eds. (2005) Tourism research methods: integrating theory and practice Cabi Publishing, Wallingford, UK. ISBN 0851999964
Palmer, C.A. and Lester, J. (2005) Shooting the innocuous: making meaning of tourist photographic behaviour In: Novelli, Marina, ed. Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 15-25. ISBN 075066133X
Palmer, C.A. (2005) An ethnography of Englishness: experiencing identity through tourism Annals of tourism research, 32 (1). pp. 7-27. ISSN 0160-7383
Palmer, C.A. (2004) Golf tourism and the developing world: Exploring the issues In: Ritchie, Brent W. and Adair, Daryl, eds. Sport tourism: interrelationships impacts and management issues. Channel View Publications, Clevedon, UK, pp. 117-134. ISBN 1873150660
Palmer, C.A. (2003) Touring Churchill’s England: rituals of kinship and belonging Annals of tourism research, 30 (2). pp. 426-445. ISSN 0160-7383
Palmer, C.A. (2001) Ethnography: a research method in practice International journal of tourism research, 3 (4). pp. 301-312. ISSN 1099-2340
Palmer, C.A. (1999) Tourism and the symbols of identity Tourism Management, 20 (3). pp. 313-322. ISSN 0261-5177
Palmer, C.A. (1998) From theory to practice: Experiencing the nation in everyday life Journal of Material Culture, 3 (2). pp. 175-199. ISSN 1359-1835
Palmer, C.A. (1995) Bahamian National Identity: The myths and fantasies of tourism In: Burns, P.M., ed. Tourism and Minorities' Heritage: impacts and prospects. University of North London, London, UK, pp. 83-101. ISBN 185377-2070
Palmer, C.A. (1994) Tourism and colonialism The experience of the Bahamas Annals of Tourism Research, 21 (4). pp. 792-812. ISSN 0160-7383
