Dr Jo-Anne Lester
Principal Lecturer
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Darley Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7UR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643632
Email: J.Lester@brighton.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Jo-Anne Lester is Principal Lecturer in Tourism Studies. Prior to entering education, she gained considerable operational experience in tour operating and on cruise ships.
Her research interests encompass visuality and tourism, the relationship between travel and photography, visual methodologies including the multisensory nature of the visual, and the consumption of tourist space with a particular interest in popular film as visual data.
Her PhD investigated the architecture of cruise ships and their uniqueness as spaces of both work and leisure as mediated through popular film.
Jo-Anne presently contributes to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in a range of subjects including: Travel and Visual Culture; Tourism, Landscape and Materiality; Cruise Tourism; and Research Methods.
Research Publications
WEEDEN, CLARE, LESTER, JO-ANNE and WOOLLEY, JANET (2011) Cruise and learn: reflecting on the experiential learning of cruise field trips Journal Of Teaching In Travel And Tourism, 1 (1). pp. 349-366. ISSN 1531-3220
WEEDEN, CLARE and LESTER, JO-ANNE (2011) Guest editorial: cruise tourism: emerging issues and implications for a maturing industry Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 18 (1). pp. 26-29. ISSN 1447-6770
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., Lester, J. and Bibbings, L.J., eds. (2010) Tourism and Visual Culture, Vol 2 : Methods and Cases CABI, Oxfordshire, UK. ISBN 9781845936112
Burns, P.M., Lester, J. and Bibbings, L.J. (2010) Introduction In: Burns, P.M., Lester, J. and Bibbings, L.J., eds. Tourism and Visual Culture, Volume 2: Methods and Cases. CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK, xv-xx. ISBN 9781845936112
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
Burns, P.M. and Lester, J. (2007) Living in a material world: visualising tourism In: Making teaching more effective: Articles from the Learning and Teaching Conference 2006. Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK, pp. 46-50.
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
Weeden, C. and Lester, J. (2006) Ways of seeing the Caribbean cruise product: a British perspective In: Dowling, Ross K., ed. Cruise tourism: issues, impacts, cases. CABI publishing, Wallingford, UK. ISBN 1845930487
Burns, P.M. and Lester, J. (2005) Using visual evidence: the case of cannibal tours In: Ritchie, B.W., Burns, P.M. and Palmer, C.A., eds. Tourism research methods: integrating theory and practice. Cabi Publishing, Wallingford, UK, pp. 49-61. 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
Lester, J. and Weeden, C. (2004) Stakeholders, the natural environment and the future of Caribbean cruise tourism International Journal of Tourism Research, 6 (1). pp. 39-50. ISSN 1099-2340
Burns, P.M. and Lester, J. (2003) Using visual evidence in tourism research. Tourism recreation research, 28 (2). pp. 77-81. ISSN 0250-8281
