Brighton Hospitality Research Group
The University of Brighton has a long history of teaching excellence and research activity in the field of hospitality management.
In addition to publication work, colleagues in hospitality have become increasingly active in their contributions to research forums such as the Council for Hospitality Management (CHME), European Council on Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Education (EuroChrie), the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the British Academy of Management (BAM). Academic researchers in hospitality established the group to more closely facilitate and co-ordinate future hospitality management and culinary research.
Themes
Culture, People and Performance
Research in the culture, people and performance theme is explored by colleagues Helen Atkinson, Steven Goss-Turner, Conor Sheehan and Michael Boella. Examples of past research projects in this area include performance measurement, hospitality law, human resource practices emotional labour and occupational health.
Food, Management and Wellbeing
Research in this theme is supported by Peter Odgers, Ken Woodward, Ioannis S. Pantelidis, Harvey Ells and Gillian Parfit. The school has a long history in food and culinary arts education and projects such as HOTPOT an Interreg EU funded project and the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the food area enhance our research capabilities allowing us to publish in numerous food related areas including food and beverage management, food and culture, food media, food and wellbeing, food retail and food semiotics.
The Consumer
Consumer choices and perceptions are
investigated by Peter Odgers, Ken Woodward, Ioannis S. Pantelidis, and Harvey Ells. Past projects include consumer behaviour consultancy, psychological difference and choices, influence of food labeling on the consumer, understanding the consumer buying process, all in the context of hospitality and food.
Pedagogy
BHR colleagues are engaged in pedagogical research relating to the above themes and hospitality focused education. Nearly 35% of our outputs in the past few years had a pedagogic focus researching areas such as mentoring, assessment, blended learning, and the student experience.
Our postgraduate provision and our PhD supervision capacity continues to grow. We are now welcoming PhD applications in research areas that closely match our research themes.
