Welcome to the research pages of the UK Centre for Events Management. UKCEM is one of the world’s foremost academic centres focusing on teaching and researching various issues associated with events and festivals. Our goal is to contribute effectively to advancing knowledge and to create sustainable partnerships to strengthen research-informed professional practice.
We collaborate with various partners who are also interested in understanding issues related to events and festivals and making an impact on practice. Our multi-disciplinary scholars engage in events and festivals research related to sport, the arts, popular culture, tourism and various other fields. Please contact us if you are interested in any aspect of our work or would like an informal conversation about collaborative projects.
LATEST NEWS
Shaping Thinking in the ArtsLeila Jancovich recently wrote an influential article for the Arts Professional that examined the future and sustainability of arts festivals. For details, please see the article attached below. This was first published in ArtsProfessional 222, 19 July 2010. www.artsprofessional.co.uk. |
Global Events Congress IV Programme announcedThe programme for the Global Events Congress IV and AEME educators Forum has been published. It contains papers from more than eighty academics from twenty three countries. The keynote speakers include leading academics from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, North America and the UK as well as high level practitioners such... |
Centre wins Engage Super League impact assessmentProfessor Rhodri Thomas will lead a team undertaking an economic impact assessment of the Rugby Football League’s (RFL) Engage Super League Grand Final to be held at Old Trafford, Manchester in October. They will also undertake a similar study of the Northern Rail Blackpool 9s tournament for the RFL and... |
Promising Researcher Fellowship AwardKate Dashper is one of only six recipients of Leeds Metropolitan University’s Promising Researcher Fellowships, to be taken up over a period of one semester next academic year. Kate‘s project “The equestrian sport tourist: An ethnographic investigation” will focus on participants in equestrian tourism and equestrian sport events in Yorkshire... |
ESRC Peer Review College AppointmentProfessor Rhodri Thomas has been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's new Peer Review College. He joins a small team of academics in the fields of events, festivals and tourism that will review research grant applications and other proposals relating to these areas. |
Visit Blackpool EventsThe UK Centre for Events Management has been appointed to undertake a wide-ranging evaluation of the impact of Visit Blackpool's ambitious events programme. Project Director, Professor Rhodri Thomas, stated: 'We are very excited about this project. It involves a set of eight diverse events that, when combined, represent a... |
Preliminary Programme for Global Events Congress IV AnnouncedThe preliminary programme for the Global Events Congress IV with AEME’s 8th Events Management Educators’ Forum has now been drafted. Tuesday, 13th July Pre-conference registration Informal gathering for drinks Wednesday, 14th July How sustainable are mega-events really?*Professor Michael C. HallUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand Arts festivals and European public cultureDr... |
Early Career Researcher Appointed Assistant Editor for CityAnna Richter, a PhD centenary award holder at UKCEM, has been appointed Assistant Editor for the journal City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action published by Taylor and Francis. This is an excellent achievement, especially for an ‘early career’ researcher. Details of the journal may be found by... |
Events Impacts Reports PublishedImpacts 08, the European Capital of Culture Research Programme, has recently published two important reports. Volunteering for culture, which examined whether volunteering influenced the cultural interests and levels of participation, and ‘Liverpool on the map again’: Liverpool stakeholders’ reflections on Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 which explored the perceptions... |
Cardiff SeminarThe politics of policy making relating to events and tourism was the subject of a staff research seminar given by Rhodri Thomas at Cardiff School of Management, University of Wales Institute Cardiff. Part of his presentation explored the difficulties of researching regional or local political processes at a time when... |
