Location: Bronte Hall Room 226, Headingley Campus, Leeds, LS6 3QW

Dr ShiNa Li joined Leeds Met in November 2010. She was awarded a 3-year full scholarship by the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) UK to conduct her PhD. Her thesis topic is The Economic Impact of Mega-Events: a CGE approach to the Beijing Olympic Games. After she obtained her PhD, she worked as a University Teacher at the NUBS until joining UKCEM. ShiNa's research interests include economic and social impact evaluation, tourism economics, mega-events, economic modelling, computable general equilibrium modelling, developing countries and poverty issues and tourism sustainability.

Current Research Projects

The Economic Impact of the 2014 Brazil FIFA World Cup (with Professor Scott McDonald at Oxford Brookes University, UK and Dr Miguel Moital at Bournemouth University, UK)

Festival tourism, poverty alleviation, ethnic minority groups in China (with Professor Li Tao at Yunnan University, China)

Publications

Journal articles

Li, S.N.; Blake, A.; Cooper, C. (2011), "Modelling the economic impact of international tourism on the Chinese economy: A CGE analysis of the Beijing 2008 Olympics", Tourism Economics, forthcoming.

Li, S.N.; Blake, A.; Cooper, C. (2010) "China's tourism in a global financial crisis: a computable general equilibrium approach", Current Issues in Tourism, 13(5): 435-453.

Li, S. N. and Blake, A. (2009) "Estimating Olympic related investment and expenditure", International Journal of Tourism Research, 11(4): 337-356.

Li, S. N. (2003) "Practices and inspiration of experimental zone of individual and private economy in Yunnan province", Inquiry Into Economics Issues (Chinese peer-reviewed journal), 10: 11-14.

Chapters in books

2008, "What did Sydney Olympics tell Beijing? -selected interviews with personages in politics, business and academics relating to the Sydney Olympics" (in Chinese) in Olympic Economic Research Institute (eds.), 2007 Report of the Beijing Olympic Economy, Beijing: Beijing Publishing House.

2006, "London-how to prepare the 2012 Olympic Games" (in Chinese), in Olympic Economic Research Institute (eds.), 2005 Report of the Beijing Olympic Economy, Beijing: Beijing Publishing House.

Conference Presentations

02/2010, Tasmania, Australia - "Impacts of Mega-Events in Developing and Developed Countries", at 2010 CAUTHE Conference.

12/2009, Chiang Mai, Thailand - "Chinese Tourism Policy and the Economic Impact of International Tourism on the Chinese Economy: A CGE Analysis of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games", at 2nd Conference of The International Association for Tourism Economics.

09/2008, Nottingham, UK - "Sustainable Tourism and the Beijing Olympics: A CGE Analysis" (with Blake and Cooper), at European Union of Tourist Officers (EUTO) 2008 Conference.

06/2008, Helsinki, Finland - "Modelling Competition Levels in the Chinese Economy: the Economic Impact of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games" (with Blake), at Eleventh Annual Conference "Future of Global Economy" organized by Purdue University, US.

05/2008, Bournemouth, UK- "The Economic Impact of International Tourism on the Chinese Economy" (Revised edition, with Blake and Cooper), at PhD Networking Conference: Exploring Tourism II: Issues in PhD Research.

04/2008, Cambridge, UK- "The Adjustment of Beijing's Industry Structure and the 2008 Olympic Games" (with Blake and Cooper), at the 19^th Chinese Economic Association Annual Conference: China's Three Decades of Economic Reform.

10/2007, Spain-"The Economic Impact of International Tourism on the Chinese Economy" (the first edition, with Blake), at the First Conference of The International Association for Tourism Economics.

02/2007, Australia-"Modelling the Economic Impact of the Olympic Games Held in Developing and Developed Countries" (with Blake), at CAUTHE Annual Conference.

Other Research Activities

02/2010, awarded an ESRC Travel and Conference bursary by Bournemouth University to present at the 2010 CAUTHE Conference in Australia.

2010, Review papers for journal and conference:

Journal of Sport & Tourism

Research Colloquium - Mega Event Sustainability at the recent UNWTO "Tourism, Sport and Mega-Events Summit" in South Africa

01/2007 - 02/2007, Visiting Researcher. Awarded U21 Prize-Scholarship to visit Professor Larry Dwyer at University of New South Wales, Australia.

2005, awarded the third prize in the University of Nottingham Business Challenge (business plan competition) with "Education-Tour Service Company Business Plan".

Membership of Professional Bodies

Associate Membership at the Beijing Olympic Economic Research Institute (Beijing, China)

The International Association of Tourism Economics

Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education