Welcome to the research pages of the UK Centre for Events Management within the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality, Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University.  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

Interim results of global research projects for MPI revealed Jackie Mulligan, James Musgrave and Dr Emma Wood will present the latest findings of their research on the future of the meetings industry and global trends in CSR at the European Meetings and Events Conference in Budapest during late January, 2012. Both projects are being undertaken on behalf of Meeting...

New research centre Leeds Metropolitan University has taken the decision to combine its its research efforts in the fields events, tourism and hospitality. This means that the although the UK Centre for Events Management will continue, its research will be located with the new International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality...

Visiting Scholar in the USA Professor Rhodri Thomas will spend all of January at two leading north American universities in the fields of events, tourism and hospitality. His time will be divided between the University of Central Florida and the University of Florida. The aim is to conduct his own research, strengthen research links and...

MPI CSR Research Report Cuts Clutter, Delivers Direction: Initial Findings by Leeds Metropolitan University Focus on Trends, Business Value Las Vegas, NV – During Smart Monday at IMEX America, Meeting Professionals International (MPI) delivered initial findings of Phase 1 of a three-year study on industry corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices that will provide guidance to meeting professionals on benchmarks and effective practices to consider in their event design. The...

Visiting Scholar from Poland UKCEM is pleased to welcome Dr Dariusz Kuczy?ski from the Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Gdansk, Poland, who will be working at the Centre for approximately one month.  His primary aim is to learn how teaching, learning and assessment is undertaken on events programmes. He will also be...

Leeds Met and MPI announce early findings of global CSR study Researchers at Leeds Metropolitan University have announced the early findings of a global research study into the value of corporate social responsibility to the events industry     “Over-complicated, under regulated, but on the money” are three characteristics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the events and hospitality sector according...

Centre welcomes Chinese Visiting Scholar Zhou Chunlin from the School of Tourism and MICE Management at Henan University of Economics of Laws, China, has recently joined the Centre as a Visiting Scholar. During the year he will be spending at the Centre, he will be undertaking comparative research on events education in China and the...

PhD success Congratulations to UKCEM member, Dr Anna Richter! She has been awarded a PhD for her work on the politics of events and festivals. Her work focused on Liverpool, European Capital of Culture, 2008, and was supervised by Professor Rhodri Thomas and Dr Phil Long. Anna is now implementing her dissemination...

Super League evaluation Professor Rhodri Thomas has been appointed by the rugby league’s UK governing body to undertake an economic impact assessment of the Engage Super League Grand Final 2011. The event will take place at Old Trafford, home of Manchester United FC, on 8th October 2011.

The politics of events evaluation Professor Rhodri Thomas was one of the invited speakers at the Evaluating the Impact of Events: Directions for Research conference organised recently by the Cities Institute and London Metropolitan University’s Business School, as part of a Regional Studies Association initiative. His presentation highlighted important dimensions of the changing environment within...