EDITORIAL BOARD
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Editorial Assistant
Network Academic Volunteer
Sophie ​Pengelly
Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
A postgraduate student specialising in the Event Project Management. Sophie is a freelance copyeditor with experience in curating festival and social media features.
EDITORIAL BOARD​
DR. KIRSTY FAIRCLOUGH
University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Associate Dean: Research and Innovation
in the School of Arts and Media. an international research career, Published widely on popular culture, latest publication can be found here.
PROF. DEBORAH KAPCHAN
Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. A Guggenheim fellow, she currently writing two books: The Aesthetics of Proximity and Between Morocco and France: The Festive Sacred and the
Islamic Sublime.
DR. KAREN DAVIES
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Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Hospitality & Events department of Cardiff School of Management and sits on the Executive Committee of the Association of Events Management Education, and currently part of a research group on "Photography & Tourism".
PROF. CHARLES ARCODIA
Professor of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management at Griffith University. Teaching areas are Risk Management in the Event & Tourism Industries, Event Evaluation & Impact Assessment. Published widely on tourism. events & management...
DR. MILLICENT WEBER
Australian National University, AU
Lecturer in English in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. She researches how people engage with books and literary culture: from prizes and book reviews, to audience experience at literary festivals..
DR. NIAMH NICGHABHANN
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Assistant Dean, Research for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick and the course director of the MA Festive Arts Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.
DR. MAARIT KINNUNEN
University of Lapland, Finland
Festival researcher at the University of Lapland and collected material from nearly 2,000 festival-goers from 17 festivals around Finland and based the visitors' descriptions on the overall festival experience model. Her focus areas are music festivals, festival audiences and their experiences.
DR. VIOLET CUFFY
University of Bedfordshire, UK
Lecturer in Tourism and Events Management,
working within higher education with special interest in principles of education and training. Her research interests include cultural events and festivals, carnival studies, diaspora, heritage and culture, community tourism, destination management Island tourism.
DR. JO-ANNE TULL
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University of the West Indies, TT
Lecturer in the Carnival Studies Programme and Co-ordinator B.A. Carnival Studies, focusing on festival economics, carnival entrepreneurship and creative economy development in SIDS. Also interested in culture studies, creative industries, cultural tourism, policy and economy, and festival statistics....
DR. IVAN STACY
Beijing Normal University
Current research interests focuses
on complicity and the carnivalesque, primarily focusing on post-war fiction. He is an associate professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University, China.
DR. GIULIA ROSSETTI
Oxford Brookes, UK
Rossetti is a Lecturer, her research investigates the relationship between cultural capital and literary festival attendance using two lines of inquiry. The research focuses on several core areas of literature, from Bourdieu’s cultural capital, to Peterson’s ideas about omnivourness and Négrier’s theory of festivalisation.
DR. EDUARDO RENCURRELL DIAZ
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Instituto Superior de Arte.- (La Habana, Cuba), Facultad de medios audiovisulaes,
Faculty Member
A scholar and filmmaker with a PhD in Art Related Sciences specialising in film studies with
a particular interest in dramaturgy and documentary film theory.
His academic work focuses on documentary storytelling and enunciative strategies for documentary film representation.
DR. MAICA GUGOLATI
She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology, with a specialization in Performance Studies and Visual Anthropology at INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN WORLDS, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (EHESS), PARIS. She is currently affiliated as a simple researcher at the same institution. She has a BA in Philosophy, from the University of Verona, Italy, and a MA in Social Anthropology and Ethnography at EHESS, Paris France.
https://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article4124&lang=fr, https://ehess.academia.edu/gugolatimaica.
ADVISORY BOARD
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DR. KIM JOHNSON
Partnership Supporter
Director of the Carnival Institute
of Trinidad & Tobago
& Former Senior Research Fellow, University of Trinidad & Tobago.
Dr. Johnson ​is a researcher,
educator, journalist, filmmaker,
author, and historian.
PROF. HARRIET HAWKINS
Royal Holloway University, UK
Prof. Hawkin's research is focused
on the advancement of the geohumanities, a field that sits at
the intersection of geographical
scholarship with arts and humanities scholarship and practice.
DR. MARIA CHATZICHRISTODOULOU
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London South Bank University, UK
Director of External Development and Enterprise, Head of Creative Industries. A cultural practitioner
who has worked as curator, producer, performer, writer and community organiser in the UK, Greece and internationally.
PROF. JANE ALI-KNIGHT
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Professor in Festival & Event Management at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and a Visiting Professor at Curtin University, Australia, leading and developing the festival and event subject group, facilitating training and development in the field, currently a board member of BAFA (British Arts and
Festivals Association).
PROF. KIRSTEN HOLMES
An internationally-recognised
expert in the study of volunteering, particularly in events, leisure, sport and tourism contexts. She also has expertise in developing sustainable events and festivals and is the lead author of the Routledge textbook Events and sustainability (2015).
She has taught at universities in Australia and the UK, conducted research projects across 15 countries and published over 60 peer reviewed papers in leading journals.
DR. KAREN DAVIES
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Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Senior Lecturer in Events Management in the School of Tourism, Hospitality & Events. Member of the Critical Event Studies research group, works closely with external organisations such as the British Arts Festival Association.
PRACTITIONER CONSULTANT
PAX NINDI
Former Senior Member Arts
Council (1996 - 2006)
Pax Nindi is Chief Executive and founder of the Global Carnivalz, National Advisor for Arts Council of England, South Africa Arts, Sports and Culture, Arts Council of Wales and Ireland. As a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and an international carnival consultant, Pax is a keen advocate for the carnival artform and lectures as well as speak at conferences around the world.
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RHONDA ALLEN
Sheffield Carnival Director
Director of Sheffield Carnival, qualified carnival judge, and a cultural practitioner
who has worked as a designer, performer, and community organiser with years of experience in the field, working both in Trinidad and Tobago and the UK.