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Judith Mair
Judith is a Senior Lecturer in Event Management in the Tourism Cluster, University of Queensland Business School. She has written or co-written over 30 academic articles on tourism and events. The main focus of her research is social and environmental sustainability in relation to tourism and events, and she has a particular interest in the impacts of events on communities and societies.
Subjects: Tourism, Hospitality and Events
Biography
Dr Judith Mair is a Senior Lecturer in Event Management in the Tourism Cluster of the UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include the impacts of events on community and society; consumer behaviour in events and tourism; the relationship between events and climate change; and business and major events. Judith is working on a number of projects including researching the links between events and social capital; understanding the benefits for attendees of attending conferences and conventions; and assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the tourism and events sector. She is the author of ‘Conferences and Conventions: A Research Perspective’ published by Routledge in 2014 and ‘Events and Sustainability’, a textbook published in 2015 as well as over 30 academic papers in internationally recognised journals.Education
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PhD, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 2005
MSc Tourism, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 1994
BA (Hons) Languages, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 1992
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