Personal statement
My academic interests address the social and strategic contexts of low skills employment, with particular focus on hospitality and tourism. This interest stems from over 30 years of experience in the strategic planning and development of vocational and professional education and training, as a research director within the public sector, as an educator in universities and as consultant to the private sector and to public sector, internationally funded projects across five continents. A key focus of my work addresses the role of public and private stakeholders in planning and HRD for the diverse employment environment of hospitality and tourism. Much of my strategic development work in this area has been located in developing country contexts in Asia and Africa. I also collaborate in research which addresses related areas of employment including migrant work and episodic, events volunteering.
I am currently the Head of Department in the Department of HRM and have previously spent 7 years heading up the former Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management and The Scottish Hotel School. I led the development of overseas partnership programmes in Hong Kong and Iran. I have published extensively on themes relating to people and work within hospitality and tourism and am regularly invited to address international conferences worldwide. I have also supervised over 30 successful PhD students working in this and related areas of HRD in tourism and hospitality and have been an examiner for over 75 candidates. I hold or have held visiting appointments to universities in Australia, Estonia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland and have been a panel member for institutional and programme reviews in 12 countries.
Research interests
My research focuses on a range of workforce themes and issues in the context of low skills employment. My work places such work in its wider socio-cultural, economic and political contexts. I currently collaborate with colleagues in Australia, China, Hong Kong and New Zealand on projects relating to the first job experiences of teenagers; the future of tourism/ hospitality skills and work; the influence of culture on aspects of management theory; migrant labour in low skills work; gendered work in tourism; and volunteer work in tourism and events.
Professional activities
- Philippine Research Conference on Tourism and Hospitality
- Participant
- 26/10/2017
- United Nations World Tourism Organization Asia Pacific Conference on Human Capacity Development
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 30/3/2016
- Managing Human Resources in a Changing Environment
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 21/2/2016
- William Angliss Institute, Melbourne
- Visiting researcher
- 1/2/2016
- External Examiner to BBA degree
- External Examiner
- 1/1/2016
- Tourim and Development Conference, Brežice, Slovenia, November 2015
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 12/11/2015
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Projects
- Inclusive tourism in the city: how urban tourism can benefit marginalised and vulnerable communities
- Baum, Thomas (Principal Investigator) Tomazos, Konstantinos (Co-investigator) Rogerson, Robert (Co-investigator) Vermeylen, Saskia (Co-investigator) Dimitrijevic, Branka (Co-investigator) Horgan, Donagh (Co-investigator)
- Multi-disciplinary research-informing workshop, funded through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) in collaboration with the University of the Philippines Diliman to engage with tourism from a social and economic inclusion perspective in the context of the contemporary city. Involved engagement with this theme from multiple perspectives including gender, economic, employment, human rights, urban planning, architecture, law and anthropology.
- Period 01-Mar-2018 - 31-Jul-2018
- Hospitality Industry Pipeline: White Paper on Gender
- Baum, Thomas (Principal Investigator)
- Preparation of an advocacy White Paper on the gender equity in the hospita;lity indsutry in the Asia Pacific region
- Period 01-Oct-2014 - 31-Mar-2015
- Developing a cultural awareness module and support learning resources for hospitality studies
- Baum, Thomas (Principal Investigator)
- Period 01-Sep-2007 - 30-Apr-2008
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Address
Work, Employment and Organisation
Duncan Wing
Duncan Wing
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