Personal statement
I am a lecturer in the Work, Employment and Organisation department, mostly on our tourism and hospitality courses. Tourism is one of my key research interests which I have approached from the theoretical frameworks of human geography, development studies, tourism management and innovation studies.
Before joining the Strathclyde Business School, I was a Senior Research Specialist in the Economic Planning and Development unit at the Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town where I worked on a range of projects with policy impact. I also have experience as a tourism and business studies lecturer and as a consultancy researcher.
I am affiliated as an associate researcher with the School of Tourism and Hospitality at the Univeristy of Johannesburg, South Africa, where I held a post-doc position and also completed my PhD.
Expertise
Has expertise in:
I understand the research process well and have been involved at all of its stages from conceptualization and proposal writing to research design, supervision; and co-supervision of various projects; collaboration on large national projects/ studies; data collection (primary and secondary), data analysis, synthesis and interpretation; report writing and dissemination.
Futher areas of expertise are:
- Mixed method research
- Project management
- Policy and/ strategy formulation
- National surveys
- Indicator development
Prizes and awards
- TWAS/DFG Collaborative Visit Grant
- Recipient
- 2019
- Newton Mobility Grant
- Recipient
- 2018
- NRF researcher rating
- Recipient
- 2018
- Scarce Skills Doctoral Scholarship
- Recipient
- 2012
- Young researcher excellence award
- Recipient
- 2010
- Best student in course work: Masters in Development Studies
- Recipient
- 2008
More prizes and awards
Qualifications
PhD Geography, University of Johannesburg, 2015
Masters in Development Studies, University of the Free State, 2008
Post-graduate Certificate in Education, University of Pretoria, 2002
B.Com Tourism Management, University of Pretoria, 2000
Teaching
Tourism and business studies lecturing and supervision
Research interests
My research interests include local and regional economic development and planning; social innovation; innovation measurement; tourism innovation; tourism sustainability; tourism livelihoods, employment and workplace issues; creative industries - employment and spatial perspectives.
Projects
- Confronting customer abuse and harassment during the Covid-19 crisis? Evidence from Scotland’s
hospitality industry
- Hadjisolomou, Tasos (Principal Investigator) Baum, Thomas (Co-investigator) Booyens, Irma (Co-investigator) Nickson, Dennis (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
More projects
Address
Work, Employment and Organisation
Duncan Wing
Duncan Wing
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