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Applications are now invited for a funded PhD Studentship in Events
Management from The School of Business & Enterprise at Queen Margaret
University, Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Sustainability of event-led
regeneration projects'.
In recent years, events have increasingly been incorporated into commercial
and political agendas to assist urban regeneration projects throughout the
UK. It is now fairly standard for many local, regional and national
organisations to capitalise on the popularity of events in order to support
other economic, social and political policies and projects. Such
instrumental uses of events have changed the way they are perceived, planned
and presented. However, the long-term impacts of such strategies are often
viewed as secondary to the immediate changes such projects can provide. This
study will explore the economic, social and environmental sustainability of
event-led regeneration projects. The aim is to assess the sustainability of
key strategies informing event-led regeneration projects and to evaluate the
continuing impacts (positive and negative) of such projects throughout time.
The various factors that led to the implementation such projects and their
multifarious effects on communities and places will also form part of this
study.
For more information, please contact Dr Catherine Matheson,
[log in to unmask] or Rebecca Finkel, [log in to unmask]
http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp07.htm
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