University of Westminster
Dr Stroma Cole is a Reader at the University of Westminster and the P-I of FUTOURWORK. A leading authority on tourism and gender relations with over 60 publications, she combines her academic career with action research and charity work as co-director of Equality in Tourism. Stroma won the 2024 John Rooney International Award for outstanding contribution to applied Tourism Geography and was named one of the top 50 most influential global educators in tourism and hospitality in 2025.
University of Westminster
University of Westminster
Joseph recently completed a PhD at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, exploring intersectionality and identity work in homestay platforms. He has researched widening participation in higher education and now works as a Research Associate on FUTOURWORK, a Horizon Europe project improving social dialogue and working conditions in tourism and hospitality.
University of Westminster
University of Westminster
With Masters degrees in Postcolonial Literature and Human Rights, Michela is currently a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Westminster and Research Associate on FUTOURWORK. Her work combines first-hand experience in the tourism industry with trade union activism, explored from a gender perspective.
Equality in Tourism
Kavita is the Digital Marketing & Communications Officer for Equality in Tourism, a non-profit dedicated to advocating for greater gender equality in the industry. She loves helping impact-led organisations make a difference through their communications. This combined with experience at a regional tourism board drew her to this role and the chance to create positive impact in the industry.
Zangador Research Institute
Dr. Stanislav Ivanov is the Director of Zangador Research Institute, Bulgaria. He is the Founder and (Co-)Editor-in-chief of two academic journals: European Journal of Tourism Research (http://ejtr.vumk.eu) and ROBONOMICS: The Journal of the Automated Economy (https://journal.robonomics.science). He has (co-)authored over 250 publications in the fields of robonomics, robots/artificial intelligence/automation in tourism/hospitality, the economics of technology, tourism economics, etc.
http://www.stanislavivanov.com
https://scholar.google.com/
https://www.researchgate.net/
Zangador Research Institute
Dr. Maya Ivanova is the Head of the Projects Department at Zangador Research Institute, Bulgaria. She has 10 years of experience in tour operator and travel agent companies. Dr. Ivanova has published on air transport, tourism intermediaries, hotel chain management, and the platform economy, among other topics.
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon
Critical tourism researcher and lecturer Fiona Eva Bakas, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Geography and Territorial Planning, University of Lisbon. Fiona is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence in Food, Tourism & Leisure, The American College of Greece, a collaborating researcher in the CREATOUR Creative Tourism Observatory, member of TERRITUR Research group, and associate member of NGO Equality in Tourism.
https://orcid.org/
https://ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/
https://coeftl.acg.edu/
The American College of Greece Research Centre
The American College of Greece Research Centre
Dalarna University
Dalarna University
Babeș-Bolyai University
Felicia Roșioru is Associate Professor of Labour Law and EU Employment Law at the Faculty of Law, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her research focuses on the collective rights of workers in non-standard forms of employment and on the status of intermediate categories, such as economically dependent workers and platform workers.
Babeș-Bolyai University
Monica Maria Coroş is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, teaching and researching management, entrepreneurship, tourism, and hospitality topics. Her research addresses sustainable tourism and SDGs, smart tourism, digitization in hospitality and tourism, hospitality employment perspectives, rural tourism, destination management organizations, entrepreneurship, and SMEs and adds up to over 100 articles, books, and book chapters.
https://scholar.google.com
https://www.researchgate.net
https://orcid.org/
https://tbs.ubbcluj.ro/
Babeș-Bolyai University
Toader Valentin holds a PhD in International Economic Relations and a habilitation in Business Administration. He teaches economics at the Faculty of Business, Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he has served as dean since 2020. His research interests include price evolution, the sharing economy, the economic impact of festivals, and innovation and sustainability in tourism.
Babeș-Bolyai University
Babeș-Bolyai University
Babeș-Bolyai University
Babeș-Bolyai University
Babeș-Bolyai University
Universidade Lusófona
Tânia Gaspar holds a Degree and PhD in Psychology, a PhD in Management, a Master’s in Public Health and a degree in Clinical Psychology. She is Associate Professor with Aggregation, member of Hei-lab Research Center, and Director of the Servive for Psychology, Innovation and Knowledge (SPIC). She is also Lusófona University Coordinator of the Portuguese Laboratory for Healthy Workplaces.
Universidade Lusófona
Mafalda Patuleia holds a PhD in Tourism from the Faculty of Economics at the University of the Algarve and is currently the Director of the Tourism Department at Lusófona University. She has over 25 years of teaching experience and a robust academic portfolio, with her research focusing on creative tourism, sustainability, lifestyle entrepreneurship, second homes, and the competitiveness of tourist destinations.
CoLABOR
Dora Fonseca has a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She is a researcher at CoLABOR. Her research focuses on industrial relations, particularly on collective labor relations, collective bargaining and trade unionism, and, more recently, the impacts of digitalization and platform work on labor relations.
CoLABOR
Franco Tomassoni holds a PhD in Global Studies from the New University of Lisbon – Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. He has worked and published on a variety of topics, including European energy security and policy, platform labor and digitalization, logistics and global supply chains, economic and global history, and industrial relations. At CoLABOR, he contributes to research lines on labour and industrial relations as well as employment dynamics.
CoLABOR
Filipe Lamelas holds a master’s degree in labor law and is a PhD Student in Public Policy. He is a member of the Arbitration Court of the Economic and Social Council, took part in the drafting of the Green Book of Work Relations (2016), and was a consultant in the Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security. Filipe also integrates the Global Policy Network (GPN) ExpRes Roster of the UN Development Program.
