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…
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. https://www.westminster.ac.uk/
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…
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,…
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. https://www.researchgate.net/ https://scholar.google.com/
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…
