Dr Charlie Mansfield

Research interests

Other research

2014-15 Launched new SERC Tourism Knowledge Research Group

Research Lead: Consequences of Tourism in SERC.

French Urban Space and Literature. Economics and social aspects of the Francophone city in Tourism Consumption. European Culture. French language.

Download French conference paper as ePub Book for iPhones and Androids
Mansfield, C. (2012) Tourisme littéraire et l'espace urbain français - Le rapport des écrivains à l'architecture click here

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

M2 (Double Masters) External for postgraduate, Lionel BALL, Paris Archive School, Sorbonne (E.N.C.) 2008.

Grants & contracts

£500                                                                                        May 2014
Rivieras Travel Writing Atelier 1st May 2014 - writing practicum with industry professionals, tourism and language academics, postgraduates and students. Links with travel companies and English Riviera in Torquay.
 
£2000                                                                                     Feb 2011
Network event with Rennes Business School, Brittany. Sharing research and teaching methods with tourism and hospitality department, ESC-Rennes.

£900                                                                                       January 2009

EU Grundtvig Award for Adult Education and CPD project in Travel Writing and New Media.

£2340                                                                                     September 2007

Roberts Fund Award to establish 'A Laboratory for Digital Philology', to develop shared resources for editing and glossary-making in textual research in Travel Literature. Share skills and train other postgraduates and post-doctoral researchers in emerging technologies and web-skills. Research training resources now online at

http://www.pizan.lib.ed.ac.uk/lab/

£1800                                                                                     March 2007

To write specially commissioned e-learning resources on French Urban Space: The City in French Literature, for The Materials Bank of The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (a Subject Centre of The Higher Education Academy). Resources now fully online at

http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/mb/3037

£750 per annum for 2 years                                                  September 2006

The Canadian High Commission, London: The Foundation for Canadian Studies UK Doctoral Studentships for French Studies doctoral work at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

£200                                                                                       April 2006

The Book in Middle French, exemplar mobile learning materials for The Materials Bank of The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (a Subject Centre of The Higher Education Academy)

http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/materialsbank.aspx?resourceid=2502

£2000                                                                                     November 2003

The French Institute of Japan, Travel Bursary for fieldwork in Tokyo and presentation of research findings in French Travel Writing at the Graduate Research School at University of Tokyo.

£6000                                                                                     11 Oct 2002

Organized conference: The e-Book in Higher Education, hosted by University of Newcastle with funding attracted from: SONY Education Division, McMillan Media, NumiLog of Paris, Routledge Books and Mitsubishi Pencil Corporation.

£4000                                                                                     Sept 2002

JISC Funding for fieldwork and digital photography on monuments of Paris resulting in FILTER Web-Site resources at University of Bristol.

£900 x 3                                                                                 Dec 2001, 2002, 2003

European Management School, Paris for presentation of development work on mobile technologies in travel and tourism e-marketing via Christmas Lectures.

£16000                                                                                   August 2001

UK-based FDTL - the HEFCE Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning to design web-site and write and publish training book for web learners with project team at Liverpool John Moores University.

£2000                                                                                     Sept 1999

Goethe Institute to attend Advanced German language class in Dresden.

£600 x 6                                                                                 1996 to 1999

Visiting Lectureships at French and Belgian Universities under SOCRATES scheme.

£2500                                                                                     1999

The French Embassy in London, Essay Prize of full fees and accommodation to attend Advanced Scientific and Technical French course at Compiègne, with introductory course on the heritage of the region.

1.3 million Euro                                                                      1995 - 1999

Part of team of 11 European universities winning successful Fifth Framework Telematics bid to EU for development of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for university teaching.