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Profiles
Dr Charlie Mansfield
Lecturer in Tourism Management and French
Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
Role
Lecturer in Tourism Management and French
ResM Programme Manager, Travel Writing & Heritage Research Masters
Qualifications
PhD (Literary Tourism)
BA (English)
PGCert (French)
Professional membership
MTS Tourism Society
Internet Atelier, ENS, rue d'Ulm, Paris
UNWTO
Roles on external bodies
UNWTO World Tourism Organization, Air Travel Panel Specialist
2019 External Examiner for Masters, ESIEA Digital Engineering School, Paris (Jury de soutenance)
2006 External Assessor: AHRC Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme.
Teaching interests
TDI & Place Branding, French language and literature, Travel and Tourism Management, Travel Communications for e-Marketing, Travel Writing, IT and Web Technologies (XML, PHP, Web 2.0), Managing people, Leadership.
PROGRAMME LEADER
ResM Travel Writing & Heritage Masters
MODULE LEADER:
MSc HTM703 Managing People in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
FREX02 Module Leader: French - Intermediate 1 which includes FREX02A and FREX02B
HTM518 Hospitality & Tourism Action Research (part of ResM Programme)
CONTRIBUTING LECTURER:
LFR300 French Culture & Society 3
HTM221 People Strategies for Tourism, Hospitality and Tourism
HTM241 Tourism Venture Creation
HTM212 Fieldwork for Regional Tourism
MSc e-Tourism HTM509
Staff serving as external examiners
External examiner Masters programme for Paris Archive School (E.N.C.) since Sept 2008.
Research interests
About My Research
Here at the University of Plymouth my work explores the dialogue between fictional representations of the city (most often textual in the form of literature) and the development of urban spaces as sites of consumption in travel, tourism and heritage management. I aim to identify agency, such as the role of the writer or marketing body, alongside a close-reading of the text itself. Ultimately, through the writing of text analysis software and its application to web content or large literary corpora in both French and English on particular cities, I am designing modelling tools for destination management and Place Branding. To this end I am currently working in Web 2.0 LAMP technologies, such as PHP and JavaScript, and my work-in-progress, called Loceme, may be used at the following url http://eserve.org.uk/loceme/
I have been fortunate in securing funding from the British Academy to disseminate my findings and the text analysis software in the UK and France (via the CNRS Research Laboratories in Paris & Nancy).
Completed 2 Large-Scale Research Projects
AHRC £200K Edinburgh University, Digital Heritage, complete Oct 2009
ANR €290K CNRS & University of Paris 1, Digital Heritage, complete Feb 2009
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
REF Work Cited in Other Publications and Research
Anthony Lodge, 'Variation and change in the Montferrand account-books
(1259-1367)' in Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi, Wolfgang Viereck (eds) (2011) Corpus Analysis
and Diachronic Linguistics, Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. ISBN 978 90 272 0768 5
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.
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsReports & invited lectures
University of Bournemouth, Stories as a design tool & Travel writing. The travel writer in tourism experience design for destinations. 13.5.2019.
Other academic activities
Managing teams in travel and tourism. Leadership and DSDM-Atern.
French to English translation (travel industry, legal, business, marketing, IT, literature)
Editorial Panel member since 2011: Journal of Travel and Tourism Research, Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Turizm Isletmeciligi ve Otelcilik Yüksekokulu Candan Tarhan Bulvari No: 6 Kusadasi, AYDIN, TURKEY 09400
http://www.site.adu.edu.tr/jttr
Peer Reviewer since March 2011 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM ANTHROPOLOGY (IJTA) ISSN (Online): 1759-0450 ISSN (Print): 1759-0442 Sichuan University, Department of Tourism Culture, 29 Wangjiang Road Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, CHINA
www.inderscience.com/ijta
Additional information
Worked in Travel & Tourism Industry with British Airways plc
From 6/09/1999 to 31/12/2004 managing implementation of e-Marketing across BA's Francophone Regions
Links
View and download my publications and conference presentations