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Charles Mansfield

 

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Mr Charles Mansfield - (Charlie Mansfield)

  • School of Tourism and Hospitality (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
  • Address: Room 321, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752585732
  • Email: charlie.mansfield@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Lecturer in Tourism, Managing People and French
 

Qualifications & background
M.Litt (French Travel Writing)
B.Ed (Technology)
BA (English)
PGCert(French)
 

Roles on external bodies
UNWTO World Tourism Organization, Air Travel Panel Specialist

2008 External Examiner for Masters programme, Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris (Jury de soutenance)

2006 External Assessor: AHRC Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme.
 


Teaching interests
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.

MODULE LEADER:
HTM113 Hospitality, Tourism and Events Graduate Skills
MSc HTM503 Managing People in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
FREX02 Module Leader: French - Intermediate 1 which includes FREX02A and FREX02B

CONTRIBUTING LECTURER:
LFR300 French Culture & Society 3
HTM221 People Strategies for Tourism, Hospitality and Tourism
HTM218 Service Marketing
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
Tourism, Hospitality and Heritage Management,  Web 2.0 technologies.  French.

Link to SERC Research Centre Pages
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=34705

Link to Conference web-site
https://sites.google.com/site/heritagenarrative/home

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

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) (2009) Corpus Analysis
 and Diachronic Linguistics,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. ISBN 978 90 272 0768 5
 



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 for 5 years with British Airways plc
From 6/09/1999  to 31/12/2004 managing implementation of e-Marketing across BA's Francophone Regions

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Links to Colleagues in School of Tourism and Hospitality

Dr Graham Busby
https://mysite.plymouth.ac.uk/Person.aspx?accountname=uopnet%5Cgbusby