
Profiles
Professor Paul Brunt
Emeritus Professor
Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
- Tourism
- Tourism and crime
- Higher education quality assurance
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
Emeritus Professor
Qualifications
1986 BSc (Hons) Geography and Landscape Studies, Southampton University
1990 PhD Bournemouth Polytechnic Tourism trip decision making at the sub-regional level: With special reference to Southern England
Professional membership
1993- Member of Tourism Society (MTS)
2002-07 Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching / HE Academy
2007- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Key publications
Teaching
Teaching
Staff serving as external examiners
2005-10 BA Tourism, Oxford Brookes University
2000-05 BA Tourism, Sheffield Hallam University
1999-03 BA Tourism, University of Wales,Hereford College
1996-99 MA Tourism, Management at University of Brighton
1996-00 BA Tourism, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
Research
Research
Research interests
Research interests include tourism and crime and tourism research methods. Published research in the tourism and crime area including media representations of terrorist acts against tourists. Author of textbooks on research methods in tourism, hospitality and events management.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
· ‘The Projected and Perceived Image of Ireland as a Tourist Destination for British Travellers’ (2005) Murphy-Underhill
· ‘The Adoption of Internet Technologies by Independent Hotels in the UK’ (2007) Lim
· ‘Tourism and Crime whoseproblem? A Cornish Perspective’ (2008) Jones
· ‘Caravan Second Homes: An Empirical study of Consumer Behaviour towards a Depreciating Property Asset’ (2010) -Fowler
· ‘An evaluation of tourismcommunities and community responses to tourism and crime’ (2012) Hooton
· ‘An empirical study into UK customer expectations of dining out in relation to meal cost’ (2012) Westhead
· ‘The Role of Literary Texts in Tourism Destination Management’ (2015) Mansfield
· ‘Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette: Representation, Interpretation, Perception’ (2016) Maior-Barron
· ‘Perceptions of Risks and Barriers to Participation in Tourism for the Disabled’ (2016) Fraser (MPhil)
· ‘The Island Image: A Means of Segmentation’ (2017) Phillips
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsPersonal
Personal
Other academic activities
QAA reviewer since 1999 - experience of Subject Review, Institutional Audit, Collaborative Provision Audit, Foundation Degree Review, Institutional Review, IRENI, IQER, HER, QRV, HER AP, Appeals.