Senior Lecturer, Tourism Management

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, 3rd floor, Cambridge campus

UK: 0845 196 2488
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 2488
Email: ilaria.pappalepore@anglia.ac.uk

Before recently joining the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Ilaria was working with the University of Westminster (department of Urban Development and Regeneration) as a researcher and part-time lecturer in Tourism and Leisure. Ilaria first joined the University of Westminster in 2006 as a PhD candidate. Prior to joining the University of Westminster, Ilaria worked as a research intern for the Culture and European Relations Department of the Lille Development Agency, France.

Ilaria's PhD thesis, completed in March 2010, looked at the role played by creative industry clusters in the development of tourism in non-central urban areas. This was achieved through a qualitative methodology based on face-to-face interviews and cognitive maps, using four non-central London creative areas as case studies. More recently (February 2010 - August 2011), Ilaria worked in a team of four on a large research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. This project aimed to investigate the influence of location-based factors in youth leisure behaviours, with a focus on alcohol consumption. Besides this project, in 2010 she was also lead investigator of a 12-month study on 'The role of the Olympic Games' cultural programme in Fostering Local Creativity', funded by a grant of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

In parallel, llaria has also been working on a study on Tourism Development in Outer London and is now finalising an ESRC research bid to continue the study with two ex colleagues from the University of Westminster. In addition to academic work, Ilaria was the author of a successful application to Regione Lombardia (an Italian regional authority) to obtain funding for the development of a leisure and eco-tourism facility in the north of Italy. The application was focused on local tourism development, regeneration, and on the social and environmental sustainability of the project, which in October 2010 was awarded a 71,000 Euros grant.

Between October 2006 and August 2011, Ilaria worked as a part-time lecturer with the Centre for Tourism of the University of Westminster. The modules she taught include Events Tourism, two Urban Tourism modules, two Leisure and Recreation modules, Economic and Cultural Development, Tourism Skills and Techniques, and Research Methods. Ilaria supervised 24 BA and 16 MA dissertations. She has also been a guest lecturer with the MS in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment of Bocconi University, Milan.