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Beach Clean 2.0: Co-designing a Scalable Circular Solution for Marine Plastic Pollution
Read more: Beach Clean 2.0: Co-designing a Scalable Circular Solution for Marine Plastic PollutionFuture Island-Island (FII) Beach Clean 2.0 is an ambitious research and innovation project that aims to rethink how beach plastics are collected, managed and reused. Building on the dedication of existing beach-cleaning communities across…
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From Research to Policy: Giving Voice to Work Coaches in Northern Ireland
Read more: From Research to Policy: Giving Voice to Work Coaches in Northern IrelandOne of the most rewarding aspects of research is finding ways to make academic evidence more accessible beyond the university. I am particularly interested in translating original, empirical research into policy briefs and other…
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Why Graduation Day Matters
Read more: Why Graduation Day MattersOver the last week, my social media feed has been filled with graduation photographs. There have been countless images of smiling graduates in gowns and mortarboards, proudly holding their degree certificates, laughing with friends,…
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Navigating Risks in Ethical Tourism Entrepreneurship
Read more: Navigating Risks in Ethical Tourism EntrepreneurshipI enjoy going back to my academic research and translating it into something more accessible. In this post, I revisit a paper I co-authored with Prof MariaLaura Di Domenico and Prof Graham Miller on…
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Bridging the Gap: From Understanding to Action in Research and Policy
Read more: Bridging the Gap: From Understanding to Action in Research and Policy“Researchers are excellent at understanding things. But they are often very bad at distilling that understanding into precise recommendations for change. Policymakers, by contrast, have no time at all to understand anything. They are…
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Enjoying Your Beach While Cleaning It Too: Reflections on Enviro‑Leisure Activism
Read more: Enjoying Your Beach While Cleaning It Too: Reflections on Enviro‑Leisure ActivismTo cite the original article: Power, S. (2022). Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro‑leisure activism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 30(6), 1438–1457. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2021.1953037 Last night was something special.…
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Place as Agency: How Location, Locale and Sense of Place Shape Pathways Back to Work
Read more: Place as Agency: How Location, Locale and Sense of Place Shape Pathways Back to WorkBackground Last week, I presented research about emplaced agency at the Regional Studies Association British/Irish Section Conference at Queen’s University Belfast. Looking at ‘place’ as a holder of agency was a new exploration on…
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