Tag: learning

• Sustainability Paradoxes: A Research‑Teaching Nexus in Action

  How do we prepare future tourism and hospitality professionals to navigate a world defined by complexity, contradiction, and competing sustainability demands? As I was contemplating this question, I set out to develop an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) initiative that is doing exactly that by embedding my own research, active learning, and paradox thinking directly…

  Susann Power

  March 29, 2026

  Academic Reflections, Pedagogy

  education, education for sustainable development, ESD, higher education, learning, research-teaching nexus, sustainability paradoxes, teaching, teaching and learning

• Shaping Tomorrow: Reflections from THRIC 2026

  The 2026 Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference (THRIC) served as a timely reminder of the collective agency embedded within our academic and professional community. Since its inaugural gathering in Portrush in 2005 and following a Covid-19-induced hiatus, its revitalisation at MTU Dingle, Co. Kerry in 2024, THRIC has evolved into far more than…

  Susann Power

  February 2, 2026

  Academic Encounters, Academic Reflections

  academic agency, academic conference, conference review, education, events, hospitality, learning, research, shaping tomorrow, Special Interest Groups, teaching, THRIC2026, tourism