The Routledge Handbook of Events and Sustainability

About

Julie Whitfield has over 20 years of experience teaching Events Management. She joined Bournemouth University in September 2005 where she is the postgraduate programme leader for the M.Sc. Events Management programme in the Sport & Events Management Department at Bournemouth University Business School. Her research interest in Events and Sustainability spans over a decade with earlier publications such as Scoring Environmental Credentials: A Case Study of the UK Conference Sector published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism in 2014 to more recent publications such as How can we reduce conference venues use of single-use plastics? which was published in Event Management in 2022. Julie is also the Co-Founder of the International Conference for Events (ICE) Making Waves a leading international conference for events management academics and practitioners.Mary Beth Gouthro is a senior academic in the Sports & Events Management Department in the Bournemouth University Business School. Her research interests in events span the event/festival experience event sustainability and aspects of customer satisfaction in events. Mary Beth is currently an executive member of the Association for Event Management Educators (AEME) and leads AEMEs Event Sustainability SIG (Special Interest Group). Mary Beth is also a member of Bournemouth Universitys SAN (Sustainability Academic Network) and is a Climate Fresk-trained facilitator.Miguel Moital is a principal academic in Events Management in the Department of Sport & Events Management Bournemouth University Business School. Miguel's research interests include broad issues around the marketing of events tourism and hospitality with an emphasis on consumer psychology. He currently lectures on the Foundation Year and on the BA (Hons) Events Management. He also regularly supervises a number of UG and PG dissertations. In line with his passion for supervising students in 2020 Miguel launched the Dissertation Academy YouTube Channel where he shares unique tips and tools to help students from across the world to write better dissertations and theses.