All Outputs (7)

Environmentally Sustainable Event Design (2019)
Book Chapter

Events are varied in terms of their type, scale, duration, location, time of year and theme, and this leads to equally varied impacts. However, all events involve impacts on or of ecology, transport, water, energy, lighting, noise and waste. Sustain... Read More about Environmentally Sustainable Event Design.

Events and volunteerism (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a review of literature relating to sports event volunteering. A case study of research on the volunteers that travelled to Delhi from Scotland to take part in a mass cast at the flag handover ceremony at the 2010 Commonwealth G... Read More about Events and volunteerism.

Olympic discourses and mediations: The Sun Newspaper and the London Olympic Bid Committee (2013)
Book Chapter

Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, this paper discusses how journalistic discourses and practices and those of the London Olympic Bid Committee worked in tandem to influence readers of the UK newspaper with the greatest readership to... Read More about Olympic discourses and mediations: The Sun Newspaper and the London Olympic Bid Committee.

"Back the Bid": The London Olympic Bid Committee and the Sun newspaper (2012)
Journal Article

This article explores how the London Olympic Bid Committee (LOBC) sought to gain the popular support required for London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games by attempting to influence the journalists of the U.K. newspaper with the greatest readership to... Read More about "Back the Bid": The London Olympic Bid Committee and the Sun newspaper.

Delhi Flag Handover Ceremony 2010 volunteer project (2011)
Report

The Delhi Flag Handover Ceremony (DFHC) was a project delivered by Glasgow Life on behalf of the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee. The Handover Ceremony took place towards the end of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and reflects the passing of r... Read More about Delhi Flag Handover Ceremony 2010 volunteer project.

Boomtown Fair Chapter 11, Environmentally responsible behaviour and intentions
Report

Sustainability and sustainable event management
Book Chapter

Sustainability is a macro-level policy issue. It involves living and working in ways that do not negatively affect future generations. To operate sustainably, events organisers need to maximise positive – and mitigate negative – economic, socio-cultu... Read More about Sustainability and sustainable event management.