All Outputs (22)

Exploring student and staff perceptions of opportunities and challenges associated with Generative AI (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents ongoing research at UWE Bristol which explores the perceptions and use of Generative AI tools in Higher Education teaching and learning. This work is based on a university-wide survey of over 300 respondents and captures current p... Read More about Exploring student and staff perceptions of opportunities and challenges associated with Generative AI.

Leadership, urban structure and place: Evidence from Bristol and Dorset (2023)
Journal Article

Local leadership has become of increasing interest in the context of a renewed focus on local government and local development. In parallel, new interpretations of thinking about leadership drawing on Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Foucault suggest that... Read More about Leadership, urban structure and place: Evidence from Bristol and Dorset.

Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion (2020)
Journal Article

This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the... Read More about Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion.

The home exchange phenomenon in the sharing economy: A research agenda (2020)
Journal Article

The emergence of the sharing economy has been driven by the increasing value of temporary access to goods over ownership as an alternative mode of consumption. This economy has been enabled by the rapidly evolving Web 2.0 technologies. Scholars have... Read More about The home exchange phenomenon in the sharing economy: A research agenda.

Review of recent Bristol economic migrants: Needs and strategies (2016)
Report

Project report for Bristol City Council on Economic Migrants in Bristol

Linking tourism, retirement migration and social capital (2014)
Journal Article

A general trend in the study of international retirement migration has been the increased attention paid to the social contacts and network connections of the migrants in both the destination and the origin areas. These studies have examined the exte... Read More about Linking tourism, retirement migration and social capital.

Destination image and the renewal of mature tourist destinations (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research has shown how destination image influences tourist behaviour and destination choice. More recently, academics have turned their attention to the way in which image can play an important role in the renewal of mature tourist destinations, par... Read More about Destination image and the renewal of mature tourist destinations.

Exploring the geographies of lifestyle mobility: current and future fields of enquiry (2012)
Book Chapter

The geographies of lifestyle mobilities: Exploring international retirement migration to Spain (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the relevance of transnational social networks in the context of international retirement migration (IRM). The study uses the concept of social capital as a framework for the analysis of the migrants’ transnational social practice... Read More about The geographies of lifestyle mobilities: Exploring international retirement migration to Spain.

Tourist destination image: A case study of Benidorm, Spain (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper explores the destination image of Benidorm, Spain, as perceived by UK-based travel intermediaries and British tourists. Using a qualitative approach based on in-depth interviews and content analysis, the paper analyses the perceptions of t... Read More about Tourist destination image: A case study of Benidorm, Spain.

Late life second move housing choices of international retiree migrants (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose – Many international retirement migrants are amenity movers undertaking the first move in the late life course model of migration. The purpose of this paper is to examine second moves within the retirement destination community to test whethe... Read More about Late life second move housing choices of international retiree migrants.

La migración de retirados europeos al mercado de vivienda español. Una evidencia sobre sus efectos (2009)
Journal Article

La migración internacional de retirados no es un fenómeno nuevo entre los países de la Unión Europea. Hay un buen número de sociólogos que han descrito el proceso y sus
implicaciones en las formas de vida, especialmente en los casos de migración de... Read More about La migración de retirados europeos al mercado de vivienda español. Una evidencia sobre sus efectos.

Examining retirement housing preferences among international retiree migrants (2009)
Journal Article

Housing demand models based on individual consumer’s utility function reflect preferences about the structure and lot, neighborhood, and location as related to socioeconomic characteristics of the occupants. As a growing proportion of aging residents... Read More about Examining retirement housing preferences among international retiree migrants.

Social capital in the sun: Bonding and bridging social capital among British retirees (2009)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores social networks between English-speaking retirees located in Calpe, a municipality on the Costa Blanca, Spain. Using the concept of social capital and the device of leisure, this chapter discusses the systems of social relations... Read More about Social capital in the sun: Bonding and bridging social capital among British retirees.

Social and cultural change: Making space(s) for leisure and tourism (2007)
Book

Retiring to Spain: An analysis of differences among North European nationals (2006)
Journal Article

The aim of this study is to analyse the growing importance of international retirement migration (IRM) by focusing on the differences among the British, German and Nordic expatriate communities living on the Costa Blanca, Spain. The first section dis... Read More about Retiring to Spain: An analysis of differences among North European nationals.

Searching for sun: International retirement migration to the Costa Blanca (2005)
Book Chapter

Northern European retired residents in nine southern European areas: Characteristics, motivations and adjustment (2004)
Journal Article

During the last two decades, northern European retirement residence in the southern European sunbelt has grown strongly and its forms have rapidly changed, but standard demographic and social statistical sources provide no information about the flows... Read More about Northern European retired residents in nine southern European areas: Characteristics, motivations and adjustment.

Second homes in Spain (2004)
Book Chapter

Tourism and retirement migration in Spain: The spatial impacts of residential tourism on the Costa Blanca (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution