PhD position, tourism studies: hybrid cultural heritage experiencing
About this role
The department conducts research and education in the subjects: business administration, law, economics, statistics, geography and tourism studies.
It also hosts the European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR).
We are pleased to announce a challenging PhD position that examines hybridisation in cultural heritage and tourism experiences as part of a MSCA-Doctoral Network Fellowship project titled “https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101226351 - Enhancing collaborative synergies between Cultural HERItage and TOURism”.
About Mittuniversitetet
HERITOUR, examines examining how the cultural heritage and tourism sectors can collaborate more effectively to address shared challenges and reduce the negative impacts of tourism. The project provides interdisciplinary training and focuses on hybridisation, sustainability, resilience, and democratisation. 10 PhD vacancies are available in six universities. For more information, regularly check the individual vacancy pages of the universities listed on the project website [https://heritour.eu/]. About the research project This position (DC-1) is focused on examining hybridisation (WP1) in, cultural heritage and tourism based on a digital-physical spectrum; how digital technologies and mediatisation affect, challenge, and change creativity, tourist experiences, marketing, consumption, behaviour, co-creation, customer journeys, communication, content, context and presence. Specifically, this project examines the core dimensions, value and meaning of hybridisation. The candidate will be supervised by Professor Dr. Maria Lexhagen (MIUN), and co-supervised by Dr Özgün Ozçakir (METU). Job description Independent third-cycle studies with 100% research including a dissertation that involve conducting, publishing and presenting research, and course work associated with the PhD program in tourism studies as well as participating in intensive training schools, seminars, workshops and other events as part of HERITOUR. The position inc