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Distinguished Research Lecture – Professor Donna Chambers
23 February 2022 @ 15:00 - 16:00
The Department of Service Sector Management is pleased to invite you to its upcoming Distinguished Research Lecture where we will be joined by Professor Donna Chambers who will discuss her impactful research on ‘The silencing of Black women in tourism’
Date and Time: Wednesday 23 February | 1500 – 1600
How to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/240822856647
Presenter: Professor Donna Chambers
Donna is Professor of Tourism and Head of Research in the Faculty of Business, Law & Tourism at the University of Sunderland in the UK. She is also the Convenor of a cross-Faculty interdisciplinary research network on race, class, and ethnicity. Donna is a critical tourism scholar who has over 20 years of experience in tourism largely as an academic but also in the public sector in her native country of Jamaica. She is interested in how people and places are represented primarily through cultural and heritage tourism, the link between heritage and national identities, postcolonial and decolonial epistemologies in research and teaching. Importantly, she is also interested in how Black women are represented in tourism through the lens of critical race theory and Black feminism.
She is a Resource Editor for Annals of Tourism Research, and a Managing Editor for Leisure Studies. She also serves on the editorial board of several tourism journals. She was an external member of the Central University Research Ethics Committee of the University of Oxford between 2013 and 2021. She has published numerous journal articles, books, book chapters and delivered many keynote sessions at national and international conferences.
Donna is a passionate advocate and activist for equity and justice not just in academia but also in her local community and the wider society. She sits on the University of Sunderland Branch Committee of the largest academic trade union in the UK (the University and College Union) and in addition to her academic work, she undertakes several projects with local community groups around race equity.