Nikki MacLeod
Programme Area Director/Principal Lecturer, Tourism Management and Events Mangement
Experience
Nikki has more than 15 years experience of teaching tourism at the University of Greenwich and the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) and she is a registered practitioner of the Higher Education Academy. During this period she has taught extensively, contributed to the development of new programmes and undertaken research. She is an External Examiner for Oxford Brookes University and the University of East London.
Research & teaching interests
Nikki is currently engaged in research in the field of heritage trails. Research themes include an audit and mapping of trails provision, trails and the experience economy and the role of trails within local authority cultural policies. She is also co-writing a text book entitles 40 Key Concepts in Tourism Studies to be published by Sage later in the year.
Publications
Kennell, J and MacLeod, N (forthcoming) ‘Policy Review- a grey literature review of the Cultural Olympiad’ Cultural Trends
MacLeod, N, Hayes, D. and Slater, A. (forthcoming) ‘Reading the Landscape: the development of a typology of literary trails to inform experiential design’ Journal of Hospitality and Leisure Marketing
Hayes, D and MacLeod, N (2008) ‘Putting Down Routes: an examination of local government cultural policy shaping the development of heritage trails’ Managing Leisure Vol 13 (April 2008)
MacLeod, N and Hayes, D (2007) ‘Packaging Places: designing heritage trails using an experience economy perspective to maximize visitor engagement’ Journal of Vacation Marketing Vol 13 (1).
MacLeod, N.(2006) sub-edited chapter in Cultural Tourism in a Changing World: (Re)presentation, Participation and Politics (eds. Smith, M and Robinson, M) CABI International
MacLeod, N. (2006) ‘The placeless festival’ in Picard, Robinson and Long (eds) Journeys of Expression: Tourism, Festivals and Identity. Channel View
MacLeod, N. (2004) ‘Seeing places: a critique of the heritage trail as a visual interpretation of place’ in C. Aitchison and H. Pussard (eds) Leisure, space and visual
Co-authorship of Aitchison, C, MacLeod, N and Shaw, S (2000) Leisure and Tourism Landscapes: Social and Cultural Geographies, Routledge.
Aitchison, C, Shaw, S and MacLeod, N (2002) Leisure and Tourism Landscapes, Routledge.
Shaw, S and MacLeod, N (2000) ‘Creativity and conflict: cultural tourism in London’s City fringe’ in Tourism, Culture and Communication, Vol 2, Cognizant Comm. Corp.