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Emma has a prolific publication record including a sole authored book and two co-authored books, as well as multiple edited volumes. She also has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, both sole authored and jointly authored. In addition she has been extremely successful in obtaining major grants for her heritage fieldwork including a prestigious multi-year ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.



Emma's current research projects are the following: Photos of the Past: The Negotiation of Identity and Belonging at Australian Tourism Sites; Memorialization and Affect: Remembering Pearl Harbor; Interpretive Signage and the Representation of Indigenous History in Australian Protected Areas; ANZAC Thanatourism; Heritage Tourism in Hiroshima.

Steve Watson taught a range of subjects in undergraduate programs in business management and tourism management and in postgraduate programs in marketing at York St John University, UK. He also supervised doctoral students in the field of cultural tourism and tourism development. His main research interest was cultural and heritage tourism and he was a leading expert in this field having published books and papers exploring the interactions between heritage, culture, tourism and communities. He had extensive experience working in the public sector and conducted research for a number of local authorities and other organizations, including English Heritage. He taught in several universities in the UK including Edinburgh, York, John Moores and Hull and had given guest lectures in universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain and Australia. Apart from his academic responsibilities he was active in the tourism industry working with groups and individuals to develop and enhance tourism for the benefit of the local economy. Steve was one of the founding members of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, an international organization dedicated to the study of heritage as a social and cultural practice. He was on the editorial boards of two international journals and was book reviews editor for both. He regularly reviewed books and contributions for other academic journals and worked with scholars from around the world on a variety of projects. Steve was a non-executive director of Visit York and had been instrumental in developing its research program.