Dr Robert Nash

Associate Professor

Level 4, Building 2, Bond Business School, Bond University

Accepting PhD Students

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Research Profile

Professional biography

Rob has had an international career in industry as well as in academic institutions. His industrial experience has taken him to several countries as both manager and proprietor. He began his teaching career at University College Birmingham, after several years working in industry. He has worked and studied hospitality administration with the Marriott Corporation and New Hampshire College in the USA and subsequently went on to teach at one of the premier hotel schools in Switzerland, The Institut Hotelier Cesar Ritz. He returned to the UK to take up a teaching position at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Rob then moved to the US to work at Grand Valley State University in Michigan before joining us here at Bond. Rob has a proven track record of working and successfully delivering research and consultancy projects that have supported business in Scotland, Europe, USA and worldwide and several of these projects have involved international collaborations and partnerships - ranging from Rwanda to Iceland. In addition Rob has also delivered many papers at various local, regional, national and international forums and conferences. His main specialist area is Peripherality and he has had several successful publications emanating from this research area. Rob is also involved in research supervision at undergraduate, MSc and PhD levels.

Research interests

I have had an international career in industry, as well as in academic institutions. My industrial experience has taken me to several countries as both manager and proprietor. I began his teaching career at University College Birmingham, after several years working in industry. I have worked and studied hospitality administration with the Marriott Corporation and New Hampshire College in the USA and subsequently went on to teach at one of the premier hotel schools in Switzerland, The Institut Hotelier Cesar Ritz. I returned to the UK to take up a teaching position at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. I then moved to the US to work at Grand Valley State University in Michigan before joining Bond University.

The main focus of my research is tourism in peripheral areas, and I have several publications in A rated journals in this area. The issues related to peripheral regions are varied and complex and this area of research lends itself well to a relatively flexible approach to the research areas involved.

Teaching expertise

Tourism & Hospitality management Tourism & Hospitality operations/environment Destination Development Human Resource Management Marketing Adventure & Activity, Marine & Wildlife, and Heritage Management UG-PhD level dissertation supervision

Professional admissions

Tourism Management Institute (TMI)
Europea Union of Tourism Officers (EUTO)

Qualifications

PhD, Robert Gordon University, Award Date: 1 Feb 2002

Fields of Research

Tourism

Statement for HDR students

Although my research has been focused on peripherality, I have several other research papers and consultancy projects that are outside the peripherality field of study.

At present my main focus has been Island destinations, in particular Malta. This is a very fertile research area and also fits well within my overall field of research, which is peripherality and issues related to that.

I am currently involved with a colleague in the HTM department doing research into peripheral area issues based on the Grafton region, here in Australia. The individual is an early career researcher, and I am mentoring as well as working with her to develop the research into published outputs.

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