BA, MRse, Cert Ed.(HE), PhD
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- xiaoqing.chen@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274088
- Office Address
Room 724, MacRobert Building, King Street,
Aberdeen AB24 5UA
Scotland UK
- School/Department
- Business School
Biography
Xiaoqing Chen joined the Business School (UoA) in August 2018 as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Management Studies and has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in August 2022 and appointed as the Director of Internationalisation in September 2022.
She received her PhD in Management Studies from the Business School at the University of Aberdeen in June 2018.
Before joining the University of Aberdeen, Xiaoqing lectured in Aberystwyth University as Associate Lecturer in Tourism Management (January – July 2018).
Research interests
Xiaoqing is interested in the tourism studies, with a further interest in tourism impacts upon host community, and touristic experience. Her research has deeply engaged with philosophical concepts from Martin Heidegger, e.g., dwelling, being-in-the-world, and from Confucian, e.g., guanxi; methodologically, Xiaoqing has expertise in using hermeneutic phenomenology to understand the tourism phenomena and tourism-resulted influences in/for locale.
Teaching
At University of Aberdeen, Xiaoqing has taught in the area of marketing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She led the programme, MSc Marketing Management (August 2018 - January 2020), and developed a new programme, MSc International Tourism Management and has been the Programme Leader (February 2020 - present).
Since 2018, she has been an Associate Fellow at the Higher Education Academy and completed Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning & Teaching in 2020.
Supervision
She welcomes applications from candidates with a background in marketing or tourism management.
Current supervisees
Duygu Aysun: Media Tourism and the National Trust for Scotland—Producing a model for sustainable tourism for Glenfinnan
Qualifications
- Associate Fellow2018 - The Higher Education Academy
- Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning & Teaching2020 - University of Aberdeen
External Memberships
Member of the Chartered Management Institute
Latest Publications
Media tourism and COVID-19: An empirical investigation of the impact of COVID-19 on the Scottish tourism industry
Tourism Culture & Communication, vol. 23, no. 2-3, pp. 207-218Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe impact of COVID-19 on cultural tourism. Introductory article for special issue of tourism culture and communication.: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON CULTURAL TOURISM
Tourism Culture & Communication, vol. 23, no. 2-3, pp. 87-96Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGuanxi
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.guanxi
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Luxury shopping tourism: views from Chinese post-1990s female tourists
Tourism Review, vol. 76, no. 2Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow the decline in Chinese tourists around the world has hit the luxury sector
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Management.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Management.
Xiaoqing welcomes applications from candidates with a background in marketing or tourism management.
Funding and Grants
Principal Investigator
- Bridging Theory and Practice: Doing Case Study Research in Management Studies (GBP £5000/2020-2022) funded by Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
- Local Story and Global Audience: Media Tourism in Doune (GBP £1000/2021) funded by ESRC Festival of Social Science
- New Storytelling of Storyteller: Media Tourism in Abbotsford (GBP £4370/2021-2022) funded by University of Aberdeen (Knowledge Exchange and Commercialization project)
- Inlander and Outlander: Media Tourism in Rural Scotland (GBP £2000/2021) funded by University of Aberdeen (Public Engagement project)
Deputy Principal Investigator
- Horizon 2020 Project: Social and Innovative Platform on Cultural Tourism and Its Potential Towards Deepening Europeanisation (€3.0 million/2020-2023) founded by European Commission.
Co-Principal Investigator
- Media Tourism and the National Trust for Scotland (GBP £92921/2022-2025) funded by Scottish Graduate of Social Science-Supervisor-Led Open Collaborative Studentship
- The Great Tapestry of Scotland and Cultural Tourism in Galashiels (GBP £5881/2022) funded by University of Aberdeen
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, January start
Programme Leader (August 2018 - January 2020)
Teaching Responsibilities
Postgraduate - MSc Marketing Management
(~) BU5991 Digital Marketing (Course Coordinator)
(~) BU502M International Tourism Management (Course Coordinator)
(~) BU552L Destination & Tourists (Course Coordinator)
(~) BU592R International Tourism Management Dissertation
Undergraduate - MA Management
(~) MS2006 Marketing
(~) QB2005 Marketing
(~) MS3551 Understanding the Consumer (Course Coordinator)
(~) QB3503 Understanding the Consumer
(~) MS4540 Dissertation in Management Studies
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
- The deputy exams officer (UG courses/2021 - Now)
- Publications
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A content analysis of corporate social responsibility: Perspectives from China’s top 30 hotel-management companies
Hospitality & Society, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 153-181Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGuanxi & Dwelling: Contextualising the Study of Tourism Research
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings