Emma H Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 6180980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma H Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma H |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2202-1609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Capturing tourist experiences through time: An extended adaptation of the descriptive experience sampling method
In this research letter we reflect on a new mixed methods approach to gaining a deep understanding of shared tourism experiences and the memory of them. We combined an adaptation of descriptive experience sampling with self-recorded conversations and in-depth interviews. The method is described and critically reflected upon with suggestions for the future use of this approach within events and tourism research
Navigating challenges: Coping, memory, and the interpretations of travel adversities among middle-aged and older Chinese adults
Despite growing multidisciplinary attention to coping and negative emotions, the relationship between tourists’ coping and recollection of travel memories remains largely underexplored. This research adopts a biographical approach to collect and analyse the travel histories of 32 middle-aged and older Chinese tourists, focusing on how they recall and interpret unforeseen and challenging travel situations, their coping strategies, and the outcomes…
Festivals on the edge: Bridging the divide through social exchange theory and perceived emotional synchrony
This conceptual paper proposes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how cultural festivals in border regions can create and sustain mutual understanding, belonging, and identity. Although the social impacts of festivals are well documented, there remains limited insight into the mechanisms through which these outcomes are produced. The paper suggests that combining sociological and psychological perspectives can illuminate these process…
The development and trial of beyond 2050 polylogues as a tool for future-thinking in business tourism
In this methodology research letter, we describe the development, piloting and large-scale trial of an experimental concurrent group discussion approach. Specifically, we detail how we used provocative 2050 scenarios to ‘open up’ future thinking, facilitate multiple polylogues and efficiently collect large sample qualitative data. The method was trialled with 120 business tourism professionals at the International Congress and Convention Associat…
Sister Outsiders of the Lesbian Bar: Spatial Hauntings in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
In weaving queer temporality and Black feminist theory together, this article examines the role of the lesbian bar in Audre Lorde's 1982 biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. This article examines the various ways Audre Lorde as both main character and author experiences and negotiates the spaces and dynamics of the 1950s working-class lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, New York City. I analyse how Lorde conceives of the lesbian bar as t…
I Am Not A Melodramatic Person’: Defining the Lyric Diary
The lasting effect of childhood circus memories: Nostalgia and guilt
Traditional Big Top Circus has experienced a decline in popularity due to changing attitudes to its former elements and to the competition from other accessible forms of entertainment. Our study explores how childhood memories of circus experiences are retold and how these are revisited in the light of changing social values and life experiences. Data was generated through sixteen discussion groups with a total of eighty people over the age of 65…
Familiarity and novelty in aesthetic appreciation: The case of intangible cultural heritage in China
A review of research into neuroscience in tourism: Launching the annals of tourism research curated collection on neuroscience in tourism
Doing and feeling together in older age: Self-worth and belonging through social creative activities
The potential for art activities to help in alleviating loneliness is explored through a focus on older women's regular attendance at creative social activities. We apply the concept of perceived emotional synchrony to understand how weekly craft group sessions enable feelings of belonging and self-worth to develop in older women. Using a multi-site six-month study of 62 women aged 70+ attending social creative activities, our multi-stage researc…
Mental Models of Illness during the Early Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and its profound global effects may be changing the way we think about illness. In summer 2020, 120 American adults were asked to diagnose symptoms of COVID-19, a cold, and cancer, and to answer questions related to the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, time-course, and transmission of each disease. Results showed that participants were more likely to correctly diagnose COVID-19 (91% accuracy) compared to a cold (58% accurac…
Self-recorded conversations in tourism memory research
Self-recorded paired conversations are a novel data generation method. • Research participants are not influenced by the presence of researchers. • The method produces highly intimate and emotionally charged memories. • A comparison of individual and dialogic material adds greater depth. • The method has many potential applications within tourism studies
“Purposeful togetherness”: Theorising gender and ageing through creative events
Events and festivals are recognised as valuable tools to contribute to social sustainability and community cohesion. However, within this, the experiences of old people are often overlooked, and the important roles events can play in older lives underestimated. Research within both tourism and events has tended to neglect the gendered experiences of ageing, with old women in particular overlooked in terms of their experiences as tourists or event…
Liminality and festivals—Insights from the East
Innovation implementation: Harmony and conflict in Chinese modern music festivals
Music festival motivation in China: Free the mind
This paper explores the extent to which music festival attendance is ‘universally’ motivated or determined by the Chinese cultural and socio-political context. A novel qualitative approach was employed comprising observation of social media conversations and ‘chat room’ interviews with members of a festival online community. Seven motivators were identified, some similar to those in Western studies but others more specific to festival-goers in Ma…
The absorptive capacity of tourism organisations
Innovation in tourism: Re-conceptualising and measuring the absorptive capacity of the hotel sector
Liminality and festivals—Insights from the East
The absorptive capacity of tourism organisations
Innovation in tourism: Re-conceptualising and measuring the absorptive capacity of the hotel sector
Music festival motivation in China: Free the mind
This paper explores the extent to which music festival attendance is ‘universally’ motivated or determined by the Chinese cultural and socio-political context. A novel qualitative approach was employed comprising observation of social media conversations and ‘chat room’ interviews with members of a festival online community. Seven motivators were identified, some similar to those in Western studies but others more specific to festival-goers in Ma…
Familiarity and novelty in aesthetic appreciation: The case of intangible cultural heritage in China
Innovation implementation: Harmony and conflict in Chinese modern music festivals
Doing and feeling together in older age: Self-worth and belonging through social creative activities
The potential for art activities to help in alleviating loneliness is explored through a focus on older women's regular attendance at creative social activities. We apply the concept of perceived emotional synchrony to understand how weekly craft group sessions enable feelings of belonging and self-worth to develop in older women. Using a multi-site six-month study of 62 women aged 70+ attending social creative activities, our multi-stage researc…
Innovation in tourism: Re-conceptualising and measuring the absorptive capacity of the hotel sector
The absorptive capacity of tourism organisations
Music festival motivation in China: Free the mind
This paper explores the extent to which music festival attendance is ‘universally’ motivated or determined by the Chinese cultural and socio-political context. A novel qualitative approach was employed comprising observation of social media conversations and ‘chat room’ interviews with members of a festival online community. Seven motivators were identified, some similar to those in Western studies but others more specific to festival-goers in Ma…
Innovation implementation: Harmony and conflict in Chinese modern music festivals
Liminality and festivals—Insights from the East
“Purposeful togetherness”: Theorising gender and ageing through creative events
Events and festivals are recognised as valuable tools to contribute to social sustainability and community cohesion. However, within this, the experiences of old people are often overlooked, and the important roles events can play in older lives underestimated. Research within both tourism and events has tended to neglect the gendered experiences of ageing, with old women in particular overlooked in terms of their experiences as tourists or event…
Mental Models of Illness during the Early Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and its profound global effects may be changing the way we think about illness. In summer 2020, 120 American adults were asked to diagnose symptoms of COVID-19, a cold, and cancer, and to answer questions related to the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, time-course, and transmission of each disease. Results showed that participants were more likely to correctly diagnose COVID-19 (91% accuracy) compared to a cold (58% accurac…
Self-recorded conversations in tourism memory research
Self-recorded paired conversations are a novel data generation method. • Research participants are not influenced by the presence of researchers. • The method produces highly intimate and emotionally charged memories. • A comparison of individual and dialogic material adds greater depth. • The method has many potential applications within tourism studies
A review of research into neuroscience in tourism: Launching the annals of tourism research curated collection on neuroscience in tourism
Doing and feeling together in older age: Self-worth and belonging through social creative activities
The potential for art activities to help in alleviating loneliness is explored through a focus on older women's regular attendance at creative social activities. We apply the concept of perceived emotional synchrony to understand how weekly craft group sessions enable feelings of belonging and self-worth to develop in older women. Using a multi-site six-month study of 62 women aged 70+ attending social creative activities, our multi-stage researc…
I Am Not A Melodramatic Person’: Defining the Lyric Diary
The lasting effect of childhood circus memories: Nostalgia and guilt
Traditional Big Top Circus has experienced a decline in popularity due to changing attitudes to its former elements and to the competition from other accessible forms of entertainment. Our study explores how childhood memories of circus experiences are retold and how these are revisited in the light of changing social values and life experiences. Data was generated through sixteen discussion groups with a total of eighty people over the age of 65…
Familiarity and novelty in aesthetic appreciation: The case of intangible cultural heritage in China
The development and trial of beyond 2050 polylogues as a tool for future-thinking in business tourism
In this methodology research letter, we describe the development, piloting and large-scale trial of an experimental concurrent group discussion approach. Specifically, we detail how we used provocative 2050 scenarios to ‘open up’ future thinking, facilitate multiple polylogues and efficiently collect large sample qualitative data. The method was trialled with 120 business tourism professionals at the International Congress and Convention Associat…
Sister Outsiders of the Lesbian Bar: Spatial Hauntings in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
In weaving queer temporality and Black feminist theory together, this article examines the role of the lesbian bar in Audre Lorde's 1982 biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. This article examines the various ways Audre Lorde as both main character and author experiences and negotiates the spaces and dynamics of the 1950s working-class lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, New York City. I analyse how Lorde conceives of the lesbian bar as t…
Capturing tourist experiences through time: An extended adaptation of the descriptive experience sampling method
In this research letter we reflect on a new mixed methods approach to gaining a deep understanding of shared tourism experiences and the memory of them. We combined an adaptation of descriptive experience sampling with self-recorded conversations and in-depth interviews. The method is described and critically reflected upon with suggestions for the future use of this approach within events and tourism research
Navigating challenges: Coping, memory, and the interpretations of travel adversities among middle-aged and older Chinese adults
Despite growing multidisciplinary attention to coping and negative emotions, the relationship between tourists’ coping and recollection of travel memories remains largely underexplored. This research adopts a biographical approach to collect and analyse the travel histories of 32 middle-aged and older Chinese tourists, focusing on how they recall and interpret unforeseen and challenging travel situations, their coping strategies, and the outcomes…
Festivals on the edge: Bridging the divide through social exchange theory and perceived emotional synchrony
This conceptual paper proposes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how cultural festivals in border regions can create and sustain mutual understanding, belonging, and identity. Although the social impacts of festivals are well documented, there remains limited insight into the mechanisms through which these outcomes are produced. The paper suggests that combining sociological and psychological perspectives can illuminate these process…
Psychology (11 works) · Tourism (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (5 works)