Associate Professor Colin Hall

Research Interests

• Contemporary dimensions of temporary mobility, including tourism, leisure, recreation, labour migration, tourism-migration relationships, second homes, expatriate and sojourner behaviour; consumption and production; and their governance, regulation, and impacts;

• Sustainable consumption, particularly in relation to human mobility and the development of circular markets and degrowth but also with respect to alternative consumption practices, including local foodways such as farmers markets, product innovation, and the development of new value chains;

• Regional development, particularly the development of rural, peripheral and marginal regions, sustainability, second homes, and SME and network development; strategic planning and competitiveness; place marketing and branding; mobility as a factor in the development of learning regions and knowledge spillovers; firm innovation and innovation systems; and urban regeneration and reimaging strategies, including waterfront and brownfield redevelopments and events;

• Resilience including its relationship to crisis and disaster management at various scales and especially in the context of earthquakes, floods, storm events, climate change, sanctions and geo-politics

• International marketing and business, especially role of place branding and effects of geopolitics

• Implications of socio-technical regimes for institutions and individual behaviour and practices, relationship to innovation, path dependency, circular economy, and sustainability

• Servicescapes and brandscapes, use of design of interior and exterior space and landscapes particularly in urban areas as a means of influencing consumer experience

• Social marketing and behavioural interventions, the application of social marketing methods and approaches and new information technologies to behavioural interventions, e.g., health and active transport; circular practices, and issues of sustainable consumption, especially with respect to tourism, heritage and the environment

• Public policy analysis and governance issues, particularly with respect to public-private partnerships, regulatory frameworks, ethics, security (political, economic and environmental), global environmental change and international heritage, and the appropriate role of the state with respect to intervention in regional economic development;

• Rural and peripheral area SMEs and entrepreneurship issues, particularly as related to lifestyle entrepreneurship, family businesses, copreneurship, regulatory, marketing and network issues;

• Space tourism and heritage, implications of AI, risk behaviours, regulation, and consumer demand

•  Sustainable development, especially with respect to peripheral areas such as marine and coastal areas and alpine areas, impacts indicator analysis and growth management, concepts of security, business behaviour and strategy, and issues of global environmental change including climate change;

• Global environmental change, particularly responses to climate change; disease and biosecurity issues, and conservation strategies.

• Food and beverages, especially wine: business and marketing, sustainable consumption, regenerative farming practices, farmers markets, local food development, intellectual property, cooperative business strategies, gastronomy, history and changing patterns of food and wine consumption and production, product innovation, and biosecurity;

• Environmental and conservation history, particularly with respects to national parks and wilderness, travels and influence of John Muir;

• Religiosity and consumption, especially halal and food practices and value chains

• Regional Interests: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Nordic countries, Middle East and Iran, Pacific Rim, Pacific Islands, Polar regions, South-East Asia, United Kingdom, Western United States.

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Resource Development and Management, Future Food Systems

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Business and Management (150300): Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services (150000): Commercial Services (150400):
Environmental Sciences (050000):
Food and Hospitality Services (150401): Hospitality Management (150402):
Human Geography (160400):
Marketing (150500):
Policy and Administration (160500): Recreation, Leisure and Tourism Geography (160402): Studies In Human Society (160000):
Tourism (150600):
Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) (160404)