Professor Dorina-Maria Buda

Biography

Professor Dorina-Maria Buda, a TEDx Speaker and winner of a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship, is Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Professor of Tourism and Hospitality at Edge Hotel School. Professor Buda is the winner of a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in collaboration with the European Commission from 2013-2017 in value of €500,000. During 2016 - 2024, Professor Buda was also awarded an individual grant as part of the Innovation Research Incentives Scheme of the Dutch Research Council in value of €250,000 (full economic costing). In her research monograph Affective Tourism: Dark Routes in Conflict, as well as in her wider work published in top peer reviewed journals, Professor Buda examines dynamics of performance and consumption of tourist places in areas of ongoing socio-political turmoil and conflict such as North Korea, Iran, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian West Bank, as well as in eastern Europe. In-depth understandings of the role of emotions in such places can contribute to conflict negotiation and peace building. During her career, Professor Buda has worked at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa New Zealand, Saxion Business School, and University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In England, Professor Buda was Head of Marketing and Consumer Studies Research Centre at Nottingham Business School during 2020 - 2023, and previously she was Professor of Tourism Management and Head of the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism & Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University.

Appointments

University of Essex

• Faculty Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Essex (1/9/2023 - present)

• Professor of Tourism and Hospitality, Edge Hotel School, University of Essex (1/9/2023 - present)