{"id":1317,"date":"2013-02-18T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T10:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2013-02-18T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T10:17:48","slug":"school-of-tourisms-alexandra-correia-is-awarded-her-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2013\/02\/18\/school-of-tourisms-alexandra-correia-is-awarded-her-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Tourism\u2019s Alexandra Correia is awarded her PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, part time PhD student Alexandra Correia had her Viva Voce for her PhD titled <em>&#8220;An examination of inter-business cooperation by wine and tourism small and medium-sized businesses in the Douro Valley of Portugal&#8221;.<\/em> Alexandra was awarded her PhD subject to a few minor changes.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra commented on the experience:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The completion of the PhD represents the fulfilment of a very much awaited goal. Writing the thesis was simultaneously a challenging journey and a greatly rewarding learning process. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Having the opportunity to be supervised by such a good supervision team (Professor Roger Vaughan, Professor Alan Fyall and Dr Philip Alford) made this an unforgettable and enriching experience.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Alexandra continued \u201c<em>The final step &#8211; the Viva Voce, as part of the all experience, was equally gratifying.\u00a0\u00a0 In the end, having achieved the PhD makes me to look back and be 100% sure that this journey and all the associated efforts were worthwhile.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Congratulations from everyone in the School of Tourism to Alexandra on this incredible achievement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, part time PhD student Alexandra Correia had her Viva Voce for her PhD titled &#8220;An examination of inter-business cooperation by wine and tourism small and medium-sized businesses in the Douro Valley of Portugal&#8221;. Alexandra was awarded her PhD subject to a few minor changes. Alexandra commented on the experience: \u201cThe completion of the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2013\/02\/18\/school-of-tourisms-alexandra-correia-is-awarded-her-phd\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about School of Tourism\u2019s Alexandra Correia is awarded her PhD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,7,8],"tags":[24,118,135],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","category-student-experience","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-phd","tag-school-of-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}