{"id":3347,"date":"2016-05-22T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T10:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2016-05-22T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T10:56:16","slug":"graduate-christy-hehir-works-at-visitbritain-as-a-research-and-evaluation-specialist-buproud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/05\/22\/graduate-christy-hehir-works-at-visitbritain-as-a-research-and-evaluation-specialist-buproud\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Christy Hehir works at VisitBritain as a Research and Evaluation Specialist #BUProud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I graduated with an MSc Tourism Management and Planning in\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">2009 and i am now working at\u00a0VisitBritain as a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Research and Evaluation Specialist.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">My MSc sparked my passion for research. Now at VisitBritain I lead on all stages of the research process \u2013 to champion, develop and deliver a return on investment process for VisitBritain\u2019s commercial partnerships, online marketing and travel trade work globally across 23 offices in 21 core and emerging markets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/05\/CH-VB.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3348\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3348\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/05\/CH-VB-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"CH VB\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/05\/CH-VB-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/05\/CH-VB-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/05\/CH-VB-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/05\/CH-VB.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Many\u00a0aspects of my course helped me succeed after graduating,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">My award winning MSc dissertation titled, \u2018The future of Antarctica. Is tourism an ally or an enemy?\u2019 propelled my polar research. After graduating, I was invited by Dr. Peter Prokosch, Managing Director UNEP\/GRID-Arendal to participate in a 7-day training and research expedition in Svalbard, subsequently leading to my first book \u2018Arctic to Action\u2019, published in 2012.\u00a0My\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">advice to recent graduates looking for work is to a<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ttend as many industry events\/conferences which are of interest as possible. Not only will you keep your industry trends knowledge up to date, you will also have the opportunity to network and meet key players within that sector. Bournemouth University gives you so many opportunities to do that! Just grab them ! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Top tip: request the delegate list ahead of the event and plan your networking before you arrive!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated with an MSc Tourism Management and Planning in\u00a02009 and i am now working at\u00a0VisitBritain as a\u00a0Research and Evaluation Specialist.\u00a0My MSc sparked my passion for research. Now at VisitBritain I lead on all stages of the research process \u2013 to champion, develop and deliver a return on investment process for VisitBritain\u2019s commercial partnerships, online&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/05\/22\/graduate-christy-hehir-works-at-visitbritain-as-a-research-and-evaluation-specialist-buproud\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Graduate Christy Hehir works at VisitBritain as a Research and Evaluation Specialist #BUProud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,8],"tags":[393,391],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-student-experience","tag-buproud","tag-butourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}