{"id":3913,"date":"2016-11-20T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2016-11-19T21:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:23:29","slug":"dr-sean-beer-is-awarded-his-phd-and-receives-the-vice-chancellors-post-graduate-research-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/11\/20\/dr-sean-beer-is-awarded-his-phd-and-receives-the-vice-chancellors-post-graduate-research-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sean Beer is awarded his PhD and receives the Vice Chancellor\u2019s Post Graduate Research Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/11\/Sean_Beer.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3914 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/11\/Sean_Beer.jpg\" alt=\"sean_beer\" width=\"298\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/11\/Sean_Beer.jpg 298w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/11\/Sean_Beer-147x300.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>Wednesday 9<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> November was a great day for the Department of Tourism and Hospitality as we celebrated the graduation of our latest cohort of students.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Amongst the throng was a face that was familiar to many for this year Sean, now <a href=\"http:\/\/staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk\/display\/sbeer\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Sean Beer <\/a>was awarded his PhD.\u00a0 The study upon which it was based explored perceptions of the authenticity of food and had taken up much of the past 4 years of Sean\u2019s life. It culminated in his viva which Sean\u2019s first supervisor, Dr Lorraine Brown, described as an excellent defence. It was a double celebration as Sean also received the Vice Chancellor\u2019s Post Graduate Research Prize, which is awarded to the research student whose performance or achievement has been most outstanding in their time at BU.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The day was a particularly happy occasion as Sean was accompanied by his wife Anne, daughters Phoebe and Lucy, Sister Sue and mother Vivian.\u00a0\u00a0 As Sean said, \u201cThroughout my life I could not have achieved what I have without the support of my family.\u00a0 It would have been great if my father, Albert , could have seen this\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0Sean\u2019s father died part way through his studies and is fondly remembered as an inspirational person.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 9th November was a great day for the Department of Tourism and Hospitality as we celebrated the graduation of our latest cohort of students.\u00a0 Amongst the throng was a face that was familiar to many for this year Sean, now Dr Sean Beer was awarded his PhD.\u00a0 The study upon which it was based&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/11\/20\/dr-sean-beer-is-awarded-his-phd-and-receives-the-vice-chancellors-post-graduate-research-prize\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Dr Sean Beer is awarded his PhD and receives the Vice Chancellor\u2019s Post Graduate Research Prize<\/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":[164,7],"tags":[475,314,118,170],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-authenticity","tag-food","tag-phd","tag-sean-beer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","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=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}