Last week, after a successful defence of her thesis, Maeve Marmion was awarded her PhD subject to some minor amendments.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Maeve\u2019s PhD titled \u201cUnderstanding Heritage: Multiple Meanings and Values<\/em>\u201d, aimed to explore the ways in which people understand and value heritage through a focus on the lay rather than the expert view.<\/p>\n Maeve conducted focus groups for her research into the lay perspective of heritage in order to compliment the academic and industry definitions of heritage that already exist.<\/p>\n Maeve intends to disseminate \u00a0her findings through conference papers and \u00a0journal articles, and she aims to develop her research into interpretations of heritage by targeting a different population from that used in her doctoral study.<\/p>\n She is also intending to publish a journal article on the practical use and pitfalls of focus groups research.<\/p>\n Lorraine Brown , Masters framework leader, who was the 3rd<\/sup> supervisor on Maeve\u2019s PhD commented that \u201cMaeve gave an excellent defence of her thesis, and was passionate and engaging throughout<\/em>\u201d Maeve was further praised for how well written her thesis was.<\/p>\n For anyone interested in undertaking a PhD at Bournemouth University School of Tourism please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, after a successful defence of her thesis, Maeve Marmion was awarded her PhD subject to some minor amendments. \u00a0Maeve\u2019s PhD titled \u201cUnderstanding Heritage: Multiple Meanings and Values\u201d, aimed to explore the ways in which people understand and value heritage through a focus on the lay rather than the expert view. Maeve conducted focus… Read more » about PhD Success for Maeve Marmion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"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":[24,74,118,135,387],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","category-student-experience","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-heritage","tag-phd","tag-school-of-tourism","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}