I am currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Events at the University of Sunderland, UK. My teaching includes all areas of tourism and events and I write about "the economy" as multiple forms of economic practices (along the capitalist-non-capitalist spectrum) across space.

My recent publications include an edited book entitled Political Economy of Tourism: A Critical Perspective (Routledge, 2011). I am also book series editor (with Caroline Scarles) of Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism.

At the moment, I am editing a new book on neoliberalism in tourism to be published in 2012.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Honorary Secretary of the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group.