Neil Carr

Biography

Since obtaining his PhD in tourism geography from the University of Exeter in 1998, Neil has worked as a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Queensland (Australia), and a senior lecturer at the University of Otago (New Zealand). In 2009, he was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Otago and in 2014 he took on the part time position of Associate Dean (postgraduate) in the Business School at the University of Otago. Since 2015 he has been the Head of Department of Tourism at the University of Otago. He has also, from 2013, been the editor of the Annals of Leisure Research.

Research Interest

Neil’s research encompasses a variety of interests that utilise tourism and leisure experiences as a cross-disciplinary lens through which to view behaviour; with a particular emphasis on children and families, identity formation, risk, gender, animals (particularly, but not exclusively, dogs) and animal rights, zoos, freedom, and sex and the sexual. As such my research is firmly situated within a social science/humanities framework but at the same time clearly links into the applied reality of tourism and leisure as both social phenomena, areas of academic research, and global industries.