Professor Dorina-Maria Buda
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Professor Dorina-Maria Buda, a TEDx Speaker and winner of a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship, is Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Professor of Tourism and Hospitality at Edge Hotel School. Professor Buda is the winner of a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in collaboration with the European Commission from 2013-2017 in value of €500,000. During 2016 - 2024, Professor Buda was also awarded an individual grant as part of the Innovation Research Incentives Scheme of the Dutch Research Council in value of €250,000 (full economic costing). In her research monograph Affective Tourism: Dark Routes in Conflict, as well as in her wider work published in top peer reviewed journals, Professor Buda examines dynamics of performance and consumption of tourist places in areas of ongoing socio-political turmoil and conflict such as North Korea, Iran, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian West Bank, as well as in eastern Europe. In-depth understandings of the role of emotions in such places can contribute to conflict negotiation and peace building. During her career, Professor Buda has worked at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa New Zealand, Saxion Business School, and University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In England, Professor Buda was Head of Marketing and Consumer Studies Research Centre at Nottingham Business School during 2020 - 2023, and previously she was Professor of Tourism Management and Head of the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism & Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University.
Appointments
University of Essex
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Faculty Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Essex (1/9/2023 - present)
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Professor of Tourism and Hospitality, Edge Hotel School, University of Essex (1/9/2023 - present)
Teaching and supervision
Publications
Journal articles (21)
Buda, DM., Affective Tourism
Buda, D-M., (2024). Haptic tourism: Touch and fear at the Separation Wall and its checkpoints in the Palestinian West Bank. Tourist Studies. 24 (3), 266-286
Burrai, E., Buda, D-M. and Stevenson, E., (2023). Tourism and refugee-crisis intersections: co-creating tour guide experiences in Leeds, England. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 31 (12), 2680-2697
Meekes, JF., Buda, DM. and de Roo, G., (2023). Complexity theories and ethnographies in planning for leisure-led regional development. European Planning Studies. 31 (9), 1885-1902
Germann Molz, J. and Buda, D-M., (2022). Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies. Tourism Geographies. 24 (2-3), 187-197
Ivanova, M., Buda, D-M. and Burrai, E., (2021). Creative and disruptive methodologies in tourism studies. Tourism Geographies. 23 (1-2), 1-10
Prayag, G., Buda, D-M. and Jordan, EJ., (2021). Mortality salience and meaning in life for residents visiting dark tourism sites. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 29 (9), 1508-1528
Ivanova, M. and Buda, D-M., (2020). Thinking rhizomatically about communist heritage tourism. Annals of Tourism Research. 84, 103000-103000
Meekes, JF., Buda, DM. and de Roo, G., (2020). Socio-spatial complexity in leisure development. Annals of Tourism Research. 80, 102814-102814
Martini, A. and Buda, DM., (2020). Dark tourism and affect: framing places of death and disaster. Current Issues in Tourism. 23 (6), 679-692
Martini, A. and Buda, D-M., (2019). Analysing affects and emotions in tourist e-mail interviews: a case in post-disaster Tohoku, Japan. Current Issues in Tourism. 22 (19), 2353-2364
Burrai, E., Buda, D-M. and Stanford, D., (2019). Rethinking the ideology of responsible tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 27 (7), 992-1007
Meekes, JF., Buda, DM. and De Roo, G., (2017). Leeuwarden 2018: Complexity of Leisure‐Led Regional Development in A European Capital of Culture. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 108 (1), 129-136
Buda, DM. and Shim, D., (2017). ‘Real’ and ‘normal’ North Korea: on the politics of shining light on the darkness. Reply to: ‘Shining light on the darkness. Placing tourists within North Korean tourism’. Current Issues in Tourism. 20 (4), 443-445
Meekes, JF., Buda, DM. and de Roo, G., (2017). Adaptation, interaction and urgency: a complex evolutionary economic geography approach to leisure. Tourism Geographies. 19 (4), 525-547
Postma, A., Buda, D-M. and Gugerell, K., (2017). The future of city tourism. Journal of Tourism Futures. 3 (2), 95-101
Buda, DM., (2016). Tourism in Conflict Areas. Journal of Travel Research. 55 (7), 835-846
Buda, DM., (2015). The death drive in tourism studies. Annals of Tourism Research. 50, 39-51
Buda, DM. and Shim, D., (2015). Desiring the dark: ‘a taste for the unusual’ in North Korean tourism?. Current Issues in Tourism. 18 (1), 1-6
Buda, DM., d’Hauteserre, A-M. and Johnston, L., (2014). Feeling and tourism studies. Annals of Tourism Research. 46, 102-114
Buda, DM. and McIntosh, AJ., (2013). Dark tourism and voyeurism: tourist arrested for “spying” in Iran. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research. 7 (3), 214-226
Books (2)
Buda, D-M. and Molz, JG., Affect and Emotion in Tourism. Routledge
Buda, DM., (2015). Affective tourism: Dark routes in conflict. Routledge. 1317587162. 9781317587163
Book chapters (4)
Molz, JG. and Buda, D-M., (2023). Open Access: Introduction: Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies. In: Affect and Emotion in Tourism. Routledge. 1- 11
Biran, A. and Buda, DM., (2018). Unravelling Fear of Death Motives in Dark Tourism. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 515- 532. 9781137475657
Cave, J. and Buda, D., (2018). Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 707- 726. 9781137475657
Cave, J. and Buda, D., (2013). Souvenirs as Transactions in Place and Identity: Perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand. In: Tourism and Souvenirs Glocal Perspectives from the Margins. 98- 116
Grants and funding
2026
Museums for Peace: Building Impact with Moldovan�s Museum for History and Ethnography in Calarasi
University of Essex (QR Impact Fund)
2024
Museums� Role for �Tourism and Peace� in Jordan and the Palestinian West Bank
University of Essex (Research England - PSF)
2023
Tourism in Conflict Places: A Study of the Emotional Dynamics of Dark Tourism in the Palestinian West Bank.
NWO Dutch Research Council