Dimitri Lera
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872920
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Location
JT.12B, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Dimitri's ambition to teach and his passion for hospitality led him to take up the position of lecturer at the Edge Hotel School at the University of Essex. Dimitri has successfully applied for a doctorate in the Sociology department at Essex. He also takes part in charity sport events and is participating in the Petra Desert Marathon later this year. Dimitri Lera is an alumnus of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland. When he was 27 he oversaw the opening of the first ever river cruise ship operating in Italy, as hotel manager. At 30 he was deputy hotel director on award-winning Silversea’s Silver Shadow cruise ship in the United States. "My passion for hospitality stems from an innate curiosity for different cultures and a love for food, which originates from Italy’s rich regional culture." His professional experiences range from restaurant manager to food and beverage manager, deputy hotel director to hotel manager. Having gained professional experiences abroad, in several European cities as well as the USA and Eastern Europe, Dimitri settled in London where he was managing a well-established restaurant. Some of the clientele included royalties, acclaimed artist and musicians, renown politicians, and industry leading entrepreneurs.
Qualifications
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PhD researcher University of Essex, (2024)
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Master Sociology & Management University of Essex, (2018)
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Post Graduate Certificate Education MFL LondonMet, (2017)
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BA (Hons) Edge Hotel School University of Essex, (2015)
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BA (Assoc.) École Hôtelière de Lausanne, (1997)
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
The 'multiplier effect': Embedding the SDG for transformational sustainable education.
5th Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) Conference, The fierce urgency of now: Navigating paradoxes in sustainability education, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 21/5/2020
A model that solves the conflict between delivering theoretical knowledge and practical skills to students of events management
Association for Events Management Education (AEME), Hatfield, United Kingdom, 3/7/2019
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Food and Beverage Management (EG123)
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Delivering Event and Hotel Operations and the Customer Experience (EG124)
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Hospitality Operations (EG125)
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Hotel Operations 1 (EG200)
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Delivering Hotel Operations 1 (EG201)
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Hotel Operations 2 (EG202)
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Delivering Hotel Operations 2 (EG203)
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Hotel Operations 3 (EG204)
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Delivering Event and Hospitality Operations 1 (EG211)
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Delivering Event and Hospitality Operations 2 (EG213)
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Sustainability in Events and Hospitality (EG221)
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Hospitality Supervision, Data and Technology (EG224)
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Delivering Hospitality Operations and the Customer Experience (EG226)
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Delivering Event Operations and the Customer Experience (EG229)
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Delivering the Customer Experience 1 (EG301)
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Delivering the Customer Experience 2 (EG303)
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Delivering the Customer Experience 1 (EG306)
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Delivering the Customer Experience 2 (EG308)
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Food and Beverage Management (EG400)
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Continual Professional Development (EG401)
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Food and Beverage Management (EG403)
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Continual Professional Development (EG404)
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The Customer Experience 3 (EG304)
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The Customer Experience 3 (EG309)
Publications
Book chapters (1)
Lera, D., (2019). Food Sales. In: The Practical Guide to Understanding and Raising Hotel Profitability. Routledge. 1000690563. 9781000690569
Other (2)
Lera, D., (2018).Does the use of cognates equally benefit a varied pupil demographic?
Lera, D., (2017).Are Hotels’ Green Claims just ‘Greenwash’?