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Dr Jenny Hall

Associate Professor in Tourism and Events

Jenny Hall, Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Events

I am an Associate Professor in Tourism and Events at York Business School, York St John University. As a cultural geographer, my work is interdisciplinary exploring issues of social and ecological justice across tourism, leisure, events, heritage and sport.  I have published widely on the intersectional experiences of inequality in adventure and my research has influenced policy in mountaineering organisations in the United Kingdom. Recent publications include edited books 'Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering: Moving Mountains', 'The Mountain and the Politics of Representation' and a chapter in 'Other Everests: One Mountain Many Worlds'. I am currently working with Mountain Rescue England and Wales to understand women's experiences of mountain rescue and to create a practical toolkit to enable rescue teams to improve equality, diversity, and inclusion. 

As an expert in governance and policy in tourism concerning urban heritage, spatial justice, and regenerative tourism, I am currently working with North York Moors National Park on a five-year research project to investigate climate crisis and conservation through public engagement programmes. I am a Fellow of and Secretary of The Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the Other Everests AHRC Research Network. I have professional experience managing cultural regeneration projects in the public sector establishing and leading major venues, festivals, and cultural development programmes. I am a passionate mountaineer and a member of her local mountain rescue team.

I am the York Business School lead for the Principles in Responsible Management Education (PRME), which aims to embed the UN Global Compact within the curriculum, research and partnerships. I am also a Fellow of and Treasurer of The Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Other Everests AHRC Research Network.

You can follow me at @laughinggrouse / www.jennyhallgeographer.com / LinkedIn

Further information

Teaching

I teach across a range of Business and Management subject areas, including tourism, event, festival theory and management, entrepreneurship and small business creation. I currently teach on the following programmes:

  • BA (Hons) International Tourism & Hospitality Management
  • BA (Hons) Events & Experience Management
  • Executive MBA

I teach modules such as Dark Tourism, Responsible Tourism, Event Legacy and Impact and Tourism Industry and Insight.

I also accept and supervise post-doctoral researchers in the fields of:

  • Tourism, festivals and events
  • Adventure, sport and leisure tourism
  • Cultural heritage
  • Urban Tourism and historic cities
  • Sustainable/regenerative tourism and social justice
  • Business management, sustainability and gender

Publications

Paddison, B., & Hall, J. (2024). Regenerative tourism development as a response to crisis: harnessing practise-led approaches. Tourism Geographies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2381071

Hall, J., & Boocock, E. (2023). Embodying indigeneity in the mountains: Creating inclusive adventure spaces for Welsh women, United Kingdom. Tourism Cases, CABI Digital Library. https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/tourism.2023.0015

Hall, J., & Brown, M., K. (2022) Creating feelings of inclusion in adventure tourism: Lessons from the gendered, sensory and affective politics of professional mountaineering. Annals of Tourism Research, 97, 103505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103505

Paddison, B., & Hall, J. (2022). Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: Lessons from a tourist-historic city. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2022.2095391

Avner, Z., Boocock, E., & Hall., J. Allin, L. (2021). ‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’? Analysis of women-only adventure skills courses in the United Kingdom. Somatechnics, 11(3), 432 – 450. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0369

Research films

Burns, A., Hall, J., & Paddison, B. (2024). The Dark Matters. https://youtu.be/QBXWfc5w49w?si=NV2miZrqAYzQTmi2

Burns, A., Relton, G., Hall, M., & Hall, J. (2023). Nature Matters. Yorkshire & North East Film Archive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQu9WHsVp0s

Book chapters

Hall, J. (2024) Women on Everest: a summit beyond. In J. Westaway, P., Hansen, P. and Gilchrist, eds. Other Everests: One mountain, many worlds (Manchester: Manchester University Press) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179166/other-everests/

Hall, J., (2023). Julie Tullis: Sensory politics and climbing the Mountain of Mountains: In M. Hall & J. Hall, (Eds), Mountains and the Politics of Representation. Liverpool University Press.

Hall, J., & Miller, M. (2023). Troubling the silences of adventure legacies: Junko Tabei and the intersectional politics of mountaineering. In. J. Hall, E. Boocock & Z. Avner, (Eds), Gender Politics and Change in Mountaineering: Moving Mountains. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-031-29944-5  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29945-2

Hall, J., Boocock, E., & Avner, Z. (2023). Contextualizing gender and transformational spaces in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. In J. Hall, E. Boocock, & Z. Avner, (Eds.), Gender, politics and change in mountaineering: Moving mountains. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-031-29944-5  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29945-2

Hall, J., & Hall, M. (2023) Introduction: Mountains & the politics of representation. In M. Hall & J. Hall, (Eds.), Mountains and the politics of representation. Liverpool University Press. ISBN:9781837645060 

Hall, J., & Hall, M. (2023) Conclusion: Mountains & the politics of representation. In M. Hall & J. Hall, (Eds.), Mountains and the politics of representation. Liverpool University Press. ISBN:9781837645060 

Hall, J. (2018) Women mountaineers and affect: Fear, play and the unknown. In: Saul, H., Waterton, E. eds. Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure. London, Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315204246 https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/3721/

Edited books

Hall, J., Boocock, E., & Avner, Z. (Eds.). (2023). Gender Politics and Change in Mountaineering: Moving mountains. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-031-29944-5, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29945-2

Hall, M., & Hall, J. (Eds.). (2023). Mountains and the Politics of Representation. Liverpool University Press. ISBN:9781837645060 

Book reviews

Hall, J. (2020) Tourism & Embodiment. Review of Tourism and Embodiment, by Catherine Palmer & Hazel Andrews. Leisure Studies, 39(2), pp. 304-305, DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2019.1711147

Hall, J. (2020) Deviant Leisure. Review of Deviant Leisure by Thomas Raymen & Oliver Smith. Leisure Studies, 39(4), pp. 613-615, DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2020.1745261

Hall, J. (2021) Leveraging disability sport events: impacts, promises, and possibilities. Review of Leveraging disability sport events: impacts, promises, and possibilities, by Lisa Misener, Gayle McPherson, David McGillivray and David Legg. Leisure Studies, DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2021.1896771

Hall, J. (2021) Indigenous Feminist Gikendassowin (Knowledge) Decolonization through Physical Activity. Review of Indigenous Feminist Gikendassowin (Knowledge) Decolonization through Physical Activity by Tricia McGuire-Adams, Leisure Studies doi-org.yorksj.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/02614367.2021.1962394 .

Hall, J. (2022) Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures Through Feminist Knowledges. Review of Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures Through Feminist Knowledges by Simone Fullagar, Emma Rich, Adele Pavlidis and Cathy van Ingen, Leisure Studies DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2022.2037152

Hall, J. (2022) Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late Capitalist City: An Ethnography. Review of Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late Capitalist City: An Ethnography, by Thomas Raymen. Nordic Sport Studies Forum: Making Sense of Sports.

Conference papers

Conference papers                                                                                        

Hall, J., & Paddison, B. (2024, 19 Jun). Nature Matters [Accepted paper]. Slowing Down Tourism in the Era of the Anthropocene II Symposium, York, United Kingdom.

Hall, J., & Paddison, B, (2024, 20 Jun). The Dark Matters [Accepted paper], Slowing Down Tourism in the Era of the Anthropocene II Symposium, York, United Kingdom.

Amore, A., Prince, S., Grabher, B., Pecoreli, V., & Hall, J., (2024, 20 Jun). Re-negotiating leisure, events and tourism in the age of Anthropocene [Accepted paper], Slowing Down Tourism in the Era of the Anthropocene II Symposium, York, United Kingdom.

Hall, J., & Paddison, B., & Hawtin, M. (2024, Aug 25 – 30). The Dark Matters: Mapping Human and Non-Human Interactions of Leisure and Tourism Dark Sky Conservation, [Accepted paper]. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Hall, J., Paddison, B., & Hawtin, M. (2024, Aug 24 – 30). The Dark Matters: Understanding the impact of public engagement in a protected International Dark-Sky Reserve in the United Kingdom [Accepted paper], in [session] C.17: Tourism, Leisure and Global Change: Beyond development: community empowerment, social justice, and the local in tourism. 35th International Geographical Congress 2024, Dublin, Ireland, https://igc2024dublin.org/

Hall, J., & Paddison, B. (2024, Jul 10 – 12). Carnival of the Heavens: Leisure-based voluntary conservation in International Dark-Sky Reserves [Accepted paper]. Leisure Studies Association Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Hall, J. (2023, Aug 29 - 31 – Sept 1). Gender, climate change adaptation: bringing together social and environmental science for mountain tourism and recreation adaptation. [Invited panel member]. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Hall, J & Paddison B. (2023, Aug 29 - 31 – Sept 1). Covid-19 and Regenerative Tourism: Harnessing hopeful approaches in the tourist-historic city [Paper presentation], in [session] The Politics of Structural Change. Paradigms, Instruments and Conflicts of Transforming the Economy. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Hall, J., & Paddison. (2023, June 14 - 17). Covid-19 and Regenerative Tourism: Harnessing hopeful policy approaches in the tourist-historic city [paper presentation]. Regional Studies International Annual Conference Transforming Regions: Policies and planning for people and places, Ljubljana, Slovenia, https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/2023rsaannualconf/

Hall, J., & Paddison. (2023, June 14 - 17). Regenerative approaches to heritage: Creating sustainable futures through heritage informed neighbourhood planning [Paper presentation]. Regional Studies International Annual Conference Transforming Regions: Policies and planning for people and places, https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/2023rsaannualconf/

Hall, J. (2023 April 19 - 21). Embodying indigeneity in the mountains: Creating inclusive adventure spaces for Welsh women, United Kingdom [Paper presentation]. International Scientific Conference: Women in Tourism, Split, Croatia. https://www.iztzg.hr/en/wintconference/

Hall, J., & Paddison, B. (2022, Aug). Beyond Recovery: Sustainable Urban Tourism [Paper presentation]. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Newcastle, UK.

Paddison, B., & Hall, J. (2022, July 18 - 22). COVID-19 and Spatial Injustice: Implications for tourism policy [Paper presentation]. UGI-IGU Time For Geographers The Centennial Congress, Paris, France.

Hall, J. (2022, July 5 - 6). Gendered experiences of women mountaineers: Junko Tabei mountaineering hero? [Paper Presentation]. Other Everests Symposium: Commemoration, memory and meaning and the British Everest expedition centenaries, 2021-2024, Royal Geographical Society, London, https://www.othereverests.com/events.html#:~:text=Other%20Everests%20symposium,on%205%2D6%20July%202022.

Paddison, B., & Hall, J. (2022, Mar 21 – Apr 1). Reimagining policymaking and community engagement in the tourist-historic city [Paper presentation]. Regions in Recovery Second Edition 2022: Reimaging Regions, Regional Studies Association, Online Conference, https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/rinr2022/

Hall, J., & Brown, K. M. (2021, Aug 31 – Sept 3). Gender, affect and sensory politics in adventure tourism: Lessons from the experiences of professional female mountaineers [Paper presentation] [In session] Everest as a space of Exception, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Paddison, B., & Hall, J. (2021, Aug 31 – Sept 3). Re-purposing tourism for purpose: Engaging our radical in a Northern English Tourist Town. [Paper presentation], [In session] Tourism Geographies of the Future, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Barratt, P, & Hall, J. (2021, Aug 31 – Sept 3). Immersive engagements in the digital worlds of static cycling. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Hall, J., (2020, Jun 7 - 10) What’s Tourism got to do with it? Re-purposing Tourism: Engaging our Radical in Tourism Education. [Paper presentation]. Tourism Education Futures Initiative 11 Virtual Conference. York, United Kingdom. https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/yorkbusinessschool/2020/06/19/york-business-school-has-hosted-a-virtual-international-conference-to-address-tourism-education-in-a-dramatically-changing-world/

Paddison, B., & Hall, J. (2019, Aug 27 - 30). Redesigning the room: Troubling geographies of adventure tourism [Paper presentation]. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Paddison, B., & Hall, J. (2019, Aug 27 - 30). Governance and sustainable engagement: Building equality within public and private tourism spaces [Paper presentation], [In session] Geographies of inequality and hope: Towards sustainable tourism futures. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Hall, J., & Miller, M. (2019, Jun 18 - 21). Who can be a mountaineer? Troubling the silences of adventure legacies [Paper presentation]. 7th International Adventure Conference, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://atra.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IAC2019_BookOfAbstracts.pdf

Academic achievements

Achievements

2023 – Current – UOA 17 Business Management Lead – REF 2029

2022 – Current – Member - Other Everests: Commemoration, Memory and Meaning and the British Everest Expedition Centenaries, 2021-2024 (PI AHRC Networking Grant AH/W004917/1).

2021 – Current – Appointed York Business School Principals of Management Education (PRME) lead

2020 - Current - Member of Visitor Economy Research Group, York St John University.

2019 – Current - Member of Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI).

2019 – Current – Fellow of Higher Education Academy

2018 – Current - Treasurer of the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group, Royal Geographical Society.

2016 – Current – Fellow of Royal Geographical Society.

2018 – Current – Member of Behavioural Social Sciences Network, Manchester University.

Editorial and peer review

  • Subject Editor, Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
  • Tourism Geographies
  • Gender, Place and Culture A Journal of Feminist Geography
  • Cultural Geographies
  • Leisure Sciences
  • Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Tourism Cases, CABI International

Research

As a cultural geographer, my research explores social justice in tourism, leisure, heritage and cultural contexts. My recent work investigated the intersectional ways in which mountain adventure environments are experienced by women. This work identified how Welsh women face discrimination through a lack of recognition of their Inidigeniety and highlighted how speaking Welsh in the mountains helped them to connect to a sense of cultural identity. In contrast, I have also been working on producing a film that explores how independent businesses in York have recovered following COVID-19 and are now thriving in the city centre.  

I have published internationally in leading tourism journals and present regularly and major international academic conferences such as the International Women in Tourism Conference and the Royal Geographical Society International Conference. I am Treasurer of the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group. I also lead an international partnership to deliver an International Conference, Slowing Down, Tourism Scholarship and Practice in the Era of the Anthropocene, which attracted over 140 delegates from 39 countries in 2023.

Current research

I produced a film that explores how climate crisis in the Yorkshire region with the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive Nature Matters.

I am working with the North York Moors National Park (NYMNP) and North York Moors Trust, and delivered research evaluation on the National Parks resident and tourism survey in 2023; initiating a regenerative tourism pilot research project to explore dark skies and how public engagement can achieve conservation goals to reduce light pollution in protect zones; delivering 5 year research evaluation of NYMNP REConnect Climate Action project (2024 to 2029), which will evaluate impact of local communities connecting with nature conservation to affect species recovery and transform host community behaviours towards caring for the environment. These projects are built upon internationally significant published studies in regenerative tourism, and contribute to an impact case study that explore climate crisis in protected zones.

I am working in partnership with Leeds Beckett University and Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) to research equality, diversity and inclusion in UK Search and Rescue Services (UKSAR). This pilot research will be presented at the National MREW conference in 2024. This research builds on studies concerning intersectionality, gender and inequality through work with the National Mountaineering Centre at Glenmore Lodge (2021) and The Outdoor Partnership (2022), in partnership with Northumbria University, which realised a 3*publication, Tourism Cases, CABI Digital Library, and *4 paper published in Annals of Tourism Research. This work contributes to a growing portfolio of research, which is achieving impact in the adventure tourism sector.

I am working with Dr B. Paddison on the next phase of the ongoing tourism impact case study “Regenerative tourism in post-pandemic times: Hopeful signs in the tourist-historic city.” The project works in partnership with the industry-led York Tourism Advisory Board. In addition, to working on 2 Institute of Social Justice projects with The Good Organisation and on a project with York Archaeological Trust.

Professional activities

Industry reports

Paddison, B., Hall, J., Radcliffe, T., Biggins, B., Alexiou, A., & Hyde, B. (2024). Diversification of visitors and organisation. York Archaeology Trust (Unpublished Report)

Hall, J., Paddison, B., & Moisieiev, D. (2023). North York Moors National Park Resident Survey 2024. North York Moors National Park (Published Report). https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/tourism/residents-survey

Hall, J., & Doran, A. (2020) Researching Female Mountaineers, United Kingdom. Capel Curig, Mountain Training UK (Unpublished Report). https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4625/