Dr Maria Casado-Diaz
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- Impacts of tourism
- lifestyle migration
- international retirement migration
- Social Capital
- residential tourism
- Sharing Economy
- Home exchange
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- Qualifications:
- BA; PhD; SFHEA.
- Position:
- School Director for Learning and Teaching
- Department:
- School of Architecture and Environment
- Telephone:
- +441173283116
- Email:
- Maria.Casado-Diaz@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
As School Director for Learning and Teaching at UWE Bristol, I provide strategic leadership for learning, teaching and student experience across the School of Architecture and Environment, and contribute to shaping institutional policy and practice in learning and teaching. My leadership focuses on inclusive curriculum and assessment, coherent student journeys, effective academic support, and evidence-informed educational enhancement, connecting my pedagogic scholarship with institutional practice and curriculum development.
I am an interdisciplinary social scientist whose research sits at the intersection of sociology and human geography, with particular expertise in human mobility and tourism, alongside scholarship and strategic leadership in higher education learning and teaching. My work is underpinned by a commitment to inclusive, research-informed education, coherent curriculum design and improving the student experience.
My research has two interconnected strands: human mobility and tourism, and higher education pedagogies and practice. My pedagogic scholarship focuses on assessment and feedback, academic personal tutoring, student belonging and continuation, and the opportunities and challenges associated with generative AI in higher education. Alongside this, I have conducted research on lifestyle and retirement migration, tourism mobilities, second homes, home sharing practices, spatial justice, social inclusion, and sustainable and resilient tourism destinations. I have published in leading international journals and contributed to major European and international research collaborations.
Area of expertise
Leadership & Scholarship in Higher Education; Tourism geographies; Contemporary migration/mobilities; Sociology of tourism; Second home tourism; Visiting friends and relatives tourism; Collaborative Economy and Home Exchange;
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