Theme Two: Society and Culture; Individual, economic, organisational, political and social transformation. As well as, Human movement and performance; and Creativity, culture and artistic practice
Telephone: | +61 8 6304 5146 |
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Email: | s.kim@ecu.edu.au |
Campus: | Joondalup |
Room: | JO2.251 |
ORCID iD: | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2746-9952 |
Associate Professor Sean Kim is in the area of Tourism at the School of Business and Law.
Dr Kim is Associate Professor of Tourism and Creative Industries and Deputy Head of SBL Centre for Tourism Research. He is listed as the top 2% of the world’s most cited scientists in the field of “Sport, Leisure & Tourism” by Stanford University, consecutively in 2021 and 2022. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research (JHTR).
His main research areas are twofold. The first focuses on the close relationships between tourism and popular culture, with particular attention to tourism and (popular) media, media representation, celebrity cultures, and fan pilgrimage. Specifically, he is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of film tourism and its broader impacts and implications. The second theme is centred on the relationship between (in)tangible heritage (e.g., food and foodways), identity and tourism with particular attention to global food tourism phenomenon. His work is international and interdisciplinary at the boundaries of social psychology, cultural studies, media studies, geography, and tourism management and marketing.
He has published more than 100 scholarly and industrial publications. In addition, Associate Professor Kim has co-edited ‘Food Tourism in Asia (2019)’ and ‘Film tourism in Asia: Evolution, transformation and trajectory (2018)'.
Furthermore, he is regularly appointed as an expert advisory panel member and external assessor for prestigious funding bodies such as European Research Council (ERC) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Humanities and Social Sciences division.
Associate Professor Kim is currently a visiting professor at Hiroshima University in Japan. Prior to that, he served as a visiting professor at School of History, Culture and Communication in Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Theme Two: Society and Culture; Individual, economic, organisational, political and social transformation. As well as, Human movement and performance; and Creativity, culture and artistic practice
2022 - Invited Expert Public Lecture on “Hallyu and Film Tourism in South Korea’ in the UAE, hosted by The Embassy of the Republic Korea and Korean Cultural Centre in the UAE
2020 - Expert Advisory Panel Member for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Project entitled "Living in the media. Analysing the Impact of Media Tourism on Locals’ Identities and Sense of Belonging" funded by European Research Council
2016 - Best Paper Award at the 2016 International Conference on Tourism (ICOT 2016), Naples, Italy
2015 - Best Paper Award at the 2015 International Conference on Tourism (ICOT 2015), Middlesex University, London, UK
2014 - Best Paper Award at the 4th International Conference on Tourism Research (4ICTR), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
2012 - Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Early Career Researchers, Flinders University
2012 - Marquis Who's Who in the World