Greg Richards

 Greg Richards

Nationality: UK

Research Field: Social Science

Current position: Professor of Placemaking and Events at Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.

Research Assessment Experience

Czech Science Foundation (2010-2011)

AGAUR (Catalan research organization) (2010-2011)

Bournemouth University, UK, REF Research evaluation advisor (2013)

Fram Centre (Fram – High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment) (2016)

New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour Fund (2018-2019)

Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2018-2020)

Non-Panel Reviewer for the  Assessment Panel Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (PICO) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government.

International Research Management Experience

2013 – 2016 Editorial Advisor for the V.18 Cultural Mapping project, Valletta European Capital of Culture, Malta.

2014- 2018 Advisory Board Member for the Evaluation Programme for Valletta European Capital of Culture, Malta.

2015 – ATLAS Events Experiences Project

2015-2018 - Cultural Tourism Experiences in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

2016-2019 – Scientific advisor, CREATOUR – development of creative tourism in non-metropolitan areas. EU/Portuguese Research Council

2016-2019 – Scientific advisor, DOUROTOUR – development and marketing of gastronomic tourism experiences. EU/Portuguese Research Council

2017-2020 – Academic adviser, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tourism and Gastronomy Research Project.

2019 - Collaborative consumption and creative economy in the Cariri region, Brazil. (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development)

2019-2021 -  Cultures, identities and citymaking in the Greater Bay Area (Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

2020 – 2023 -  SmartCulTour: Innovative approaches to urban and regional development through cultural tourism, Horizon 2020 EU project.

2020-2023 – IMPACTOUR - IMproving Sustainable Development Policies and PrActices to assess, diversify and foster Cultural TOURism in European regions and areas,  Horizon 2020 EU project, advisory board.

2020-2023 – CultSense – ERASMUS+ project advisory board.