Doğan Gürsoy
Regents Professor and Taco Bell Distinguished Professor of Hospitality Business Management, Carson College of Business, Washington State University, USA, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Dogan Gursoy is the Taco Bell Distinguished Professor in the School of Hospitality Business Management, Carson College of Business at Washington State University and the editor of Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management (SSCI IF: 12.5). He is the recipient of the 2021 ICHRIE Lifetime Research Achievement Award and the 2019 University of Delaware’s Michael D. Olsen Research Achievement Award. He is also the recipient of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar (长江学者) award from the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. The Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar award, is the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. His area of research includes services management, hospitality and tourism marketing, tourist behavior, travelers’ information search behavior, community support for tourism development, cross-cultural studies, consumer behavior, involvement, generational leadership, sustainability, and artificially intelligent device use in service delivery.
Dr. Gursoy is also one of the few hospitality and tourism scholars who received the Highly Cited Researcher Award and Recognition from Clarivate in 2021, 2022, and 2023. According to Clarivate, the Highly Cited Researcher Award recognizes the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science. Clarivate states that of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000.
Workshop: Research Funding: Hard nut to crack?
Professor Levent Altinay will share his experience of successful funding applications to the prestigious funding bodies including EU, Horizon, ESRC (Economic Social Research Council), Newton, British Academy, British Council and TUBITAK. During the workshop, Altinay will cover a wide range of topics including creative idea generation for research funding, formation of multidisciplinary research consortiums, use of networks, research design, dissemination of research findings and the generation of academically robust, practically meaningful research impact.