Ph.D. Middlesex University Business School, London

Previous Positions

• Lecturer, Middlesex University, London (2014-2016)
• Visiting scholar, Monash University Malaysia (2017)
• Visiting Scholar, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina (2016)
• Visiting lecturer, Institut Supérieur de Tourisme Sousse, Tunisia (2015)

• EU Funding Executive, Home Office, Intelligence Directorate, London (2013)

Awards and achievements

• 2017 British Council Grant, funded workshop attendance, Newton Researcher Links Workshop: Sustainable HRM in African Tourism
• 2016 British Council Grant, WK 204154386,funded workshop attendance, Newton Researcher Links Workshop: Advancing Maternity Protection in Malaysia - Meeting Social Welfare and Business Needs, and Contributing to Economic Development.
• 2016-2020 Horizon 2020-Marie Curie-RISE(Research & Innovation Staff Exchange) INCASI project (International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities) funded by the European Commission. H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 Project No 691004 [Pedro López-Roldán (PI)] funded secondment
• 2013-2016 Middlesex University Business School PhD Studentship
• 2011 Middlesex University Chancellor’s scholarship for academic excellence
• 2011 Aerosphere’sScholarship for academic excellence

Membership of professional bodies and associations

• Associate Equality in Tourism
• Dissertation prize coordinator: Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group, Royal Geographical Society
• Marie Skłodowska-Curiefellow

Referee for Journals

• Managing Editor e-Review of Tourism Research
• Editorial Review Board Tourism Planning and Development

Research Interests

• Tourism and Gender Studies
• Geography and Mobilities
• Postcolonial theory
• Research ethics and methods
• Discourse Analysis and qualitative methodologies

Recent Publications

Sposato, A. M. and Jeffrey, H.L. (forthcoming). Inside-Out Interviews: Cross-Cultural Research in China. Management and Organization Review

Jeffrey, H.L. and Rumens, N. (Forthcoming) The Influence of Tourism on Tunisian Femininities. In Novelli, M. Adu-Ampong, E. and Ribeiro, A. eds. Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa. Routledge

Jeffrey, H.L. (forthcoming) Maternity Protection and the Tunisian Tourism Industry. In Ndiuini, A. and Baum, T. eds. Sustainable HRM in tourism in Africa. Springer

Jeffrey, H. L., Ashraf, H., & Paris, C. M. (2019). Hanging out on Snapchat: disrupting passive covert netnography in tourism research. Tourism Geographies, 1-18.

Jeffrey, H.L. (2018) Tourism and Gendered Hosts and Guests, Tourism Review

Jeffrey, H.L. (2018) Tourism and Women’s Rights in Tunisia. In Cole, S. ed. Critical Voices on Gender, Tourism and Women's Empowerment. Wallingford: CABI

Jeffrey, H., Riccio, A., & Paris, C. M. (2018). Let’s Sit at the Table for Women’s Empowerment. e-Review of Tourism Research, 15(4/5).

Jeffrey, H.L. and Bleasdale, S. (2017) Tunisia: Mass Tourism in Crisis? In: Harrison, D. and Sharpley, R. eds. Mass Tourism in a Small World. Wallingford: CABI

Jeffrey, H.L. (2017) Gendering the Curriculum while Becoming an Academic, Anatolia, special issue on gender in the tourism academy

Munar, A.M. Caton, K. Eger, C. Jeffrey, H.L. Khoo-Lattimore, C. Lynch, P. Morgan, N.J. and Yang, E. (2017) The beauty and the abuse: a handbook on relationships and emotions in academia. Copenhagen. ISBN: 978-87-998210-2-0

Media Engagement

Editorial for The Caterer Middle East: https://www.caterermiddleeast.com/people/opinion/78663-opinion-dr-heather-jeffrey

Interview with Patrick Ryan for The National: https://www.thenational.ae/uae/beyond-aid-how-a-uae-social-enterprise-is-creating-opportunities-for-women-in-developing-countries-1.741064

Regular contributor to the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/heather-jeffrey/