All Outputs (32)

Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IRONSIDE, R. and ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2024. Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum. Presented at the Roots revived conference: memory, legacy, heritage and tourism, 17 October 2024, Edinburgh, UK.

Prison museums have become an increasingly popular tourist attraction. Presenting visitors with stories and exhibits pertaining to countries' penal history, they engage with difficult and often dissonant heritage. Peterhead Prison Museum ceased opera... Read More about Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum..

Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. (2024)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. and SMITH, F. [2024]. Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. Tourism geographies [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412547

Ghosts, hauntings and the spectral are intrinsically linked to sites of dark tourism. Supernatural stories commonly emerge in places connected with tragedy, death and the macabre, forming spectral geographies in which the past and present intertwine.... Read More about Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral..

Supernatural cities: placing urban identities, memory and cultural crises. (2024)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. and EDWARDS-BOON, A. (eds.) 2024. Supernatural cities: placing urban identities, memory and cultural crises. Revenant [online], 11. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/revenant-11

This special issue builds upon a body of scholarship already developed from the Supernatural Cities project led by Karl Bell at the University of Portsmouth and his edited collection of essays, Supernatural Cities: Enchantment, Anxiety and Spectralit... Read More about Supernatural cities: placing urban identities, memory and cultural crises..

Virtual afterlife: dark tourism in the hereafter. (2024)
Book Chapter
IRONSIDE, R. and LEITH, C. 2024. Virtual afterlife: dark tourism in the hereafter. In Stone, P.R. and Wright, D.W.M. (eds.). The future of dark tourism: enlightening new horizons. The future of tourism, 8. Bristol: Channel View Publications Ltd [online], Chapter 2, 27-37. Available from: https://www.channelviewpublications.com/page/detail/?k=9781845418984

"…you are now travelling to the Virtual Afterlife…". It is Sunday afternoon in the year 2040. Charlotte reaches for her virtual headset and waits to connect with her friend, Becca. Today they have chosen to connect virtually in a small café in the ce... Read More about Virtual afterlife: dark tourism in the hereafter..

Telling the story, of telling the story ... of telling the story. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
REID, P., PIRIE, E. and IRONSIDE, R. 2024. Telling the story, of telling the story ... of telling the story. Presented at the "Telling the story, of telling the story ... of telling the story" workshop, 29 May 2024, Aberdeen, UK.

This is a workshop held within RGU by Peter Reid, Elliot Pirie and Rachael Ironside. The presenters discuss their recent publication, "Telling the story of telling the story: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in... Read More about Telling the story, of telling the story ... of telling the story..

Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands. (2024)
Thesis
ROITERSHTEIN, O. 2024. Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2344221

This study proposes a method for understanding local contextual circumstances and their effect on tourism-related sustainability needs. Based on this understanding, it offers a Place-based Strategy Evaluation Framework (PSEF), which can recognise whe... Read More about Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands..

Reimagining the rural hinterland: an investigation of participatory digital placemaking in rural communities. (2024)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. and REID, P. 2024. Reimagining the rural hinterland: an investigation of participatory digital placemaking in rural communities. Culture unbound [online], 16(1): place making beyond cities, pages 60-85. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.4287

Rural locations often form a hinterland – geographically and culturally - for large conurbations that dominate a particular region. They are interconnected, sometimes interdependent, but also separated by the social and spatial perceptions of a place... Read More about Reimagining the rural hinterland: an investigation of participatory digital placemaking in rural communities..

Ghost hunting events and storytelling. (2024)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R.J. 2024. Ghost hunting events and storytelling. Event management [online], 28(4): festivals and storytelling: creating experiences through stories, places, and spaces, pages 649-654. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3727/152599524X17077053867629

Ghost hunting events are a popular leisure activity providing visitors with an immersive dark experience, connecting them with the dark heritage and supernatural legends of a place. This research note aims to conceptualize the role of storytelling in... Read More about Ghost hunting events and storytelling..

Death, ghosts, and spiritual tourism: conceptualizing a dark spiritual experience spectrum for the paranormal market. (2023)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. 2023. Death, ghosts, and spiritual tourism: conceptualizing a dark spiritual experience spectrum for the paranormal market. Journal of scientific exploration [online], 37(4), pages 586-601. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31275/20233227

Paranormal tourism is a lucrative market offering visitors the opportunity to engage with enchanting experiences and stories in destinations around the world. Specifically, ghost tourism connects people to the dead (and death) through dark narratives... Read More about Death, ghosts, and spiritual tourism: conceptualizing a dark spiritual experience spectrum for the paranormal market..

Telling the story of telling the story: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach. (2023)
Journal Article
REID, P.H., PIRIE, E. and IRONSIDE, R. 2024. Telling the story of telling the story: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach. Journal of documentation [online], 80(2), pages 508-532. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2023-0106

This research explored the storytelling (collection, curation, and use) in the Cabrach, a remote Scottish glen. The aim of the research was to capture the methodological process of storytelling and curation of heritage knowledge through the lens of t... Read More about Telling the story of telling the story: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach..

Leisure myths and mythmaking. (2023)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. 2024. Leisure myths and mythmaking. World leisure journal [online], 66(1), pages 151-154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2261407

This is a book review of 'Leisure myths and mythmaking', which is an insightful collection of essays which address the "absence presence" of myth and mythmaking in leisure studies.

Immersive study of Gestalt variables in uncanny geographies. (2023)
Journal Article
HOURAN, J., LAYTHE, B., LANGE, R., HANKS, M. and IRONSIDE, R. 2023. Immersive study of Gestalt variables in uncanny geographies. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research [online], 87(2), pages 65-100. Available from: https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-87-2%20JSPR%20COVER.pdf

We conducted two preliminary studies to test the hypothesis that 'haunted, sacred, or enchanted' spaces are characterized by certain environmental Gestalt variables that define their space syntax or architectural phenomenology and thus help to consci... Read More about Immersive study of Gestalt variables in uncanny geographies..

It feels real: events management and online experiential-learning in COVID-19. (2023)
Journal Article
GOLDIE, K., IRONSIDE, R. and PIRIE, E. 2023. It feels real: events management and online experiential-learning in COVID-19. Distance education [online], 44(2), pages 230-245. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2023.2198490

This paper examines the experience of students transitioning between online and in-person live event projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon longitudinal qualitative data collected over a 3-year period, we explored how students perceived... Read More about It feels real: events management and online experiential-learning in COVID-19..

The spik o the place: dialect and its place in the folkloric cultures and traditions in North-East Scotland. (2023)
Book Chapter
REID, P.H. 2023. The spik o the place: dialect and its place in the folkloric cultures and traditions in North-East Scotland. In Hunter, J. and Ironside, R. (eds.) Folklore, people and places: international perspectives on tourism and tradition in storied places. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003374138-6

This chapter explores the role that the Doric dialect has in the cultural heritage and folklore traditions of North-East Scotland, as well as how visitors to the region encounter it. The chapter considers the place of dialect in folklore more genera... Read More about The spik o the place: dialect and its place in the folkloric cultures and traditions in North-East Scotland..

Folklore, people, and places: international perspectives on tourism and tradition in storied places. (2023)
Book
HUNTER, J. and IRONSIDE, R. (eds.) 2023. Folklore, people and places: international perspectives on tourism and tradition in storied places. Abingdon: Routledge [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003374138

Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts. The book showcases a range of international case st... Read More about Folklore, people, and places: international perspectives on tourism and tradition in storied places..

Introduction: mapping the territory. (2023)
Book Chapter
IRONSIDE, R. and HUNTER, J. 2023. Introduction: mapping the territory. In Hunter, J. and Ironside, R. (eds.) Folklore, people and places: international perspectives on tourism and tradition in storied places. Abingdon: Routledge [online], pages 1-24. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003374138-1

This book is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts, and in particular with how they intersect with a constantly developi... Read More about Introduction: mapping the territory..

Building community and emphasising learning beyond the classroom. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEITH, C. and IRONSIDE, R. 2022. Building community and emphasising learning beyond the classroom. Presented at the 2022 RGU annual learning and teaching conference (RGU LTC 2022): enhancing for impact, 21 October 2022, Aberdeen, UK.

Due to the lengthy (and ongoing) disruption caused by COVID-19, the Tourism, Hospitality and Events teaching team recognised the need to rebuild and foster a greater sense of community within the subject area. Furthermore, the blog was seen as a way... Read More about Building community and emphasising learning beyond the classroom..

The uncanny place: a critical appraisal of popular paranormal TV shows. (2022)
Journal Article
SMITH, F. and IRONSIDE, R. 2022. The uncanny place: a critical appraisal of popular paranormal TV shows. Journal of popular television [online], 10(1), pages 95-198. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv_00072_1

This article examines the construction of the uncanny place in reality paranormal television. Two introductory sequences from the British programme Most Haunted (2002-present) are analysed that investigate 'ordinary homes' to consider the way that pl... Read More about The uncanny place: a critical appraisal of popular paranormal TV shows..

Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences. (2021)
Book
IRONSIDE, R. and WOOFFITT, R. 2021. Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88407-9

This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal research groups as they conduct real life investigations... Read More about Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences..

Dreaming of digital cakes: reflections on transitioning event-based assessment online. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
JONES, K. and IRONSIDE, R. 2021. Dreaming of digital cakes: reflections on transitioning event-based assessment online. Presented at the 2021 RGU annual learning and teaching conference (RGU LTC 2021): creativity from crisis: emerging stronger, 8 June 2021, Aberdeen, UK.

This paper examines the impact of a change in delivery - from an assessed live events project to a digital events project - in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of this paper is on two modules delivered to Stage 3 and Stage 4 students on t... Read More about Dreaming of digital cakes: reflections on transitioning event-based assessment online..