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Please refer to my page at Edinburgh Napier University's online repository for ongoing details of publications and research, including open access to some publications.
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In September 2022 I successfully defended my PhD thesis, in a public event at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. The PhD is the culmination of 15 years of work, covering publications on a wide range of topics. The full thesis is available online from Tilburg University, as a PDF. The Tilburg Uni page has a succinct summary of the overall piece of work. There is a more comprehensive summary within the thesis PDF itself.
Contained within the PhD text are nine publications that have contributed to the thesis. They are presented as plain text and figures, rather than as PDFs from the original publications. These papers are accompanied by a 55,000-word commentary, discussing the breadth of the themes, methods, conclusions and recommendations to come out of the work.
The full list of nine publications in chronological order is as follows:
Jarman, D. (2007). Mirror of the Nation: the Edinburgh Festivals and Scottish National Identity. In C. Aitchison & A. Pritchard (Eds.), Festivals and Events: Culture and Identity in Leisure, Sport and Tourism (pp. 1-8). Leisure Studies Association.
Jarman, D., & Theodoraki, E. (2011). Strategic Analysis of the Edinburgh FCTT: A Framework for Research. Economia della Cultura, 21(4), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1446/36617
Jarman, D., Theodoraki, E., Hall, H., & Ali-Knight, J. (2014). Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 5(3), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijefm-11-2013-0034
Further information is available from the corresponding blog post.
Jarman, D. (2016). The strength of festival ties: social network analysis and the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival. In I. Lamond & L. Platt (Eds.), Critical Event Studies: Approaches to Research (pp. 277-308). Palgrave Macmillan.
There's a little more on the book in this blog post, though the post is mainly about the one day Making Events Critical symposium I helped to organise in Manchester in September 2016.
Jarman, D. (2017). Personal networks in festival, event and creative communities: perceptions, connections and collaborations. In A. Jepson & A. Clarke (Eds.), Power, Construction and Meaning in Communities, Festivals and Events (pp. 65-89). Routledge.
Jarman, D. (2018a). Festival community networks and transformative place-making. Journal of Place Management and Development, 335-349. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-06-2017-0062
Jarman, D. (2018b). Social network analysis and the hunt for homophily: diversity and equality within festival communities. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 10(2), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2018.1414987
Jarman, D. (2021). Festival to festival: networked relationships between Fringe festivals. Event Management, 25(1), 99-113. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599520X15894679115510
Richards, G., & Jarman, D. (2021). Events as Platforms, Networks and Communities. Event Management, 25(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599520X15894679115420
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This following paper is my final project for the teaching qualification I completed with Edinburgh Napier. It looks at the development of event management as an academic subject, as well as reflecting on the links between undergraduate degree programmes and the events industry.
Pg Cert Professional Study: Event Management Curriculum by davidjarman
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For my Masters dissertation I wrote about the formation of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, 1956-1963. This was part of an MSc by research in Economic and Social History, completed with University of Edinburgh between 2004 and 2005. I worked with Dr Trevor Griffiths, who was also my undergraduate dissertation supervisor. The university was very generous and awarded me a scholarship for this Masters, covering my fees and some living and research expenses.
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My undergraduate dissertation, submitted in 2001 at the end of my MA (Hons.) Politics and Economic and Social History, brought my first degree to a close at the University of Edinburgh. The focus was on Scottish national identity on the Edinburgh festivals, looking at the 1940s, 1970s and 1990s. The most prominent festivals covered at the International Festival and the Fringe, although the Film Festival and the Military Tattoo have important parts to play as well.