Dr Kelly Maguire

Dr Kelly Maguire is a Lecturer and Researcher in the area of Tourism Management and Events Management at the Technological University of the Shannon: Athlone Campus. She has previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in International Tourism Management and Events Management at Liverpool John Moore’s University. Her doctoral research study provided the first nationwide baseline study on Local Authority sustainable planning for event management in Ireland (2018). Her research interests include community engagement in drive tourism on the Wild Atlantic Way, sustainable planning for events, tourism planning, and Local Authority planning.

 

She has worked with Local Authorities in planning large-scale outdoor public events in Ireland. She is an independent research consultant in technologies for tourism and travel apps and has acted as co-principal investigator on industry research funded by the National Tourism Development Authority of Ireland.

 

Kelly undertakes conceptual and applied research across tourism and events contexts focusing on the sustainable planning and management of destinations and events and developing evidence informed approaches to planning for tourism and events industries. Kelly also supervises Masters and Doctoral Research Studies and at present is supervising three PhD projects. She has published in a range of journals and reviews articles for a number of established journal publications. She is also the co-editor of ‘A Research Agenda for Event Impacts’ (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022) and ‘Places, Practices and (soft) Power’ (Sage Journals, 2019).