Professor Tom Mordue

Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

His main research interests are in:

Tourism development and management
Economic restructuring, cultural development, ‘urban renaissance’, and sustainable regional development.
Cultural industries
Social theory

Before joining Northumbria in July 2013, Tom was Head of the Lincoln Business School (LBS), leading on every aspect of the school’s operation and strategic development. He also held strategic responsibility for the Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre (LLMC), housed within LBS.

Prior to joining the University of Lincoln Tom was Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise at Teesside University Business School.

Tom holds a PhD in Human Geography from Durham University, and prior to his academic career he worked for British Airways for whom he set-up and developed several very profitable overseas tour operations in several different countries. He has also set up a successful property development business and managed a semi-professional football club.

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Key Publications

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How Does a Public Policy Fail? Creative City Policy and the Tensional Space of Artist-led Organizations, Prescott, R., Fan, Z., Elsahn, Z., Mordue, T. 7 Apr 2025, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Emerald
Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling, Mordue, T., Moss, O. 3 May 2024, In: Leisure Studies
More-than-human encounters with fish in the city: from careful angling practice to deadly indifference, Mordue, T., Wilson, S. 3 Sep 2023, In: Leisure Studies
What Business Schools Do to Support Academic Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda, Walsh, G., Cunningham, J., Mordue, T., McLeay, F., O’Kane, C., Connolly, N. 4 May 2021, In: Studies in Higher Education
Environment, Landscape, and Place in the Windfarm-Tourism ‘Conflict’, Mordue, T., Moss, O., Johnston, L. 10 Nov 2020, In: Europe Now
The Impact of Wine Tourism Involvement on Winery Owners' Identity Processes, Canovi, M., Mordue, T., Lyon, A. 2 Sep 2020, In: Tourism Planning and Development
The impacts of onshore-windfarms on a UK rural tourism landscape: objective evidence, local opposition, and national politics, Mordue, T., Moss, O., Johnston, L. 1 Nov 2020, In: Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Using Hike-Along Ethnographies to Explore Women's Leisure Experiences of Munro Bagging, Brown, D., Wilson, S., Mordue, T. Sep 2020, In: Leisure Studies
Angler and fish relations in the UK: Ethics, aesthetics and material semiotics, Mordue, T., Wilson, S. 5 Mar 2018, Wild Animals and Leisure, Taylor & Francis