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Dr Sharon Wilson

Associate Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Sharon Wilson is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneuship, Innovation and Strategy with a focus on Transport Mobilities, Cultural geographies and Tourism at University of Northumbria Business School. My interdisciplinary research is situated within a global network for social science based mobilities, promoting it as a key discipline for the modernization of societies. Through regular publications and conferences, I enrich a dialogue with civil society and business about the social and environmental challenges of mobility through embodiment theory and non-representational theory.

My outputs include an internationally recognised contributions such as: Leverhulme Project Infrastructure Stories and publications In Annals of Tourism Research, Annals of Association of Geographers, Leisure Studies and Mobilities Journal. I have just completed a seed corn funded project on e-scooter embodied mobilities and an on the editorial Committe at Applied Mobilities. 

A keen researcher, since starting in academia 2010, I have presented at 20 conferences, including RC50 in Thailand, organiser, and discussant at the Royal Geographical Society (IBG) Exeter University and the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in New York, Chicago and Boston. I was set to conduct fieldwork at the Davis-Monthan Airforce Base and Pima Air and Space Museum Tuscan, Arizona to collect data for joint publication. 

I also welcome applications from potential PhD students interested in my supervision. Do please feel free to get in touch.

Sharon3.wilson@northumbria.ac.uk

Recent Publications 

Wilson, S., Miller, J. C., & King, H. M. (2024). The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2380927

D, Trandberg-Jenson, Chambers, D, Wilson, S (2023) The Future of Deaf Tourism Studies: an interdisciplinary research agenda, Annals of Tourism Research. 4* ABS 

Wilson, S & Mordue, T (2022) Encountering fish in the city: from care-full and cruel play to deadly indifference. Leisure Studies, Taylor & Francis.

Wilson, S, Obrador-Pons, P (2022) "Dwelling in Campervans: Homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move", Mobilities Journal, Taylor & Francis.

Miller, J & Wilson, S (2022) Museum as (Geo)political Entity: Towards Soft Combat Geography Compass, Wiley.

Recent Grants

  • Leverhulme Standard Grant: I am a Co-Investigator (£180K) Infrastructure Stories. 2023-26
  • Leverhulme Standard Grant: Co- I submitted December 2024 first stage Bid called On Charitable Lines, Sustainability of UK Heritage Rail.  ( £430.00 K)
  • In first stage success now preparing Leverhulme 2024-25 – Offshoring Lives: Homemaking and Liminality on the Sea second stage treatment (£475.00K)
  • IDRT Seedcorn Funded Grant -Surfing the City- A study of e-scooter experiences in the Newcastle upon Tyne. April 2024. (2.5k)
  • IDRT RDF: To be advertised 2024-25 – Mobility Transitions:  e-scooter Community Identities, Environmental Citizenship and (QOL) Factors.
Sharon Wilson

Campus Address

Room 011, Newcastle Business School
Northumbria University, City Campus East
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Applied (im)mobilities in turbulent times: transdisplinarity, creativity and mobility justice, Clayton, J., Wilson, S. 2 Jul 2024, In: Applied Mobilities
  • The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence, or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard, Wilson, S., Miller, J., King, H. 28 Aug 2024, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • 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
  • The future of deaf tourism studies: an interdisciplinary research agenda, Jensen, M., Chambers, D., Wilson, S. 1 May 2023, In: Annals of Tourism Research
  • Dwelling in campervans: homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move, Wilson, S., Obrador Pons, P. 2 Jan 2022, In: Mobilities
  • Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat, Miller, J., Wilson, S. 1 Jun 2022, In: Geography Compass
  • Climbing the Virtual Mountain: A netnography of the sharing and collecting behaviours of online Munro-bagging, Brown, D., Wilson, S. 20 Dec 2021, Emerging transformations in tourism and hospitality , London, Taylor & Francis
  • Tacit hierarchising in online communities of hillwalkers, Brown, D., Wilson, S. Sep 2021, Tourism dynamics, Oxford, Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
  • Campervan Ethnographies: mobile experiments and methodological manoeuvres, Wilson, S. 18 Aug 2020, Handbook on Methods and Applications for Mobilities Research, Edward Elgar
  • Using Hike-Along Ethnographies to Explore Women's Leisure Experiences of Munro Bagging, Brown, D., Wilson, S., Mordue, T. Sep 2020, In: Leisure Studies

  • Sorcha MacIntyre The secret life of Transport Infrastructure: Newcastle Upon Tyne Start Date: 01/04/2023
  • Dan Cheng Determinants of Perceived Quality of Life (QOL) Among Older Chinese Tourists Start Date: 29/11/2021 End Date: 25/11/2022
  • Uta Franek Von Schumann In-between children*s family tourism experiences: Places, Practices and Performances in Play. The case of family cruising. Start Date: 01/10/2020
  • Lloyd Robinson Assessing Icons in Urban Tourism Development: A Place Identity Paradigm Start Date: 22/02/2024 End Date: 25/06/2024

  • Tourism PhD December 22 2017
  • MSc October 01 2017
  • Philosophy PhD August 31 2016
  • Fine Art MA August 31 2006
  • Photography MA August 31 2005


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