Dr Carl Cater, Swansea University, UK
Professor Peter Varley, University of Northumbria, UK and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Gill Pomfret
Gill’s research interests and published work predominantly focuses on consumer behaviour in tourism although she has investigated other areas of tourism. Key themes include adventure tourism, motives encouraging adventure activity participation and wellbeing benefits, constraint negotiation, adventure tourism experiences, family tourists, senior tourists, heritage tourism, temporal variations in tourism, and gender. Gill’s other publications include journal articles and book chapters on adventure tourists, including mountaineering tourists and family adventure tourists, environmental tourists, and tourism planning. Additionally, she has been involved in various consultancy projects, including working with Sheffield City Council to develop The Outdoor City brand. Gill also collaborates with researchers at other universities on projects concerned with the wellbeing benefits of outdoor tourism participation, and inclusive outdoor tourism. When not working, Gill enjoys running and hiking in her local Peak District National Park.
Susan Houge Mackenzie
Susan Houge Mackenzie is in the University of Otago Department of Tourism in Dunedin, New Zealand. She investigates links between adventure and psychological well-being across tourism, recreation, and education contexts using psychological frameworks (e.g., self-determination theory, flow theory). Susan’s interests in outdoor adventure, sport, and psychological well-being stem from her experiences as a whitewater riversurfing guide in New Zealand, the US and Chile, and as a competitive soccer player. Her work currently focuses on (1) nature-based adventure and well-being for tourists, guides, and host communities, (2) (over)tourism in Queenstown, New Zealand, the ‘home of adventure’, and (3) links between microadventures, physical activity, and psychological well-being during COVID-19 lockdowns. Additional projects include investigating how outdoor adventure can promote engagement and intrinsic motivation in physical activity and science education. In addition to her role with the Adventure Tourism Research Association, she serves on the International Advisory Board for the Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education and Leadership, and on the Tourism Central Otago Advisory Board.
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Manuel Sand
Manuel Sand is a Professor for Outdoor sports and Adventure management at the University of Applied Management in Treuchtlingen, Germany. He is academic director of the Adventure Campus and course administrator for the degree in Outdoor sports and Adventure management. His research interests include adventure tourism, mountain bike tourism, well-being and adventure activities, nature protection and outdoor sports, and the effects of experiential learning in the outdoors.
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Jasmine Goodnow
Jasmine is an Associate Professor of Recreation Management and Leadership at Western Washington University where she teaches courses in sustainable tourism, inclusive recreation services, and eco-adventure— a study abroad course to destinations such as Costa Rica, Peru, South Africa, New Zealand and Alaska. Her research focuses on transformational travel and the construction of liminality, and microadventure as a form of sacred, inclusive, and sustainable travel. She enjoys presenting her research at conferences around the world, such as the International Adventure Conference, The International Ecotourism Conference, and Sacred Journeys: Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. Her research is published in academic journals such as Tourism Review International, International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, Journal of Travel and Tourism Research, and Leisure/Loisir: The Journal of the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies. In her free time, Jasmine enjoys traveling, bicycle touring, and hiking.
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Steve Taylor
Dr Steve Taylor heads the Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research at the University of the Highlands and Islands, on the west coast of Scotland. He currently works with international partners on eight multi-national tourism projects, on a range of subjects from wellbeing and adventure tourism to maritime cultural heritage. His latest projects examine ways to help tourism SMEs navigate their way through crisis and the development of a transnational brand and identity for scientific tourism products. He is the Treasurer of Wild Scotland, a director of Slow Adventure Ltd and has been involved in the co-organisation of every International Adventure Conference since the very start. When he finds the time, his research and publication interests span adventure tourism motivations, maritime cultural narratives and nature-based tourism.
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Outi Rantala
Outi Rantala is an Associate Professor of Responsible Arctic Tourism at the University of Lapland, in the Multidimensional Tourism Institute/Faculty of Social Sciences. In her research, Outi applies environmental social science approaches in tourism contexts. Currently she leads a research project, which concentrates on envisioning proximity tourism with new materialism. In addition to the Adventure Tourism Research Association, Outi is also an active member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Tourism and Sustainable Change Research Network.
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Sandro Carnicelli
Sandro Carnicelli is a Professor of Tourism and Leisure Studies at the University of the West of Scotland and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Culture, Sport, and Events. Sandro is also a member of ABRATUR (International Academy for the Development of Tourism Research in Brazil) and co-hosted the International Adventure Conference in 2019 in Dumfries. As a researcher, Sandro has been working in the fields of Tourism, Events, and Leisure for almost 20 years. Sandro has co-edited three books: Digital Leisure Cultures (2014); Lifestyle Sports and Public Policy (2014); and Tourism Cases in Latin America (2025). He has delivered funded projects for organisations such as the Carnegie Trust, UK Department of Transport, the Moffat Trust, The Higher Education Academy, and the UKRI-GCRF. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Leisure Studies Journal, and Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. He also acts as Associate Editor for Event Management Journal and is currently the Editor in Chief of the World Leisure Journal.
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Adele Doran
Adele’s academic background lies in tourism and outdoor recreation studies and she has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels on tourism, outdoor recreation and management modules. Her research focuses on the experiences of adventure participants. Her primary research focuses on women’s barriers to climbing and mountaineering and the benefits they gain from participation. Additional projects include an investigation of women’s representation in adventure me
Adele previously was a snowboard instructor in America and is an enthusiast of the outdoors which has inspired her area of research. In addition to being on ATRA’s steering committee, Adele is also a committee member of the Outdoor Recreation Research Group, which is a group of Sheffield Hallam University research experts with an expertise in diverse areas of the outdoor recreation sector.
For updates on Adele’s research and other information please her visit: http://adeledoran.com
Tove Dahl
Tove I. Dahl is a Professor of Educational Psychology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She is an educational psychologist who delights in learning, motivation, language and culture, with particular interest in how we grow when outside the classroom. Consistent throughout her career has been her focus on the special place language and literacy have in our lives — for information, pleasure, insight and connection. Most recently, though, she has been working with the Center for Avalanche Research and Education (CARE) on projects related to how to better prepare recreationists to move safely in the wicked learning environments of backcountry winter mountains. Her latest research on the nature of interest, courage and adventure serve her well there – always with an eye on how adventure can provide new perspectives on learning, and how effective learning can get people out into mountains… and safely home again.
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Jelena Farkic
Jelena is a lecturer and researcher at Breda University of Applied Sciences with her research focusing on how humans (tourists/consumers) make sense of their experiences, and how their sense of wellbeing can be enhanced through concepts such as planetary wellbeing, slow adventure, and forest bathing (shinrin-yoku).
She has acted as a coordinator of the ATRA’s activities and has undertaken the organisation of the annual International Adventure Conference since 2015.
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Darío Pérez-Brunicardi
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