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Biography

Programme Leader & Senior Lecturer in Business & Management; Transformative Service Researcher, Educationalist, Ecologist, Environmental Scientist, Geographer, Horticulturalist, Garden Designer, Landscaper, Gardener, Charity Worker & Volunteer. 

#NicholasCatahan #TransformativeService #Sustainability #GardenTourism #Marketing #Management

Dedicated to facilitating & improving individual & societal health & well-being via Transformative Service Research. Innovates on academia & practice for sustainable & responsible, transformative place & service making, marketing, management & development.

Background in social enterprise, horticulture, ecosystem management, environmental studies & education. However, has worked across a number of contrasting sectors & businesses.

Nick has taught & assessed on RQF introductory to level 7 leadership & management curriculae across public, private & voluntary sectors.

Leadership & Management at a glance

  • Programme Leader for International Business, Business & Management (BM) with Leisure & Tourism, BM with Human Resource Management, & Business Innovation & Enterprise (9 Undergraduate Degree Programmes & 40+ delivery team, academic year's 2019-2020, 2020-2021, now split PL between Dr. Helen Eccleston-BM, Dr. Aisha Ijaz-BM with Marketing, Dr. Stuart Marsh BM with Accounting & Finance, & Dr. Kamila Tomczak BM with Economics, 2024-Present day). 
  • Leads & manages the BSc (Hons) Business & Management (Leisure & Tourism pathway) RQF 4-6 for Edge Hill University Business School (2011-present day); BSc (Hons) International Business RQF 4-6 (2024-present day). 
  • Wrote & developed a DipHE Tourism Management RQF 4-5 for Edge Hill University & Chengdu University of Technology (2011). Ongoing consultation (2011-present day). 
  • Programme Leader for FdA Leisure & Tourism Management RQF 4-5 (2006-11). Co-authored, developed, led & managed the programme, modules, related teaching team, & portfolio of Work Based Learning Providers from across the North West of England, UK. 
  • Developer, Lead Assessor & Internal Verifier of ILM City & Guilds VRQs & NVQs in Leadership & Management RQF 2-7 (2009-11). Managed a portfolio of clients, trainers, & assessors (2008-11). 
  • Led, managed & taught A-Level & BTEC curriculae RQF 1-3. Led & wrote the Leisure & Tourism gateway document for the then New 14-19 Diplomas amongst other curriculum development & management. Led & managed a range of vocational education/training related EU funded projects (2001-06).

Honour-Awards

Research interests

  • Transformative Service 
  • Sustainability
  • Service & Place Making, Marketing, Management & Development
    • contexts of greenspace, parks, gardens, garden centres, litterscapes, volunteering, wild/open swimming, inclusive transport infrastructure, charity shops/opportunity shops, charity retail, dark digital place, transformative hospitality service, soup kitchens, care giving, NHS, homelessness & houselessness, hunger, poverty, creative enterprise, visitor economy, experiential economy, the list is not exhaustive.
  • Tourism Marketing & Management
    • Visiting Places, Accessible Tourism, Garden Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Dark Tourism

Reviewer for Taylor & Francis's Journal of Marketing Management, & the Academy of Marketing, Emerald's Journal of Place Management & Development (JPMD), Elsevier's Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (JORT), & MDPI's Sustainability.

Nick belongs to Edge Hill University SustainNet, Community Owned Businesses Research Group, & LancsCAN.

Member of ServSIG, QUISServCollab Service Research communities. 

As a member of Academy of Marketing Special Interest Groups Nick keeps up to date with cutting edge marketing research (Arts, Heritage, Non-Profit & Social Marketing; Place Marketing & Branding; Sustainability; Tourism Marketing; & Transformative Service Research).

Member of TRINET – Tourism Research Information Network, & Member of the Responsible Tourism Network.

Nick is also in partnership with Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)PlantNetwork for research purposes, & is an associate research partner for the Garden Tourism Alliance.

Teaching

Module Leader and developer of various modules across our degree programmes and pathways. Nick has taught a number of subjects, including:

  • Leisure, Travel & Tourism: Introduction to Leisure & Tourism, Leisure & Tourism Planning, Tourism Development, Green Tourism, Heritage, Events Management, Managing Impacts of Leisure & Tourism.
  • Marketing: Marketing for Business, Integrated Marketing Communications, Branding & Integrated Digital Campaigns.
  • Business & Management: New Venture Creation, Business-startup, Enterprise & Innovation, Human Resource Management, People & Organisations.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

Education with Distinction, MA, Liverpool John Moores University

Education (Post Compulsory), PGCert, Liverpool John Moores University

Environmental Studies with Geography (& Information Technology 1st Yr), BSc, Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods, University of Liverpool

Keywords

  • H Social Sciences
  • Transformative Gardens
  • Transformative Service Research (TSR)
  • Sustainability
  • Marketing
  • Management
  • Service
  • Place
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Enterprise
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
  • #NicholasCatahan

Research Groups

  • SustainNET
  • Community Owned Businesses Research Group

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