Emma Abson

Job title

Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Events Management

Department

Marketing, Events and Tourism

Qualifications

BA, PGCert, MARes (current)

Emma Abson is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader on the BA Hons Events Management Programme. Emma also professionalises the Business School’s events output. As such, she lectures on a number of courses within the School and also, in consultation with other academics and administrative support, produces and delivers a wide range of events.

Emma is currently undertaking a MA by Research, investigating the presence of leadership competencies in events managers.

Research/scholarly interests

Studying leadership competencies in events managers
Current research in events management

Corporate events
Events operations
And crowd management issues.