Podcast blurb: Richard’s podcast critiques important discourses surrounding crisis and disaster management for events. The podcast draws from multiple disciplines to provide insight into various contemporary issues and challenges surrounding the effective event management of crises and disasters. With an initial focus on the concept of event and venue resilience, concepts such as fandom, risk perceptions, crowd control and management, crisis communication and reputational risk, as applied to events are also explored. The podcast also discusses a variety of future challenges aligned with managing crises and disasters for events. Illustrating the importance and centrality of better understanding crisis and disaster management for events in a post covid era, this podcast will be of interest to students in a broad range of subject-related areas including sport, tourism, entertainment, leisure and critical event studies.

Further reading and resources:

Below are a proposed ‘Top Ten’ supporting resources to help students to further understand the concept of crisis and disaster management, in the context of events. Whilst the focus of the papers below are sports events, the resources all have broader implications for the broader events industry. The final resource is a link to some of the training and technical assistance in disaster management provided by Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre (BUDMC).

Shipway, R. (2023). New Era, New Normal, New Challenges: Managing Crises and Disasters at Major and Mega Sports Events. In Solberg, H.A. Swart, K.and Storm, R. (eds) (2023). Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Boden, J. and Shipway, R. (2023). Meeting the two imposters of triumph and disaster: Senior management perspectives on the covid-19 pandemic’s impact on global tennis tournaments. Event Management.

Inoue, Y. Lock, D. Gillooly, L. Shipway, R. and Swanson, S. (2022). The Organizational Identification and Well-being Framework: Theorizing about How Sport Organizations Contribute to Crisis Response and Recovery. Sport Management Review. 25 (1), 1-30.

Shipway, R. Miles, L. and Gordon, R. (2021). Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport. London: Routledge.

Shipway, R. and Miles, L., (2020). Bouncing Back and Jumping Forward: Scoping the Resilience Landscape of International Sports Events and Implications for Events and Festivals. Event Management, 24 (1), 185-196.

Miles, L. and Shipway, R., (2020). Exploring the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Catalyst for Stimulating Future Research Agendas for Managing Crises and Disasters at International Sport Events. Event Management, 24 (4), 537-552.

Shipway, R. & Miles, L. (2019). Reputation and perceived resilience in developing countries bidding for major sports events (pp.148-164). In: Walters, G. & Mair, J. (eds). Reputation and Image Recovery for the Tourism Industry. Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers.

Shipway, R. (2018). Building Resilience and Managing Crises and Disasters in Sport Tourism. Journal of Sport and Tourism. 22 (3), 265-270.

Walters, G. Shipway, R. Miles, L. and Aldrigui, M. (2017) Fandom and Risk Perceptions of Olympic Tourists, Annals of Tourism Research, 66, 210-212.

Website

Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre (BUDMC). Available from

https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/disaster-management-centre