Dr Henrik Linden
Senior Lecturer
Tourism Hospitality and Entertainment Management, Business and Law
Henrik is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Events and Cultural Industries Management. He holds a PhD from King's College London and specialises in cultural tourism, destination branding, marketing, consumerism, fan cultures and arts management.
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University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London, E16 2RD
United Kingdom
E16 2RD - h.linden@uel.ac.uk +44208232328
Henrik started working at UEL in 2015 and is a Senior Lecturer
in Tourism, Events and Cultural Industries Management at the Institute of
Hospitality and Tourism (IoHT). He joined from London Metropolitan University,
where he worked between 2010 and 2015. His research interests include cultural
tourism, media representations, consumerism, fan cultures, art criticism and
arts management. Henrik holds a PhD in Culture, Media and Creative Industries
(CMCI) from King's College London, an MA from Uppsala University and a BA from
Stockholm University. He is a Fellow (FHEA) of Advance HE.
Henrik's experience includes organising and managing a
variety of events, mainly in a non-profit museum context but also concerts and
club nights. Among Henrik’s previous employers are The Nobel Museum and The
Swedish Institute for Children’s Books (both in Stockholm), and he has also
worked on a project for The Morgan Library & Museum (New York).
Overview
Henrik's doctoral research focused on the art critic as mediator of contemporary African art in Britain and he has co-written a book about fans and fan cultures in relation to tourism, consumerism and social media. He has published papers and book chapters and presented conference papers on a variety of topics, including football fandom and the meaning of place, the Eurovision Songs Contest and travelling fans, fashion as a destination branding tool, and media representations of contemporary art and culture.
Henrik is currently exploring consumer collecting practices in the context of vinyl record collections (with Dr Aidan Kelly of the Royal Docks School of Business and Law at UEL)
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
Funding
Representations of cultures and ideas; City and destination
branding, with a particular focus on cultural aspects and strategies; Consumer
culture and cities as places of consumption; Consumer collecting practices; Cultural
tourism; Arts management; Fans and fan cultures (particularly in relation to
popular culture, social media and the experience economy); Cultural events; Contemporary
visual art and global art markets; Art criticism.
Henrik is a PhD supervisor and would like to hear from PhD
candidates with an interest in any of the above areas, and in events and
tourism management more broadly.
Interests
Portfolio
Culture, Heritage and the Tourist
Landscape
Research Project
Destination Marketing
Service and Experience Marketing
Communication Management in
Hospitality, Events and Tourism
Teaching
Public engagement
Henrik contributes expert views (particularly on fans and fandoms, popular culture, place branding, consumerism and culture) in various media contexts.
Here are some examples:
TRT World (2019), Eurovision Song
Contest 2019: Pop culture meets politics [television interview with Dr Henrik
Linden], Showcase, TRT World, 21 May. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbT7scPINm8
Linden, H. and Linden, S. (2019) Eurovision: UK quitting the song contest would only be bad for brand Britain, The Conversation, 24 May. Available at: https://theconversation.com/eurovision-uk-quitting-the-song-contest-would-only-be-bad-for-brand-britain-117758
Jones, A. (2017) Why Being Twee Makes so Much Business Sense for Music YouTubers [expert views given by Dr Henrik Linden], Noisey/Vice, 21 February. Available at: https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/4xbx5n/why-being-twee-makes-so-much-business-sense-for-music-youtubers
Linden, H. and Linden, S. (2016) Switched-on city: how London learned to love Christmas lights, The Conversation, 21 December. Available at: https://theconversation.com/switched-on-city-how-london-learned-to-love-christmas-lights-70609