Dr Ian Baxter
Senior Lecturer
MSc Heritage - Programme Leader
BA/BA(Hons) International Travel & Tourism Business - Programme Leader
BA/BA(Hons) Tourism International Travel Management - Programme Leader
BA/BA(Hons) Hospitality Management - Programme Leader
T: +44 (0) 141 331 8462
E: i.baxter@gcal.ac.uk
 Ian is Senior Lecturer within the Cultural Business Group and Associate Director of the Caledonian Heritage
Futures Network, responsible for knowledge transfer activities. He holds a MA(Hons)
1st class in Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh, and undertook a PhD
in Heritage Management at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex
College/Dept. Archaeology), supervised by Dr Kate Pretty (Pro-Vice Chancellor).
Previous experience includes: being in charge of Student
Services for Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge University); Monuments at Risk
Surveyor for Bournemouth University; Hands-On helper for
the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; and historic property custodian at Battle Abbey
and the Battlefield of Hastings for English Heritage.
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Knowledge Transfer & Civic Engagement Activity
Historic Environment Audit: Major ongoing involvement in Historic Environment
Reporting / Auditing with historic environment managing agencies. Original
involvement as author of "The Heritage Monitor" published by English Tourism
Council and English Heritage in 2001; then as leading consultant for pilot "State of the
Historic Environment Report" published by English Heritage in 2002. Close
involvement in advocacy work and research data collation for equivalent process
in Scotland with Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) and Historic Scotland
since then (as well as ongoing involvement in English "Heritage Counts" research
programme). Recently undertook the pre-audit Assessment of Data Quality on behalf of Historic Scotland for the Scotland's Historic Environment Audit [weblink].
External commitments: As part of the University's civic engagement mission, I am involved in a number of committees and professional advisory panels associated with historic environment management.
These include:
- Cultural Trends (Routledge academic journal) - Policy Review Notes Editor [weblink]
- English Heritage Research Advisory Panel [weblink]
- UK Historic Environment Research
Group (UKHERG) [weblink]
- National Trust for Scotland Archaeology Panel [weblink]
- National Trust for Scotland Economic Development and Communities Advisory Panel [weblink]
- ICOMOS-UK Cultural Tourism
Committee member [weblink]
- Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) Historic Environment Working Group [weblink]
- Scottish Church Heritage Research group advisory board member [weblink]
- Highland Landscape Values research
project advisory board member [weblink]
Academic Research
Current projects which are being worked on actively:
- Heritage & Hospitality: Collaborative project with Mrs Bernadette Scott (GCU) and Mr Kevin O'Gorman (Strathclyde University) triangulating archaeological, historical, and sociological perspectives on notions of hospitality in past societies.
- Managing Stonehenge: long term research
collaboration with Dr Christopher Chippindale (Reader in British Archaeology,
Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology) with book planning in
progress. Analysing Stonehenge considering its historical role as a heritage
site, and the current position of the site within differing stakeholder visions and management scenarios.
- Scottish Historic Environment Policy Review :
major case study being prepared for publication, considering the divergence in
policy development for heritage and the historic environment in Scotland since
devolution.
- Trails: undertaking background research on
the form and content of heritage trails for proposed research collaboration and
grant application with Terry Levinthal (Director of Scottish Civic Trust).
University Teaching & Administration
- Academic member of the Caledonian Graduate Academy of Business
- Elected member of Caledonian Business School's School Board
- Postgraduate Module Leader for: Heritage Policy Development; Heritage Management; Cultural & Natural Heritage Policies; Global Heritage Concerns. Module Tutor for: M.Res. Research Design; MSc Heritage Studies Dissertation; MBA Dissertation.
- Undergraduate module leader for: Honours Dissertations (all Cultural Business Group degree programmes); International Tourism Geography (Level 2); International Travel & Touring Cultures (Level 1); The Tourist Place - Environments, Interventions & Regeneration (Level 2); Comparative Policy in the Cultural Sector (Level 3); Development & Innovation in Travel & Tourism Futures (Level 4).
- External Lecturer for Cambridge University's M.Phil. in Archaeological Heritage Management & Museums course.
Recent publications
Books – authored,
edited, and chapters in edited collections
| (in press) |
‘Heritage Transformed - From concept to country
house, the objectification of cultural resources in the United Kingdom.”
2008. Castle Acre, Heritage Publications. |
| (in press) |
"Means maketh the end – the context for the development of methodologies to assessing the state of the historic environment in the UK." in Sorensen, M.L.S. & Carman, J. (eds.) 2008. Heritage Studies: methods and approaches. London: Routledge. |
| 2005 |
“Managing Stonehenge as a global cultural
tourism site.” in Leslie, D. & Sigala, M. (eds.) 2005. Global Cultural
Tourism – implications, management and cases. Elsevier.
“The Structure of the Tourism Industry in the
UK.” Jointly authored book chapter with D. Litteljohn for Beech, J. &
Chadwick, S. (eds.) 2005. The Business of Tourism Management. FT Prentice
Hall. |
Refereed
journal articles
| 2004 |
“From Heritage to Historic Environment: professionalising the experience of
the past for visitors.” Journal of Hospitality & Tourism 2.2: 1-14 |
| 2003 |
“Auditing the historic environment – measurements, datasets and English
Heritage’s State of the Historic Environment Report 2002” Cultural Trends,
Policy Studies Institute. Vol. 12, Issue 46: 1-32 |
| 2002 |
“The sustainable nature
of the historic environment – theoretical considerations on the role of
management.” Environment Papers Series 5.3: 70-77 |
| 2002 |
“From ‘national disgrace’
to flagship monument – recent attempts to manage the future of Stonehenge”
(with C. Chippindale). Conservation & Management of Archaeological Sites
5.3: 151-184 |
Non-refereed
journal articles
| 2005 |
“Sins of Omission” – Article for Heritage Scotland (National Trust for
Scotland Members Magazine). Autumn 2005 edition. |
| 2003 |
“Stonehenge & English Heritage Attitudes” (with Dr C. Chippindale) Current
Archaeology 187. Vol. XVI No 7, p.313-317 |
| 2002 |
“Stonehenge: the ‘brownfield’ approach.” (with Dr C. Chippindale) Current
Archaeology 183. Vol XVI No. 3. |
Other
publications
| 2004 |
“The
Historic Environment & Community Planning (Heritage>Futures Report 1)”
(co-author with Dr M. Baxter). Glasgow, GCU. ISBN 190366151X |
| 2003 |
“Heritage Counts: State of the Historic Environment Report 2003” (major
section on Historic Environment & Tourism). London, English Heritage. |
| 2002 |
“State of the Historic Environment Report 2002.” (major section on Historic
Environment & Tourism) London, English Heritage |
Other
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