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Dr

Christian Schott

(he/him)

Associate Professor

School of Management

Orcid identifier0000-0002-5865-6139
  • Associate Professor
    School of Management
  • +6444635719 (Work)
  • RH 1116, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand

BIO

Christian is Associate Professor in Tourism Management and at faculty level holds the role of Chair of the Principles of Responsible Management Education (UNPRME) Steering Committee.

Christian's research interests cover three broad areas. Firstly, he is interested in sustainable tourism development and tourism’s interrelationship with climate change. This area of work has seen him engaged in research projects in the Sub-Antarctic, South America, the Pacific and New Zealand. Secondly, he studies the ‘youth’ life stage in the context of travel, exploring aspects such as self-development of young travellers and long-term youth mobility practices in different cultures; this has led to fieldwork in Central America, South East Asia and Europe. Christian’s third research interest evolved from merging the above two research themes by developing a strong interest in education for sustainability. This includes research on pedagogies for sustainability education as well as a passion for research-driven teaching innovation which has seen him teach Sustainable Tourism Development in Canada, French Polynesia, and Vanuatu.

Christian was recently recognised with a 2022 Te Whatu Kairangi National Teaching Excellence Award and the research-driven VR-for-sustainability project he leads was awarded the prestigious Gold Award Sustainability at the QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards 2020.

He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Tourism Futures and Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, serves on the editorial boards of four tourism journals and was awarded Research Article of the Year 2018 in Tourism Recreation Research with Sochea Nhem.

MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand1 Jan 2020 - present
  • Chair of UN Principles of Responsible Management Education Steering Committee at WSBG
    Wellington School of Business and Government, New Zealand30 Sep 2016 - present
  • Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
    Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand14 Jun 2002 - 31 Dec 2019
  • Tutor/Teaching Assistant
    University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom1 Nov 1998 - 15 May 2002

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Judge (Finalists)
    QS Reimagine Education Awards, London, United Kingdom15 Jul 2021 - present
  • Research Assistant
    South West Tourism, Exeter, United Kingdom1 Nov 1998 - 1 May 2002

DEGREES

  • BSc(Hons)
    University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
  • PhD
    University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • German
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • French
    Can understand

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Media enquiries
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects
  • Teaching provision

FIELDS OF RESEARCH