Christine Van Winkle, University of Manitoba

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Manitoba profile.

Tourism and events in exclusion areas Festivals, emergency management and disaster recovery.Mindfulness in leisure and tourism Arts-based research methods (collage, photography and screen printing)The role of festivals and tourism in dystopian fiction Community development and engagement through recreation, tourism and events Cross-cultural research in tourism and events

Latest funding

Revelry and resilience: How festivals contribute to disaster recovery
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$34,129
Revelry and resilience: How festivals contribute to disaster recovery
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$36,576
Gathering in the Face of Disaster: Festivals and Recovery
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$24,980

All 7 grants and awards

No publications available.

Revelry and resilience: How festivals contribute to disaster recovery

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Van Winkle, Christine

Keywords: Festivals; Disaster recovery; Resilience; Service ecosystem; Social Capital; Case study

$34,129

Revelry and resilience: How festivals contribute to disaster recovery

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Van Winkle, Christine

Keywords: Festivals; Disaster recovery; Resilience; Service ecosystem; Social Capital; Case study

$36,576

Gathering in the Face of Disaster: Festivals and Recovery

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Van Winkle, Christine M.

Keywords: disaster; recovery; festivals; events; resilience; social capital

$24,980

Understanding social media use during a festival emergency

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Van Winkle, Christine M.

Keywords: festivals and events; tourism; crisis communication; social media; emergency management

$24,933

Acceptance and use of mobile devices in a free-choice context

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Van Winkle, Christine M.

Keywords: technology acceptance; mobile device use; digital media; festivals; leisure

$228,535

The golden fleece: studying the impact of World Heritage status on tourism at World Heritage sites and their regions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2008Research Development Initiatives

Principal investigators: Halpenny, Elizabeth A.

Keywords: tourism; World Heritage sites; protected areas; cultural heritage; natural heritage; visitors; destination brand; destination image

$34,780

Designing interpretive guided, audio and audio-video tours: the use of advance organizers to enhance meaningful learning transfer

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Image, Text, Sounds and Technology

Principal investigators: Van Winkle, Christine M.

Keywords: interpretation; message design; free-choice learning; heritage tourism; historic site; audio tour; guided tour

$26,128

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Tourism and events in exclusion areas Dear Professor Van Winkle, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on tourism and events in exclusion areas connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Revelry and resilience: How festivals contribute to disaster recovery" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]