About Dr Paula Danby
I have a strong interest in business management and leadership. I lead a team of academics in the areas of leadership, human resource management, and enterprise, facilitating academic development and focusing on the student experience.
I'm also Co-Lead for the Business School Research Centre, where I contribute and support academics to enhance the research culture and promote an inclusive, diverse, and multidisciplinary research environment.
I'm a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Teaching and supervision
I've led and developed a range of undergraduate and postgraduate management-related modules and courses including International Management and Leadership, as well as a diverse range of business and management-related courses including tourism and heritage management.
I chair the Business Management, Leadership, HRM and Enterprise Programme Studies Board, which oversees the undergraduate business management suite, postgraduate human resource management, and senior leadership apprenticeship courses.
Interests
My interests are in innovative leadership practices, wellbeing, and developing effective relationships in the workplace, as well as equality, diversity and inclusion.
Research
My research interests lie in wellbeing, innovative leadership, relationship development in the workplace, and equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Danby, P., Dashper, K., Finkel, R. Eds. 2021. Multispecies Leisure, Human-Animal Interactions in Leisure Landscapes. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.
- Danby, P. Grajfoner, D. 2020. Human-Equine Tourism and Nature-Based Solutions: Exploring Psychological Well-Being Through Transformative Experiences. Special Issue: Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. 44 (9): 1-23.
- Danby, P., Dashper, K., Finkel R. 2019. Multispecies Leisure: human-animal interactions in leisure landscapes. Special Issue: Leisure Studies, 38, (3): 291-
- Finkel, R., Danby. P. 2019. Legitimizing leisure experiences as emotional work: A post-humanist approach to gendered equine encounters. Special Issue: Gender, Work and Organization, 26 (3): 377-391.
- Danby, P., Finkel, R. 2018. A Post-humanist Investigation into Human-Equine Relational Wellbeing: A Case of the Rodeo. In R. Finkel, B. Sharp and M. Sweeney (Eds.) Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Events Studies.
- Danby, P. 2018. Post-Humanist Insight into Human-Equine Interactions and wellbeing within the Leisure Landscape. In N. Carr and J. Young (Eds.) Animals and leisure: Rights and Wellbeing. Taylor and Francis.
- Danby, P., Hannam, K. 2016. Entrainment: Human-Equine Leisure Mobilities. In J. Rickly, K. Hannam and M. Mostafanezhad (Eds.) Tourism and Leisure Mobilities: Politics, Work and Play. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Series, Routledge pp. 27-38.
Areas of expertise
- Wellbeing
- Relationship development in the workplace
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Curriculum development.
Further information
Invited conferences
- Leisure Studies Association Conference: Mobilising Change: Creative and Critical Leisure Practices in the Post-disciplinary Era: 10-12 July 2018, University of Bath
‘Human and nonhuman entanglements, interconnectivity and coexistence in the leisure landscape’ Convenor of panel: “Multispecies Ethnographic Encounters in Research”.
- Leisure Studies Association Conference, Leeds: July 2017
‘Human-Animal Interactions in Tourism, Events and Leisure Spaces’ with Dr Rebecca Finkel Co-Convener of Film Event: in conjunction with the LSA Conference: “Human-Equine Interactions in Tourism, Events and Leisure” with Dr Rebecca Finkel.
- Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) Annual Conference: Palma de Mallorca, June 2017
Co-Convener of Panel: “Human-Animal Interactions in Tourism, Events, Leisure Spaces” with Dr Rebecca Finkel.
- EuroCHRIE Conference Budapest: 26-28 Oct 2016
‘A Post-Humanist Investigation into Human-Equine Relational Wellbeing: A Case of the Rodeo’ with Dr Rebecca Finkel (QMU).
- Centre for Applied Social Sciences Inaugural Conference QMU, Edinburgh: 12 October 2016
‘A Post-Humanist Investigation into Human-Equine Relational Wellbeing: A Case of the Rodeo’ with Dr Rebecca Finkel.
- Gender, Work and Organization 2016 9th Biennial International
‘A Post-humanist Approach towards Human and Nonhuman Relations: Female-Equine Relations and Emotional Encounters within Leisure and Tourism’.
- Active Countryside Tourism, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK: January 2013
‘Theorising Human-Equine Nature and Adventure Experiences in North East England’.
- The International Rural Society Association “Rural at the Edge” Portugal: July.
‘Human-equine interactions and associated experiences as recreational and tourist activities in the North East of England’.
- International Symposium: Horse, Tourism and Leisure: Continuities, Transformations and Change, France, May, 2012
‘Human-equine interactions within the North East of England’.