My research interests include:

• Critical tourism topics (broadly)

• Human-nature encounters and relationships (broadly)

•  Community-led research

• Naturescapes, protected areas, and parks

• Unsettling and decolonizing tourism practices and research

• Tourism, climate change, and the Anthropocene

• Posthuman philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches

• Multi-modal, qualitative methodological practices, sensory attunement, and novel (re)presentational practices

• Embodied relational research 

• Possibilties of more-than-human conservation futures attuned to nonhuman agencies, affectivity and atmospheres, and troubling chrono- and spatio-normativity in research -with relations. 

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• Tourism, animals & the vacant niche: a scoping review and pedagogical agenda, Fennell, D., Kline, C., Mkono, M., Grimwood, B., Sheppard, V., Dashper, K., Rickly, J., Burns, G., Bertella, G., von Essen, E., García-Rosell, J., Guo, Y., Hoarau-Heemstra, H., López, Á., Venegas, G., Holladay, P., Cavaliere, C., Copeland, K., Danley, B., Rizzolo, J., Hurst, C., Usui, R., Äijälä, M., Crossley, É., Hill, K., Szydlowski, M., Bisgrove, D., Blythe, S., Fennell, S., Oxley Heaney, S., Schuhmacher, C., Tully, P., Coose, S., Hooper, J., Madrid, R. 29 Feb 2024, In: Current Issues in Tourism
• Inviting Engagement with Atmospheres, Hurst, C., Stinson, M. 27 Oct 2023, Researching with Proximity, Cham Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
• Posthumanism and the sentient elephant in the room, Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 1 Jul 2023, In: Annals of Tourism Research
• Together-in-Time, Hurst, C. 3 Nov 2023, In: Leisure Sciences
• Tracing the materiality of reconciliation in tourism, Stinson, M., Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 1 May 2022, In: Annals of Tourism Research
• Conceptualizing cultural sensitivity in tourism: a systematic literature review, Hurst, C., Grimwood, B., Lemelin, R., Stinson, M. 2 Oct 2021, In: Tourism Recreation Research
• Land, Settler identity, and tourism memories, Fortin, K., Hurst, C., Grimwood, B. 1 Nov 2021, In: Annals of Tourism Research
• Becoming care-full: contextualizing moral development among captive elephant volunteer tourists to Thailand, Taylor, M., Hurst, C., Stinson, M., Grimwood, B. 2 Apr 2020, In: Journal of Ecotourism
• Obstacles to an integrated, joint forces approach to organized crime enforcement: A Canadian case study, Schneider, S., Hurst, C. 20 Aug 2008, In: Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management

• PhD June 03 2024
• Certificate in University Teaching Degree, University of Waterloo CUT 2020

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