Nicholas Catahan

Profile

Biography

PL/SL in Business & Management; Transformative Service Researcher, Educationalist, Ecologist, Environmental Scientist, Geographer, Horticulturalist, Garden Designer, Landscaper, Gardener, Charity Worker & Volunteer. 

#NicholasCatahan #BotanicGardenTourism #TransformativeValue #Sustainability #Marketing #Management

Dedicated to facilitating and improving individual and societal health and well-being via Transformative Service Research. Innovates on academia and practice for sustainable and responsible, transformative place and service making, marketing, management and development.

Background in social enterprise, horticulture, ecosystem management, environmental studies and education. However, has worked across a number of contrasting sectors and businesses.

Nick has taught and assessed on RQF introductory to level 7 leadership and management curriculae across public, private and voluntary sectors.

Leadership & Management at a glance

• Programme Leader for Business & Management (9 Undergraduate Degree Programmes & 40+ delivery team, academic year’s 2019-2020, 2020-2021, Split PL with Dr. Helen Eccleston 2024-Present day). 

• Leads & manages the BSc (Hons) Business & Management (Leisure & Tourism pathway) RQF 4-6 for Edge Hill University Business School (2011-present day); BSc (Hons) International Business RQF 4-6 (2024-present day). 

• Wrote & developed a DipHE Tourism Management RQF 4-5 for Edge Hill University & Chengdu University of Technology (2011). Ongoing consultation (2011-present day). 

• Programme Leader for FdA Leisure & Tourism Management RQF 4-5 (2006-11). Co-authored, developed, led & managed the programme, modules, related teaching team, & portfolio of Work Based Learning Providers from across the North West of England, UK. 

• Developer, Lead Assessor & Internal Verifier of ILM City & Guilds VRQs & NVQs in Leadership & Management RQF 2-7 (2009-11). Managed a portfolio of clients, trainers, & assessors (2008-11). 

• Led, managed & taught A-Level & BTEC curriculae RQF 1-3. Led & wrote the Leisure & Tourism gateway document for the then New 14-19 Diplomas amongst other curriculum development & management. Led & managed a range of vocational education/training related EU funded projects (2001-06).

Honour-Awards

• MCMI – Member of the Chartered Management Institute, the UK-based professional institution for managers.
• FIPM – Fellow of the Institute of Place Management, the international professional body that supports people committed to developing, managing and making places better.
• FHEA – Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, professional membership promoting excellence in Higher Education.
• MAM – Member of the Academy of Marketing, a learned society of marketing researchers, educators and professionals. 

Research Interests

• Botanic Garden Tourism
• Transformative Value
• Sustainability
• Service & Place Making, Marketing, Management & Development
  • Novel contexts of #botanicgardentourism, greenspace, parks, gardens, garden centres, litterscapes, volunteering, wild/open swimming, inclusive transport infrastructure, charity shops/opportunity shops, charity retail, dark digital place, transformative hospitality service, soup kitchens, care giving, NHS, homelessness and houselessness, hunger, poverty, creative enterprise, visitor economy, experiential economy, the list is not exhaustive.
• Tourism Marketing & Management
  • Visiting Places, Accessible Tourism, Garden Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Dark Tourism

Reviewer for Taylor & Francis’s Journal of Marketing Management, and the Academy of Marketing, Emerald’s Journal of Place Management & Development (JPMD), and Elsevier’s Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (JORT).

Nick belongs to Edge Hill University SustainNet, Community Owned Businesses Research Group, and LancsCAN.

Member of ServSIG, QUIS and ServCollab Service Research communities. 

As a member of Academy of Marketing Special Interest Groups Nick keeps up to date with cutting edge marketing research (Arts, Heritage, Non-Profit & Social Marketing; Place Marketing & Branding; Sustainability; Tourism Marketing; and Transformative Service Research).

Member of TRINET – Tourism Research Information Network, and Member of the Responsible Tourism Network.

Nick is also in partnership with Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and PlantNetwork for research purposes, and is an associate research partner for the Garden Tourism Alliance.

Teaching

Module Leader and developer of various modules across our degree programmes and pathways. Nick has taught a number of subjects, including:

• Leisure, Travel & Tourism: Introduction to Leisure & Tourism, Leisure & Tourism Planning, Tourism Development, Green Tourism, Heritage, Events Management, Managing Impacts of Leisure & Tourism.

• Marketing: Marketing for Business, Integrated Marketing Communications, Branding & Integrated Digital Campaigns.

• Business & Management: New Venture Creation, Business-startup, Enterprise & Innovation, Human Resource Management, People & Organisations.