Sara Linden
Staff details
Position
Lecturer
Department
Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship
s.linden (@gold.ac.uk)
Sara’s interests include city branding, gender and urban spaces, and representation of cities in the media
Sara is a the Programme Director for Events and Experience Management MA at Goldsmiths. She has extensive experience teaching events management, city regeneration, and cultural and creative tourism. Previous roles within culture and events include project manager at The Writers’ Agency Stockholm, coordinator and editor in television, and consultant on new media for museums and libraries. In addition, Sara has vast experience of organising events, including concerts, poetry nights and various types of cultural events.
Teaching and supervision
Research interests
Research interests include fans, fandoms and events.
Publications and research outputs
Book
- Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media Linden, Henrik; and Linden, Sara . 2017. Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137501271
Book Section
- "There were only friendly people and love in the air"; fans, tourism and the Eurovision Song Contest Linden, Sara ; and Linden, Henrik. 2018. "There were only friendly people and love in the air"; fans, tourism and the Eurovision Song Contest. In: Christine Lundberg and Vassilios Ziakas, eds. Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138678354
Article
- Film and gastro tourism: An overview of recent trends Linden, Sara . 2015. Film and gastro tourism: An overview of recent trends. Proceedings of the international conference on tourism (ICOT 2015) From Tourism Policy into Practice: Issues and Challenges in Engaging Policy Makers and End Users, pp. 221-232. ISSN 2241-9314
