COLECO Project: Higher Education Curricula Development on the Collaborative Economy in Europe

2020-2022

Project PI: Dr Cristina Miguel, University of Gothenburg
Project description: 
The project explored the effects of the sharing economy and aims to create academic modules at Masters level and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) about different aspects of the collaborative economy.
Role: co-investigator
Funding: The project was co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and included six partner countries: Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the UK.
Project website: COLECO project

project participants:

Selected Project Publications:

Miguel, C., Pechurina, A., Kirkulak-Uludag, B., Drotarova, M., Dumančić, K., Braje, I.N., Giglio, C. (2022) Short-term rental market crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stakeholders’ perspectives, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Vol 102. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103147

Braje, I.N., Pechurina, A., Bıçakcıoğlu-Peynirci, N., Miguel, C., Alonso-Almeida, M.d.M. and Giglio, C. (2021), "The changing determinants of tourists’ repurchase intention: the case of short-term rentals during the COVID-19 pandemic", International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 159-183. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-04-2021-0438

 

airbnb homes and people

2017-2020

Project poster photo (c) Ken Kajoranta

Project description: This is an qualitative project that explores how peer-to-peer accommodation renting services influence notions of home and how places and localities are constructed and represented through shared 'stories' and practices of belonging.
Role: Project leader, investigator
Project Participants: Kenneth Kajoranta
Funding: The project received funding from Centre of Applied Social Research, Leeds Beckett University

Selected Project Publications:

Kajoranta, K.

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Pechurina,A

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2020)

Unhomely Homes: A visual study of Airbnb [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.hyme8081