Dr Lewis Walsh

Dr Lewis Walsh’s research focuses on event impact and evaluation of primarily sporting events (at the community and national level), and technology innovation in industry. Specifically, his events work centres around 1) event strategy, policy and planning, 2) understanding visitor behaviour, and 3) the role that digital technology plays in leveraging events as a platform for tackling critical social issues (such as  human exploitation and human trafficking). His technology innovation work centres around removing barriers to the diffusion of digital technology in small firms and supporting decarbonisation and sustainability actions (particularly in the manufacturing and brewing sectors)

Dr Lewis Walsh is also a Co Founder of BREWAI.net ™ - an innovative tech solution that helps the brewing sector intelligently reduce carbon emissions and energy costs through technological and behavioural insights and machine learning.

• Mega event and festival impacts;
• Event planning and organisation;
• Small business regulation;
• Technology Innovation.

• Regulation, Space and the Built Environment;
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation;
• Mega Sporting Events & the Visitor Economy;
• Digital Technology.

• Principles of Event Management Level 5, lectures and seminars
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Level 5, lectures and seminars
• Understanding Consumers Level 5, lectures and seminars

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - ARU, UK

MBA International Business - Hanze University, Groningen, Netherlands

MA International Business - ARU, UK

• Associate Editor, Event Management
• Reviewer, Managing Sport and Leisure

• Principal Investigator – ERDF – South East New Energy (SENE) Wp3: Focused on low/zero carbon actions and local economic development, this project is designed to help local enterprises (private and social) and other organisations understand and remove the barriers to decarbonisation. We also offer support to business looking to take advantage of opportunities in low carbon and environmental growth markets. Total project value £200,000, October 2020 – April 2023.
• Co-Investigator – INTERREG, BLUEPRINT - This is an Interreg EU France Channel England (FCE) project led by Essex CC aiming to engage alternative waste management and recycling strategies and contracts based on social enterprise. Through a circular economy (CE) approach, our researchers in FBL will lead on an innovative social enterprise accelerator which will widen participation of disadvantaged people in local solutions. This will build on the faculty's pursuit of sustainable, innovative and ethical business in engaged communities, social justice, and build social value whilst improving value for money with our largest local authority partner. Total project value: €5,500,000, September 2020 – October 2023.
• Co-Investigator – INTERREG, Futures-by-Design (FBD) - Aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the less prosperous / rural hinterland areas in the North Sea region to improve their data readiness and to use data management and digital tools to enhance their innovative capacity and competitiveness. Total project value €4,461,282, January 2020 – January 2022.
• Co-Investigator –INTERREG, Grow-In (Industry 4.0). Examining and supporting the uptake of digital technology amongst manufacturing SMEs in the North Sea region. Developing business models and tools. Total project value €3,607,589, August 2017 to October 2021.

• Walsh, L., Duignan, M.B., Down, S. (2023). How do formal and informal practices and the interactions between stakeholders shape the formation of host event zones. Event Management https://doi.org/10.3727/152599523X16799771985460
• Duignan, M.B., Zou, S., Park, J., Everett, S., Walsh, L., Page, S., Fyall, A. and Hansen, M., (2023). How do event zones influence visitor behaviour and engagement with host destinations? A longitudinal study of the Cambridge half marathon (2017–2020). Journal of destination marketing & management, 30, p.100798. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2023.100798
•  Walsh, L., Down, S., & Duignan, M. B. (2022). Regulatory informality across Olympic event zones. Event Management, 26(3), 587-603. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521X16192004803520
• Duignan, M. B. and  Walsh, L. (2018) 'Game of Zones: Balancing Global and Local Needs', Journal of Trading Standards (UK Government publication).
• Walsh, L. and Duignan, M. B (2017) 'Olympic States of Exception, Regulatory Informality and the Power of Discretio',. Journal of Trading Standards (UK Government publication).
• Duignan, M.B., Everett, S., Walsh, L., and Cade, N (2017). Leveraging physical and digital liminoidal spaces: The case of #EATCambridge festival. Tourism Geographies: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2017.1417472 (ABS 2; Impact Factor: 11.355).

• Walsh, L., Down, S., Duignan, MB. (2023) Organisational Identity - A Mechanism for Regulatory Informality at Events, CAUTHE. Perth, Australia
• Leggett, K. L., Lammi, M., & Walsh, L. (2023). Shoving Not Nudging: A Case of Shaming ‘Waster’Stickers. In Sustainable Design and Manufacturing: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM 2022) (pp. 110-120). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
• Walsh, L., Duignan, M.B., Down, S. (2022) Informal Practices for Mapping Hosts Event Zones. The Case of London 2012. Critical Tourism Studies. Menorca, Spain
• Duignan M.B and Walsh, L (2022) Reconceptualising spatial relations between event zones, visitors and the city: A longitudinal study of the Cambridge Half Marathon (2017 - 2020). Association for Events Management Education (AEME). Northampton. UK
• Ivory. C; Walsh. L. (2021) Why does technology policy around Industry 4.0 continue to draw on technology change approaches developed in the 1960s? Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). Sweden.
• Walsh, L., Down, S., Duignan, MB. (2020) 'Straddling the Formality-Informality Span: Event Regulation and Managing Olympic Tourist Zones at London 2012', CAUTHE. Auckland, New Zealand

• Walsh, L., and Duignan, M.B (Jun, 2017). Olympic States of Exception, Regulatory Informality and the Power of Discretion. Journal of Trading Standards (UK Government publication).