Week 9: Community Events To consider the benefits and challenges of staging community events. To examine the role of community events in community identity, the building of social capital and rural or heritage regeneration. To examine the role of authenticity in community events. To explore case studies that illustrate the above concepts/issues.

Week 8: Volunteers and Events To understand the importance and role of volunteers for event management. To examine issues of selection, training and retention of volunteers in an event context. To consider key management issues related to employment of volunteers for events such as emotional labour and risk.

Week 7: Human Resource Events have a ‘pulse’ Surge of demand for resources May be regular, or one off Especially labour (and are also labour intensive High demand for operational staff Inc. Volunteers & Contractors

Lecture 6: Logistics and Project Management To examine the role of logistics in event management. To compare logistics to project management in an events setting. To explore the importance of event design in planning a community event. To understand the principles that underpin event design.

Lecture 5: Developing Sustainable Events To examine the reasons why events are increasingly being managed in accordance with sustainability principles. To examine some of the key issues encompassing management and staging of green events.