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Christina Hagger BA (Hons), MBA, PhD, studies tourism psychology, particularly health benefits of local tourism for retirees.

Her expertise in knowledge exchange seeks to enhance the PhD process as a networked training hub for all future tourism leaders, not just researchers.

She presents a radio program called Travelling Life.

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The PhD is an expensive process, currently centred on building researcher knowledge and skill.

Yet it trains only one element of the professional mix required to shape contemporary, and future, tourism issues.

It is timely to extend the model as a networked knowledge exchange hub for all emerging tourism leaders.

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Using the PhD to train across the diversity of senior tourism careers - not just researchers

The PhD is an expensive process, currently centred on building researcher knowledge and skill.

Yet it trains only one element of the professional mix required to shape contemporary, and future, tourism issues.

It is timely to extend the model as a networked knowledge exchange hub for all emerging tourism leaders.