Dr Charlie Mansfield

Dr Charlie Mansfield is a research academic and teaches travel writers. He taught at the University of Plymouth in Tourism Management and French, where he was also co-director of the heritage research centre. He completed a major funded project with the CNRS at the University of Paris, the Panthéon-Sorbonne, in heritage management and was a research academic with the University of Edinburgh from January 2005 until July 2009 where he successfully completed an AHRC-funded research project on medieval travel literature. He is an independent researcher and travel writer, regularly running summer schools for literary travel writers and DMOs. In 2015 he was awarded his PhD for a doctoral thesis on literary tourism. It is in this field of literary travel that Charlie has continued to create learning materials and to teach travel writers who want to add a literary dimension to their work. His own travel blog presents writing advice embedded in narrative non-fiction, whilst seeking out and sharing new literary destinations with his readers. He constantly innovates in the design of digital delivery for DMOs and writers.