Christopher Baker
Trustee
Dr Afiya Holder is a Tourism and Events Lecturer and Strategic Partnerships Lead of the Tourism Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Afiya is internationally recognised for her professional experience and research that intersects tourism, events and social sustainability and holds a Senior Fellow of Advance HEA (SFHEA). Afiya’s research pathways cover topical areas including Heritage, Museums and Memory, socio-cultural and environmental impacts of tourism and events, Island tourism, Indigenous tourism, tourism resilience and adaptation in SIDS, as well as tourism marketing and digital transformation for social good. Afiya is also an active associate editor and podcaster for Tourism Geographies and Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism.
Dr Holder also actively contributes to Scottish society and charities and is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland and the British Academy Early Career Network. She is Scotland’s representative member for the Global Young Academy (GYA), Young Academies Science Advice Structure (YASAS) and European Young Academies (ENYA).
