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Russell Staiff is an academic affiliated with Western Sydney University and Silpakorn University, Bangkok. He holds the position of Adjunct Fellow in the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Program within the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University and is an Adjunct Professorial Fellow in the Architectural Heritage and Tourism Program at the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University.
His research focuses on the dynamic intersections between cultural heritage, communities, and tourism, with a regional emphasis on Southeast Asia. He also explores heritage as a socio-cultural phenomenon, examining how cultural memory, identity, and belonging are shaped through heritage practices.
His recent scholarly contributions include co-editing volumes on heritage and tourism for Routledge and publishing a monograph with Ashgate in 2014 titled Re-Imagining Heritage Interpretation: Enchanting the Past/Future, along with co-edited works Travel and Imagination and Travel and Transformation. Another volume, Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future, is forthcoming with Berghahn Books. These works reflect a thematic focus on travel, imagination, transformation, and the interpretive frameworks of heritage.
His publications reveal consistent engagement with interdisciplinary themes in cultural studies, tourism, and heritage, particularly in how heritage is represented, experienced, and reimagined. The recurring sub-fields include heritage interpretation, tourist identity, cultural memory, and socio-spatial dynamics in Southeast Asia.
- Adjunct Fellow, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Program, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University
- Adjunct Professorial Fellow, Architectural Heritage and Tourism Program, Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
Dr. Staiff has presented at international conferences such as ACHS 2016, where he discussed topics including modernism and heritage, and tourism in Luang Prabang, Laos. There is no mention of formal student supervision or grant funding in the provided text.
