Emma Björner
About Emma Björner
Dr. Emma Björner is acting director and researcher at Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI) at the School of Business, Economics, and Law at the University of Gothenburg. At GRI, Emma works in three research projects:
- In the project The Role of Tourism in Multicultural Societies (TiMS), she studies sustainable tourism and how the plurality of places and destinations is communicated, represented and experienced.
- In the project Enhancing Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas through Local Food Systems, Emma works with workshops and communication, and with a focus on food strategies and digitalisation of local food systems.
- In the project Food Systems, Entrepreneurship and Place Development in Halland, Emma explores what is required to support entrepreneurship and small-scale food production, and how it connects to place development and attractiveness.
At GRI, Emma is a member of the Center for Consumption Research and the research programme Managing Big Cities. At the University of Gothenburg, Emma is also affiliated with the Centre for Tourism (CFT), where she is the coordinator of a research network on tourism and experiences within the university alliance Eutopia, and is responsible for CFT's collaboration with Nätverket Hållbar Besöksnäring (Sustainable Tourism Industry Network).
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Tourism memories – a collaborative reflection on inclusion and
exclusion
Eva Maria Jernsand, Helena Kraff, Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Caroline Adolfsson, Emma Björner, Lillian Omondi, Thomas Pederson, Sofia Ulver
Tourism Recreation Resarch - 2023 -
Decentralised place branding through multiple authors and narratives: the collective branding of a small town in
Sweden
Emma Björner, Lars Aronsson
Journal of Marketing Management - 2022 -
Destination governance and social learning: Crafting Sweden as a sustainable
destination
Emma Björner, Eva Maria Jernsand
5th Advances in Destination Management (ADM 2022), Linnaeus University, Kalmar Campus, June 8-10 - 2022 -
Chinese tourism consumption vis-à-vis tourism development strategies in the
Arctic
Emma Björner, Elena Dybtsyna, Erik Lundberg
Asian Mobilities Consumption in a Changing Arctic. Edited By Young-Sook Lee. - 2021 -
Collaborative introspection as a methodological tool of reflexivity - from multidisciplinary to transdisciplinary
co-production
Caroline Adolfsson, Emma Björner, Eva Maria Jernsand, Helena Kraff, Marcus Nyström, Lillian Omondi, Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Thomas Pederson, Sofia Ulver
International Transdisciplinarity Conference (ITD21), 13-17 Sept: Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for learning and experimentation - 2021 -
Place making taking place: the New Mill
Town
Lars Aronsson, Emma Björner, Eva Maria Jernsand
29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research, 21-23 Sept. Shaping mobile futures: Challenges and possibilities in precarious times - 2021 -
Conceptualising inclusive tourism and place
branding
Helena Kraff, Eva Maria Jernsand, Emma Björner
Act Sustainable Research Conference, Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development - GMV, Nov 18-19 - 2020 -
Curators of Sweden - Adding to stereotypes or contributing to
diversity
Emma Björner
28th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality - 23-25 October 2019 - 2019 -
The communication, representation and experience of a small community: The case of Dals Långed in Dalsland,
Sweden
Emma Björner
28th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research - 2019 -
Small but diverse: the role of urban and rural communities in place-based diversity and
inclusiveness
Eva Maria Jernsand, Emma Björner, Lillian Omondi
Mistra Urban Futures annual international conference Realising just cities - lessons, impacts and outcomes, 15 October 2019, Sheffield, UK - 2019 -
Initial involvement of stakeholders in transdisciplinary projects - exploring issues of expectations, roles and
inclusion
Helena Kraff, Eva Maria Jernsand, Lillian Omondi, Emma Björner, Sayaka Osanami Törngren
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019 - Joining forces for change, Gothenburg 10-13 September - 2019