Roya RahimiRoya Rahimi joined the University of Wolverhampton as Lecturer in 2014. She teaches across tourism, hospitality and events subject areas. Roya has supervised more than 100 dissertations of graduate and postgraduate students, and also involved in PhD upervision. Her research interests are CRM, Organisational Culture, Human Resource Management, Gender Equality and Tourism Higher Education. Her work has been published in top-tier journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management and Anatolia. Her work has been also presented at various international conferences and appears in book chapters released by Routledge, CABI, Emerald and IGI. She sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology and European Management Review. She serves as reviewer for number of leading journals. Roya received The Valene L. Smith Prize for the best presented paper at the International Conference of Service Quality in Hospitality & Tourism in Isfahan at 2016. She has been published in a variety of languages. Her industry experience includes seven years working in the hotel industry in a number of international hotels in various countries. Roya is fluent in three languages (English, Turkish and Persian) and has familiarity with European and Asian cultures. She believes that high quality teaching, strong research and industry partnership go hand in hand given the application aspect of the tourism and hospitality field. Roya was nominated for her cutting edge style of teaching in 2016 and also nominated as the inspirational lecturer of the year in 2015 and 2016. Read More Read Less