Chantal Laws

Lecturer, Creative Events Management MA (Online)

Chantal joined Falmouth in 2023, initially full-time as Course Leader and since January 2025 as a part-time Lecturer for MA Creative Events Management.

She has twenty-five years’ experience of teaching, research and course management in creative events and has worked at several UK universities and taught internationally.

Her professional background is in arts and heritage management, having started out as an archaeological research assistant and curator before going on to manage a multi-stage Arts Council/Lottery-funded London music venue. Alongside academic work, I helped to organise an annual fringe festival of gardening, and now volunteer as a mentor for young people wanting to access creative careers.

Currently, as well as lecturing for Falmouth, Chantal teaches at Ravensbourne University London and works for Kent Music (Hub Lead Organisation for music education in Kent, UK).

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Contact details

Email c.laws@falmouth.ac.uk

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    1999 MA, Museology University of East Anglia
    1997 BA (Hons) Art History University of East Anglia

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    I am an active researcher with publications over the past 20 years in events and related fields. I am a reviewer for the International Journal of Event and Festival Management, and for publishers Routledge, Elsevier and Goodfellow. My current research interests focus on experience design for transformation and you can read more about my particular research areas below, alongside publications available via FURR and also Google Scholar.

    Research topics

    • Experience Design
    • Experiencescapes and narrative experience environments
    • Creativity and creative processes
    • Dark Events / Heritage
    • Consumer Culture
    • Symbolic Interactionism
    • Serious Leisure
    • Digital Storytelling
    • Netnography

    Areas of teaching

    My current teaching for Falmouth Online is on the introductory module Principles of Event Management and Research. I have previously delivered all the taught modules on the MA Creative Events Management and supervised students on the final Major Research Project. I have extensive previous experience of teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and professional students in event production, experience design, creativity, festivity and ritual experiences, responsible management and research methods. I have acted as Course Leader at a number of UK universities.

    Research Students

    Number of research students supervised to completion

    0

    Research degrees examined

    • I have examined one MRes student at Vancouver Island University

    Number of research degree examinations

    1

    Teaching

    CPD delivered

    Environmental Assessor Stage 1 - A Greener Future / Falmouth University short course
    Disability Equality Training for Live Events - Attitude is Everything / Falmouth University short course

    I have also delivered professional short courses in event design for celebratory events and festival management and worked previously as a training consultant in the UK heritage sector.

    CPD:

    • Environmental Assessor Training Stage 1 (A Greener Future / Falmouth University)
    • Enhanced DBS Clearance
    • Safeguarding Children for Education (Level 1)
    • Handling Conflict and Difficult Conversations,
    • GDPR Essentials
    • Digital Accessibility Compliance
    • Duty of Care
    • Active Bystander
    • Mental Health First Aid


    Research Supervisor Training:

    • Falmouth University Research Supervisors’ Forum
    • University of Westminster Doctoral Supervisor Forum
    • University of Gloucestershire Research Forum


    Recent conference Attendance:

    • Jan 2026 - Wilding Gardens Conference, Manchester
    • 2024 & 2025 - NHS Forest / Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Conference (online)
    • 2024 & 2026 - Green Events Innovation, London
    • Sept 2024 - Romancing the Gothic research network – The Eco-Gothic
    • June 2024 - Slowing Down: Tourism and Leisure Scholarship and Practice in the Anthropocene

    Professional Engagement

    Engagement with professional associations and societies

    I have been an institutional representative for the Association for Event Management Education (AEME) and the Association of Leisure and Tourism Research (ATLAS) for many years and am currently an individual member of the Experience Research Society (EXPRESSO) and the Leisure Studies Association.