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By the FUA Communications & Marketing Dept.
Photo courtesy of FUA, the first publication of the FUA Research Series, Making Them Visible by Simonetta Ferrini, Spring 2015
FUA research department is currently working with the following selected grant recipients for three distinct research projects that will be developed until the end of December, 2015.
Kevin Murphy is a professor of the University of Central Florida, Rosen College of Hospitality Management, Department Chair of Hospitality Services Department (USA). The purpose of his study is to gain insights into how hospitality students assess value when they complete a study abroad externship program and to identify which attributes of the experience contribute the most to their judgment of the value of the study abroad learning experience.
Radesh Palakurthi is a Profesor and Director of the Center for Hospitality and Tourism Business at the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management of the University of Memphis (USA). His research aims to study the relationship between the application of pedagogical innovative methods in hospitality education, such as experiential learning, and field experience on the expected learning outcomes.
Matteo Pretelli is a Research Fellow at the School of Italian Studies at the University of Warwick in Coventry (United Kingdom). The project aims to comprehend, with the participation of FUA students, the complexity of Florence as a city of different ethnic groups placed in a global context. The research has three main objects: 1) to set up an atypical module to be offered at the FUA and titled “Florence: A Multiethnic Mosaic,” based on the practices of Experiential Learning and Field Learning; 2) to favor a mutual knowledge and understanding through direct contact between the FUA international students and the communities of migrants settled in Florence; and 3) to make the FUA a permanent observatory of the status of migrant communities in the city.
The 2016 call for grant proposals is currently available online.