Nancy Duxbury Carreiro

Nancy Duxbury, PhD, is a Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Cities, Cultures and Architecture Research Group at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a member of the European Expert Network on Culture. Her research has examined cultural mapping, culture in local sustainable development, culture-based development models in smaller communities, book publishing development policy, and creative tourism. She is the Principal Investigator of “CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas,” a national research-and-application project that aims to catalyze and develop creative tourism in small cities and rural areas across four regions of Portugal, which has expanded to associated projects "CREATOUR Azores" and "CREATOUR ; She is also a member of the European research projects “UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture” and “URBiNAT: Healthy Corridors as Drivers for Regeneration of Social Housing Neighbourhoods through Co-creation of Social, Environmental and Marketable Nature-based ; Selected books:Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry(2015),Culture and Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis (2015),Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development(2018),Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping: Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing(2018), and A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism(2019). She holds a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.