View Mike’s previous, current and forthcoming mega-events academic output (publications, conferences, media, policy etc) – Visit Mike’s Academic CV / Portfolio
Top resources for the study of mega-events (policy, politics, wider impacts, economics and strategic leveraging)
- Thematically ordered suggestions of my top academic journal publications
- Generally useful IOC, OCOG and governmental policy and practice reports
- Useful commentators on mega-event developments
Around the Rings – http://aroundtherings.com/site/1/Home
- Noteworthy media articles and videos
Around the Rings (Aug, 2016) – http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__56995/Title__IOC-Vice-President-Rio-Most-Difficult-Olympics/292/Articles
- Key project and policy actors for the Olympics and notable academic authors
Visit the Official #RioZones analysis, videos, pictures, case study and day to day narration (research vlog and data analysis) from the Rio 2016 Olympics
Rio 2016: Key The Conversation and Media articles
- How Rio 2016 satisfied its sponsors while leaving room for the people (Michael Duignan and David McGillivray, 19 Aug 2016)
- Why Rio 2016 may not bring the tourism boost Brazil hopes (Michael Duignan, 22 August, 2016)
- Olympic Tourism, Event Spaces and Entrepreneurial Leveraging (Michael Duignan, BBC Interview, August 2016)
- Going, going, gone: how Olympic legacy is killing London’s creative culture (Ilaria Pappalepore, 17 August, 2016)
- Airbnb brings Olympic tourists to Rio’s poorest areas – but will locals benefit? (Fabian Frenzel, 15 August, 2016)
- Violence is normal in Brazil, as visitors to Rio 2016 are finding out Violence is normal in Brazil, as visitors to Rio 2016 are finding out (Heloisa Dos Reis, 16 August, 2016)
- Don’t believe the doom mongers – the Olympics have changed Rio for the better (Beatriz Garcia, 23 Aug, 2016)
- Simon Calder: the Olympics don’t boost tourism, so bag a Brazil bargain now (Simon Calder, August 2016)
- IOC and Commercial Exploitation (Guardian, 2016)
- Rio Times Online Tourism Impacts (July, 2016)
Mike’s regional events and festival research (2015 – 2020)
- Glastonbury’s festival economics signals hope for entrepreneurial spirit (Michael Duignan, The Conversation June 2016)
- EAT Cambridge 2014 economic and evaluation report (Michael Duignan)
- EAT Cambridge 2015 and 2016 economic and evaluation report (Michael Duignan, Lewis Walsh, Nikki Cade)
- Cambridge Half Marathon 2016 analysis – final economic evaluation report (Michael Duignan)
A more comical-come-satirical take on the economics and politics of mega-events
FIFA and the World Cup: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
The Rio 2016 Olympic Ceremony
