WORK EXPERIENCE  Present: Senior Lecturer |School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, TU Dublin, Grangegorman , Dublin 7

Present lecture modules include: Culture, Heritage and Tourism , Sustainable Tourism and Regenerative Tourism,  Contempory Issues in Sport and Leisure, Sustainable Sport and Leisure Facilities Management, FieldTrip- capstone module

Other Roles

PhD supervision

2009- present: Facilitator of Students Learning with Communities projects. Community based project which involves liaison with the community in relation cultural and heritage tourism provision

 Programme Co-ordinator and Chair of DT411 BA in Leisure Management ( 2014-2020), M.Sc in Tourism Management (1999-2005),  PG in Rural Tourism (1995-1998), Year tutor

Professional and Societal Engagement 

Member of the Green Campus, TU Dublin
Member of Educating for Sustainability COP, TU Dublin

Member of Engaged Research Network, TU Dublin 

Community Based teaching through SLWC TU Dublin and Students in Action Initiative

2018  DELTA National Teaching Awards for Students in Action Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6mU2uAQMcs

2014 DIT Fellowship( team) for Students in Action Initiative

2018-2020 Company Secretary for ICOMOS Ireland www.icomosireland.ie

2017-2020 Director ICOMOS Ireland

2016-2024 National Convenor for National Scientific Committee for Cultural Tourism  ICOMOS

Evaluator for the National Tourism Board (Failte Ireland) for EU Operational Programme Funded projects (ERDF)

1990-2005 Regional Tidy Towns Judge ( The largest environmental competition in Ireland www.tidytowns.ie )

WORK EXPERIENCE Tourism Officer |Midlands East Tourism (Failte Ireland –East Coast and Midlands/Dublin Doorstep) February 1990 – October 1995 

WORK EXPERIENCE Botanical Research Assistant National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. August 1983-February 1990  Worked the Taxonomist. Secretary of the Irish Garden Plant Society

EU FUNDED WORK INTERREG FUNDED Gorman, C. (2005-2006) Lead Researcher, with Dr. Louise Emmanuel, and Nia Siggins, Trinity College, University of Wales, Carmarthen, Wales ParNetourism the Exploration of Partnerships and Networks in South East Ireland and South West Wales. This primarily focused on rural and community providers.

INDUSTRY WORK

Gorman, C. (2007) with Tourism Research Centre, DIT (Jane Stacey, Dr. Kevin Griffin) Monastic Trails. A Product Development Proposal. Funded by Fáilte Ireland .

Gorman, (2007) with Tourism Research Centre : The Feasibility of Tourism Networks in the East Coast and Dublin tourism area (confidential)

Gorman, C. (2002) Rural Tourism in Ireland with ETUP - CD ROM (European Tourism Universities Partnership) European on Rural Tourism.

Gorman C., & Quinn, D. (2000) Irish Country Holidays - Facilitated a programme of qualitative research with co-operative groups, board members and support agencies with the objective of providing strategic marketing direction to the organisation - Evaluation of Project Management. Under the auspices of the DIT Tourism Research Centre. MEMBERSHIP OF RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS

2017-2020 Company Secretary and Director of ICOMOS Ireland (International Council of Monuments and Sites - UNESCO ) www.icomos.ie