Staff profiles
Suzanne Leckie
BA (Hons), PGCFHE, MPhil
Phone 0114 225 2950
E-mail s.leckie@shu.ac.uk
Suzanne began her career working for the Peak District National Park as an environmental educator, trainer and education service manager. Tasks ranged from creating nature areas in school grounds, to delivering training courses abouthow to design exciting and inspiring educational events, to forging partnership projects with organisations such as the YHA and water companies.
After 10 years she moved to Sheffield Hallam University, where she has been teaching for over 17 years.
Suzanne maintains her connections with vocational practice through her position as a Secretary of State appointed board member of the Peak District National Park Authority, and by undertaking consultancy work for environmental organisations.
Research and consultancy interests
Suzanne's main consultancy and research interests relate to the interface between people and the environment. In 2009 she undertook a research visit to Japan to explore visitor management in Japanese National Parks. She has recently undertaken consultancy work for Sheffield Wildlife Trust to develop an evaluation system to measure the benefits of their people focused projects, and has organised conferences for the Association of National Park Authorities. She was also commissioned to lead a project for the Department of Foreign and International Development in designing an environmental education curriculum for the Silistra region of Bulgaria.
Selected publications
Leckie, S., Crowe, L. and Rotherham, I. (2008) Visitor and Sustainable Tourism Management, Distance Learning Module Handbook, Sheffield Hallam University
Crowe, L., and Leckie, S. (2007) Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change, report of annual workshop proceedings of the Association of National Park Authorities
Crowe, L., and Leckie, S. (2006) Recreation in National Parks, report of annual workshop proceedings of the Association of National Park Authorities
Swarbrooke, J., Beard, C., Leckie, S., Pomfret, G. (2003), 'Adventure Tourism - the new frontier', Butterworth Heinemann
