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Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective
Events have played a significant role in the way in which the Coronavirus pandemic has been experienced and known around the world. Little is known though about how the pandemic has impacted on supporting, managing and governing events in municipal (i.e., local) authorities as key stakeholders, nor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8784592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35083432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.814146 |
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author | Coles, Tim Garcia, Giselle O'Malley, Evelyn Turner, Cathy |
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description | Events have played a significant role in the way in which the Coronavirus pandemic has been experienced and known around the world. Little is known though about how the pandemic has impacted on supporting, managing and governing events in municipal (i.e., local) authorities as key stakeholders, nor how events have featured in the opening-up of localities. This paper reports on empirical research with senior events officers for local authorities in the UK on these key knowledge gaps. Specifically, it examines events officers' unfolding experiences of the pandemic. The paper points to unpreparedness for a crisis of this scale and magnitude, and the roles of innovation, adaptation and co-production in the emergent response. It highlights the transformative nature of the pandemic through reconsiderations of the purpose of public sector involvement in events and, from a policy perspective, how relatively smaller-scale, more agile and lower-risk arts events and performances can figure in local recovery. Finally, while the effects on, and response of, the body corporate (the local authority) to crises is an obvious focus, it is important to recognise those of the individuals who manage the response and drive change. |
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spelling | pubmed-87845922022-01-25 Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective Coles, Tim Garcia, Giselle O'Malley, Evelyn Turner, Cathy Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living Events have played a significant role in the way in which the Coronavirus pandemic has been experienced and known around the world. Little is known though about how the pandemic has impacted on supporting, managing and governing events in municipal (i.e., local) authorities as key stakeholders, nor how events have featured in the opening-up of localities. This paper reports on empirical research with senior events officers for local authorities in the UK on these key knowledge gaps. Specifically, it examines events officers' unfolding experiences of the pandemic. The paper points to unpreparedness for a crisis of this scale and magnitude, and the roles of innovation, adaptation and co-production in the emergent response. It highlights the transformative nature of the pandemic through reconsiderations of the purpose of public sector involvement in events and, from a policy perspective, how relatively smaller-scale, more agile and lower-risk arts events and performances can figure in local recovery. Finally, while the effects on, and response of, the body corporate (the local authority) to crises is an obvious focus, it is important to recognise those of the individuals who manage the response and drive change. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8784592/ /pubmed/35083432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.814146 Text en Copyright © 2022 Coles, Garcia, O'Malley and Turner. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sports and Active Living Coles, Tim Garcia, Giselle O'Malley, Evelyn Turner, Cathy Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective |
title | Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective |
title_full | Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective |
title_fullStr | Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective |
title_short | Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective |
title_sort | experiencing event management during the coronavirus pandemic: a public sector perspective |
topic | Sports and Active Living |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8784592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35083432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.814146 |
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