Browsing Research publications by Author "Jepson, Allan"
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Applying the Motivation, Opportunity, Ability (MOA) model, and Self-Efficacy (S-E) to better understand student engagement on Undergraduate Event Management Programs
Jepson, Allan; Ryan, Gerard (2018-04-11)Considering the motivation, opportunity, ability (MOA) model and the self-efficacy (S-E) component of the social cognitive theory (SCT), this article aims to examine through a series of four research questions whether such ... -
Applying the motivation-opportunity-ability (MOA) model to reveal factors that influence inclusive engagement within local community festivals : The case of UtcaZene 2012
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan; Ragsdell, Gillian (2013)This paper contributes to the debate on community engagement and participation in local community festivals and events by empirically analysing the factors which either inhibit or facilitate engagement therein. The ... -
Applying ‘self-efficacy’ theory to the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) Model to reveal factors that influence inclusive engagement within local community festivals
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan; Ragsdell, Gillian (2013-06)Purpose: This paper makes the case for integrating Bandura’s (1986) theory of self-efficacy within the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) model and demonstrates how this could be achieved by applying it to a local community ... -
Back to the Future
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (Routledge, 2015) -
Community Festivals : Involvement and Inclusion
Jepson, Allan; Wiltshire, Peter; Clarke, Alan (2008)This paper presents a part of a more detailed study into the organisation of a communityfestival in the East Midlands of the UK. The focus is on how the central steering groupimposed a restricted sense of culture onto the ... -
Conceptualising the Impact of Festival and Event Attendance upon Family Quality of Life (QOL)
Jepson, Allan; Stadler, Raphaela (2017-02-15)Quality of Life (QOL) research has been quite well explored in medicine, psychology and the social sciences although it has received very little attention within festival and event studies. This proposition paper is both ... -
Creating Critical Festival Discourse through flexible mixed Methodological research design
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)Our chapter traces a path through previously published doctoral research (Jepson, 2009) which investigates the planning and construction of community cultural festivals. Socio-cultural phenomena such as festivals are ... -
De-marginalising, Marginalised Communities: The case of participatory arts events and the over 70s in rural Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Jepson, Allan (Routledge, 2019-01-10)This chapter provides an insight into a much larger longitudinal study into the potential benefits of participatory arts events for the over 70s in rural communities in Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom. In order to achieve ... -
Defining and exploring community festivals and events
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (Routledge, 2015) -
Doing and feeling together in older age: self-worth and belonging through social creative activities
Wood, Emma; Jepson, Allan; Stadler, Raphaela (2021-11-02)The potential for art activities to help in alleviating loneliness is explored through a focus on older women's regular attendance at creative social activities. We apply the concept of perceived emotional synchrony to ... -
Electrodermal activity measurement within a qualitative methodology : Exploring emotion in leisure experiences
Stadler, Raphaela; Jepson, Allan; Wood, Emma (2018-11-21)Purpose: Reflecting, reliving and reforming experiences enhance longer-term effects of travel and tourism, and have been highlighted as an important aspect in determining loyalty, re-visitation and post-consumption ... -
Events and Community Development
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (CAB International, 2013-01)Community festivals are recognised as a worldwide phenomenon (Chacko and Schaffer, 1993;Derrett, 2003; Gabr, 2004; Getz, 1997) with about four hundred active festivals in Europe alone(Maurin, 2003, p.5). Arcodia and Whitford ... -
Exploring Community Festivals and Events
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan; Department of Marketing and Enterprise; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Hertfordshire Business School (Routledge, 2015) -
The Future Power of Decision Making in Community Festivals
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (Routledge, 2014-08-21)Researching cultural festivals reveals the existence of a multitude of stakeholder relationships, connected and enforced through different cultures. The one commonality is that they are all influenced by power, which in ... -
“I don’t think they give a monkey’s about me” – Exploring stakeholder power and community alienation at Glastonbury Festival“
White, Zoe; Stadler, Raphaela (Routledge, 2017-11-20)As one of the main stakeholders affected by music festivals, it is becoming more and more recognised that the needs of the host community need to be met and satisfied in order to ascertain their support for future music ... -
Integrating ‘self-efficacy’ theory to the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) Model to reveal factors that influence inclusive engagement within local community festivals
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan; Ragsdell, Gillian (2014-10-14)This study lies within what Getz (2010) refers to as the ‘classical discourse’ within festival studies as its context is firmly situated within cultural anthropology and sociology. The study, like many others, is ... -
Introducing Power, Meaning and Authenticity
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (Routledge, 2017-11-13)Our book contains contributions from 20 researchers, all of which are intrigued by the prospect of what events can achieve positively for their stakeholders’, and the ways in which power, meaning and authenticity are central ... -
Investigating the application of the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability Model to reveal factors which facilitate or inhibit inclusive engagement within local community festivals
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan; Ragsdell, Gillian (2014-08-13)This paper aims to contribute to the debate on community engagement and participation in local community festivals and events by analysing the factors which either inhibit or facilitate engagement within local community ... -
Investigating the use of the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) Model to reveal the factors which facilitate or inhibit inclusive engagement within local community festivals
Jepson, Allan (2012-06-13)This paper aims to contribute to the debate on community engagement and participation in local community festivals and events by analysing the factors which either inhibit or facilitate engagement within local community ... -
Involving the local Community : The Case of the Derby Jubilee Festival 2002
Jepson, Allan (2005-12-01)This research was centred on a community cultural festival, which was staged in thecity of Derby (UK) in the summer of 2002, the year of HRH Queen Elizabeth II's golden jubilee celebrations. The festival was unique to the ...