Dr Vassilios Ziakas studies sport and leisure policy through an interdisciplinary lens that explores strategic linkages among sport, recreation, leisure, tourism and events. His primary emphasis is on strategic planning for obtaining a range of sustainable community benefits. His research has been published in a range of peer-reviewed journals and is widely cited. Dr Ziakas is the author of the monograph “Event Portfolio Planning and Management” (Routledge, 2014), co-author of “Event Portfolio Management” (Goodfellow, 2019) and co-editor of the “Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism” (2018), “Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future” (Rouledge, 2019), as well as "Crisis Management and Recovery for Events" (Goodfellow, 2021).