Myra Lesley Shackley (born about 1945) is Professor of Culture Resource Management and Head of the Centre for Tourism and Visitor Management at Nottingham Business School. She is also a priest in the Church of England and has been the Tourism Advisor of Southwell diocese since 2005. Part of her current research is concerned with the management of sacred sites as visitor attractions. She has written several books and about two hundred of academic articles and international conference papers.

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  • Myra Lesley Shackley (born about 1945) is Professor of Culture Resource Management and Head of the Centre for Tourism and Visitor Management at Nottingham Business School. She is also a priest in the Church of England and has been the Tourism Advisor of Southwell diocese since 2005. Part of her current research is concerned with the management of sacred sites as visitor attractions. She has written several books and about two hundred of academic articles and international conference papers. She has been involved in research in sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, Kingdom of Lo, Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh, Guyana, and Uzbekistan. After gaining a Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Southampton she spent four years as head of the laboratory at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford before becoming a lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Leicester during which time she reported on the geology of Saxon Southampton. She has investigated the stories about Yeti creatures, as in her book Still Living? Wildmen: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma, where she refers to a description of a family of Almas. Her research into residual Neanderthal populations took her to Mongolia in 1969 but she abandoned this research in the late 1980s.
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  • Myra Lesley Shackley (born about 1945) is Professor of Culture Resource Management and Head of the Centre for Tourism and Visitor Management at Nottingham Business School. She is also a priest in the Church of England and has been the Tourism Advisor of Southwell diocese since 2005. Part of her current research is concerned with the management of sacred sites as visitor attractions. She has written several books and about two hundred of academic articles and international conference papers.
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  • Myra Shackley
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