Dr Ariane Lengyel
Ariane Lengyel is a Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Management.
With over 20 years’ experience in the hospitality industry, Ariane has a considerable professional background spanning from Europe, to the South Pacific to Asia. She spent over ten years in the Rooms Division Department before moving onto Sales and Marketing at corporate level, working for companies such as Hilton and Accor. Ariane’s experience informs her teaching and she shares her in-depth understanding of the industry with her students who benefit from real-life applications of theory. Her academic practice is informed by constant interaction with the industry and keeping abreast of technological and strategic developments within the world of hospitality in order to develop the skills needed by graduates.
Ariane’s research interests lie within the sociological and cultural study of food with a particular interest in the role of celebrity chefs in contemporary British society.
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Qualifications
- Degree Hospitality Management (Glion Institute of Higher Education)
- MA Culinary Arts (University of West London)
- PhD (University of West London)
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Memberships
Institute of Hospitality (IoH)Senior Fellow of the HEAEuroCHRIE
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Conferences
Celebrity Chefs: Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay as arbiters of taste and custodians of culinary capital, paper presented at the International Conference on Culinary Arts and Science, Institut Paul Bocuse and Université Lyon 2, June 2022.Jamie Oliver: Taste, Monks and Nonnas, paper presented at the Council for Hospitality Management Education Conference (CHME) (online), Sheffield Hallam University, May 2021.Ciao Bella - Celebrity Chefs, Cookbooks and TV shows: preliminary findings from Jamie Oliver’s Italy and Jamie’s Great Italian Escape, paper presented PhD Conference, University of West London, May 2019.Developing Valid, Reliable and Transparent Assessments in Transnational Partnerships: Reality or Fantasy world? paper presented at the Festival of Learning and Teaching Conference, University of West London, June 2018.February 2017, SOAS Food Forum, SOAS, University of London, ‘Celebrity Chefs and the Construction of Taste: From Uber Macho to Culinary Crusader’, London.
May 2016, University of West London PhD Conference, ‘Celebrity Chefs, Taste, Lifestyle, Cookbooks and TV: themes emerging from a review of the literature’, London.
May 2016, Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME) conference, ‘Celebrity Chefs and the Construction of Taste: From Uber Macho to Culinary Crusader’, Belfast.
May 2015, University of West London PhD Conference, ‘A taste of celebrity chefs: initial findings from a review of the literature’, London.
June 2014, University of West London Teaching and Learning Conference, ‘Assessments in Transnational Partnerships: The UWL & IIHM Experience’, London.
May 2014, Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME) Conference, ‘The Impact of Celebrity Chefs on Domestic Food Habits’, Buxton.
