Foreword / Brent Ritchie -- Event studies / Don Getz -- Typologies and event studies / Tom Lunt -- Towards an interdisciplinary events research agenda across sport, tourism, leisure and health / Mike Weed -- Events and tourism / Warwick Frost -- Public events, personal leisure / Diane O'Sullivan -- Sports events : typologies, people and place / Sean Gammon -- The history of events : ideology and historiography / John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold -- The economic contribution of special events / Larry Dwyer And Leo Jago -- Geography and the study of events / C. Michael Hall and Stephen J. Page -- The psychology of events / Pierre Benckendorff and Philip L. Pearce -- The political analysis and political economy of events / C. Michael Hall -- Managing uncertainty : (re)conceptualising aspects of operations for events / Julia Tum -- The private sector and events / Robyn Stokes -- Event staging / Nicole Ferdinand and Nigel Williams -- The experience of events / Chris Ryan-- Social capital in the music festival experience / Linda Wilks -- Designing event experiences / Graham Berridge -- The media, marketing and events / Andrew Bradley -- Staffing for successful events : having the right skills in the right place at the right time / Clare Hanlon and Leo Jago -- Volunteering and events / Katie Schlenker, Deborah Edwards and Stephen Wearing -- A spatial extension to a framework for assessing direct economic impacts of tourist events / Timothy J. Tyrrell and Robert J. Johnston -- Socio-cultural impacts of events : meanings, authorized transgression, and social capital / Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone -- Event impacts and environmental sustainability / Robert Case -- The role of events In urban regeneration / Michael Pacione -- Faces, spaces, and places : social and cultural impacts of street festivals In cosmopolitan cities / Stephen J. Shaw -- Events, cities and the night-time economy / Graeme Evans-- Safety, security and event management : a case study of the London 2012 Olympics and the private security industry / Allison Wylde and Stephen J. Page -- Quantitative and qualitative research tools in events / Richard Shipway, Leo Jago, and Marg Deery -- Events management education / Paul Barron and Anna Leask -- Festivals And events, government and spatial governance / Martin Robertson and Kenneth Wardrop -- A futurist's view on the future of events / Ian Yeoman, Martin Robertson and Karen Smith -- Retrospect and prospect / Stephen J. Page and Joanne Connell.