Nancy Duxbury, PhD, is a Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Cities, Cultures and Architecture Research Group at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a member of the European Expert Network on Culture. Her research has examined cultural mapping, culture in local sustainable development, culture-based development models in smaller communities, book publishing development policy, and creative tourism. She was the Principal Investigator of “CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas,” a national research-and-application project involving 5 research centres and 40 pilot projects (2016-2020) that aimed to catalyze and develop creative tourism in small cities and rural areas across four regions of Portugal. She is also a member of the European research projects “UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture” and “URBiNAT: Healthy Corridors as Drivers for Regeneration of Social Housing Neighbourhoods through Co-creation of Social, Environmental and Marketable Nature-based Solutions”, and a collaborator in the Canadian research project, “Creative Economies: Exploring the Nexus of Culture and Tourism in Rural and Peripheral Canada.” She was a co-founder and Director of Research for the Creative City Network of Canada in its earlier years, and is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University and Thompson Rivers University. She holds a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.