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    Greg studied Drama at the University of Leeds and started his teaching career in Kingston upon Hull in 1989 and has worked the length and breadth of the country, and, for the past few years, in China and the Middle East.

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    Melanie Kay Smith, Associate Professor, Budapest Metropolitan University

    Melanie Kay Smith is an Associate Professor at Budapest Metropolitan University and a Researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Sociology. She teaches and researches subjects relating to cities, cultural tourism and wellbeing. She has lived in Budapest for more than 13 years, has a Hungarian husband and two bilingual sons Levi and Ferdi aged 12 and 8.

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