Research supervisors
Areas of research supervision
In the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management we offer research supervision in the following areas:
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Tourism research supervisors
Dr Helen Breen, PhD
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow on an ARC Discovery grant.
Qualifications: BA, (Deakin), BBusT(UNENR), MBusTourism by Research (SCU), PhD (SCU).
Areas of research Interest
Adult tertiary education, hospitality and club management; economic and social impacts of gambling; Indigenous gambling and responsible gaming evaluation.
E: helen.breen@scu.edu.au
Dr Kerry Brown, PhD
Current position: Mulpha Professorial Chair in Tourism and Hospitality Asset Management
Director, Centre for Tourism, Leisure and Work
Qualifications: BA (Griffith), MA Industrial Relations (Murdoch), PhD(Griffith)
Areas of research interest
Change management, networks, work-life balance, gender and careers in the public sector, public sector management and policy, government-community relations, and public sector employment relations, asset management in tourism and hospitality.
E: kerry.brown@scu.edu.au
Dr Grant Cairncross, PhD
Current position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BA (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Grad Dip Business &Administration
(Massey), MBus (SCU), PhD(SCU)
Areas of Research Interest
Employment Relations in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry (small business relations); the management of human knowledge capital and service quality; responses to increased work - why people take less annual leave and why they downshift and sea change; union strategies in an age of de-unionisation and service industry growth; and OH&S issues in the workplace.
E: grant.cairncross@scu.edu.au
Dr Deborah Che, PhD
Current position: Lecturer
Qualifications: BA (Economics), BS (Marketing) (Maryland); MPA (Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management/Policy Analysis) (Indiana); MA, PhD (Geography) (Clark)
Areas of Research Interest
Deborah's research interests include agritourism, gastronomic tourism, ecotourism, cultural/heritage tourism, tourism development and marketing, destination branding, tourism geography, human-wildlife interactions, rural and community development, and arts-based economic diversification strategies.
E: deborah.che@scu.edu.au
Dr Kay Dimmock, PhD
Current position: Lecturer
Qualifications: BBus (Hons)(SCU), Med (USQ), PhD(SCU)
Areas of Research Interest
Kay's areas of research interest include management, tourism and hospitality education, international education, festivals and events and dive/marine tourism.
E: kay.dimmock@scu.edu.au
Dr Dianne Dredge, PhD
Current position: Associate Professor, Tourism Policy & Planning
Qualifications: B. Regional & Town Planning (UQ), MA (Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo), PhD (University of Newcastle)
Areas of Research Interest
Tourism planning; touristed landscapes and place change; tourism policy and roles of government; local government tourism management; and tourism and the environment.
E: dianne.dredge@scu.edu.au
Dr John Haw, PhD
Current position: Research Fellow, Centre for Gambling Education and Research
Qualifications: BA(UWS), BA(Hons)Psych, (UWS), PhD(UWS)
Areas of Research Interest
Dr Haw's major research interest is gambling behaviour with a particular focus on the interaction between the gambler, the game and the venue. He has conducted research into gaming machine and gaming venue design, along with other projects on gambling promotions and marketing, the hospitality features of venues and the measurement of player experience.
E: john.haw@scu.edu.au
Dr Nerilee Hing, PhD
Current position: Professor & Director, Centre for Gambling Education and Research
Qualifications: B Bus Tourism (UNE), M App Science (SCU), PhD (UWS)
Areas of Research Interest
Gambling management, policy, and impacts; corporate social responsibility in gambling and responsible conduct of gambling; problem gambling; gambling amongst vulnerable populations.
E: nerilee.hing@scu.edu.au
Dr John Jenkins, PhD
Current position: Professor
Qualifications: BA (Hons) (UNE), PhD (UNE)
Areas of Research Interest
Tourism and public policy; tourism organisations; tourism planning; rural tourism; regional tourism; ecotourism; tourism in protected areas; outdoor recreation planning and management; leisure studies; leisure and recreation planning in urban communities.
E: john.jenkins@scu.edu.au
Dr Yun Lok Lee, PhD
Current position: Lecturer
Qualifications: BA (Econs) (Adel), BBus (Tourism)(UNE), MBus (SCU), Dip Ed(Flinders), PhD (Griffith)
Areas of Research Interest
Service management (Quality, service failure and service recovery): cultural influences with special interest in Chinese culture, on Mainland Chinese consumer behaviour, in the context of service failure and recovery, in the tourism and hospitality settings. Research methodology – interests in means-end value chain and experimental design using scenario.
E: yun-lok.lee@scu.edu.au
Dr Matthew Lamont, PhD
Current Position: Associate Lecturer
Qualifications: BSTM (SCU), BBusTM(Hon) (SCU), PhD (SCU)
Areas of Research Interest
Matt's primary research interest is in social aspects of sports tourism participation, specifically motivations and behaviours of sport-focused leisure participants, and non-elite participation in sporting events. His other research interests include event sponsorship, and strategic management in leisure and tourism enterprises.
E: matthew.lamont@scu.edu.au
Dr Gui Lohmann, PhD
Current position: Lecturer, Transport and Tourism Management
Qualifications: BSc (Civil Engineering, UFRJ, Brazil), MSc (Transport Engineering, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil), PhD (Tourism Management, VUW, New Zealand)
Areas of Research Interest
Tourism and destination management; transport and tourism geographies; aviation and cruise tourism.
E: gui.lohmann@scu.edu.au
Dr Kevin Markwell, PhD
Current position: Associate Professor in Tourism Studies
Qualifications: BA (Hons) Geography (Newcastle), MA Geography (Newcastle), B.Ed. Studs
(Newcastle), PhD Tourism (Newcastle)
Areas of Research Interest
Construction and experience of nature through tourism and leisure practices; nature-based tourism as a nature conservation tool, wildlife tourism, interpretation and tour guiding, leisure/ tourism and gay male identities, social aspects of pet keeping.
E: kevin.markwell@scu.edu.au
Dr Brent Moyle, PhD
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Qualifications: BBusCom (Monash), BBusComHons (Monash) PhD (Monash)
Areas of Research Interest
Sustainable tourism, protected area management, visitor communication, visitor experience, benefits of parks, impacts of tourism on communities and the environment, behaviour change, policy and planning, amateur athletes engaged in serious leisure, tourism postgraduate dissertations.
E: brent.moyle@scu.edu.au
Dr Arianne C. Reis, PhD
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Qualifications: PhD (Tour Otago), M.A. (PhysEd GamaFilho), B.Sc./B.Tchg (Hons) (PhysEd UERJ)
Areas of research interest
Outdoor recreation and leisure; nature-based tourism; protected area management; island tourism; wildlife tourism; sport events legacies and impacts.
E: arianne.reis@scu.edu.au
Professor Elizabeth Roberts
Current Position: Head, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Classical Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University in the USA, and her dissertation was an ethnographic case study based on a three year study in a hospitality consulting firm.
Areas of research interest
Elizabeth's research interests include those that examine workplace communication issues, culture and communication, and tourism education. Elizabeth has been actively involved as a consultant and trainer within the hospitality industry and has worked for international hotel chains throughout the world.
E: elizabeth.roberts@scu.edu.au
Dr Pascal Scherrer, PhD
Current Position: Lecturer
Qualifications: PhD (Griffith), BSc (Hons1)(Griffith), BSc (Griffith), GradCert TESOL (Bond)
Areas of research interest
With a background in environmental science and ecotourism, Pascal's main research interest is in sustainable tourism and visitor management in natural and cultural landscapes, addressing the areas of environmental, social and cultural impacts and their relationship. He also has an interest in the role of tourism and leisure contexts in promoting physical activity and in alpine ecology and monitoring tools, including the use of science based geographic information system (GIS) applications to support land managers.
E: pascal.scherrer@scu.edu.au
David Scott
Current position: Lecturer
Qualifications: GDipTour (Otago); MTour (Otago)
Areas of Research Interest
Affect, everyday life and identity; Tourist behaviour; Tourism and Hospitality Work and Workers; Mobile methodologies; Critical Hospitality Studies.
E: david.scott@scu.edu.au
Paul Weeks
Current position: Lecturer, Director of Academic Studies (The Hotel School, Sydney)
Qualifications: HND Hotel & Catering Admin (Oxford Poly), GradDipEd (Training & Development) (UNE-NR), MEd (SCU)
Areas of Research Interest
Paul's interest include management in tourism & hospitality; Information and communication technologies; internet within the hospitality sector; historical aspects of the hotel sector; Education; convention services. Paul Weeks is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education (JOHLSTE).
E: paul.weeks@scu.edu.au
Dr Betty Weiler, PhD
Current position: Professor
Qualifications: BA (Alberta) MA (Waterloo) PhD (Victoria)
Areas of Research Interest
Tourist behavior and behavior change; visitor services management; strategic and persuasive communication with visitors; intercultural communication; sustainable tourism, ecotourism and wildlife tourism; parks and protected areas; inbound Chinese tourism; tour guiding; nature and heritage interpretation; the tourist experience; capacity-building in tourism; regional and destination branding
E: betty.weiler@scu.edu.au
Dr Erica Wilson, PhD
Current position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: B Admin (Tourism) (Hons) (James Cook), Grad Dip (Env Studs) (Adel), PhD (Griffith)
Areas of Research Interest
Erica's main research interests lie in gender and tourism, the tourist experience, community-driven tourism planning, sustainable/ecotourism and qualitative research methodology, and teaching and learning in tourism education.
E: erica.wilson@scu.edu.au
Dr Mieke Witsel, PhD
Current position: Lecturer
Qualifications: Drs (Amsterdam), MA(Amsterdam), PhD(SCU)
Areas of Research Interest
Mieke's key research interests are in culture and communication, tourism education, sustainability in tourism, and tourism in protected areas. Mieke's PhD research was a qualitative, study of the experiences of tourism lecturers in the transcultural classroom.
E: mieke.witsel@scu.edu.au
Dr Meredith Wray, PhD
Current position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BBusT (SCU), MInt Tour Mngt (SCU), PhD (SCU)
Areas of Research Interest
Meredith's research interests lie in tourism policy and planning, sustainable tourism development and systems/network theory.
E: meredith.wray@scu.edu.au
Dr Peter Wynn-Moylan, PhD
Current position: Lecturer
Qualifications: MA (Griffith), PhD (Griffith)
Areas of Research Interest
Cultural Policy Studies, cultural planning and tourism; events management; arts administration; and cultural industries management
E: peter.wynn-moylan@scu.edu.au
Dr Martin Young, PhD
Current position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BA(UNE), BA(Hon)(UNE), PhD(JCU)
Areas of Research Interest
Martin's research interests include spatial relationships between gambling venues and supporting communities, gambling supply structures and the distribution of gambling-related harm, the sociology of gambling production and consumption, social production and consumption of tourist places, causes and consequences of population mobility.
E: martin.young@scu.edu.au
Updated: 16 April 2013