This page offers an overview of our staff and their areas of interest with links to their profile and publications.

Researcher	Research Area
Associate Professor Daryl Adair	sport management; sport history; Olympic Games; sport tourism;	Publications >>
Ms Johanna Adriaanse	women on sports board; role models in sport for adolescent girls and successful graduates in the sport industry. See Johanna Vescio Publications	Publications >>
Mr John Allen	event management	Publications >>
Mr Rob Bower	biomechanics; sports coaching; elderly women and gait; sporting equipment design; motion analysis	Publications >>
Ms Christine Burton	visitor choice in relation to museums; social impact of museums; cultural strategies and planning; value creation, capture and exchange transacted between new museums and their stakeholders	Publications >>
Adjunct Professor Richard Cashman	sports history; sport and globalisation; the Olympic and Paraympic Games	Publications >>
Dr Aaron Coutts	monitoring performance, fatigue and recovery in athletes; measuring training load; team sports physiology; perception of effort. Research Collaboration: * Franco M Impellizzeri - SCHULTHESS KLINIK, Switzerland * Dr Rob Duffield – Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, AUSTRALIA * Dr Grant Abt – University of Hull, UK * Carlo Castagna – University of Tor Vergata, Rome, ITALY * Ermanno Rampinini – MAPEI Research Laboratory, Varese, ITALY * Dr Karim Chamari & Anis Chaouachi - TUNISIA * Dr Roel Vaeyens & Professor Renaat Philippaerts – University of Ghent, BELGIUM * Associate Professor David Bishop – University of Verona, ITALY * Professor Brian Dawson – University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA * Dr Greg Rowsell – South Australian Sports Institute, AUSTRALIA	Publications >>
Associate Professor Simon Darcy	accessible tourism; sports management; visitor management systems; volunteer and diversity management; Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching Citations for outstanding contributions to student learning presented to: Marie Flood, Dr Mary Coupland, Narelle Woodland, Dr Simon Darcy and Fran Rogan For sustained contribution to the academic success and university experience of students with special needs and disabilities, by negotiating and supporting equitable learning and assessment arrangements. Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award Highly Commended in Consumer Marketing and Consumer Behaviour	Publications >>
Dr Deborah Edwards	urban tourism; sustainability and tourism; tourism planning; motivation of long term volunteers; social impacts of events	Publications >>
Dr Carmel Foley	women’s leisure, leisure history, adolescent women and leisure, technology and leisure, caravans and camping, leisure theory and events.	Publications >>
Mr Stephen Frawley	delivering sport competition at the Olympic Games; the management of international sporting events; the sociology of sport; figurational sociology	Publications >>
Mr Anthony Griffin	currently working on a number of STCRC tourism research projects dealing with tourism in national parks, urban tourism precincts and local tourism planning, and writing a book on urban tourism precincts.	Publications >>
Mr Rob Harris	services marketing; the management and impact of events; tourism industry responses to environmental issues; and management and education issues related to the travel sector	Publications >>
Associate Professor Bruce Hayllar	management performance indicators for sports and leisure centres; outdoor experiential learning	Publications >>
Dr Lydia Ievleva	health behaviour change strategies; corporate wellness; psychological skills applied to rehabilitation; psychophysiology of relaxation	Publications >>
Associate Professor Paul Jonson	loss of enjoyment' (compensation payable for breach of a contract that promises enjoyment, entertainment and recreation) - which has recently resulted in the award of a PhD. Leisure Education	Publications >>
Mr Ian McDonnell	international tourism marketing; tour guides; tourism precincts; cultural tourism; and special event sponsorship	Publications >>
Associate Professor Aron Murphy	effects of musculoskeletal stiffness on performance injuries; training adaptations; sprint biomechanics	Publications >>
Mr John Neil	popular culture; popular music; arts and cultural policy; ecotourism; critical theory; cultural studies	Publications >>
Mr Gopala Ravinder	tourism marketing; tourist attitudes and experiences; service quality in organisations; urban tourism (through the Co-operative Research Centre in Sustainable Tourism), tourism in Asia	Publications >>
Dr Katie Schlenker	the management and impacts of events; social impacts of community festivals; urban tourism precincts See Katie Small Publications	Publications >>
Dr Jennie Small	gender and tourism; tourist motivation; tourist roles; impacts of tourism	Publications >>
Professor Tracy Taylor	diversity management; sport event management; volunteer management.	Publications >>
Adjunct Professor A Veal	leisure forecasting; leisure participation patterns; leisure planning and policy	Publications >>
Dr Mark Watsford	the effects of respiratory muscle training; ergogenic aids in sport; musculotendinous stiffness and injury risk; acupuncture and recovery from exercise; exercise for the older population; physical activity interventions for the general population and the bioenergetics of team sport performance	Publications >>
Associate Professor Stephen Wearing	ecotourism, community based and volunteer tourism; environmentalism; sociology of leisure and tourism and social sciences in protected area management	Publications >>