Fields of Research

Impacts of tourism
Tourist behaviour and visitor experience
Tourism marketing
Tourism
Political science
Urban sociology and community studies
Studies of Asian society
Social policy
Comparative government and politics
Education policy
Cultural studies
Environment policy
Sociology of education
Sociology
Comparative and cross-cultural education
Social change
Drama, theatre and performance studies
Asian cultural studies
Stakeholder engagement
Studies of men and masculinities
Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy
Sexualities
Education systems
Industrial and employee relations
Arts and cultural policy
Sociology of culture
Communication technology and digital media studies
Tourism policy
Hospitality management
Tourism management
Political theory and political philosophy
Urban and regional planning
Environmental sociology
International relations
Communications and media policy
Behavioural economics
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
Industry economics and industrial organisation
Communication studies
Other language, communication and culture

Research Objectives

Socio-cultural issues in tourism
Expanding knowledge in human society
Tourism services
The creative arts
Other culture and society
Hospitality services
International relations
Government and politics
Policies and development
Economic issues in tourism
Justice and the law
Macro labour market issues
Land policy
Tourism infrastructure development
Pacific Peoples community services
Equity and access to education
Other law, politics and community services
The performing arts
Arts
Other education and training
Expanding knowledge in commerce, management, tourism and services
Structure, delivery and resourcing
Communication across languages and culture
Children's services and childcare
Learner and learning
Recreational services
Human capital issues
Preference, behaviour and welfare
Employment patterns and change

Career Best Publications

Asian tourists and cultural complexity: implications for practice and the Asianisation of tourism scholarship; Tourism Management Perspectives
Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore; Copenhagen Business School Press
Subjugated in the creative industries: the fine arts in Singapore; Culture Unbound
Sustainable tourism and the moral limits of the market: can Asia offer better alternatives; Asian Tourism Sustainability
Sustainable tourism, progress, challenges and opportunities: an introduction; Journal of Cleaner Production
The dialogic negotiation of justice; Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Tourist experience as attention products; Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience

Research Publications

'School is not for me': young people's perceptions of being a self-directed learner in a small rural Tasmanian town; Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching
'School is not for me': young people's perceptions of being a self-directed learner in a small rural Tasmanian town; Celebrating the impact of regional research and education
A theory of tourism experiences; Experiencescapes: Culture, Tourism and Economy
Accentuating complexity and ambiguity: Dialogism and its methodological implications; Tourism Methodologies - New Perspectives, Practices and Proceedings
Asian tourists and cultural complexity: implications for practice and the Asianisation of tourism scholarship; Tourism Management Perspectives
Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore; Re-Investing Authenticity: Tourism, Places and Emotions
Auto-Communicating Micro-Orientalism: Articulating ‘Denmark’ in China at the Shanghai Expo; Asia Europe Journal
Awkward encounters and ethnography; Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management
Book Review - Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Contemporary Buddhism
Book Review: Ideas of the city in Asian settings
Branded as a World Heritage city: The politics afterwards; Place Branding and Public Diplomacy
Brilliant to pedestrianise area
Bring everyone along
Chinese tourists: Getting them here and making everyone happy; Tourism Tracer: West Coast Presentations
Chinese Travelling Overseas and Their Anxieties; Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism
Comparing Children's University Tasmania and Asia-Malaysia
Contrasting appreciation of the Tasmanian wilderness: mediating the Chinese visitor experience from a cultural complexity approach; 31st Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education
Creative Heritage: Melaka and Its Past; Creative Districts around the World : Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Bairro Alto
Creativity Unbound – Policies, Government and the Creative Industries; Culture Unbound
Cultural complexity and situated mediation: Chinese visitors at Port Arthur historic site; Journal of China Tourism Research
Cultural Tourism; The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy
Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore; Copenhagen Business School Press
Dare to Dream: Comparative Lessons on Building Cultural Capital from Children’s University Tasmania and Children’s University Asia-Malaysia
Destination branding: public management perspective for co-created development; CAUTHE 2021 Conference Online: Transformations in Uncertain Times: Future Perfect in Tourism, Hospitality and Events: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference
Destination Marketing; The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy
Digital social construction of a tourist site: Ground Zero; Tourism Social Media: Transformations in Identity, Community and Culture
Editorial; International Journal of Tourism Cities
Education and becoming an artist: Experiences from Singapore; Careers in Creative Industries (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
Education, jobs and the political economy of tourism: expectations and realities in the case of Tasmania; Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
Examining the Variety of Contexts for Creativity
Examining young Chinese consumers' engagement in restaurant food waste mitigation from the perspective of cultural values and information publicity; Appetite
Examining young Chinese consumers’ engagement in restaurant food waste mitigation from the perspective of cultural values and information publicity; Appetite: The Journal for Research on Intake, and Dietary Practices, Their Control and Consequences
Failed economic adventures have big impact here
Food safety and tourism in Singapore: between microbial Russian roulette and Michelin stars; Tourism Geographies
From Third World to First World: Tourism, Food Safety and the Making of Modern Singapore; Food Tourism in Asia
Gay Tourism: a Celebration and Appropriation of Queer Difference; Gay Tourism: New Perspectives
Giving and taking ownership of a destination brand: mechanisms of stakeholder engagement; Journal of Place Management and Development
Global aspirations and local talent: the development of creative higher education in Singapore; The International Journal of Cultural Policy
Global City for the Arts: Weaving Tourism into Cultural Policy; The State and the Arts in Singapore: Policies and Institutions
How masculinity creeps in: awkward field encounters of a male researcher; Masculinities in the Field: Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research
Ideas of the City in Asian Settings: Asian Cities 10, edited by H Bekkering, AE, and C Goldblum; Pacific Affairs
In search of Nordicity: how new Nordic cuisine shaped destination branding in Copenhagen; Journal of Gastronomy and Tourism
Indigenisation of scholarship: go native but don't be naive; CAUTHE 2019: Sustainability of Tourism, Hospitality and Events in a Disruptive Digital Age
Intercultural management; The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy
Lessons from tourism economies that serve the community
Leveling the Playing Field? Building Cultural Capital through Learning Destinations; XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Manufacturing green consensus: Urban greenspace governance in Singapore; Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective
Moral limits of the market: The impossibility of balanced tourism development; CAUTHE 2017: Time For Big Ideas? Re-thinking The Field For Tomorrow
More than 100,000 tourists will head to Antarctica this summer. Should we worry about damage to ecosystems on the ice?
Natural disaster on Instagram: examining representations of the 2018–2019 Tasmanian fires; Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights
Nordic noir and Miserable Landscape Tourism; Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic
Paradoxes of city branding and societal changes; City Branding: Theory and Cases
Place branding through public management lenses: supplementing the participatory agenda; Place Branding and Public Diplomacy
Playful learning? An extreme comparison of the children’s University in Malaysia and in Australia; Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching
Poetics and politics of the European Capital of Culture Project; Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Politics of postdisciplinary knowledge: Lessons from a study of the Anthropocene; 3rd International Conference on Postdisciplinary Approaches
Production and consumption of stories, images and fantasies: heritage, screen and literary tourism; Annals of Leisure Research
Representing Sweden: packaging Swedish identity through curators of Sweden; Identities
Researching Chinese tourists on the move; Journal of China Tourism Research
Sensitive and sensible tourism development: Frameworks to further the conversation; Tourism in Tasmania
Singapore: creating an ever-changing place product; The Place Economy
Sky's the limit: interview with Simeon Thomas-Wilson
Soft power in tourism; Encyclopedia of Tourism
Soft power, tourism; Encyclopedia of Tourism
State of the Tourism Workforce in Tasmania; Tourism in Tasmania
Subjugated in the creative industries: the fine arts in Singapore; Culture Unbound
Sustainability and the Tourist Wall: the Case of Hindered Interaction between Chinese Visitors with Malaysian Society; Asian Tourism Sustainability
Sustainable tourism and the moral limits of the market: can Asia offer better alternatives; Asian Tourism Sustainability
Sustainable tourism, progress, challenges and opportunities: an introduction; Journal of Cleaner Production
Sustainable tourism, progress, challenges and opportunities: an introduction; Journal of Cleaner Production
Talking Point: Rebuild tourism with Tasmanians in mind
Tasmania: The state of the state; Tourism in Tasmania
The artrepreneurial ecosystem in Singapore: Enabling and inhibiting the creative economy; Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia
The changing role of tourism policy in Singapore’s cultural development: from explicit to insidious; Tourism, Culture and Communication
The Children's University Tasmania: the transformative power of tourism
The Creative Reputation Dilemma: Professional and Emotional Negotiation of Cultural Value; Exploring Cultural Value: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice Kim Lehman
The Danish seduction of the China outbound tourism market: new issues for tourism research; China Business Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy
The Danish welfare model and the 'Singapore Inc' model; Changing Tides and Changing Ties - Anchoring Asia-Europe Relations in Challenging Times
The dialogic negotiation of justice; Journal of Sustainable Tourism
The emotional labor of the co-created tourism experience; The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Experience Management and Marketing
The global art city; The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies
The inevitability of essentializing culture in destination branding: the cases of fika and hygge; Journal of Place Management and Development
The making of copy-cat city: Accreditation tactics in place branding; Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning
The overseas constituency; Voting in Change: Politics of Singapore’s 2011 General Election
The political economy of tourism: Job polarization, equity and resistance; TASA Conference 2018: Precarity, Rights and Resistance
The tourist wall: the case of China visitors in Malaysia; 31st Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education
The truth of the crowds: social media and the heritage experience; The Cultural Moment in Tourism (Advances in Tourism)
Tourism and monarchy in Southeast Asia edited by P Porananond and VT King; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Tourism and the Tasmanian community during COVID-19
Tourism and the Tasmanian community during COVID-19
Tourism boom and hotel investment lauded by industry, but some fear Tasmania's natural charm under threat: Interview with Natalie Whiting
Tourism in Tasmania; Forty South Publishing
Tourism must be a way of life
Tourism policy challenges: Balancing acts, co-operative stakeholders and maintaining authenticity; The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism
Tourism Serving the Community: Case Of The Children's University Tasmania; Tourism in Tasmania
Tourism, cultural and the transformational power of education: lessons form the Children's University Tasmania; CAUTHE 2018 Get Smart Paradoxes and Possibilities
Tourism, cultural capital and the transformational power of education: Lessons from the Children’s University Tasmania; CAUTHE Annual Conference 2018
Tourism, Place Branding and the Local-Turn in Food: The New Nordic Cuisine/ Tourismus, Place Branding und die Hinwendung zu lokalen Produkten: Die New Nordic Cuisine; Culinary and Wine Tourism Conference 2015
Tourism: Moving forward together; Tourism in Tasmania
Tourist experience as attention products; Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience
Turn tourism to our advantage

Research Projects

Dare to Dream: Comparing experiences and learnings from Children's University in Malaysia and Tasmania; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Hard-Truth Tourism (HTT): Tourism in the Anthropocene; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Transforming Tourists' Antarctic Experience; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Review of Arts and Cultural programs delivered by Clarence City Council
Tracking the state of play in the hospitality and tourism industries in Tasmania
Tracking trail users' movement in the Skane region of Sweden using the Tracer technology - Phase 1

Research Candidate Supervision