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Welcome to the UTS 2008 Seminar Series
The School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism has the pleasure of inviting you to Assoc Prof Dan Drane's seminar titled:
'Service Learning - philosophy and pedagogy'
Associate Professor Dan Drane from the University of Southern Mississippi will be visiting the School of Leisure Sport and Tourism, where he will give a presentation on 'Service Learning'. Professor Drane will firstly discuss service learning as a learning tool and the process of implementing a service learning programme, including the philosophical basis, rationale and critical components and then service learning as experiential learning - evaluating the impact and its use as a pedagogical technique.
'A Guide to Service Learning in Sport Management'
'The Influence of Service-Learning Upon the Civic Outcomes of College Students'
Date: July, Tuesday 22nd 2008
Location: UTS, School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Conference Room 1.614,
Kuring-gai Campus, Eton Road Lindfield NSW 2070
Time: 2pm-4.30pm, followed by light refreshments
Audience: All welcome
RSVP: Brooke Upton
The School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism would like to announce the upcoming seminar by Debbie Haski-Leventhal titled:
'The volunteering stages and transitions model: Organizational socialization of volunteers'
Biography: Debbie has recently moved to Australia from Israel where she was a lecturer in the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Welfare, at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her interests include volunteerism and organizational behavior of volunteers; management of non-profit organizations; and social marketing.
Date: To be announced
Location: UTS, School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Conference Room 1.614,
Kuring-gai Campus, Eton Road Lindfield NSW 2070
Time: To be announced
Audience: All welcome
RSVP: Brooke Upton
Archives of the UTS 2008 Seminar Series
April, Tuesday 15th 2008
Tourism Research Seminar
The Seminar provided an overview of urban tourism research currently being conducted with the Faculty of Business and the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism.
Presentations were as follows:
"Ethnic Precincts and Tourism in Australia: Contradictions and Missed Opportunities?"
by Jock Collins - School of Finance and Economics, UTS
Jock’s presentation considers the intersections of ethnic diversity and tourism. As one of the most ethnically-diverse populations in the world today, Australia has a strong tradition of ethnic heritage. Australia’s diverse immigrant populations have left their mark on the built environment and social environment of Australian cities and towns. This is particularly obvious in Sydney - Australians largest and Perth. Ethnic precincts in these cities, such as the Chinatowns in Sydney and Melbourne and Northbridge in Perth, are sites that attract national and international tourists as well as locals. Reporting on recent field work conducted with customers, tourists and key stakeholders, including local government and ethnic community organisations in these ethnic precincts, the seminar focuses on some contradictions inherent in the relationship between ethnic diversity and tourism in these ethnic precincts. It also explores the reasons why Australia’s ethnic diversity is generally not marketed by tourism place marketers, resulting in an under promotion of ethnic urban tourism in Australia, and in missed tourist opportunities.
"Visitor Accessibility in Urban Destinations"
by Simon Darcy - School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, UTS
Understanding the broader issues of visitor accessibility is paramount to positive visitor experiences and building capacity in the tourism industry for full economic and social benefit realisation. However, the challenges associated with ensuring that people can freely move within and between urban environments must be fully understood before access can be effectively planned and managed. Visitor accessibility encompasses all tourism markets including seniors and people with disabilities who have been defined through accessible tourism. There are significant structural barriers that may constrain the experiences of this group in urban centres. The presentation highlighted findings from a research project that evaluated and assessed urban tourism environments, including urban national parks, in the context of universal design principles.
"Tracking the Urban Visitor"
by Deborah Edwards - School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, UTS
Understanding the places and times tourists visit, and the services that visitors utilise can provide valuable information for those engaged in destination management. This information can be used to inform a range of management and planning decisions including the directing of visitor flows to avoid overcrowding, informing transport policies and to more broadly distribute expected benefits. However the collection and evaluation of visitors’ spatial behaviour can be difficult because of the eclectic nature of methods such as surveys, traffic and people counts and travel or trip diaries.
Global Positioning System (GPS) technology now makes it possible to both track visitor pathways and provide greater understanding of the socio-spatial behaviour of visitors. This presentation details an approach for analysing the spatial behaviour of urban visitors to better understand visitors’ experience of place. The study was conducted in two Australian capital cities; Sydney in New South Wales and Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. The study involved a number of methods including GPS tracking, photography, a photo sharing website, questionnaires and debriefing interviews. A total of 80 participants from seven accommodation venues (four in Sydney and three in Canberra) were recruited for the study.
"Marketing and Tourism"
by Ken Miller - School of Marketing, UTS
Ken has been teaching in the areas of marketing strategy, market segmentation, sales force management, advertising management, customer relationship management, marketing decision models, brand management, marketing research and customer satisfaction in Australia, Asia and the USA over the last twenty years. He has undertaken a range of consultancy and expert witness assignments for a range of organisations including Qantas Airways, Tourism Tasmania, Tourism Authority of Thailand, Roy Morgan Research and NSW Tourism. His presentation drew on this research to highlight the marketing implications for tourism firms.
March, Thursday 20th 2008
The Changing Fortunes of Sporting Cartels
Biography: Braham Dabscheck is a Senior Fellow (The Melbourne Law Masters), formerly University of New South Wales. Braham taught industrial relations at the University of New South Wales for 33 years until 2006 and established himself as an international expert in the field. Among his extensive publications are approximately 60 book chapters and articles on industrial relations, economic and legal aspects of sports in Australia, Europe (including the United Kingdom), Japan, New Zealand, the United States and Zimbabwe. He was a consultant to the International Federation of Professional Footballers' Associations (FIFPro) which presented a submission on FIFA's employment rules to the European Commission in 2001. He has also acted as a consultant to various player associations in Australia. He is a member of the advisory boards of The Professional Footballers' Association and the Australian Cricketers' Association and is a member of The Rugby Union Players' Association Player Agent Accreditation Board. He was the editor of The Journal of Industrial Relations from 1991-1999 and President of the Australian Society for Sports History from 1997-1999.
February, Thursday 21st 2008
Transport Planning for Mega-Events: Alternative Solutions?
Biography: Eva Kassens is a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is completing her research on sustainable transportation planning and urban change through mega-events.
Archives of the UTS 2007 Seminar Series
December, Wednesday 12th 2007
Alpine Accessible Tourism Project Workshop
Alpine Accessible Tourism Project (AATP) hosted a workshop at the School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism, which was held at the UTS Kuring-gai Campus at Lindfield on December 12. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together key representatives of the tourism industry and tourism academics, who are currently involved in developing various aspects of accessible tourism. Invitees represented a number of organisations including:
• ACT Tourism
• Alpine Accessible Tourism Project (AATP)
• Disabled Wintersport Australia (DWA) - www.disabledwintersport.com.au
• Easy Access Australia - www.easyaccessaustralia.com.au
• IDEAS - www.ideas.org.au
• NICAN - www.nican.com.au
• PMC
• Tourism Australia
• Tourism NSW
• Tourism Tasmania
• Tourism VIC
• University of Canberra
• University of Technology, Sydney
The workshop aimed to provide a forum whereby the key representatives could work together and utilise existing resources to develop a public forum to share current information. The first part of the day involved presentations including (click on hyperlinks for a copy of available presentations):
1. Introduction: Ron Finnegan (DWA)
2. Alpine Accessible Tourism Project: Margot Hurrell
3. Access Images: Tracey Dickson
4. Simon Darcy, Jennie Small & Bruce Cameron: Three research projects - Accommodation and Self-assessment Template; Urban Precinct and development of Access Portal; Business case studies; and Vision Impairment & Tourism
5. Keith Baker (Tourism NSW): Update on the portal
6. Jacqui Tully (Tourism Australia)
7. Frank Hussey (Tourism Tasmania)
8. Diana Palmer (IDEAS): Access Aware
The second part of the workshop encouraged collaboration between the organisations represented to develop strategies for accessible information to be placed in the public forum through collaborative inter-organisation strategies such as: portals, web hosting, the development of assessment templates, tool kits (resource dvd), an access logo and usage charter.
Minutes from the workshop are now available.
Photos of the workshop are now available.
August, Tuesday 21st 2007
Benchmarking performance drivers: sport and tourism operations
Biography: Dr Gary Crilley is Director of the Centre for Tourism and Leisure Management at the University of South Australia.
Dr Crilley has held the position of Co-Director of the CERM Performance Indicators project since 1990. Along with Associate Professor Gary Howat, Dr Crilley has developed the most widely used benchmarking program for operational performance for public sports and leisure centres in Australia, and New Zealand. These benchmarks and individual centre reports are based on a suite of performance indicators and on operational data. The program is regarded by various industry sectors as providing the best value benchmarking service for Australia and New Zealand public leisure facilities.
Dr Crilley is an active member of a number of professional associations including, ANZALS (leisure studies), ARAZPA (zoo visitors), AES (evaluations), P&LA (parks and leisure), CAUTHE (tourism) and BGANZ (botanic gardens).
July, Thursday 26th 2007
From the cradle to Athens: The silver-coated story of a warrior in Brazilian soccer
Biography: Dr Jorge Knijnik, social psyschologist and educator, has twenty-two years professional experience in the areas of sport and physical education, working either as a coach, sports director or university lecturer. He has coached elite handball teams, including the Brazilian national side, and has a keen interest promoting women's football. Dr Knijnik has taught at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, and from 2003 taught also at Universidade de São Paulo. In 2006 he completed a PhD in social psychology and now promotes - through sport - sex and health education for young people, a concern for the impoverished, and improvements to the status of women.
April, Thursday 19th 2007
The Education of Elite Sportspersons: a report on a European Commission study of policy in the 25 member states
Biography: Ian Henry is Professor of Leisure Policy and Management and Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies & Research in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom – an institution with an outstanding international reputation.
His principal research interests are focused in issues relating to sport policies, politics, and governance at the transnational, national, urban and regional levels, and in relation to Olympism.
Recent research topics include comparative sports policy analysis in a variety of countries, and recent commissioned projects include Women and Leadership in the Olympic Movement (commissioned by the IOC, 2002-4) , Sport and Multiculturalism (commissioned by the European Commission, DG Culture and Education with PMP, 2004), Sport and the Education of Elite Young Sportspersons (commissioned by the European Commission, DG Culture and Education with PMP, 2004), Sport, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (commissioned by the European Commission, DG Culture and Education, 2004).
April, Thursday 5th 2007
Emerging outdoor recreation and tourism issues and challenges
Biography: Prof George Stankey earned his BS and MS degrees in geography at Oregon State University and his PhD, also in geography, from Michigan State University. He was employed as a Research Social Scientist with the US Forest Service, working with the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station in Missoula, Montana for 20 years and for the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis, Oregon for another 10 years. He also spent nearly six years on the faculty of the College of Forestry at Oregon State University and taught at the university level in Canberra and Sydney and also served as a social science advisor to the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service over a 4-year period. Prof Stankey currently serves as a scientist-at-large on the Research Planning Committee of the Sustainable Forest Management Network in Canada. Now retired, he remains active in natural resource consulting, continues his involvement with the SFM, and is a member of the World Conservation Union’s Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas.
March, Tuesday 27th 2007
Kids and Sports - Building Character, Skills and Relationships
Biography: Dr Marianne Engle is a practising clinical and sport psychologist with over 25 years experience. Dr Engle is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Child Study Center at New York University.
Dr Engle’s work encompasses an emphasis on performance enhancement, group dynamics, individual and group goal setting, cognitive behavior modification, management consulting, and player and coach assessment. Dr Engle has also developed a sport psychology program, Beyond Expectations, for middle and high school coaches and their teams. Further to her professional consulting work with athletes, Dr Engle is the sole owner of a successful clinical psychology Practice in the USA specializing in evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents, and families.
Archives of the UTS 2006 Seminar Series
November, Tuesday 28th 2006
We want to have our cake and eat it too! Understanding residents' perceptions of the social impacts of community festivals
Biography: Katie Small is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Sydney. She is near completion of her thesis on “Understanding the Social Impacts of Festivals on Communities”. Her research examined two Australian community festivals using a mixed methods approach, combining both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Katie is also currently working as a Research Assistant in the School of Leisure, Sport, and Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney.
August, Thursday 10th 2006
The river runs through it! Recreational hunters, fly-fishers and divers: A report on research-in-progress
Biography: Bob Gidlow joined the School whilst on study leave from Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests concern the interconnections between work, leisure and family commitments. The current research seeks to illuminate how male recreational hunters, fly-fishers and divers manage to organise trips away from home to pursue their enthusiasm(s) in the context of their other commitments. Consistent with the exploratory nature of the research, the interview questions also touch on contextual matters such as the respondents’: life-cycle stage; perceptions of the domestic division of labour and of family financial decisions; leisure histories; leisure satisfactions; and perceptions of generational continuity re the enthusiasm. The interview material also illustrates the complexity of the relationship between ‘enthusiasms’ and ‘serious’ leisure. Bob was located at the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism during July and August.
July, Thursday 13th 2006
Crowd Safety Management and Events
Biography: Prof Chris Kemp is a world renowned expert in the management of crowds and is at the forefront of work in the development of a safer concert environment. He is a member, and the only academic, on the International Live Music Conference Safety Focus Group (ILMCSFG) and has been asked to speak on many occasions across the globe on aspects of crowd safety. These aspects range from crowd behaviour to barrier configurations. Having worked in the music industry as a promoter and venue manager for over a decade before entering academia, he has a wide range of practical knowledge as well as an academic underpinning to his work.
Chris is Dean of Faculty of Leisure and Tourism at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.
July, Wednesday 19th 2006
Sustainability of Olympic Sporting Venues (4mb PPT)
Biography: Natalie Essig is currently completing her PhD in the Faculty of Architecture at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Natalie’s dissertation will investigate the sustainability of Olympic sports facilities, in collaboration with the National and International Olympic Committee (NOC and IOC) of Germany. The intention of her thesis is to develop an international sustainability standard for Olympic Buildings that incorporates architectural, social, environmental, economic and energy benchmarks. Natalie was based at the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism throughout July.
June, Monday 5th 2006
Production and presentation in the Italian and Australian Opera Houses sector: A research note (4mb PPT)
Biography: Dr Marcello M. Mariani obtained his PhD degree in 2005 from the University of Bologna, Department of Management, where he is currently a research fellow. His research fields include management, accounting and management accounting with an international perspective and a significant focus on creative industries. In his thesis he has extensively studied the recent process of privatization involving the Italian Opera Houses industry. In order to comparatively enrich his inquiry from an international point of view, he has conducted research at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) and will be developing a project on the Australian Opera Houses industry at the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney, from December 2005 to June 2006.
Marcello is a musician and composer as well. He has been a member of the S.I.A.E, the Italian Association of Authors and Editors, since 2001, with a significant number of copyrighted pieces of music (especially soundtracks for films and documentaries).
May, Tuesday 9th 2006
Developing a National Urban Tourism Research Agenda
Biography: Dr Deborah Edwards joined the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism in 2006 after previously working at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Deborah's PhD focused on volunteers in large urban museums and art museums. Her research looked at motivations, expectations, values and satisfaction of volunteers and was underpinned by institutional, leisure, and tourism theory.
Deborah has been involved in a number of research and consultancy projects in local and regional areas. Deborah's previous teaching areas included tourism services marketing, strategic tourism management, tourism policy and planning, tourism systems and contemporary issues in tourism management. Since 2002 she has been involved with Best Education Network, an international consortium of educators committed to furthering the development and dissemination of knowledge in the field of sustainable tourism.
April, Tuesday 11th 2006
Doctoral Assessments
Location: UTS - School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Conference Room 1.614,
Kuring-gai Campus
Organiser: Jennie Small
March , Friday 17th 2006
Dutch Sport Policy
Hugo van der Poel is Educational Director of the leisure studies curricula in the Department of Social-cultural Sciences, Tilburg University; lecturer in Leisure and Sport Management, NHTV University of Applied Sciences Breda; and member of the Board of the W.J.H. Mulier Institute, the Dutch Social Scientific Centre for Sport and Society. He is author of Tijd voor vrijheid (An Introduction to Leisure Studies, E3, 2004). His research interests and publications are in the field of leisure theory and leisure and sport policy.
Location: UTS - School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Conference Room 1.614,
Kuring-gai Campus
Organiser: Tony Veal
March, Thursday 2nd 2006
ACOS Book Launch (67k PDF)
Location: UTS - Kuring-gai Campus
Organiser: Richard Cashman
Archives of the UTS 2005 Seminar Series
14 November 2005
Research Students (13k PDF)
Location: UTS - School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Conference Room 1.614,
Kuring-gai Campus
Organiser: Jennie Small
6 October 2005
Launch of Australian Centre for Olympic Studies (84k PDF)
Location: UTS - Kuring-gai Campus
Organiser: Tony Veal and Richard Cashman
13-15 July 2005
Third International Event Management Conference Organised by ACEM (Australian Centre for Event Managment). Conference Proceedings and Keynote Presentations now available. Held at the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building - Harris Street, Ultimo.
12 July 2005
One-day workshop: Setting a Research Agenda for Accessible Tourism (48k PDF) held at NSW Trade and Investment Centre. Organised by Simon Darcy.
19 August 2005
School Research Development Workshop "Time - Series Analysis"
Dr Bill Gerrard is an international authority on sports finance. He has published academic papers on the player transfer market, measuring player quality, coaching efficiency, sports sponsorship and the media ownership of teams. Bill is Acting Editor of the European Sport Management Quarterly and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport Management and the Journal of Sports Economics. He is a member of the North American Society of Sport Management and the European Association of Sport Management. He undertakes consultancy work in the sports industry, advising teams, governing bodies and financial institutions. Bill has developed player transfer and wage valuation systems for use in the football industry. He has undertaken squad valuations for various football clubs, including Leeds United. Notes on this seminar are now available. (ppt file 158KB)
30 June 2005
Women taking the lead: Best practices to increase women in leadership positions in sport
Professor Dr Gertrud Pfister is a leading expert in the area of women’s sport. She is currently a Professor at the University of Copenhagen, President of the International Sport Sociology Association and has been the keynote speaker at many international congresses. Her current research involves two major projects on “Female leaders in Sport Organisations” in Germany and in Denmark. She has published more than 15 books (as author or editor) and over 200 articles in books and peer reviewed journals. The School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, in conjunction with Womensport and Recreation NSW, is honoured to host this eminent academic and encourages everyone with an interest in sport leadership to come along. This seminar focused on strategies that could lead to positive change within sporting organisations. It examined what sporting organisations could do in order to find, motivate, encourage and prepare women (and men) for leadership positions. “Best practices”, like awareness raising, incentives, networks, mentoring and gender mainstreaming strategies were discussed in detail.
8 June 2005
Staff Research Conference
Organised by Dr Jennie Small.
Take a look at the timetable Staff Research Conference (37K PDF)
24 March 2005
The Physiology of Football (soccer) Refereeing
Dr Grant Abt is a lecturer at St Martins College, Lancaster, UK. His major teaching areas are exercise physiology, fitness testing and exercise prescription. Grant’s major research interests include physiology of team sports performance with a focus on football (soccer). He has published widely on the physiological demands of professional soccer referees. Grant is currently working on a book chapter for an upcoming UEFA book on refereeing.
24 February 2005
TV-sport broadcasting: How to auction sports rights when the number of bidders decline?
Dr Harry Solberg is an Associate Professor at Trondhem Business School, Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway. His major teaching areas are sport economics, welfare economics and micro economics. Harry’s major research interests include monetary and non-monetary impacts of sport and sporting events. He has published widely on the European experience in these areas. Harry is currently working on a book entitled 'The Economics of Sport Broadcasting' (together with Prof Chris Gratton).
9 December 2005
Teaching old dogs new tricks: Improving quality of life for seniors through lessons learnt from the sporting world
(This seminar examined the effects of ageing, the potential training methods to overcome these issues and the ensuing impacts on quality of life.) Dr Mark Watsford completed his PhD in 2004 and is a research fellow in the School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism at UTS. As an Exercise Scientist, his PhD research examined training adaptations and quality of life in the older population, a theme which he is actively pursuing. Despite having a relatively short academic career, Mark has published in scientific journals and presented at several international and national conferences. Furthermore, Mark has worked at the Sydney Academy of Sport & Recreation for 6 years in various roles, including the provision of sports science services to several elite sporting clubs and the statewide talented athlete program.
28 October 2004
Facilitating Interaction in the Situated Activity System of Leisure, Sport and Tourism
The seminar identified and illustrated the six elements of the situated activity system that make up all leisure occasions and how they contribute towards producing satisfying experiences for leisure, sport and tourism. Professor Robert Rossman, from Illinois State University, is Dean to a portfolio of schools and departments that include Agriculture, Criminal Justice Sciences, Family & Consumer Sciences, Health Sciences, Military Science and Technology plus the Schools of Information Technology and Kinesiology and Recreation. Robert’s industry experience includes design, operation and management of multipurpose leisure centres and community special events. Academically Robert is an acknowledged leader in recreation program development, design, and management. He is the lead author of a major textbook on recreation programming, 'Recreation Programming: Designing Leisure Experiences (4th Ed)'. The book has been used since 1989 to teach recreation programming at over 100 universities in the U.S, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He believes that developing program services that facilitate leisure experiences for participants is the central and unique professional contribution of the leisure service profession.
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