Our researchers

Dr Ali Ahani

Supply chain analytics, business informatics, health informatics and tourism & hospitality analytics.

Professor Charles Arcodia

Event management practices, tourism management education and cultural heritage management.

Dr Nazila Babakhani

Pro-environmental behavior change, tourism carbon and water footprint, and using psychophysiological measures to study tourist behavior.

Professor Susanne Becken

Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism

Andrew Buckwell

Research Fellow. Non-market valuation of ecosystem services, social benefit-cost analysis, discourse analysis with Q-method and climate change adaptation.

Professor Francois Carrillat

Event sponsorships, sports marketing and advertising, celebrity endorsement/influencers.

Professor Basak Denizci Guillet

Revenue management and its implementation in global hospitality and tourism organisations

Dr Jason Doyle

Sport and event consumer behaviour, strategic marketing and branding, and the impact of consumption on social-psychological well-being.

Dr David Fechner

Designs and experimentally tests interventions to encourage consumers to behave in more environmentally sustainable ways, such as eat more plant-based focused meals and engage in koala conservation activities.

Professor Kevin Filo

Synergy between sport and charity, sport events, and community sport and fundraising.

Professor Christopher Fleming

Economic, environmental and social impact assessment, project and/or policy evaluation, non-market valuation, survey design and implementation, empirical analysis of determinants of subjective wellbeing.

Associate Professor Patrick Fong

Environmental discourse and policy learning, university-industry technology transfer, social networks and knowledge sharing, storytelling, strategic knowledge management.

Dr Maria Golubovskaya

Workforce, youth employment, service worker wellbeing and mixed methods.

Professor Louise Gustafsson

Rehabilitation and therapy, aged care, disability, public health and health services.

Dr Aaron Hsiao

Cross-cultural management, internal marketing and organisational citizenship behavior, and special interest tourism.

Dr Haroon Iqbal Maseeh

Consumer behaviour, consumer privacy, digital marketing, hospitality and tourism

Dr Yawei Jiang

Risk, Crisis and Disaster Reduction and Management, Organisational/Employee Recovery, Adaptation and Resilience, Organisation Dynamic Capabilities and Resources, Emotion Studies Using Psycho-physiological Measures

Dr Xin (Cathy) Jin

Event management, convention tourism and destination marketing.

Dr Millicent Kennelly

Stakeholder engagement and collaboration in event management, event leveraging strategies and sport event management.

Dr Anna Kwek

Tourism/leisure theories, social-psychology in tourism/leisure and tourist gaze.

Dr Truc Le

Risks, risk perception and resilience, authenticity, food tourism, hospitality and service experiences, user-generated content analytics and machine learning.

Dr Abraham Leung

Emerging technologies in transport, such as MaaS, micromobility, digitisation, tourism, and geography.

Dr Johanna Loehr

Tourism and climate change, sustainable tourism, systems thinking and South Pacific tourism.

Dr Stefen MacAskill

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Griffith Institute for Tourism

Associate Professor Lee Morgenbesser

Authoritarian politics, international election observation tourists and sportswashing.

Dr Athula Naranpanawa

Computable general equilibrium modeling, environmental and resource economics and development economics.

Dr Mai Nguyen

Artificial intelligence, transformative consumer research, pro-environmental behaviour changes and knowledge management/sharing.

Dr Rawan Nimri

Consumerism and behaviour change, green advertising and queuing and employment relations.

Dr Gavin Northey

Advertising, consumer psychology, consumer decision making and emotion.

Dr Olivier Oren

Customer behaviours in hospitality settings, Digital influences on traditional social interactions, Workforce dynamics in hospitality settings, Experience design for food and beverage operations.

Professor Juliet Pietsch

Migration politics and political behaviour.

Professor Kylie Pitt

Population dynamics of jellyfishes from local to global scales, their responses to changing ocean conditions, and their interactions with people and coastal industries.

Dr Raymond Rastegar

Justice, sustainability transitions, and environmental conservation.

Associate Professor Jamie Ranse

Public health, emergency and in-event health services for mass gatherings.

Professor Sacha Reid

Event stakeholder management, community development and planning, and real estate and property development.

Dr Aimee Riedel

Marketing, individuals experiencing vulnerability, services marketing, technology, behaviour change.

Associate Professor Janice Rieger

Accessible and inclusive tourism, cultural tourism, sports and major events, co-design and universal design, regional & rural tourism, socio-spatial justice and the built environment.

Dr Caroline Riot

Elite athlete development and management, Olympic studies, community sports development, women and sport studies, health and physical activity promotion.

Dr Aishath Shakeela

Sustainable tourism, tourism management, and small island tourism destinations.

Associate Professor Popi Sotiriadou

Expert in managing high performance sport; events and athlete wellbeing/performance’ athlete (dual) career; ‘organisational capacity’ to attract, retain and nurture athletes/sport development.

Dr Bojana Spasojevic Sijacki

Tourism and air transport management, stakeholder engagement, air route development and passenger experiences.

Dr Sara Thaichon

Services marketing, marketing research, consumer behaviour and relationship marketing.

Dr Ross Westoby

Research Fellow. International development, sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation.

Dr Sarah Wymer

Marketing, fan engagement, and social media within the context of sport.

Dr Elaine Yang

Gender studies, Asian tourism, tourism geography, tourist risk perception and qualitative research methods.