Browse our team of leading tourism experts

The Griffith Institute for Tourism brings together research staff across a broad range of specialty areas including planning, marketing, property and investment, technology, architecture, economics, climate change and more.

To find out more about our staff and academic members’ individual research strengths and research supervision, follow the links to their Griffith Expert profiles.

Professor Sarah Gardiner

Director

Areas of expertise:

Destination marketing and development, Consumer behaviour and market analysis, tourism, economic and event development strategies.

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Professor Leonie Lockstone-Binney

Deputy Director

Area of expertise:

Volunteering, contextualised to event and tourism setting.

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Daniel Gschwind

Professor Daniel Gschwind

Professor of Practice

Areas of expertise:

Tourism economy, relationship management and stakeholder engagement.

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Research leaders

Margarida Abreu Novais

Dr Margarida Abreu Novais

Visitor economy data analytics and indicators

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Professor James Higham

Climate change action

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Anna Kralj

Associate Professor Anna Kralj

Resilient and sustainable tourism regions

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Leonie Lockstone-Binney

Professor Leonie Lockstone-Binney

Events and sports

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Professor Brent Moyle

HDR Coordinator

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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.

Discover our higher degree research candidates

We support over 60 HDR students and their research work across the tourism industry.

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Adjunct staff

  • Adjunct Fellow Emily Chen
  • Adjunct Lecturer Sadiq Daravi
  • Adjunct Associate Professor Peiyi Ding
  • Adjunct Professor Karine Dupre
  • Adjunct Associate Professor Sebastian Filep
  • Adjunct Professor Leo Jago OA
  • Adjunct Professor Timothy Lee
  • Adjunct Senior Lecturer Laura Lesar
  • Adjunct Professor Gui Lohmann
  • Adjunct Professor Nigel Morgan

        Adjunct staff

      • Adjunct Professor Robin Nunkoo
      • Adjunct Associate Professor Hera Oktadiana
      • Adjunct Professor Glauber Santos
      • Adjunct Fellow Sera Vada
      • Adjunct  Industry Fellow Justin Wastnage
      • Adjunct Professor Jeff Wilks
      • Adjunct Lecturer Thomas Zhu

Professional staff

  • Chantal James

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board aims to meet four times a year to support the Director, staff and researchers in achieving the goals of the University and the mission of the Griffith Institute for Tourism. The Board provides strategic advice to the Institute regarding research profile, research activities, strategic direction, ways to forge partnerships in the tourism sector and improve its links with industry and government.

Current advisory board members

  • Liz Savage (Chair) Non-Executive Director of Intrepid Travel
  • Daniel Gschwind, Professor of Practice, Griffith University
  • Fiona Hood, Head of Strategy, Brisbane Airport
  • Jan Hutton, CEO, Australian Tourism Data Warehouse
  • Professor Emeritus Leo Jago OAM, University of Surrey and Griffith University
  • Stewart Moore, CEO and Founder, EarthCheck
  • Sam Palmer, General Manager Visitor Economy and Client Programs, Australian Trade and Investment Commission
  • Christopher Warren, CEO and Founder, My Green Butler

Contact us

Phone
(07) 5552 8139
Email
gift@griffith.edu.au
Address
Business 2 Building (G27) Room 3.06
Griffith University - Gold Coast Campus
58 Parklands Drive
Southport Qld 4222

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