Staff and Associates

• CTSR
• Research Leaders Forum
• Research Associates

Researchers from the Centre for Hospitality and Tourism Research and Sustainable Tourism CRC work together on a number of projects.

Staff

CTSR Name Position Phone Email Professor Leo Jago Director 99195055 leo.jago@vu.edu.au Professor Margaret Deery Professorial Research Fellow 9919 4626 marg.deery@vu.edu.au Dr Suzanne Bergin-Seers Senior Research Fellow 9919 4911 sue.bergin@vu.edu.au Dr Judith Mair Post Doctoral Research Fellow 9919 5378 Judith.mair@vu.edu.au Professor Terry De Lacy Professorial Research Fellow 0429 662 020 terry.delacy@vu.edu.au Ms Sharon Attwell Administration and Project Co-ordinator 9919 5349 sharon.attwell@vu.edu.au

Research Leaders Forum

In addition to the Research Associates the CHTR is supported by a Research Leaders Forum. This forum is comprised of Professorial and Senior Associates who provide research leadership in the area of Hospitality and Tourism research.

Research Leaders

Professor John Breen
Professor Brian King
Professor Michael McGrath
Associate Professor Anne-Marie Hede
Associate Professor Nalin Sharda
Professor Lindsay Turner
Dr Susan Gillet
Dr Stephen Burgess
Mr Paul Whitelaw

Adjunct Professors

 Adjunct Professor Ian MacFarlane

 Adjunct Professor Geoffrey Lipman

Research Associates

The CHTR has a critical mass of researchers. A total of 63 researchers from across the university are registered as CHTR associates. Of these academics 27 are currently actively engaged in externally funded projects and/or attribute their work through the Centre. The associates are listed with the CHTR active associates highlighted.

Key centre research teams include the Events team (Jago, Deery, Bergin-Seers, O’Mahony), the Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises team (Breen, Bergin-Seers, Jago), Destination Management (King, Whitelaw, Jago, Pearlman), Applied Economics (Divisekera, Fernando, Turner and Vu), Food and Wine (Deery, O’Mahony), the Cultural Tourism team (O’Mahony, Quiazon, Polonsky and Kay) and ICT team (McGrath, Sharda and Burgess).

The CHTR defines ‘research active’ in this context as those associates who have registered with the centre and who have engaged with the centre through research projects or publication alignment. It should be noted that some researchers may have aligned their research with the CHTR without the knowledge of the CHTR staff. 

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