School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism (University of Technology, Sydney)

Dr Bruce Hayllar (Leisure, Tourism)
Head of School

Bruce joined UTS from the NSW Department of Sport and Recreation in 1982. He has an extensive portfolio of applied research projects for both the public and private sector on land-use management and recreation planning. He is Vice-President of the Outdoor Recreation Industry Council and immediate past chair of the Outdoor Recreation Sector Standing Committee of the Sport and Recreation Industry Training Advisory Body. Bruce has a particular interest in the experience of people in learning and leisure environments and has applied his interest in phenomenology to inform this understanding. His most recent work has been a two-year project examining the experience of tourists in Sydney precincts: a study conducted under the auspices of the CRC in Sustainable Tourism.

Teaching Areas: social psychology of leisure; outdoor education; research methods.

Research Areas: Management performance indicators for sports and leisure centres, outdoor experiential learning.

Prof Anthony Veal (Leisure, Public Policy)
Adjunct Professor

Tony Veal began his career in local government and then worked in the Universities of Birmingham and North London in the UK from 1968 to 1986. In 2003 he retired from full-time employment at UTS and was appointed to the honorary position of Adjunct Professor and, in 2004, to the position of Director of the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies at UTS. He is President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) and former chair of the Leisure Studies Association (UK). He is author or co-author/editor of a number of books, including: Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism (Financial Times-Prentice Hall, 2nd edn, 1997); Business Research Methods (Longman, 1999); The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective (CABI, 2000); Australian Leisure (2nd edn, Longman, 2001); Leisure and Tourism Policy and Planning (CABI, 2nd edn, 2002); Work and Leisure (Routledge, in press); Free Time and Leisure Participation: International Perspectives (CABI Publishing, in press).

Teaching Areas: Research methods; Public policy and planning; Forecasting.

Research Areas: Leisure forecasting; Leisure participation patterns; Planning and policy.

Dr Simon Darcy (Leisure, Disability, Policy)
Research Director

Simon Darcy is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has been involved in research and consultancy projects for all levels of government and the private sector. Since incurring a spinal injury in 1983 Simon is a power wheelchair user and has been active in the advocacy and research of issues facing people with disabilities. He has held and holds a variety of board positions with disability organizations and represents the perspective of people with disabilities on a range of government committees. Simon passionately believes in the rights of all people to fully participate in community life.

Teaching Areas: Environmental planning; public policy; research methods; leisure and diversity.

Research Areas: Environmental planning and policy; volunteer management practice; social policy for marginalised groups; universal design; access planning; survey design and analysis; accessible tourism.

Mr Rob Harris (Tourism, Events Management)
Senior Lecturer

Rob Harris has qualifications in human geography, tourism management, marketing and education. He has published on a variety of areas including sustainable tourism management, event management, education and training in the tourism and events fields and tourism services marketing. He has worked as a consultant for a number of organisations including Tourism New South Wales, Arts ACT, Meetings Industry Association of Australia, Australian Federation of Travel Agents, Olympic Coordination Authority and the Tourism and Hospitality division of NSW TAFE. Rob has also been a past president of The Australian Institute of Travel and Tourism and a past director of the NSW Festivals and Events Association. He is a past recipient of an Australian Tourism Export Council award for his contribution to Australian tourism. Rob’s teaching areas include tourism services marketing, event management, tourism’s environmental interactions, tourism industry and the supervision of undergraduate and graduate research projects.

Teaching Areas: tourism services marketing; events management; tourism systems; tourism industry.

Research Areas: Services marketing; the management and impact of events; tourism industry responses to environmental issues; and management and education issues related to the travel sector.

Ms Carmel Foley (Gender And Leisure)
Lecturer

Carmel was awarded an inaugural Insearch Institute of Commerce Business Scholarship in 1996 and completed her PhD at UTS in 2001 Carmel has industry experience in the recreation and sport areas, having established a successful small business (indoor sports) in 1991, and worked as a Recreation Officer at Manly Council from 1991-1995. Carmel was the Director of Professional Placements with the Australian College of Physical Education from 2002-2004. She is an active researcher, and is currently working on a research project (funded by a UTS Faculty of Business Research Grant) studying the impact of mobile phones on the leisure identities of teenage girls.

Research Areas: Women’s leisure, leisure history, adolescent women and leisure, technology and leisure.

Mr Jonathon Vine (Surfing Industry)
Lecturer

Jonathon has worked extensively in the Australian surfing industry in a number of different sectors of this industry. In addition to this I have also been employed in various surfing industry occupations including sales, surf instruction, officiating, presenting, research and development and management.

He has completed two bachelor degrees: one in economics and politics; another in human movement studies. He is currently completing an honors degree that ties together his surfing industry experience and educational background.

Prof Richard Cashman (Sport History; Olympic Games)
Adjunct Professor

Before joining UTS as Adjunct Professor in 2004, Richard Cashman was Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of New South Wales from 1996 to 2004. He was Visiting International Chair, Olympic Studies, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, in 2002. He is co-editor of Staging the Olympics: The Event and its Impact (UNSW Press,1999), has published numerous book chapters and articles on Olympic and sports themes and has made presentations at numerous international conferences. Dr Cashman has written extensively on sport in Australia and Asia and was an editor of both the Oxford Companion to Australian Sport (1992, 1994, 1997) and General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket (1996). He is the author of two histories of Australian sport, Paradise of Sport (1995) and Sport in the National Imagination (2003) and was president of the Australian Society for Sports History from 2001 to 2004.

Teaching Areas: Sport history; the Olympic Games.

Research Areas: Sport history; the Olympic Games.