About
This initiative – the cycling event research group – was born out of a research project that founding group members carried out for the 2021 Federation University Road Nationals Championships, hosted by AusCycling in Ballarat, Victoria.The research group consists of founding members from Federation University Australia and includes collaborators from other Australian universities including Griffith University and University of Newcastle.
The research group have collaborated on subsequent projects which have considered the social and business aspects of cycling events and have developed this website as a platform to:
Share research findings from current (and past) research projects;
Link to existing key research in the area; and
Promote upcoming knowledge sharing events hosted by members of the research group.
We invite you to take a look around our resource collection, provide advice on what you would like to see more of, and sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with what’s going on in the cycling event research space.
Contributers
Dr Alana Thomson is a Lecturer in Management in the Federation Business School, Brisbane campus. Alana’s research, which has been published in ABDC A-ranked journals, has looked at the connections between sport and communities, particular securing positive legacy outcomes from large-scale sport events. Alana has worked and researched with a range of user groups in sport, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples, Pacific Island communities, Chinese communities, Masters athletes and women in sport. Alongside her research career, Alana has professional experience as a policy writer working on the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth games and practitioner in the sport and sport event sector. Alana has most recently led a team to monitor and evaluate a Rugby Australia pilot program hosted by Sunnybank Rugby Union Club in Brisbane to engage the local Chinese and Mandarin-speaking community.
Josh is a lecturer in the School of Education at Federation University, his teaching interests include outdoor education and professional practice. Josh's research focuses on alternative models of teaching and learning in middle years education. Josh uses the arts-based methodology of poetic inquiry within his research. Josh has worked in several P-12 school contexts across Government, Independent and Catholic sectors. Josh is also heavily involved in multiple professional associations related to his work in the outdoor and broader education sectors. His contributions to these groups involve: speaking, professional writing and advisory panel membership.
Abdel is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the Federation Business School, Gippsland Campus. Prior to Federation University, Abdel was employed at Monash University Gippsland Campus, and entered university from a background of secondary education teaching. Abdel has taught in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. He was also an Associate Professor at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa (2010 – 2012). Abdel received the Federation University Faculty of Business award for Best Teacher in 2016, and the Federation University Vice Chancellors Teaching Citation award in 2020. Abdel has held leadership positions such as Discipline Head of Accounting (Gippsland); Higher Degrees by Research Co-ordinator; MBA Director, MPA Program manager and is currently the Associate Dean.
Vaughan first began his association with this campus in 1985 as a distance education student undertaking a business degree on a part-time basis. After graduating in 1992 and 'travelling the world' he returned in 1994 to complete his honours degree. This then led to Vaughan being asked to stay on as a marketing lecturer in 1995, something he has done ever since, completing his PhD along the way. He also works closely with the local power industry, conducting research on their behalf.
After completing his undergraduate and Honours degree at the Gippsland campus, Bryce began working as a sessional academic during his PhD, taking tutorials and lectures across the Marketing discipline. He continued to work predominately at the Gippsland campus after graduating, while occasionally teaching at partner universities in both Hong Kong and China. At the beginning of 2018 Bryce started a new full time role at Federation University’s Berwick Campus as a Marketing Lecturer. His research interests continue to maintain an ethical and social foundation, still focusing on the ethical issues in the clothing industry but also expanding to issues relating to the reinvigoration of towns after key industry closure.
Dr Millicent Kennelly is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management at Griffith University. Dr Kennelly’s research focuses on sport event management and on identifying, understanding and working with sport event stakeholders. In particular, Dr Kennelly has completed several projects focused on strategic leveraging and legacies of sport events, with recent work on the potential social benefits of the Olympic Games. Dr Kennelly has also undertaken research aimed at understanding participatory sport events for amateur athletes, and maximising the tourism/economic and social contributions of such events to hosting communities. Dr Kennelly teaches a range of sport and event management subjects and has also supervised doctoral students examining topics in these areas. Dr Kennelly serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Sport and Tourism, Annals of Leisure Research and is a regional editor for Leisure Studies.
Fred is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the Newcastle Business School. Prior to joining the University of Newcastle, Fred was an assistant lecturer at the Department of Marketing at Monash University, Melbourne. Fred’s research interests focus on the areas of consumer behaviour, new product development, product innovation management and marketing research. Fred’s publications appear in the Australasian Marketing Journal. He has been a reviewer for Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics and European Journal of Marketing.