Miss Shea Calvin
Casual Academic
Newcastle Business School
Career Summary
Biography
Shea Calvin is a PhD candidate (Leisure and Tourism) and Casual Academic in the field of Tourism and Marketing at the University of Newcastle. Shea currently teaches Leisure Behaviour and Organisation (LEIS1000) and Foundations of Marketing (MKTG1001), and is involved in various other courses across the Marketing and Tourism Discipline.
Shea is a proud Birpai Worimi woman, and is passionate about empowering Aboriginal host communities within tourism, and collaborating with Aboriginal peoples within tourism research to ensure Aboriginal voices are not only heard, but prioritised.
Shea's previous research into visitor behaviour at contested sites in her Honours thesis on the closure of the Uluru climb, has paved the way for her PhD research, exploring Indigenous tourism in Australia more broadly. Her PhD thesis, 'Hear Our Voices: The Role of Indigenous Host Communities in Sustainable Cultural Tourism', utilises a mixed-method research design, and adopts an Indigenist, de-colonial research lens in exploring Aboriginal connections to place, and narratives associated with place, in relation to Awabakal Country. Further, this thesis intends to perform an experiment to examine the influence of these Aboriginal perspectives of place on non-Indigenous perceptions of Awabakal Country as a tourism destination.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Business (Honours) with Honours Class 1, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Business, University of Newcastle
Keywords
- Cultural Tourism
- Indigenous Tourism
- Sustainable Tourism
- Tourism Management
- Tourism Marketing
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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350803 | Tourism management | 40 |
350806 | Tourist behaviour and visitor experience | 30 |
450526 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism | 30 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Casual Academic | University of Newcastle Newcastle Business School Australia |
Professional appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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9/10/2020 - | Research Assistant | Newcastle Business School | University of Newcastle | Australia Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Conference (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2021 |
Calvin S, Young T, Hook M, 'Between a rock and a hard place: Tourism and contested sites', Online (2021)
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Miss Shea Calvin
Position
Casual Academic
Newcastle Business School
College of Human and Social Futures
Contact Details
shea.calvin@newcastle.edu.au |