
PhD (University of Queensland)
Dr Char-lee Moyle (also published as Char-lee McLennan) is a DTIS Innovation Metrics Mid-Career Research Fellow in the Centre for Data Science and Centre for Future Enterprise at QUT. Char-lee has a PhD in Tourism Economics from the University of Queensland, for which she won multiple awards including the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, the 2012 UQ Dean’s Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence and the 2012 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. Char-lee's research is focused in three main streams of research, specifically: 1) regional economic development and transformation; 2) strategic policy and planning; and 3) the adoption of sustainability. Char-lee has also undertaken numerous commercial research projects, including revitalizing regional tourism infrastructure, undertaking labour market analyses, investigating the gap between supply and demand for indigenous tourism and exploring strategic issues in Australian tourism. Her research has featured in various media outlets, including the Conversation, Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald and GreenAir Online, amongst others. Char-lee has strong links into government and industry having previously worked as a Senior Advisor Tourism and Economic Development at the Local Government Association of Queensland, as a Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Tourism, as a Senior Research Analyst for Tourism Queensland, as a Research Officer responsible for the International Visitor Survey (IVS) for Tourism Research Australia (TRA) and as a Research Officer for Gold Coast City Council’s (GCCC) Tourism Branch within the Economic Development and Major Projects (EDMP) directorate. Char-lee is a skilled practitioner with expertise in research, grant writing, data management, econometric modelling and economic development and strategy. Char-lee is the Developer of the Longitudinal Australian Business Integrated Intelligence (LABii) database. She was the Team Lead for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Australia in 2019 and the 'Data Rockstar' for MIT's Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP) Team Queensland. She is proficient in numerous statistical software including STATA, Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, SPSS, R, and Leximancer.
Additional information
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
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- Keynote Presentation: Transforming Regional Tourism to meet the market of 2030. Australian Regional Tourism Network Convention, Roma, 25th of October 2016
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
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- Winner of the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- 2012 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
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- The University of Queensland Graduate School Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence 2012
- Weaver D, Moyle B, McLennan C, (2023) Geopolitics and touristrategic borderlands: Balancing nationalism and globalisation in Hainan, China, Tourism Management, 95.
- Moyle B, Weaver D, Gössling S, McLennan C, Hadinejad A, (2022) Are water-centric themes in sustainable tourism research congruent with the UN Sustainable Development Goals?, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 30 (8), pp. 1821-1836.
- Moyle B, Weaver D, McLennan C, (2022) Citation quality and knowledge creation in tourism, Tourism Recreation Research, 47 (1), pp. 105-110.
- Weaver D, Moyle B, McLennan C, (2022) The citizen within: positioning local residents for sustainable tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 30 (4), pp. 897-914.
- Weaver D, Moyle B, McLennan C, (2021) A core/periphery perspective on mega-event sustainability: Dystopic and utopic scenarios, Tourism Management, 86.
- Moyle B, Moyle C, Ruhanen L, Weaver D, Hadinejad A, (2021) Are we really progressing sustainable tourism research? A bibliometric analysis, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 29 (1), pp. 106-122.
- Moyle C, Carmigani F, Moyle B, Anwar S, (2021) Beyond Dutch disease: Are there mediators of the mining-tourism nexus?, Tourism Economics, 27 (4), pp. 744-761.
- Casali L, Liu Y, Presenza A, Moyle C, (2021) How does familiarity shape destination image and loyalty for visitors and residents?, Journal of Vacation Marketing, 27 (2), pp. 151-167.
- Luo F, Moyle B, Moyle C, Zhong Y, Shi S, (2020) Drivers of carbon emissions in China’s tourism industry, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 28 (5), pp. 747-770.
- Moyle C, Moyle B, Burgers H, (2020) Entrepreneurial strategies and tourism industry growth, Tourism Management Perspectives, 35.
- Open innovation framework to strengthen mining entrepreneurial ecosystems
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Rui Torres de Oliveira
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Luca Casali, Dr Adela Drozdibob- The Application of Advanced Analytics to Large Entrepreneurial Datasets for Enhanced Research Understanding and Outcomes.
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Luca Casali - Governing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) to Support Innovative Driven Enterprises (IDEs)A Case Study of Regional Queensland EEs
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Ozgur Dedehayir - THE IMPACT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL PUBLIC POLICIES ON GOVERNING INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPACITY OF REGIONS |
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Professor Per Davidsson - Searching for clues to find the discourse in social media using Twitter
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Luca Casali - DEVELOPING AND TESTING A TRANSFORMATIVE DESTINATION IMAGE SCALE |
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Anne Lane, Dr Udo Gottlieb - Transformational Entrepreneurship amongst Nascent and Established Entrepreneurs across Australia
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Luca Casali