Professor Pam Dyer
BA(Hons) Qld., PhD Qld., GradCertEnvMan Qld., ASDA
Position: Dean and Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Office: Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5430 1242
Email: dyer@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Environmental and Planning Studies
- Coordinator, Australian Internship A
Research areas
- geography
- natural heritage and tourism
- natural resource management and planning
Profile
Professor Dyer’s career has included close links within active researchers within the local community, as well as nationally and internationally, which have resulted in various publications across areas of interest. She has also researched in the fields of geography, natural heritage and tourism and has published in national and international refereed journals. These interests found her spending the first half of 2002 in Springfield Missouri where, in cooperation with Southwest Missouri State University, she investigated community stakeholders’ perspectives of environmental management issues in tourism at three major reservoirs in the western Ozarks region.
Professor Dyer is currently working with others to expand her research interests in various aspects of tourism, including resident community perceptions and spatial planning. Other areas of research include sensitivity to cultural difference in tourism and impacts on the Australian Indigenous community, as well as exploring resident perceptions of the social, economic and environmental impacts of tourism and associated development on the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Professor Dyer was also instrumental in introducing the Bachelor of Regional & Urban Planning to USC in 2004. She was a member of the Caloundra City Council Environmental Advisory Committee (1997 to 2006), and also involved in a Social Harmony Project with the EPA and other subsequent community working groups. Geography is an eclectic field and geographers tend to have many and varied interests, and Professor Pam Dyer is no exception.
Successful community projects she has been involved in with the Queensland Police Service include an Assault Reduction Campaign (2005), and Child Safety Project (2006 ongoing).
Professor Dyer has also supervised several HDR students to successful completion (Honours, Masters, DCA and PhD Students).
Professional memberships
- Planning Institute Australia
- Australian Federation of University Women Qld Inc
- Board of Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Editorial Board, Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management
- Editorial Board The Open Ornithology Journal
- Ecotourism Association of Australia
- Australian Bird Study Association
- Sunshine Coast Environment Council
Publications
Many of Professor Pam Dyer's publications are available from the COAST Research Database.
Research grants
External grants
- Child Safety Awareness Project, grant funded by Queensland Police Service (Total $48,066), 2007
- South-western Missouri State University: “Sometime Cities: Managing and Planning for the environmental Issues of the Seasonal Lakeshore City” - $US7130 Prof. James Skinner (with Pam Dyer and Sonya Glavac as adjunct researchers), 2002
- Raine Island Corporation: “Population Census and Breeding Status of the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Raine Island” ($3,024 plus in kind boat accommodation, and subsistence for three people for two weeks), 2000
- Regional Tourism Program (Department of Industry, Science and Resources) – $23,000 (awarded to Bicheno Penguin Tours as infrastructure support for my research), 1999/2000
- Rotary Research Grant: “Levels of Awareness of, and Preparedness for, Natural Disasters: A Study of the Sunshine Coast Community” – $18,000 (with Drs R and A Neller, Science Faculty) ,1998
- Raine Island Corporation Grant: “Spatial perspectives of Raine Island’s Avian Ecology” ($5,162 plus in kind boat accommodation, and subsistence for three people for two weeks), 1998
- In Kind Support - “Wedge-tailed Shearwater and Black Noddy population study of the Capricorn Group Islands, GBR”. In conjunction with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. In kind support: $162,000, 1995-2000
Internal USC Research Grants
- USC Internal Seed Research Grants Scheme (principal researcher) – $5,000 “Resident Perceptions of Tourism and Associated Development on the Sunshine Coast” (co-researching with Business Faculties at USC and Washington State University), 2004
- USC Internal Research Grants Scheme (co-researcher) – $9,992. “GIS modelling of raptor habitat: a scoping study on the Sunshine Coast” (Carter – principal researcher), 2004
- FASS Internal Research Grant: Interdisciplinary Research (principal researcher) – $2,000. “Resident Perceptions of Tourism and Associated Development on the Sunshine Coast” (co-researching with Business Faculties at USC and Washington State University), 2004
- FASS Internal Research Grant (principal researcher) – $1,000 “Wedge-tailed Shearwater Burrow Censuses for Nine Capricorn Group Islands for a Five-year Period, 1996–2000 (co-researching with QPWS and Griffith University), 2002
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