Dr Lisa Ruhanen, BBus (UQ), Hons (JCU), GCEd (UQ), PhD (UQ)    Senior Lecturer

	Biography

Dr Lisa Ruhanen, Postgraduate Coursework Program Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, School of Tourism.

Dr Lisa Ruhanen (PhD, GCEd, BBusHons) is a Senior Lecturer and the Postgraduate Coursework Program Coordinator for the School of Tourism, The University of Queensland. She has been involved in almost 30 academic and consultancy research projects in Australia and overseas. Her research areas include sustainable tourism destination policy and planning, climate change and Indigenous tourism.
Lisa has worked extensively as a consultant, external collaborator and executive committee member with a variety of divisions of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. In 2010 Lisa was awarded a fellowship under the Oxford Brookes University International Visiting Fellow Scheme in the United Kingdom.

	Links
	UQ School of Tourism , Staff Profile

	Keywords
	Social Sciences: Planning/Policy Studies, Management and Commerce: Tourism, Management and Commerce: Business