TAFISA Certified Leadership course
Monash University Peninsula Campus, Melbourne, Australia
Healthy Active Communities
Key Presenters
Facilitator
Martin Doulton
Martin Doulton has a wide range of experiences gleaned from over thirty years of involvement in the sport industry. Martin has been paid to play a sport at the highest level and also represented England in two sports. His work experiences have ranged from inner city sport in the UK to delivering sport programs across rural Australia.
Currently Martin is Director of Sport at Monash University. The role covers a portfolio of over sixty discrete sporting facilities involving participation of many thousands of individuals from all walks of life across eight campuses on three continents. He also has responsibility to build bridges between industry and academia. Martin has also had significant experience in advocating to all levels of Government about the role of Sport in ‘building’ and ‘gluing’ communities together. He has National President of Parks and Leisure Australia, Chairman of the Community Recreation Council of Australia as well as a member of innumerable sporting advisory and award bodies both here in Australia and globally.
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Presenters
Wolfgang Baumann
Wolfgang Baumann graduated in Sports Economics, Sports Science and English Language at the Universities of Bonn, Bayreuth and Stirling (Scotland). As the elected TAFISA Secretary General he now works full-time as the Executive Director of the TAFISA Office in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a Special Advisor for Sport for All International of the German Olympic Sport Federation (DOSB). Until 2005 he worked as Executive Director for Sport for All at the DOSB and the Sport Marketing Agency Deutsche Sport Partner GmbH. He is a member of the Executive Board of the International Council of Sports Sciences and Physical Education (ICSSPE). Wolfgang has contributed to and developed various international and national Sport for All programs and campaigns. His main working areas are marketing of Sport for All, comparative studies of Sport for All internationally and sport economics. He has been consultant in more than 25 countries within the field of Sport for All and invited as a speaker to various congresses and seminars worldwide over the past 20 years. His obligations also include memberships in several international working groups (IOC, UNESCO/CIGEPS etc). He has published on the topic in magazines, professional journals and books. At present he is working on his doctorate in international sports science.
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Brian Dixon
Brian Dixon was born in Melbourne and educated at Melbourne Boys High School and Melbourne University where he subsequently lectured in Economics. Brian enjoyed a professional football career with the Melbourne Football Club, participating in five Premierships and winning the Best and Fairest in 1960. He entered politics in 1964 as the member for St Kilda and subsequently became a Minister in 1973. He served in the following portfolios – Youth, Sport & Recreation, Housing, Social Welfare, Aboriginal Affairs, Education and Employment and Training. He was awarded distinctions for his work in Road Safety (the compulsory wearing of seat belts), Recreation (the Life Be In It campaign), Social Policy (the removal of Capital Punishment in Victoria) and Town Planning (the Geelong and Victorian Bicycle promotions). Brian has worked actively in TAFISA and ASFAA (Asiania Sport For All Association) since 1977 and helped found both bodies in 1991. He has also promoted Australian Football worldwide, but in particular in South Africa, India and China.
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Professor Brian Oldenburg
Brian Oldenburg is the Inaugural Chair of International Public Health at Monash University in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He has more than 25 years’ experience in public health research, teaching and capacity building programs in Australia and internationally. He also holds visiting appointments at the Public Health Institute in Finland and Beijing Centre for Disease Control in China. His research program focuses mainly on understanding how to improve the social, mental and physical health and wellbeing of children and adults. He has been an advisor for governments in Australia and has written many reports and been a member of many committees and advisory groups. He is also involved in research and capacity building programs in South Africa and in a number of countries in Asia and the Pacific.
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Professor Betty Weiler
Betty Weiler is Professor and Director of Monash University’s Tourism Research Unit where she provides leadership in visitor management and strategic communication research. She has been teaching, researching and writing in the area of tourism planning, management and marketing for 25 years. Betty has managed or co-managed approximately 40 international and national consultancy projects and major funded research projects related to the tourist experience, ecotourism, heritage and nature interpretation, and strategic communication including two ARC Linkage grants and eight Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre projects. Betty’s career total in external grants is approximately $1.2 million, largely due to her reputation for undertaking industry-relevant research. Much of her current work is being undertaken in collaboration with tourism operators and government partners.
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Professor Robert Cummins
Bob Cummins holds postgraduate degrees in physiology and psychology from the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia. He was appointed to a Personal Chair in Psychology at Deakin University in 1997. Bob has published widely on the topic of Quality of Life and is regarded as an international authority in this area. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and the Australian Psychological Society. He is on the editorial board of eight Journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies. His current research program is directed towards theory development concerning the quality of life construct, and how such understanding can be used to improve the life experience of people who are medically or socially disadvantaged. His major current project involves a quarterly index of subjective wellbeing for the Australian population.
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Michael Scully
Michael Scully has been the Team Leader for Sport & Leisure at the Mornington Peninsula for the past seven years. His portfolio consists of leading 150 staff in the management of seven Shire-operated facilities including the multi award winning Pelican Park Recreation Centre and Mt Martha Public Golf Course. A major focus for Michael’s team has become the design and implementation of local physical activity initiatives in response to increasing health and wellbeing issues such as diabetes and heart disease. Michael has previously worked in development roles for QANTAS and Tennis Queensland.
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Lucy Marshall
Lucy Marshall grew up in rural Tasmania before moving to Victoria to study Recreation Management at Victoria University. She graduated in 2000 with the Parks and Leisure Australia award for ‘Student of Excellence’. Following experiences at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre and Melbourne Juvenile Justice Centre, Lucy started her career in recreation as an Activity Officer for a resort on the east coast of Tasmania. She then became the Program Manager at Ashley Youth Detention Centre and after travelling around the world, worked at Launceston City Council firstly as Youth and Community Officer then Recreation Planning Officer. In that role she was involved in strategic recreation planning, event management, program coordination and facility development. In 2008 Lucy moved on to The University of Tasmania to develop and manage a community driven project called ‘Active Launceston’. This partnership project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of the Launceston community through increased participation in physical activity.
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Dr Ted Brown
Ted Brown is a Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Coordinator in the Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, at Monash University’s Peninsula Campus. He is also Research Coordinator for the campus. Ted worked for over 18 years as an occupational therapist mainly with children and their families. He completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2003. His research interests include occupational therapy practice with children, test development, validation and evaluation, education of health science students, Rasch Analysis, evidence-based practice, and research utilisation. He has over 75 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented at numerous national and international conferences.
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Dr Trevor Allen
Trevor Allen is an exercise and muscle physiologist based at Monash University’s Clayton campus. He obtained his BSc(Hons) and PhD at Monash in the field of muscle mechanics and injury mechanisms. He has worked as an academic and researcher in disciplines of physiology, physiotherapy and engineering in Australia and Canada. Trevor currently has a joint position shared between Monash Sport and the Department of Physiology. He has been involved in the Samsung Oceania Sport Development Initiative (SOSDI) since January 2008, including the development of specific tests and training methods for the trainers. Trevor is a lecturer on topics of muscle and exercise physiology. His research interests include exercise and muscle damage, muscle adaptation and injury prevention, effects of stretching, and the effects of fatigue on limb position sense, and reducing physiological stress in motor sport athletes.
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Andrew Robinson
Andrew Robinson is the team leader of the Sport Performance Unit at Monash Sport on the Clayton campus. He hails from an exercise physiology background and has worked in the health, fitness and medical fields over the past 20 years. Some highlights included establishing the first credible indoor cycling program in Australia, conditioning work with Hawthorn Football Club and managing the Monash Sport Fitness Gym. Andrew’s current work includes the Samsung Oceania Talent Development Initiative, Australian Sports Commission eTID and Sport Performance clinical services development. His research interests include cycling on and off road and the development of young riders.
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Associate Professor Ben Smith
Ben Smith has an extensive track record in the design and evaluation of health promotion strategies, especially focused on physical activity promotion. Currently he is evaluating the Participation in Community Sport and Active Recreation Program of VicHealth, being conducted in over 60 sporting and community organisations in Victoria. With funding from the Australian Research Council he is investigating the role and impacts of food company sponsorship of children’s sports in Australia. Other areas of study include the way that physical inactivity and obesity are being debated in the popular media, the impact of media campaigns on physical activity beliefs and attitudes, and strategies that can be used by health care practitioners to increase the participation levels of their patients. Apart from his research activities Ben teaches a range of units on health promotion methods and evaluation at the undergraduate and postgraduate level at Monash university. He serves as Editor in Chief of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia and regularly provides training and consultancy for Australian and international organisations.
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Dr Colin Benjamin
Colin Benjamin, FAICD, is Chairman Marshall Place Associates, Director General of 'Life. Be in it.' and CEO of the Psychotherapists and Counselling Federation of Australia. He has extensive experience at senior executive levels in the conduct of futures research and strategic thinking in both the public and private sectors prior to forming his own consulting company and business networks with specialties including executive and professional education; corporate performance audits and social inclusion reviews; futures and strategic thinking assignments; performance enhancement; client and customer service; sessions on strategic focus; and SunTzu applications in the fields of operations management and strategic analysis. In addition to his Australian experience Colin has consulted widely in Asia and undertaken research in China, Indonesia and the United States. Colin’s doctorate developed a globally integrated theory of entrepreneurship and establishes measures that enhance the rate of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship at any scale of business enterprise.
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Dr Justen O’Connor
Justen O'Connor is a lecturer in Sport and Outdoor Recreation at Monash University’s Peninsula Campus. He is a member of the Monash Obesity Research Initiative and has research experience that utilises an emerging socio-ecological approach to explore multi-layered problems associated with physical activity and wellness within community settings. His recent research has centred on physical activity opportunities in child care settings, recreational cycling contexts and school communities. Justen is the key research partner on the Mornington Peninsula Shire and Department of Transport, re(Connecting) Children to Place Through Active Travel project. Justen's research focuses on upstream promotion of lifestyle physical activity and incorporates a multi and interdisciplinary approach that shifts the focus away from the primary health care system.
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