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60 Seconds with ... Martin Doulton

Director, Monash Sport

14 March 2007

Martin Doulton, Director of Monash Sport

How long have you been with Monash University?
Started here in January 2002.

What is the best thing about your job?
Getting up every morning with a view to being able to make a positive contribution to the health, wellbeing and "collegiality" of our community, and then working with a whole bunch of people from all areas across the University and the broader community in trying to achieve something special here at Monash.

Monash Sport is promoting several community fitness events this year - what are the benefits for staff and students in taking part?
Aside from the health benefits of anyone taking part in these events under the Team Monash banner, it's the buzz of being part of a community that can have fun together. To be with a couple of hundred of your family, friends and colleagues doing something healthy - at the same time raising funds for research and charities - is quite a special experience. If you haven't had that experience yet, log on to www.sport.monash.edu for more information. The next Monash Community Fitness event is the Mother's Day Classic on May 13.

What do you enjoy reading?
Emails from Team Monash participants, volunteers and spectators sharing their positive stories about being involved in these events.

When you're not trying to get more people more active more often, what past-times or hobbies do you enjoy?
In my spare time I act as a taxi driver-come-netball coach for my three teenage daughters and their friends, which inevitably means I don't get that much spare time.

Of all the places in the world to visit (or re-visit) where would be your favourite destination and why?
My place to revisit would be Stonehenge in England, which is one of the most ethereal and eerie places I have ever visited - even when surrounded by busloads of tourists.

What is something about yourself that most colleagues wouldn't know?
I live in the Yarra Valley and have plenty of space to live out another ambition - which is to try and breed some of the largest purebred Orpington chooks in the world.