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Sara Dolnicar

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Sara Dolnicar (born January 9, 1972) is a tourism researcher, studying market segmentation, sustainable tourism, and water recycling. Since 2013, she is a research professor of tourism at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Education

Dolnicar completed a Magister degree in Business Administration in 1994, equivalent to a combined Bachelor and master's degree, and was awarded her Ph.D. in 1996 by the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien) on "Vacation Expectations of Summer Tourists in Austria – a Psychographic Taxonomy Using Neural Network Techniques", supervised by Professor Josef Mazanec. Dolnicar also holds a Magister in Psychology from the University of Vienna (1998).

Career

Dolnicar worked at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies on short-term contracts during her Ph.D. and psychology degree. From 1998–2002 she was a researcher in a Centre of Excellence funded by the FWF (the Austrian research funding body) on a half-time fixed-term contract, as well as working in administrative roles, including serving as the Secretary General of the Austrian Society for Applied Research in Tourism.

Dolnicar took up a full-time teaching/research academic position in 2002 as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and became a full professor in 2006, relatively young.[1] She served two terms as the Associate Dean (Research) in Commerce and was the Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research. She has received over AUD$4 million in funding,[1] and was awarded an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship of AUD$1.46 million in 2010 to research market segmentation, the highest of any ARC Discovery Scheme grant that year.[2][3] In 2011, UOW's tourism research, including Dolnicar's, received a 5 rating from the ARC, the only for tourism research in Australia.[4] She was on the board of Tourism Wollongong.[4][5] In 2013 she became a Research Professor at The University of Queensland in the then School of Tourism.[6]

Dolnicar's research has contributed to the improvement of market segmentation methodology,[7] measures in the social sciences, and the development and testing of measures to improve the environmental sustainability of tourism.[8]. In August 2017, she did a TEDxUQ talk on her sustainable tourism research.[9] Dolnicar also researches public perceptions and acceptance of water conservation[10][11] and water from alternative sources such as recycled water,[12][13] including media inaccuracy and bias.[14] She has also studied attracting high-quality foster carers, and researched how to restore tourism to areas hit by disasters, by identifying "resilient travellers".[15][16] She has studied attendance of lectures by undergraduate students.[17]

She is on the editorial board of the journals Journal of Travel Research and Annals of Tourism Research.[18] Her h-index is 51.[19]

Recognition

Dolnicar was elected a fellow of two societies for tourism researchers, the International Academy for the Study of Tourism in 2013 (the youngest of 75 members)[18] and the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST). She has won a number of awards, including the Charles R. Goeldner Article of Excellence Award[20] for the best paper published in the preceding year in the Journal of Travel Research (in 2004 and 2016)[21], the UQ Excellence in Research Supervision award (2017)[22], the Distinguished Researcher Award recognizing Dolnicar as a valuable resource in the tourism research community (2017)[23], the Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (ACWA) Service Partnership Award and the University of Wollongong Research Excellence Award for Senior Researcher.

Dolnicar received the Ambassador of Science Award of the Republic of Slovenia at an award ceremony held on November 21, 2016 in the country’s capital and Dolnicar’s birthplace, Ljubljana.[24][25][26] The Ambassador of Science award is the highest national prize the Republic of Slovenia awards to expatriate native Slovenian researchers in recognition of their global research excellence, the high impact of their work as well as their active engagement in international knowledge transfer.

Selected work

  • Juvan, E. & Dolnicar, S. (2014) The Attitude-Behaviour Gap in Sustainable Tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 48:76-95.
  • Dolnicar, S., Hurlimann, A. & Grün, B. (2014) Branding Water. Water Research, 57: 325-338.
  • Dolnicar, S., Grün, B., Leisch, F. & Schmidt, K. (2014) Required Sample Sizes for Data-Driven Market Segmentation Analyses in Tourism. Journal of Travel Research, 53(3): 296-306.
  • Dolnicar, S. & Grün, B. (2013) Validly Measuring Destination Images in Survey Studies. Journal of Travel Research, 52(1): 3-13.
  • Hurlimann, A. & Dolnicar, S. (2010) When Public Opposition Defeats Alternative Water Projects - the Case of Toowoomba Australia. Water Research, 44: 287-297.
  • Dolnicar, S. & Rossiter, J.R. (2008) The Low Stability of Brand-Attribute Associations is Partly Due to Measurement Factors. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 25(2): 104-108.
  • Dolnicar, S. & Leisch, F. (2010) Evaluation of Structure and Reproducibility of Cluster Solutions Using the Bootstrap. Marketing Letters, 21(1): 83-101.
  • Dolnicar, S. & Grün, B. (2008) Challenging “Factor Cluster Segmentation”. Journal of Travel Research, 47(1): 63-71.
  • Dimitriadou, E., Dolnicar, S. & Weingessel, A. (2002) An Examination of Indexes for Determining the Number of Clusters in Binary Data Sets. Psychometrika, 67(1): 137-160.

Personal life

Dolničar was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, grew up in Vienna, Austria, and moved to Australia in 2002.[27] She is married and has two children.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johnson, Nicola (October 1, 2012). "15: Professor Sara Dolnicar". Publishing from Your PhD: Negotiating a Crowded Jungle. Gower Publishing. ISBN 9781409486527. Retrieved October 28, 2015. Search this book on
  2. ↑ "ARC research grants success across the disciplines". UOW News. October 26, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ "UOW academic gets a grand grant". Illawarra Mercury. November 9, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "University of Wollongong tops nation in tourism research". January 31, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ellis, Greg (November 26, 2009). "Board elects new chairman". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ "UQ Tourism welcomes new professor". UQ News. February 25, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Looking for an unbiased answer". Illawarra Mercury. December 7, 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  8. ↑ Hoctor, Michelle (October 25, 2011). "Enjoy 'green' getaway". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtv4BHqEpN8
  10. ↑ "Public 'aware but not acting' on saving water". ABC News. October 14, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  11. ↑ Young, Damon (July 30, 2012). "Our alien desiccated home". ABC Environment. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  12. ↑ Birnbauer, William (January 7, 2007). "Recycled water? We're not that thirsty". The Age. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  13. ↑ Kay, Ross; Dowsett, David (April 2, 2015). "It's time to talk about drinking recycled toilet water". ABC Wide Bay. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ Thelwell, Lizzie (October 15, 2012). "Media may influence water-saving behaviour". Science Network Western Australia. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Philippines tourism to suffer as Super Typhoon Haiyan hits". The Australian. November 8, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  16. ↑ Wilson, Cameron (October 2, 2013). "Resilient travellers key to disaster recovery". ABC Radio. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  17. ↑ Hall, Sam (March 15, 2011). "Dodging lectures with some digital help". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Academy awards fellowship to tourism researcher". University of Queensland. October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  19. ↑ https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=e74qj60AAAAJ&hl=en, retrieved October 10, 2017.
  20. ↑ http://jtr.sagepub.com/content/49/4/399.full.pdf
  21. ↑ http://www.business.uq.edu.au/news/tourism-professor-receives-acclaimed-award-second-time-career
  22. ↑ http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2017/09/uq-shines-spotlight-research-excellence
  23. ↑ "Archived Copy". Archived from the original on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2018-02-09.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
  24. ↑ http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/podelitve-nagrad/174438803
  25. ↑ http://www.delo.si/znanje/znanost/v-znamenju-vrhuncev-slovenske-znanosti.html
  26. ↑ http://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2016/11/intelekta-49/
  27. ↑ "In the spotlight: Sara Dolnicar" (PDF). CONNECT: iTouR WOLLONGONG. July 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2015.

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