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| Room Number |
211 |
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Senior Lecturer
Dr Shane Pegg |
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| Building Number |
13 |
| Campus |
Ipswich Campus |
| Telephone Number |
+61 (7) 3381 1025 |
| Fax Number |
+61 (7) 3381 1012 |
| Email |
s.pegg@uq.edu.au |
| Dr Shane Pegg is a Senior Lecturer in leisure, recreation and sports management. He is a past recipient of the Future Scholars Award from the Academy of Leisure Sciences and completed his doctoral studies through Central Queensland University. Dr Pegg has been involved in a wide array of research projects, including a study of the links between leisure boredom, alcohol use and levels of self-determination of rural and urban youth in Australia. |
- Recreation and leisure behaviour
- Sporting and recreation service delivery
- Leisure and recreation evaluation
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Recent projects include:
- Gold Coast Schoolies Week (GCSW) Evaluation: A collaborative research project with the Queensland Government to evaluate the full social and economic impacts of the GCSW on the Gold Coast region
- Rural youth and alcohol use: A study of the links between leisure boredom, alcohol use and levels of self-determination of rural and urban youth in Australia
- Volunteer satisfaction: research focussing on the satisfaction derived by volunteers by their involvement in community event
- Youth, leisure boredom and youth suicide: An exploratory study of this tragic topic and how to mitigate it
- Leisure Education: Examination of the leisure curriculum in selected higher education institutions in the United States
Professional Activities
- 2000/2001 - Society of Park and Recreation Educators - ANZALS representative
- 1999/2000 - ACHPER Healthy Lifestyle Journal - Article reviewer
- 1999/2001 - World Leisure and Recreation Association - Chair, Evidence of Inclusive Opportunities Sub-Committee, Publications co-ordinator (2000) & Executive Committee member, Commission On Inclusion and Accessibility (2000)
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