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Professor Roy Ballantyne has over 30 years experience in teaching and researching in tertiary institutions. He left the University of Cape Town to emigrate to Australia in 1990 and worked at QUT until the end of 2004. He joined UQ as Research Professor in the School of Tourism in 2005, and is presently Head of School.
Roy has a well established international reputation for his work in environmental/heritage interpretation and visitor research. He has published widely (80 refereed papers, 25 books/monographs, 32 chapters in books and research reports, 4 video-based interactive teaching packages) and been successful in attracting 60 competitive research, consultancy and teaching development grants worth around $3million (including 6 ARC’s and 2 Regional Tourism Programme Grants).
He has developed a number of training packages for the professional development of ecotourist guides and an interactive website to help improve ‘signage’ in free-choice learning environments (ecotourist settings, museums etc.). He is currently involved with researching visitor learning in eco- and wildlife tourism environment. He is the Co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education and Co-Editor of Visitor Studies.
Roy has won a number of national and international awards for teaching – he was the Australian Teaching Fellow in 1997/8.
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