Erica Wilson

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Dr. Erica Wilson

Lecturer
School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
Faculty of Business
Southern Cross University
Lismore, NSW, 2474, Australia

Email: erica.wilson@scu.edu.au

 

Erica Wilson is Lecturer in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern
Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. Born in Seattle, she has called
Australia home for the last 25 years. Her doctoral thesis (Griffith University,
Australia) was an interpretive, qualitative exploration into the constraints faced by
Australian solo women travellers. Erica also holds a postgraduate diploma in
environmental studies, and a first-class honours degree in tourism administration. She
teaches in the areas of tourism and the environment, and special interest tourism. 

Currently, Erica is particularly interested in critical approaches to the study and
teaching of tourism/ leisure, and has had a central role in the development of three
research network groups which reflect her interests: Gender Researchers in Tourism
Studies; Critical Tourism Research Network (Australia/New Zealand, with Drs Jennie Small,
UTS and Candice Harris, AUT), and the Qualitative Research in Tourism and Hospitality
Network (Australia, with A/Prof Gayle Jennings at Griffith University). 

In 2005, Erica was elected Secretary for the Executive Board of the Council of Australian
University Tourism and Hospitality Educators (CAUTHE). In 2006, she was nominated and
elected as a Commonwealth representative for nature-based tourism on the Central and
Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (CERRA) World Heritage Technical and Scientific
and Advisory Committee. 

Erica's research publications and conference papers have focused on gender and
tourism, women’s definitions of adventure and nature, work-life balance, leisure
constraints/negotiation, sustainable tourism and reflexive/qualitative/feminist research
methodologies.