Laurie Murphy grew up in London Ontario Canada and completed a Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Waterloo in Recreation and Leisure Studies. She then spent two years at North Carolina State University completing and Master’s Degree in Recreation and Leisure and as a research assistant on a major project for the North Carolina State Division of Travel and Tourism where more than 12,000 visitors to the state were surveyed.

While backpacking in Australia Laurie was offered a lecturing position at JCU which she took up in 1991 and she completed her PhD at JCU on Backpackers and their travel decisions in 1997.

Teaching

• BU1109: Career Development for Business Professionals (Level 1; TSV)
• BU3101: Professional Internship (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
• BU3102: Multidisciplinary Project (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
• BX2094: Conference and Events Management (Level 2; TSV)
• BX3194: Destination Management and Planning (Level 3; TSV)
• TO2051: Innovation for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Futures (Level 2; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Professional

• Laurie serves on the Tourism and Event Strategic Advisory Committee at Townsville Enterprise.

Research

• Understanding and improving tourism’s contribution to regional Australia: Her early work on backpackers focused on understanding their travel decision making processes.
• Work in the field of destination branding has focused on its application to regional destinations and whether traditional brand personality concepts translate from consumer goods to tourism destinations.
• Tourism and its contribution to regional communities is at the core of another ongoing research program focusing on Tourist Shopping Villages. This research examines tourist shopping villages in order to understand how their performance can be enhanced for multiple stakeholders in the community and considers the tourist experiences. The shopping villages research highlighted the important linkages between tourism and other regional industries. This has evolved into the more recent research examining the links between tourism and community well-being in more detail in order to identify the ways in which tourism can best make a positive contribution to tropical communities.
• These topics have now expanded to the Quality of Life Index with the aim of developing measures of community well-being, and then presenting profiles for tropical regions in NQ. in the public arena .
• Laurie is a key member of a team of researchers investigating fly-in, fly-out workers, with a particular interest on the impacts on families and local communities, including tourism businesses.

Teaching

• Laurie is the Work Integrated Learning Co-ordinator for the School of Business and is responsible for establishing industry partnerships to facilitate professional internship and industry project opportunities for students.

Experience

• 1991 to present - Associate Professor, James Cook University (Townsville)

Research Disciplines

• Tourism (3508)
• Curriculum and pedagogy (3901)
• Applied economics (3801)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Tourism services (1104)

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Journal Articles

• Riebe L, Jackson D, Meek S, Ogilvie M, Kuilboer A, Murphy L, Collins N, Lynch K and Brock M (in press) Using an industry-aligned capabilities framework to effectively assess student performance in non-accredited work-integrated learning contexts. Teaching in Higher Education,
• Xu D, Murphy L, Chen T and Pearce P (2022) Differentiating tourist scam cases: towards a taxonomy of deceptive schemes. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 50. pp. 159-167
• Jin H, Moscardo G and Murphy L (2021) Unraveling the mechanisms behind Chinese outbound tourist shopping: a social practice perspective. Journal Of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 45 (4). pp. 629-651
• Jin H, Moscardo G and Murphy L (2021) Unfolding Chinese tourist shopping practices: an observational study. Tourism Review, 76 (2). pp. 460-472
• N'Drower F, Moscardo G and Murphy L (2021) "Tourism brings good things": tourism and community development in rural Papua New Guinea. Tourism Review International, 25. pp. 229-245
• Jin H, Moscardo G and Murphy L (2020) Exploring Chinese outbound tourist shopping: a social practice framework. Journal of Travel Research, 59 (1). pp. 156-172
• Nicholas C, Murphy L and Blackman A (2019) Exploring the dimensions of social capital that are effective mediators of long distance commuting impacts on wellbeing. Resources Policy, 60. pp. 185-197
• Nicholas C, Welters R and Murphy L (2018) Does social capital help communities to cope with long-distance commuting? Regional Studies, 52 (12). pp. 1646-1657
• Jin H, Moscardo G and Murphy L (2017) Making sense of tourist shopping research: a critical review. Tourism Management, 62. pp. 120-134

Book Chapters

• Moscardo G, Murphy L, Hughes K and Benckendorff P (2020) Shopping on the edge: identifying factors contributing to tourist retail development in heritage villages. In: The Future Past of Tourism: historical perspectives and furture evolutions. The Future of Tourism. Channel View Publications, Bristol, UK, pp. 188-200
• Konovalov E, Murphy L and Moscardo G (2019) An exploration of links between levels of tourism development and impacts on the social facet of residents' quality of life. In: Best practices in hospitality and tourism marketing and management: a quality of life perspective. Applying quality of life research: best practices. Springer International Publishing, Cham, CHE, pp. 77-107

Conference Papers

• Kuilboer A, Murphy L and Lynch K (2018) How do final year business students perceive that ePortfolios enable employability? 2018 ePortfolio Forum eBook of Short Papers. In: 2018 ePortfolio Australia Forum, 9-10 October 2018, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 68+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Laurie Murphy from 2001 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Assessing Multiple Communities' Reactions to Recycling Plastic in the Asia/Pacific Region and the impact it has on the Tourism Industry (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The contributions of sport and recreation infrastructure to community wellbeing (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Effective Interpretation for Children and good Sustainability Lessons: A Multiple Case Study of Nature-based Tourism Sites (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Ethnic tourism in Vietnam's Central Highlands: Issues, Interventions and Effects (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• An Exploration of Mindfulness on Tour Guides and Tourists and their Influences on the Sustainability of Tourism (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)

Completed

• Understanding Chinese tourist shopping in Australia: a social practice (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Popular culture as a powerful destination marketing tool: an Australian study (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Long distance commuting into Australian regions: its determinants and impacts on wellbeing in the region and social capital's capacity to mediate those impacts (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Document-level sentiment analysis of email data (2020, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Recall and post-trip evaluation of tourist destinations: the effects of travel order (2020, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Developing an Indigenous research tool to explore the effectiveness of community-based tourism in rural Papua New Guinea (2020, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Tourism and community well-being: social impacts of tourism in Australian tropical communities (2017, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Behind Tourist Scams: Understanding Practice and Decision Making (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Law at a critical juncture: retribution and criminal responsibility at the US Army war crimes trials in the Philippines, 1945–1947 (2021, PhD , Advisor Mentor)

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