Richard J. Buning

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Research Lead, UQ Micromobility Research Cluster, The University of Queensland

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Richard Buning is a Senior Lecturer within the tourism discipline in the UQ Business School and the research lead for the UQ Micromobility Research Cluster. His research interests reside at the intersection of physical activity, travel, and events. Within this area, his research agenda is focused on how tourists are physically active as both a driver of tourism behaviour (i.e., active lifestyle sports) and during visitation (i.e., active transport). His research works on active lifestyle sports closely mirrors his passions in active sport tourism for mountain biking, cycling, running, rock climbing, hiking, and more. His work crosses over to active transport through bikeshare, eScooters, and more generally micromobility where he is focused on tourism usage and related impacts.

The outcome of his work enables communities, events, and organisations to efficiently market to and attract visitors, encourage physical activity, and improve the related impact to destinations as sustainable tourism. Prior to academia, Dr. Buning has worked in the running event industry managing race logistics and continues to work with physical activity focused organisations, events, and communities as a consultant in developing data driven business strategy. Although he is an expert in survey research design and analysis, his research methodology speciality is in mixed methods (i.e., combining data sources and types) tailored to the research question at hand. He is regularly featured in the media and publishes on the topics of active transport, sport tourism, and event management.

Interested in working on research, teaching, or consulting projects? Please get in touch!

Experience

• –present Lecturer, The University of Queensland

Education

• 2014 University of Florida, PhD

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