Rate My Professor Kay Dimmock

Dr. Kay Dimmock serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University, where she supervises higher degree research students in areas related to tourism management, marine tourism, and scuba diving tourism. She holds a Bachelor of Business in Tourism (Honours) and a PhD from Southern Cross University, as well as a Master of Education from the University of Southern Queensland. Over recent decades, Dimmock has taught internationally, supporting students in Thailand, India, Singapore, and Indonesia. She has delivered courses across management and tourism, coastal and marine tourism, tourism theories, and business-focused units at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including services and strategic management. Additionally, she has facilitated and guided undergraduate student field trips to remote islands in eastern and western Indonesia, with a focus on local livelihoods and coastal marine tourism. Dimmock has led or participated in research projects with sectors of the tourism industry, government departments, not-for-profit organisations, and community groups locally and nationally, assisting stakeholders in seeking shared responsible outcomes.

Dimmock's academic interests include tourism management, marine tourism, scuba diving tourism, marine leisure, livelihoods and dive tourism, climate change and coastal destinations, marine wildlife and tourism, sustainability in tourism education, women and tourism in small islands, older women divers and ageing, management competencies, and the economic value of marine parks. She has supervised or been part of supervisory teams for numerous higher degree research projects in these fields. Key publications include 'Scuba diving tourism system: A framework for collaborative management and sustainability' (Marine Policy, 2015), 'Turning wildlife experiences into conservation action: Can white shark cage-dive tourism influence conservation behaviour?' (Marine Policy, 2018), 'Scuba diving tourism' (Routledge, 2013), 'Finding comfort in adventure: Experiences of recreational SCUBA divers' (Leisure Studies, 2009), 'Transformative education and sustainable tourism: The influence of a lecturer’s worldview' (Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 2015), and 'Management competencies: An Australian assessment of tourism and hospitality students' (Journal of Management & Organization, 2003).