Biography and expertise
Biography
Kay is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University. Kay supervises higher degree research students in areas related to tourism management, marine tourism and scuba diving tourism. Over recent decades she has taught internationally supporting students in Thailand, India, Singapore and Indonesia.
Kay's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals
Research
Across several decades Kay has led or been part of research projects with sectors of the tourism industry, government departments, not-for-profit organisations and community groups locally and nationally assisting stakeholders to seek shared responsible outcomes.
Supervision
Kay has either supervised or been part of the supervisory team for numerous higher degree research projects involved with 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.
Teaching
Kay has taught across management and tourism, coastal and marine tourism and tourism theories with experience teaching across business focused units at undergraduate and postgraduate levels including services and strategic management. She has facilitated and guided undergraduate student field trips to remote islands in eastern and western Indonesia with a focus on local livelihood and coastal marine tourism.