Dr Jie Wang
Dr

Jie Wang

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Background

Associate Professor Jie Wang completed a PhD in the field of crisis management at the University of Queensland. Her research interests are associated with risk, crisis and disaster management in tourism and hospitality. Her research focuses on how humans perceive and act in relation to risk, crisis and disaster, with the aim of understanding how behaviour changes can improve the resilience of people, organisations and tourism destinations.

Her research on enhancing crisis preparedness won the Outstanding Doctoral Research Award from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and Emerald Publishing. Dr Wang has also received Early Career Researcher Excellence Award (in Research) from UQ Business School in 2019. She works across disciplinary boundaries including management, strategy, psychology, economics and medicine. She also works with international collaborators from North America, Europe and Asia. She has received an Australian Government grant in 2021 to establish the 'Australia-Indonesia Business Resilience Hub' focusing on tourism thriving and capability building.

Dr Wang has been actively involved in a number of teaching and learning innovation projects. In 2019, she received a Commendation for UQ Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the University of Queensland. In 2018, she received Excellence in Education Award for Enhancing Employability from UQ Faculty of Business, Economics & Law. In 2023, she has been shortlisted for UQ Awards for Excellence in Graduate Research Training, and received a UQ BEL Excellence Award in ‘Research for HDR Supervision’.

Availability

Dr Jie Wang is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Tourism

Qualifications

  • Masters (Research), University of Canberra
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Reducing Travel-related Risks and Enhancing Travel Accessibility

    Dr Wang’s second research interest is tourism risk reduction. Her research aims to understand how tourists perceive and act in relation to travel-related risk. Her research focuses on health risk and privacy risk, theorizing the role of risk perception, emotion, and social norm in risk and health communication for travellers. Her research interests also include travel accessibility to enhance equity, diversity and inclusion. In 2023, Dr Wang has been worked on several research projects related to inclusive risk management and inclusive travel design for people with disabilities.

  • Business Disaster Resilience and Capability Building

    Dr Wang’s third research interest is disaster resilience and capability building. Her study attempts to understand transformative capability building to enable effective crisis response, disaster recovery and proactive planning. She is interested in the topics such as social capital, social media, critical thinking, and the role of positive psychology.

  • Organisational Crisis Preparedness

    Dr Wang’s first research interest is organisational crisis preparedness, which is her PhD topic. Her research aims to examine the factors that constrain or facilitate organisational crisis preparedness. Examples of these factors can be individual psychological factors (such as attitudes, beliefs, feelings, past experience), organisational factors (such as organisational culture, learning, leadership, social capital, empowerment, digital adoption) and environmental contextual factors (such as national culture and other geographic, political, social, ethical and economic context). She continues working in this area to advance her framework titled the Onion Model for Strategic Crisis Planning.

Search Professor Jie Wang’s works on UQ eSpace

42 works between 2009 and 2024
All (42) Journal Article (28) Book Chapter (3) Conference Publication (5) Other Outputs (6)

41 - 42 of 42 works

2010

Journal Article

A theoretical model for strategic crisis planning: Factors influencing crisis planning in the hotel industry

Wang, Jie and Ritchie, Brent (2010). A theoretical model for strategic crisis planning: Factors influencing crisis planning in the hotel industry. International Journal of Tourism Policy, 3 (4), 297-317. doi: 10.1504/IJTP.2010.040390

A theoretical model for strategic crisis planning: Factors influencing crisis planning in the hotel industry

2009

Journal Article

Job Ready Graduates: A Tourism Industry Perspective

Wang, J., Ayres, H. and Huyton, J. (2009). Job Ready Graduates: A Tourism Industry Perspective. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 16 (1), 62-72. doi: 10.1375/jhtm.16.1.62

Job Ready Graduates: A Tourism Industry Perspective

Past funding

  • 2024
    Empowering Accessible Travel: An Evaluation of the `Access Accelerator¿ Program
    Spinal Life Australia
    Open grant
  • 2022
    Australia-Indonesia Business Resilience Hub: Tourism Thriving and Capability Building
    Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
    Open grant
  • 2020
    Assessing job risk and the impact on women, youth and low-income groups in the tourism industry due to COVID-19 in Indonesia
    Partnership for Australia-Indonesia Research (PAIR) - Small and Rapid Research (SRR) Grants
    Open grant
  • 2018
    Healthy travel: health risk perception, protective behaviour and effective communication
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2013
    Building visitors protection and resilience: perception and behaviour in the 'Tsunami-Like' tidal-bore-watching attraction
    UQ Faculty Co-Funding
    Open grant

Availability

Dr Jie Wang is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Tourism Risk Management

    Projects aim to understand how tourists perceive and act in relation to travel-related risks. For example, travel-related health risk, privacy risk, safety risk, or disaster risk. These studies attempt to theorize the role of risk perception, emotion, individual identity, and social norm in risk communication and management in the tourism, hospitality and event context.

  • Travel Accessibility and Inclusion

    I am interested in travel accessibility to enhance equity, diversity and inclusion. My projects are related to inclusive risk management and/or inclusive travel design for people with disabilities, with the aim to enhance the travel experience and safety for individuals with mobility, vision, or intellectual impairments. A few aspects can be related to accessibility and universal design; digital accessibility; evaluation, sensitization and empathy; and compliance.

  • Disaster Resilience

    Projects attempt to understand capability building to enable proactive planning and prevention, effective crisis response, and disaster recovery with innovation. Topics such as social capital, the role of technology and social media, positive psychology, and social inclusion for vulnerable groups and communities.

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Understanding the Relationship between Destination Image and Young Tourists¿ Risk-taking: Considering Roles of Psycho-social Factors

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Laura Ferris, Associate Professor Gabby Walters

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Balancing Romance and Risk: The Role of Anticipated Emotions in Female Tourists' Online Self-Disclosure Behaviour

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Pierre Benckendorff

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Disability-led Innovation and Assistive Technology: Redefining Accessibility in the Global Hospitality Industry

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Josephine Previte

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Dr Jie Wang directly for media enquiries about:

  • Accessible tourism
  • Crisis management
  • disability-inclusion
  • Disaster resilience
  • People with disability
  • Risk communication
  • Travel safety

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