Dr Polladach Theerapappisit

Dr Poll Theerapappisit

Lecturer, Tourism and Heritage Studies

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• Biography
• Areas of Expertise
• Awards / Honours
• Grants / Current projects
• Selected Publications
• Professional Activities

Biography

Poll has worked with UWS as a tenured lecturer since 2001. His background was in a wide range of practice over 10 years in architecture, landscape, urban design, urban and regional planning as well as real estate and project management. In 1998, three years after his Masters degree in Urban Planning, he worked  as a planner for the ADB project on Mekong Tourism Planning. This work inspired him to develop his PhD proposal to study in England and then at the University of Melbourne. In 2006, his thesis had been submitted with the title: "Tourism Planning and Policy: Local Perspectives on Development and Participation - A Study of Ethnic Communities in Northern Thailand". Since 2000, he has published nine refereed papers in the multi-disciplinary research areas linking community-based cultural tourism planning and ethics in tourism development in less-developed countries. His teaching subjects at UWS are varying from tourism subjects such as Tourism Policy and Planning, Cultural Tourism, Indigenous Tourism to the subject in Humanitarian and Peace Studies; i.e. Inequality and Human Rights.

Areas of Expertise

Awards / Honours

‘Excellence in Teaching’ as a joint winner for the annual Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Awards (2002)

‘Melbourne Research Scholarships’ and ‘Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarships’ from the University of Melbourne for Ph.D. Study (1999–2005)

‘Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme’ from the UK Government and “International Postgraduate Research Scholarship’ from the University of Liverpool for M.Phil. leading to Ph.D. Study (1998)

‘King’s Scholarship’ for postgraduate study (International Masters Program) at AIT (1994)

‘Excellent Thesis’ from AIT and Architectural Siam Association (ASA) in Thailand (1995, 1987)

Grants / Current Projects

Bushell, R., Staiff, R. & Theerapappisit, P. 2007, Parramatta Stories: Value Based Community Development.  In collaboration with the Parramatta City Council and the Centre for Cultural Research. This UWS-funded research project aims to identify local values and issues that will inform and assist in the planning process for tourism product development that is appropriate to the context of a culturally diverse community. The project is undertaken in several stages including the development of an application for funding to the Australian Research Council.

Theerapappisit, P. 2005, Top-Down Tourism: Impacts on the Grassroots. A research paper presented at the Workshop ‘Mekong Tourism: Learning across Borders’, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, hold at the Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, 24-25 Feb. 2005, Chiang Mai.

Theerapappisit, P. 2004, A Review of Community-Based Tourism. A research paper presented in the Seminar ‘Integrated Development of Sustainable Tourism in the Mekong Region’, funded by the National Research Council of Thailand, hold at Anantara Resort and Spa Golden Triangle, 15-16 Oct. 2004, Chiang Rai.

Theerapappisit, P. 2004, Policy and Planning of Tourism Product Development  in Asian Countries. A synthesis paper published in the ‘Asian Cohesion through Development Research’ Conference Proceedings, the 6th General Meeting of Asian Development Research Forum (ADRF), funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada, held at Siam City Hotel, 7-8 Jun. 2004, Bangkok.

Selected Publications

Theerapappisit, P. 2006, Ethnic Tourism in the Mekong: Towards Pro-poor Tourism, New Zealand Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin.

Theerapappisit, P. & Staiff, R. 2006, Tourism and Modernity: Perceptions of Tourism and Development in Three Northern Thai Villages, Conference Proceedings of the Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), CD-ROM, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Theerapappisit, P. 2004, Degradation or Enhancement through Tourism: A Role for Ethical/Religious Approaches, Conference Proceedings of the Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), CD-ROM, Queensland University, Brisbane.

Theerapappisit, P. 2003a, ‘Mekong Tourism Development: Capital or Social Mobilisation?’, Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 47–56.

Theerapappisit, P. 2003b, Tourism Development: Cultural Crisis of the Mekong, Conference Proceedings of the Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), CD-ROM, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour.

Theerapappisit, P. 2003c, ‘River Life Transition: From Agro-cities to Agritourism’, in R. King, O. Panin & C. Parin eds Modernity, Tradition, Culture, Water, Conference Proceedings: Bangkok-Melbourne-Bordeaux Symposium, Bangkok, October 2002, KU Press, Bangkok.

Theerapappisit, P. 2003d, ‘Buddhist Ethics: Planning towards Sustainable Community-Based Tourism’, in Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Thamasart University Press, Bangkok.

Professional Activities

Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Planning Institute of Australia

Sydney Olympic Park Authority

Thailand Research Fund

National Research Council of Thailand

Association of Thai Urban Planners and Designers

The Association of Siamese Architects