Personal profile
Biography
Dr Garth Lean is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University and a core member of the Translational Health Research Institute. He currently leads the School of Social Sciences’ Southeast Asia portfolio and contributes more broadly to engagement, partnerships, and student recruitment across the School and wider Faculty. He has more than 20 years of experience across higher education, government, industry, and professional organisations.
Garth’s research spans tourism, travel, health, and human experiences and behaviours, with a particular focus on transformative travel, travel health, infection prevention and control, vaccination, aviation and airports, and digital and mobile technologies. He has published widely in these fields, regularly presents at conferences and institutions in Australia and internationally, and is frequently sought for expert media commentary.
Garth currently coordinates Western Sydney University’s tourism, hospitality, and events placement subjects. He is strongly committed to equitable education and graduate career readiness.
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Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy, Western Sydney University
Bachelor of Tourism (Honours), Western Sydney University
Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science), Western Sydney University
Research keywords
- Travel
- Tourism
- Travel Experience
- Travel Behaviour
- Transformation
- Travel Health
- Travel Medicine
- Digital Technologies
- Vaccination
- Infectious Diseases
- Infection Control
- Infection Prevention
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Hospital-based vaccination of older adult inpatients: comparison of two delivery models for influenza, COVID-19 and pneumococcal vaccines
Lean, M., Lean, G. & Post, J. J., Dec 2026, In: BMC Infectious Diseases. 26, 1, 10 p., 729.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Neuroangiostrongyliasis presenting as abdominal allodynia mimicking hepatobiliary disease in urban Australia
Lean, M., Loomes, J., Lean, G. & Post, J. J., 2026, In: Research Connections. 1, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Realising the Opportunities of Chinese Tourism: A Comparative Study
Ooi, C.-S., Ma, Y., Lean, G., Yang, E., Wang, Y., Cheer, J., Vorobjovas-Pinta, O., Dahles, H., Long, F., Sin, H. L. & Ong, C. E., 2021, Hobart, Tas.: Asia Institute, University of Tasmania. 87 p.Research output: Book/Research Report › Research report
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Equitable Technologies for Smarter Urbanism: Enhancing Priority Car Parking at Western Sydney University
Condie, J. M., Lean, G. L., Bate, B., James, D. & Sio, P., 2020, Penrith, N.S.W.: Western Sydney University. 34 p.Research output: Book/Research Report › Research report
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Travel, Tinder and gender in digitally mediated tourism encounters
James, D., Condie, J. & Lean, G., 2019, The Geographies of Digital Sexuality. Nash, C. J. & Gorman-Murray, A. (eds.). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 49-68Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Chapter
HDR Theses
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Transformative travel : the socially mobile de/construction of reality
Lean, G. L. (Author), 2011Western Sydney University thesis: Doctoral thesis
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