Dr Hazel Maxwell

 Hazel is an experienced, highly accomplished leisure educator and a leisure management professional/practitioner with over 30 years’ experience in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. She is currently an academic at Western Sydney University in the School of Health Sciences in Sydney, Australia. Her expertise gives her a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the leisure industry. She is very passionate about leisure, in particular its role in tackling health inequality and the exclusion of marginalised population groups from leisure activities and this is where her extensive post-doctoral research is focused.  Hazel has been a director of the Australia and New Zealand Leisure Studies Association (ANZALS) from 2013 to 2018 to where she advocated and delivered leisure policy. She also has networks with international leisure and sport organisations including Leisure Studies Association (LSA), International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG), International Association of Physical Education for Girls and Women (IAPESGW), and as Associate Editor for the leading journal, Managing Sport and Leisure. Hazel is an interdisciplinary researcher developing innovative leisure education curricula and leads teams to achieve the vision of the WLO.

Hazel regularly publishes in top tier journal, see her google scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=UdMKZkkAAAAJ)