Dr Char-Lee McClennan
About Char-lee
Char-lee is highly knowledgeable consultant who has considerable expertise in grant writing, tourism strategy and planning, economic impact analyses, econometric modelling, data mining, survey design, stakeholder consultation, project management and training. She is a highly skilled researcher proficient in statistical software packages including STATA, R, SAS and Leximancer.
Char-lee provides support to Councils through Peak Services, particularly relating to grant writing, tourism and economic development, innovation and entrepreneurship, emerging industries and cost benefit analysis.
Core Capability
- Tourism & Economic Development
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Emerging industries
- Metrics development
- Cost Benefit Analysis
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Hotel Management
- Bachelor of Business (Honours I) majoring in Financial Economics and Event Management
- PhD in Tourism Economics
Key Experience
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Financing Programs
Department of Innovation and Tourism Industry Development (DITID) - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Financing Programs for Startups and Scale-ups: The Advance Queensland Program Evaluation.
Involved with Longitudinal Benefits & Impacts Study on Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Development Project
Department of Innovation and Tourism Industry Development (DITID) - Longitudinal Benefits & Impacts Study on Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Development Project – Phase 2. Tourism and Business Returns Study.
Involved with MIT Programs
Department of Innovation and Tourism Industry Development (DITID) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program: Team Queensland. Queensland Connects Program.
Involved with Roma Saleyards Multi-Purpose Precinct Development
Roma Saleyards Multi-Purpose Precinct Development: Business Case, Cost Benefit Analysis and Merit Criteria. Maranoa Regional Council.
Gap Analysis with Indigenous Businesses Australia
Demand and Supply Issues in Indigenous Tourism: A Gap Analysis, Indigenous Businesses Australia & the RET Indigenous Tourism Working Group.
Work with CSIRO & DES
Defining Queensland’s New Smarts.
Work with DSDTI
Measuring and Accelerating Australian Entrepreneurial Dynamism. Innovation Metrics Mid-Career Research Fellowship.
Involved with reviving Charleville Cosmos Centre & Observatory
Revitalising the Charleville Cosmos Centre & Observatory, Murweh Shire
Council.
Involved with APEC Tourism Working Group
Developing the Tourism Workforce of the Future in the APEC Region, APEC Tourism Working Group.
Tourism Labour Market Analysis work
Tourism Labour Market Analysis for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, GOLDOC
Gold Coast Tourism work
Gold Coast Tourism Marketing Expenditure, Gold Coast Tourism
