Rob Lynch was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Business at UTS in April 2003. Prior to this he held the position of Associate Dean, Research and Development in the same Faculty. He was Head of the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism (one of the 6 Schools in the Faculty of Business) from 1991 - 1996. He held appointments as Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the School of LSandT. Previous to this he held the position of Lecturer in Sociology at Charles Sturt University. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois and Masters and Honours degrees in Education from the University of Western Australia. He is foundation Chairperson of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) and Chairperson of the Research Commission of the World Leisure and Recreation Association. He is also a Board Member of the Leisure Research Committee of the International Sociological Association. He is foundation Co-editor of Annals of Leisure Research, a member of the Editorial Board of Leisure Sciences: an Interdisciplinary Journal, Australian Leisure Manager, and foundation Advisory Editorial Board member of Managing Leisure: an International Journal. His research interests are in leisure participation patterns and social change, museum visitation patterns, gambling, casino impacts, and crowd disorder in leisure contexts. He also co-authored An Australian Leisure Research Agenda in 1995 via a national process of establishing research priorities. He has also co-authored (in 1996) an introductory text titled Australian Leisure. This text is widely used in Australia, has received some international acclaim and is now being revised for its third edition. He has written a co-authored book on crowd disorder, Dynamics of Collective Conflict (1989) and has published numerous refereed papers, book chapters, papers in proceedings, reports and submissions in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. These works appear in the fields of leisure/recreation studies, sociology, criminology, gambling studies, tourism and sport history. He has presented conference papers and lectures in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, China, Canada, The Netherlands, England, Wales and the USA. He has also been called upon to chair and take part in course review panels in several Australian and New Zealand universities.