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Mr Alexander Best

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2671
Email: a.best@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.258  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2097-2547

Alexander is a Lecturer with the Business Services Team within the School of Business and Law

Research Areas and Interests

  • Technology Adoption
  • Innovation
  • Not-for-profit Sport
  • Sport Diplomacy
  • Soft Power Diplomacy
  • Japan

Biography

Alex completed a Bachelor in Event, Sport and Recreation Management (Honours) and a Diploma in Language Studies (Japanese) at Edith Cowan University in 2017. In 2016 Alex undertook a one-year university exchange with our partner university, Kyoto Sangyo University as a New Colombo Plan Scholar, during this time he interned at the Japan Professional Football League (J-League).

Alex also represented ECU at the 2016 Australian Future Unlimited: Education Exhibition in Osaka, Japan, hosted by the Australian Consulate-General Osaka. He remains actively involved in the New Colombo Plan Alumni network and hopes to continue to support ECU’s future and returned NCP Scholars, as well as developing and fostering new opportunities and links between ECU and our partners in the Indo-Pacific region. Alex is committed to a career in academia with a teaching and research focus.

In addition to his academic experience, Alex has industry experience, through his previous role as a Duty Officer with the Rottnest Island Authority. Alex has worked across a raft of disciplines in the School of Business and Law and is a proponent of pedagogy centred on student empowerment.

Current Teaching
  • Sport Management
  • Marketing

Media Topics
  • Sport Diplomacy
  • Major Sporting Events
  • Japan Studies
  • Soft Power

Languages spoken

English, Japanese

Professional associations

New Colombo Plan, Alumni (Former ECU Alumni Ambassador)

Australia Japan Society of Western Australia, Committee Member

Sport Management Association Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ)

Australia Japan Business Council of Western Australia (AJBCWA)

Awards and recognition

2016 – New Colombo Plan Scholarship, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

2020 – Research Training Program Scholarship, Commonwealth Government of Australia

ECU Research Themes

Society and Culture: Diverse, equitable, informed and productive communities, schools and workplaces
Securing Digital Futures: Digital citizenship and human behaviour

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Event, Sport & Recreation Management with Hons, Edith Cowan University, 2017.
  • Diploma in Language Studies (Major in Japanese), Edith Cowan University, 2017.
  • Bachelor of Event, Sport & Recreation Management, Edith Cowan University, 2014.

Research Outputs

2023

Journal Articles

2022

Journal Articles

  • Austin, I., Best, A. (2022). Early Meiji Japan and Public History: Ports, Public Memory, Gateways to Understanding through Photography. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 20(14), article number 5721. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/1095.
  • Best, A., Austin, I. (2022). International Sports Diplomacy in Action–An Investigation of AUS+RALLY: An Australian Sports Diplomacy Campaign in Japan. Japanese Studies, 42(2), 111-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2096581.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Best, A., Sibson, R., Morgan, A. (2021). Technology adoption and use in not-for-profit sport: a case study of an Australian state sporting association. Managing Sport and Leisure, 2021(Article in Press), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2021.2020678.
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