Stephen Frawley

Stephen Frawley is a Senior Lecturer in the Management Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Business School. He holds a PhD from Griffith University (2011) and has extensive expertise in sport mega-events management, sport broadcasting, and sport participation legacies. Prior to academia, he worked with the Sydney 2000 Olympic Organising Committee, shaping his research focus on event governance and legacy planning.

Research & Grants:

• Lead researcher on grants including 'Quantifying the Value of Sport Broadcast Rights' (2016) and 'CSR and Mega-Sport Events' (2015)
• Focus areas: leadership development in sport, design thinking in management practices, and the social impact of major events

Publications & Books:

• Authored/co-authored seminal works like Managing the Olympics (2013), Managing the Paralympics (2017), and Managing Sport Mega-Events (2017)
• Edited the Routledge Handbook of Sport and COVID-19 (2023)

Key Contributions:

• Explored the 'trickle-down effect' myth in Olympic participation legacies
• Advocated for strategic grassroots investment to sustain sport engagement
• Active in transdisciplinary research, integrating design thinking into sport management education

Labs/Teams: Director of the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies, fostering interdisciplinary research into Olympic and Paralympic governance.