Shayne Galloway, Ph.D., is a lecturer in outdoor education in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago. He completed masters and doctoral work at Indiana University. The masters’ degree focused on recreation resource management and the use of wilderness orientation programs in orientation and school intake capacities. Adventure and outdoor education programming was the focus of the doctoral work with emphasis in education psychology and the social psychological factors that influence naturalistic decision-making contexts. Dr. Galloway served as assistant professor in recreation and program coordinator at Utah Valley State College (Orem, UT). In that capacity he developed the bachelors in outdoor recreation management, instructed in recreation and outdoor leadership theory, as well as skill courses in rock climbing, backpacking and mountaineering. Shayne also served as a visiting lecturer with the National Park Service at the Albright Training Center in Grand Canyon National Park. He has worked with various populations in outdoor education settings in camp, secondary school, and collegiate locales, as well as the Voyageur Outward Bound School and the Wilderness Education Association. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Experiential Education, and a periodic reviewer for the Journal of Leisure Research.

Research Interests
Dr. Galloway’s major research interests center on factors influential in the naturalistic decision-making (NDM) environment in outdoor leadership contexts.  Initial research focused on the effects of personal and professional experience factors, social factors, and NDM. Longitudinal research in NDM in wilderness medical decision-making contexts is underway with the National Outdoor Leadership School, USA. Dr. Galloway also does theoretical work in the area of social deviance in recreation contexts, particularly in regard to the positive, developmental aspects of deviant behavior.