Dr. Moji Shahvali is Lecturer, Academy for Leisure & Events and Tourism. 

obtained his Ph.D. in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management from Penn State, USA, in 2018. After a teaching postdoc position at Shiraz University in Iran where he used to call home, he moved to the Netherlands and joined Breda University of Applied Sciences in 2021.

As a lecturer, he teaches research methods and statistics courses and is a partner on a number of international and EU education projects. As a researcher, he examines the relationships between leisure, happiness, and mental wellbeing. He is an expert on the role of leisure in forming, maintaining, and enhancing human relationships.