Lynch Myles L.

Dr. Myles L. Lynch is an Assistant Professor within the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity. He oversees the VinCore curriculum focused on community service learning and leadership programs. Dr. Lynch is a social scientist and received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Education and Recreation Management from the University of New Hampshire. He received a B.S. in Psychology with minors in Education and Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2009. Prior to arriving at VinUniversity, Dr. Lynch served as the Head of Research and Development for Point Avenue, a Hanoi based Education Technology Company. In addition, Dr. Lynch is a former Camp Director for the YMCA of Greater Boston where he supervised 50+ staff members. He has also led domestic and international service-based trips to Yellowstone National Park, Zion National Park, and throughout Vietnam. Dr. Lynch’s passion for informal learning began as a child when he attended outdoor programs near the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Dr. Lynch believes meaningful education should focus on challenging hands-on and project-based experiences. As a social scientist, he primarily focuses on experiential learning under the three main pillars of community engagement, outdoor recreation, and tourism. He employs a wide array of mixed methods research approaches including quantitative and qualitative data analyses procedures. The primary goal of his research is to better understand participation in outdoor recreation, tourism and community experiences. He believes these outcomes are intimately connected to people’s stories, learning, and cultural differences which influence human-nature relationship and behaviors. Another aspect of his scholarship is to develop and inform experiential learning pedagogy which advances understanding of practice and interactions between society, natural resources, practitioners, and communities. He also has experience conducting interviews with different communities using a variety of translated languages (i.e. Vietnamese, English, Hmong).