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The Downhill Mountain Bike Subculture in New Zealand
Scarlett Hagen
This research examines the experiences and meanings that elite downhill mountain bike racers assign to their involvement in the New Zealand downhill mountain bike subculture. The research is located... read more
Being Muslim and doing Islam: narratives that shape the physical activity of Muslim women in New Zealand
Nargis Ali
Muslim women in New Zealand form an ethnic and religious minority. Research related to the physical activity levels of these women and their health status is sparse, particularly in the New Zealand... read more
Knowledge, power and politics: Contesting ‘evidence-based’ national sport policy
Joe Piggin
This article analyses the sources of knowledge New Zealand sport and recreation policy-makers rely on when forming public policy. Specifically, utilizing a Foucauldian lens of governmentality, we... read more
Nostalgia-related aspects of professional sport facilities: A facility audit of major league baseball and national football league strategies to evoke the past
Katherine Meyer
This paper focused on documenting how Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) utilize nostalgia through their sport facilities to showcase the past, present and even the... read more
People, Rivers and Recreation: Fluid Relationships of Place and Experience on the Clutha River, Otago, New Zealand
Andrea Farminer
The relationships between people and their outdoor environments are understood as diverse, complex and often contested with the result that examining the meanings people have for places such as... read more
Talent Development in the New Zealand Sporting Context. In Fact. Sport NZ Knowledge Factsheet Series
Kiri Milne
This factsheet summarises the findings of a study by the University of Otago, aimed at understanding the process of talent development, as well as ‘performance factors’ that influence talent... read more
Governance in the New Zealand Outdoor Recreation Sector. In Fact. Sport NZ Knowledge Factsheet Series (1)
Kiri Milne
This In Fact factsheet is the first in a series that Sport New Zealand is producing to summarise key research we have funded. This factsheet summarises recent research on outdoor recreation... read more
Three-dimensional lumbar segment kinetics of fast bowling in cricket
Rene E D Ferdinands
Cricket fast bowlers have a high incidence of serious lumbar injuries, such as lesions in the pars interarticularis. Kinematic studies have shown that bowling actions with large shoulder... read more
National Golf Facility Strategy
O'Connor Sinclair
The aim of this project was to create a platform from which NZ Golf can lead the regions, golf clubs and related entities to make informed decisions about their future investments and priorities in... read more
Olympic Education within physical education: Changing the pedagogy
Ian Culpan
Olympic education programme coherence and coordination in New Zealand has, until recently, been somewhat lacking. In recent times the New Zealand Olympic Academy has assumed responsibility and has... read more