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The role of national sport organisations in informing female sport uniform designs and discourse
Rachel Batty
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Politics and Sport don’t mix – or do they? National Identity and New Zealand’s Participation in the Olympic Games
Micheal Warren
Keywords: National Identity, Olympic Games, New Zealand, Sport, Funding... read more
Modelling progression of competitive sports performance
Rita Maria Malcata
Athletes, coaches, sport scientists and managers need objective assessment of changes in competitive performance to provide evidence for guiding athletes’ development, for assessing programme... read more
Sport NZ Governance Benchmark Review 2014
BoardWorks International
In 2003 twenty six organisations were reviewed in a benchmark study that laid the ground for our governance programmes. Eleven years later the remaining twenty four organisations were... read more
Examining the Nature of Interpersonal Coach-Athlete Dyads between New Zealand National Representative Female Football Players and National Head Coaches
Dwayne Woolliams
Keywords: The purpose of this research is to better understand the nature of the coach-athlete relationships within New Zealand Football’s National Female under 17s, Under 20s and the... read more
Future of Sport in New Zealand
Synergia
This report looks to New Zealand’s future over 2015 to 2030, and the opportunities and challenges for sport. As with any futures research, we are always confronted with three key challenges... read more
Study into why fast bowlers suffer many injuries
Sibi Boycott Walter
Sports physio and PhD student Sibi Boycott Walter, from Chennai in India, is leading a study on shoulder injuries among New Zealand pace bowlers. His cricket research is being supervised by... read more
Contextualised Skill Acquisition: Investigating the Skill and Expertise of Brazilian Footballers
Luiz Antonio Uehara
This thesis investigates the role of socio-cultural-historical environmental constraints influencing the development of association football expertise and skill in Brazilian players. Only a small... read more
Evidence cerebral blood-flow regulation mediates exercise-cognition links in healthy young adults
Liana Machado
Objective: Healthy young adults are presumed to be in their cognitive prime, yet emerging evidence indicates that regular engagement in physical activity can still benefit their cognitive... read more
Ten years on – where's coaching at?
mogul
Professor Lyn Kidman describes how coaching and coach development have evolved here and overseas over the past 10 years. Athlete-or participant-centred coaching is the heart of the New Zealand... read more