Browsing by Degree Name "Master of Sport and Leisure Studies (MSpLS)"
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The All Whites are alright with us: An analysis of New Zealand national media coverage surrounding the 2010 All Whites World Cup finals campaign
(University of Waikato, 2011)In June of 2010, the New Zealand men’s representative football team, the All Whites, contested the FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa for only the second time. Due to their credible on-field performances and unprecedented ... -
Exploring Players' Perceptions About Alcohol: The Impact of Alcohol on the Rugby Team Culture.
(University of Waikato, 2011)New Zealand club rugby has had a strong tradition of alcohol consumption. Research internationally and within New Zealand has presented rugby as a sport where alcohol consumption is prolific and hazardous. This investigation ... -
Getting Deep: Experiences of New Zealand Bodyboarders
(University of Waikato, 2013)Since the mid 1990s, a growing body of literature on lifestyle sports has produced fresh insights into the nuances, esoteric terminology and social dynamics in an array of lifestyle sport cultures. While surf culture has ... -
Government Involvement in New Zealand Sport - Sport Policy: a Cautionary Tale
(The University of Waikato, 2008)Government involvement in New Zealand sport spans over 70 years from provisions of the Physical Welfare Act in 1937 to current provisions of the Sport and Recreation Act 2002. Thousands of volunteers in non-profit organisations ... -
Healthy Relationships? An Examination of Health and Physical Education School-Provider Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2013)Recent research in New Zealand and internationally has indicated an abundance of external providers operating in the Health and Physical Education (HPE) sector and an increasing use of programmes created by these providers ... -
Ko au te whenua, te whenua ko au – I am the land, the land is me: An autoethnographic investigation of a secondary school teacher’s experience seeking to enrich learning in outdoor education for Māori students.
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis is my story as an outdoor educator, as a researcher, and a co-participant reflecting on my own actions and experiences as well as those of my students. In this autoethnography I share my revelations and tensions ... -
Netball in the lives of New Zealand Women: An Intergenerational Study
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis explores the netball experiences of a selection of New Zealand women whom have participated or continue to participate in netball during four distinct historical periods. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, ... -
Oral ketone supplementation: effect on cognitive function, physiology and exercise performance
(University of Waikato, 2015)Nutritional strategies play an important role in facilitating peak athletic performances and research has shown that a state of physiological ketosis, from either a ketogenic diet or ketone supplementation, may have several ... -
Personal Trainers: Motivating and Moderating Client Exercise Behaviour
(The University of Waikato, 2008)First established in the 1990's, the personal training industry in New Zealand has experienced unprecedented growth. Over 80% of New Zealand health clubs market the services of Personal Trainers and there are now over 1500 ... -
Place-responsive Education: Student perspectives
(University of Waikato, 2014)The importance of student perspectives in curriculum innovations is well established. Until recently accounts of adolescent male experiences during a place-responsive education (PRE) programme have not been extensively ... -
Proprioception and Performance: The role of below-knee compression garments and secondary tasks
(University of Waikato, 2016)Proprioception is an integral component of the voluntary and involuntary motor control processes of the body. Studies have suggested that proprioception plays an important prophylactic role in preventing injuries and can ... -
Rugby, School Boys and Masculinities: In an American School in Taiwan.
(The University of Waikato, 2008)Gender research throughout the last two decades has positioned sport as one of the central sites in the social production of masculinities. In particular, body contact, confrontational sports have been identified as central ... -
Speaking the unspoken: Maori experiences of racism in New Zealand sport
(University of Waikato, 2010)This research explores how being Maori influences Maori participants’ sport experiences and offers a critical Maori perspective on New Zealand sport. Ten experienced Maori sport participants were interviewed using Kaupapa ... -
The perfect stroke: Moving beyond the performance narrative within rowing
(University of Waikato, 2014)This Thesis presents a narrative inquiry into the experiences rowers have within their sport, through exploring the stories they tell. Following Carless and Douglas (2012) my thesis identifies that success is a multi-dimensional ... -
Why do youth step out of sport and into court? A narrative-based exploration
(University of Waikato, 2012)Motivated by my son’s incarceration months after he stopped playing sport this thesis attempts to answer the questions that plagued me as I began dealing with lawyers, courts, and prison visits: If sport is all that it is ... -
Young male and female perceptions and experiences of physical activity in Apia, Samoa
(The University of Waikato, 2009)The purpose of the study was to investigate young people's perceptions and experiences of physical activity in Apia, Samoa. Physical inactivity is one of the main risk factors contributing to the prevalence of obesity in ... -
Young Māori mothers and bed-sharing with their pēpi/baby: A case study focusing on the relevance and influence of three varying health promotion resources
(University of Waikato, 2015)Māori Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) rates are significantly higher than non-Māori. Bed-sharing is considered to be one of the major modifiable risk factors associated with SUDI rates (Mitchell et al., 1992), ... -
Young women's negotiation of multiple fields of femininity and physicality in physical activity and Physical Education in an international school in Taiwan
(The University of Waikato, 2009)Gender research over the past three decades has emphasised the socially constructed nature of experience in physical activity. Numerous studies have explored the influence of cultural, social, economic and political ...
