School of Physical Education
The School of Physical Education's strength is its multi-disciplinary approach to research that covers a wide range of study fields (e.g. biomechanics, cultural studies, psychology epidemiology, etc) and embraces many different theoretical and/or methodological paradigms.
Recent Deposits
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(Re)Presenting 1981: Narrating the Springbok tour
The extent to which historians impose themselves on the past through their narratives remains contentious. While historians of sport have engaged these debates (e.g. Phillips, 2002; Nathan, 2003; Booth, 2005; Liberti and ... -
Tangaroa Wai Noa, Tangaroa Wai Tapu, Tangaroa Wairoro
Tangaroa (Māori god of the ocean) is a kaitiaki (guardian) of the human brain and one of the prominent marine atua (deity) in Māori culture (Best, 1928; Marsden, 2003; Pomare & Cowan, 1987; Whatahoro, 2011). Atua are central ... -
Comparison of Accelerometer Measured Physical Activity Patterns between Urban and Rural New Zealand Adolescents
Background: Few adolescents are meeting physical activity (PA) guidelines nationally and internationally. Current knowledge of adolescents’ PA patterns is derived predominantly from studies conducted in urban settings, ... -
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Walking versus Cycling to School in Rural Otago, New Zealand
Background: Active transport to school is a potential way to incorporate daily physical activity and address concerningly low adolescent physical activity levels. Walking and cycling to school are the two most common forms ... -
Teachers' Facilitation on Students' Learning in Outdoor Adventure Education
Student learning in the outdoors is often based on experiential learning where facilitation is integral in the process. Outdoor education teachers usually carry out facilitation during or after an activity to help students ... -
The cerebrovascular role in cognition during physiological stress
Cognition may depend in part on cerebral blood flow (CBF) and its regulation. All are affected in similar directions by stress acutely (e.g., mental and exercise-related) and chronically (e.g., fitness and age). For example, ... -
An Ecological Dynamics Approach for Movement Assessment
Ecological dynamics has gained increasing acceptance as a theoretical framework in the field of motor development. This framework underpins this research programme, which postulates that humans are open, complex systems ... -
Effects of high intensity interval training vs moderate intensity continuous training on fitness and body composition in active breast cancer survivors
Background: Breast cancer and its treatment are associated with worsened body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in breast cancer survivors. These negative effects can increase overall, cardiovascular and ... -
Making it ordinary : an unexceptional history of the early olympic movement in New Zealand
Making it ordinary presents an alternative history of the olympic movement in New Zealand. The crux of my argument is that the history of the local olympic movement is unexceptional given the contexts of international sport ... -
Does the mode of heat acclimation affect the kinetics of adaptation?
Background: Heat acclimation can improve exercise performance in the heat, cardiovascular function and longevity in the general population. However, the most effective method of acclimation is unknown. Each method (i.e., ... -
The role of brain blood flow in thermoregulatory and respiratory control during exercise
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of brain blood flow (BBF) on respiratory control during exercise-induced increases in body temperature. BBF is controlled largely by vascular responses ... -
The Affect of Exercise Past, Present, and Future: The Role of Affective Memory and Affective Forecast in the Affective Response-PA Behaviour Relation
Affective responses experienced during exercise have predicted future physical activity (PA) behaviour (Williams, Dunsiger, Jennings & Marcus, 2012). When applied to exercise, the premise of the affect heuristic (Slovic ... -
Development of an on snow athlete tracking tool
Background The performance standard in snowboard slopestyle competitions is very high, as shown by their inclusion in the Winter Olympic program. Snowboard slopestyle is acrobatic in nature, with athletes combining technical ... -
The Effect of Educational Gymnastics on Young Children's Movement Skills
Postural control underlies and constrains performance of fundamental movement skills (FMS) and the development of FMS is important for engagement in physical activity throughout the lifespan. Self-perceived physical ... -
Kia mārama ai te ihi, te wehi o Mukukai: The influence of swimming on whānau engagement with water
Māori consider water to be the foundation of all life (Royal, 2010). It is a valued taonga gifted by our ancestors for the use of future generations (Hall, 2012). Māori have a long history of engagement with water through ... -
A Journey to Belonging: Explorations of Māori Perspectives of Water Safety
Māori are intimately connected to wai (water). There are many Māori sayings and phrases that include wai, such as: wairua (spirit), waimāori (freshwater), waiora (wellness), ko wai koe (what waters are you, who are you?) ... -
Adolescent sports participation: a case study of the Maldives
Throughout the world participation in sport and physical activity is considered to be one of the most important leisure time activities among adolescents (e.g. Rees, Brettschneider & Brandl-Bredenbeck, 1998; Eitzen & Sage, ... -
The Stress and Strain of Triathlon Racing in Different Thermal Environments
Athletic endurance competitions in hot environments have become more relevant in professional sports. The inception for this thesis was to understand why a group of elite endurance triathletes repeatedly failed to perform ... -
Developing a first principles approach to educating water skills for life to children
In New Zealand, despite the fact that the majority of drownings occur in open water, most swimming teaching occurs in public swimming pools. It is possible that learning to swim in a public swimming pool does not sufficiently ... -
Ngā tapuwae o te haka - Māori perspectives on haka in sport
The most prominent element of tikanga Māori which is consistently integrated, adopted and adapted into the sporting realm is haka. Haka has a multitude of meanings, as a ritual of encounter, as an expression of identity ...