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Re-envisioning the status quo: Developing sustainable approaches to outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand
We live in a world characterised by significant environmental degradation issues, increasing social inequality, and economic uncertainty. These pressing issues compel an active response from all sectors of our society to ...
(Re) Conceptualising Dance: Moving towards embodying environment from Japan to Aotearoa
This study is about the relationship between body, landscape, and dance through the researcher’s experiences of learning a Japanese movement approach known as Body Weather (BW) in rural Japan in 2007, and her current dance ...
An evaluation of the clinical utility of the modified FABER’s test: Can it discriminate for low back pain of sacroiliac joint origin?
Background:
Innominate kinematic anomalies resulting in non-specific low back pain (LBP) of sacroiliac joints (SIJ) origin have been well recognized in the literature. While the complex anatomical orientation and position ...
Determinants of Cardiovascular Health in Breast Cancer Survivors Based on Physical Activity Status
While the worldwide incidence of breast cancer is high, the New Zealand 5-year survival rate is encouraging at 86% which can be attributed to improvements in screening programmes and technological advances in chemotherapy ...
Mahinga kai- He tāngata. Mahinga kaitiaki- He mauri.
Mahinga kai (food gathering sites and practices) emerged at the beginning of the creation narratives when the Māori world was first formed and atua (deity, Gods) roamed upon the face of the land. Mahinga kai sites are ...
Boys go bush: Lived solo experiences at Tihoi Venture School
Boys Go Bush elucidates the lived experiences of adolescent males encountering a two-day, two-night solitary experience (solo) in the New Zealand bush. A hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry framework (van Manen, 1997) was ...
Effects of cold and clothing on metabolism in female cyclists
Research investigating substrate metabolism during exercise with female participants is limited, especially regarding effects of cold stress. The aims of this study were to determine whether exercising in cold ambient ...
Transport to School Habits, Physical Activity and Weight Status in Adolescents
Background: Active transport (AT) to school is a means for adolescents to increase the amount of daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and can help them achieve physical activity (PA) guidelines. This study ...
Cardiovascular health and physical activity in prostate cancer survivors compared to non-cancer age matched controls
Background: In New Zealand, prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and the third most common cause of male cancer deaths. Better detection, diagnosis, and treatment have improved the five-year prostate ...
Guilt, Women, and Exercise
In this thesis I explore exercise-related guilt experienced by mid-age women. While guilt occupies a prominent place in women’s narratives about exercise, it has been largely overlooked in sociocultural research on health, ...