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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...