Introduction: Despite being deployed to all frontline New Zealand Police in 2007, there are few studies that have investigated the influence of Stab Resistant Body Armour SRBA) and mandated appointments on officer function ...

As athletes push the limits of physical capacity they undertake training programmes that continue to increase the stress on their bodies. This can lead to an imbalance between the anabolic and catabolic processes, and a ...

Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer in New Zealand women. As the number of women surviving breast cancer increases, the resultant implications for the health system make research into the physical and ...

Adjuvant chemotherapy treatment for primary breast cancer is a successful treatment protocol for prolonging disease-free and overall survival; however, it is associated with numerous physiological and psychological side ...

This thesis examines the residential outdoor education programme of New Zealand’s St Cuthbert’s College, a private girls’ school, in which year 10 girls (14 years old) live at the remote Kahunui campus for 28 days. The ...

This autoethnographic study investigates the emotional and social dimensions of a coaching relationship from the athlete's perspective. Autoethnography is an approach that draws on highly personalised biographical accounts ...

Sprinting is the maximal velocity of bipedal locomotion via the horizontal displacement of a sprinter’s centre of mass (CoM). Few studies have investigated morphological properties in maximal velocity sprinting. While ...

Despite the fact that sport and leisure, as part of the new migratory flow based on lifestyle, has increasingly been of concern to scholars, there has been little empirical research examining the phenomena. Drawing upon ...

A global diffusion of interest in martial arts and combat sports has increased the profile of combative physical cultures (CPC) in Western society. As a result, Asian physical cultural practices are becoming increasingly ...