Otago University Research Archive

School of Physical Education

Otago University Research Archive

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

  • McCormack, Jaleh Virginia (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)
    Obesity discourses are shaping us. Amidst an avowed obesity ‘epidemic’, we are all considered at-risk, hailed to understand ourselves as such, and persuaded that we have the capability to author our bodies in a desired/required ...
  • Razak, Mohammad Shah (Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2013)
    Decision making theory has been applied to many facets of professional and group behaviour. However, in the field of outdoor leadership, it is still an emerging theory. Although there is considerable literature regarding ...
  • Haleem, Hussain (Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2002)
    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, ...
  • Scherer, Jay (Jerome Christopher) (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004)
    This study contributes to the growing body of knowledge addressing the operations of multinational corporations at the global-local nexus and their commodification of national identity (Miller, Lawrence, McKay, & Rowe, ...
  • Burns, Kellie Jean (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)
    This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies '02, as a case study into the production of global queer citizenship. In the existing body of work around the Gay Games they are analysed as an international gay ...

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