HMNS Seminar : Presentations from Researchers at the Te Oranga, University of Waikato (NZ)

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 27 November 2015

Time:

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Room:

127

UQ Location:

Human Performance Laboratories (St Lucia)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Dr Rebecca Olive will present a talk entitled 'A home for cycling: Centralisation, migration and elite sport'. This discussion will present findings about the experiences of athletes who have migrated to the ‘Home of Cycling’, a high-performance cycling facility in Cambridge, New Zealand, and will explore how the different cycling disciplines negotiate the tensions that centralisation of elite sport and athletes can bring in terms of place, community and home.
Dr Olive is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Te Oranga School of Human Development and Movement in the University of Waikato (NZ).

A/Prof Belinda Wheaton will present a talk entitled 'Informal and lifestyles sport: An untapped potential?'.A/Prof Wheaton will introduce lifestyle sports and their cultural politics, exploring some of the challenges and opportunities they present for imagining and promoting inclusive, equitable and relevant physical cultures in the 21 century, and she will explore lifestyle sports’ potential to inform social policy. A/Prof Belinda Wheaton is a researcher in Te Oranga at the University of Waikato, NZ. Previously she was Associate Professor in Sport and Leisure Cultures at the University of Brighton, UK.