Professor Murray Phillips
Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
+61 7 336 56637
Researcher biography
Professor Phillips has a range of research interests in the historical and contemporary dimensions of sport. He has written on the historical and contemporary aspects of sport and war, sport and gender, sports' coaching, golf, rugby league, rugby union, sport structures as well as the ontological, epistemological and methodological aspects of sport history.
With these interests in mind, Professor Phillips has received external funding from the Australian Research Council, Australian Sports Commission, the Australian Coaching Council, the Australian War Memorial, as well as internal funding from the Universities of Canberra, South Australia and Queensland. He was commissioned by the Women and Sport Unit at the Australian Sports Commission to write An Illusory Image: A Report on the Media Coverage and Portrayal of Women's Sport in Australia 1996, has written a history of coaching in Australia entitled From Sidelines to Centre Field for the Australian Coaching Council, and is currently writing the centennial history of swimming in Australia for the National Sporting Organisation, Australian Swimming. In addition, Professor Phillips has been contracted to edit a book on the ontological, epistemological and methodological dimensions of sport history that draws on the collective experience of twelve of the leading sport historians around the world.
Professor Phillips has been an associate editor and book reviews editor for the Journal of Football Studies and is also on the executive committee of the Australian Society for Sport Historians and is the book reviews editor for the national journal, Sporting Traditions.
Background
Murray Phillips is a senior lecturer in the School of Human Movement Studies. He joined the School in 2000 from the University of South Australia (1998-2000) and also from the University of Canberra (1990-1997). He gained his PhD in the field of Sport History in 1992 from the University of Queensland. Professor Phillips teaches in the socio-cultural dimensions of sport and physical activities.
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The History of Basketball Queensland Basketball Queensland |
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Creating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community ARC Linkage Project |
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Torres Strait Islander History: Sport, Culture and Identity ARC Discovery Project |
Publications
Books
Townsend, Stephen and Phillips, Murray G. (2023). The playmakers: the history of Basketball Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Basketball Queensland.
Williams, Lesley, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). Marching with a Mission: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls. Murgon, QLD, Australia: Ration Shed Museum.
Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams eds. (2022). Routledge handbook of sport history. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306
Phillips, Murray G. (2008). Swimming Australia: One hundred years. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.
Phillips, Murray (2000). From Sidelines to Centre Field: A History of Sport Coaching in Australia. Sydney , Australia: University of NSW Press.
Book Chapters
Phillips, Murray G. (2022). Settler colonialism and sport history. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 275-278) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-38
Phillips, Murray G. (2022). Understanding sports museums in the digital age. Sport in museums. (pp. 92-107) edited by Kevin Moore, John Hughson and Christian Wacker. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351117944-7
Phillips, Murray G., Booth, Douglas and Adams, Carly (2022). Indigenous sport history: Introduction. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 269-274) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kindgom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-37
Phillips, Murray G., Booth, Douglas and Adams, Carly (2022). Introduction. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 1-6) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-1
Booth, Douglas, Adams, Carly and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). New perspectives on old themes: introduction. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 93-99) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-14
Phillips, Murray G., Booth, Douglas and Adams, Carly (2022). Sport history journals: introduction. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 315-322) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-44
Booth, Douglas, Phillips, Murray G. and Adams, Carly (2021). Sport history: past, present, future. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 391-394) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-55
Adams, Carly, Booth, Douglas and Phillips, Murray G. (2021). Emerging themes: Introduction. Routledge Handbook of Sport History. (pp. 199-203) London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-27
Phillips, Murray G. (2021). Sport history journals and neoliberalism: auditing the subdiscipline. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 323-331) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-45
Booth, Douglas, Adams, Carly and Phillips, Murray G. (2021). History and representing the sporting past: introduction. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 9-15) edited by Douglas Booth, Carly Adams and Murray G. Phillips. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-3
McCuaig, Louise and Phillips, Murray (2019). Sport and the normalisation of Australian Aboriginal peoples. 'Race', youth sport, physical activity and health: global perspectives. (pp. 127-140) edited by Symeon Dagkas, Laura Azzarito and Kevin Hylton. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351122948-11
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). The bones of digital history. Sport History in the Digital Era. (pp. 1-32) edited by Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips. Champaign, IL, United States: University of Illinois Press.
Phillips, Murray, Osmond, Gary and Morgan, Sandra (2015). Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg’s ration shed museum. Sport heritage. (pp. 22-37) edited by Gregory Ramshaw. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). Introduction: The bones of digital history. Sport history in the digital era. (pp. 1-32) Chicago, ILL, United States: University of Illinois Press.
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). Digital history flexes its muscle. Sport History in the Digital Era. (pp. 251-269) edited by Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips. Champaign, IL, USA: University of Illinois Press.
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2014). Wicked Wikipedia: communities of practice, the production of knowledge and Australian sport history. Sports History. (pp. 269-286) edited by Wray Vamplew. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Pringle, Richard and Phillips, Murray (2013). Sport history, historiography and postmodern social theory: an introduction. Examining sport histories: power, paradigms, and reflexivity. (pp. 1-26) edited by Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips. Morgantown, WV, United States: Fitness Information Technology.
Pringle, Richard and Phillips, Murray (2013). Postmodern social theory and the art, practice and reading of history. Examining sport histories: power, paradigms, and reflexivity. (pp. 27-58) edited by Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips. Morgantown, WV, United States: Fitness Information Technology.
Phillips, Murray G. (2012). Introduction - historians in sport museums. Representing the sporting past in museums and halls of fame. (pp. 1-26) edited by Murray G. Phillips. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2012). Enveloping the past: sport stamps, visuality and museums. The visual in sport. (pp. 52-69) edited by Mike Huggins and Mike O'Mahony. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Phillips, Murray G. (2012). Conclusion. Representing the sporting past in museums and halls of fame. (pp. 249-257) edited by Murray G. Phillips. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray (2010). Sources. Routledge companion to sports history. (pp. 34-50) edited by S. W. Pope and John Nauright. Abingdon, Oxon, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203885413-10
Phillips, Murray and Hutchins, Brett (2010). Losing control of the ball: The political economy of football and the media in Australia. Sport, Power, and Society: Institutions and Practices: A Reader. (pp. 95-108) New York, NY United States: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429497216
Phillips, Murray and Magdalinski, Tara (2008). Sport in Australia. Sport and Society: A Student Introduction. (pp. 492-512) Thousand Oaks, CA, United States: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781446278833.n22
Phillips, M., Macdonald, D. and Hanrahan, S. J. (2007). Historical, cultural and social perspectives of junior sport. Junior sport matters: Briefing papers for Australian junior sport. (pp. 1-7) edited by Hooper, S., Macdonald, D. and Phillips, M.. Belconnen, ACT: Australian Sports Commission.
Hooper, S., Trost, S. and Phillips, M. (2007). Health and welfare of junior sport participants. Junior sport matters: Briefing papers for Australian junior sport. (pp. 41-48) edited by Hooper, S., Macdonald, D. and Phillips, M.. Belconnen, ACT: Australian Sports Commission.
Phillips, Murray G. (2006). Conclusion. Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis. (pp. 245-253) State University of New York Press.
Phillips, Murray G. (2006). Dissension and challenges in surf lifesaving: Amateurism and professionalism. Between the flags: One hundred summers of Australian surf lifesaving. (pp. 165-188) edited by Ed Jaggard. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.
Phillips, M. and Roper, A. P. (2006). History of physical education. The handbook of physical education. (pp. 123-140) edited by D. Kirk, D. Macdonald and M. O'Sullivan. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781848608009.n8
Phillips, M (2006). Conclusion. Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis. (pp. 245-253) edited by M.G. Phillips. New York: SUNY Press.
Phillips, Murray G. (2006). Introduction: Sport history and postmodernism. Deconstructing sport history: A postmodern analysis. (pp. 1-24) edited by M.G. Phillips. New York, United States: SUNY Press.
Phillips, M., Hutchins, B. and Stewart, B. (2005). The media sport cultural complex: Football and fan resistance in Australia. The Political Economy of Sport. (pp. 85-103) edited by J. Nauright and K.S. Schimmel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Phillips, M. and Magdalinski, T. (2003). Sport in Australia. Sport and Society: A Student Introduction. (pp. 312-329) edited by B. Houlihan. London: Sage Publications.
Hutchins, B. and Phillips, M. (1999). The global union: Globalization and the Rugby World Cup. Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce. (pp. 149-164) edited by T. J. L. Chandler and J. Nauright. London: Frank Cass.
Journal Articles
Fabian, Tom, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2024). Nature games: traditional Indigenous games and environmental stewardship in Oceania. Sport History Review, 1-18. doi: 10.1123/shr.2023-0039
Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary and Wheeler, Keane (2023). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sport: sporting literacy, attenuated agency, and survivance. The International Journal of the History of Sport, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2023.2245765
Sperka, Leigh and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). Vistas of the field: examining quality indicators of health and physical education journals. Sport, Education and Society, 28 (8), 990-1006. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2022.2096585
Olive, Rebecca, Townsend, Stephen and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). ‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58 (3), 431-454. doi: 10.1177/10126902221107467
Osmond, Gary, Phillips, Murray G. and Harvey, Alistair (2022). Fighting colonialism: Olympic boxing and Australian race relations. Journal of Olympic Studies, 3 (1), 72-95. doi: 10.5406/26396025.3.1.05
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2021). Tensions, complexities, and compromises: sharing Australian Aboriginal women’s sport history. Journal of Sport History, 48 (2), 118-134. doi: 10.5406/21558450.48.2.03
Olive, Rebecca, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2021). Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure. Annals of Leisure Research, 24 (1), 13-28. doi: 10.1080/11745398.2019.1624181
Phillips, Murray G. (2020). Sizing up sport history journals: metrics, sport humanities, and history. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 37 (8), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2020.1796652
Phillips, Murray G. (2020). Colin Tatz: POWER AND PERSUASION. Sporting Traditions, 37 (1), 34-39.
Sherwood, Catherine, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2020). Aboriginality, racial discourse and football media in 20th-century Queensland. Journal of Australian Studies, 44 (1), 97-113. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1668821
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2019). Yarning about sport: Indigenous research methodologies and transformative historical narratives. International Journal of the History of Sport, 36 (13-14), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2019.1691532
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2019). Clay vs. Ali: Distant Reading, Methodology, and Sport History. Journal of Sport History, 46 (3), 380-395. doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.46.3.0380
Phillips, Murray G., Field, Russell, O'Bonsawin, Christine and Forsyth, Janice (2019). Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization through sport history. Journal of Sport History, 46 (2), 143-156. doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0143
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2018). 'Where Cassius Clay Ends, Muhammad Ali Begins': sportspeople, political activism, and methodology. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 35 (11), 1-27. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2018.1523146
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2018). Marching for assimilation: Indigenous identity, sport, and politics. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (4), 544-560. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12520
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2018). Indigenous women's sporting experiences: agency, resistance and nostalgia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (4), 561-575. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12516
Townsend, Stephen, Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2018). Remembering the rejection of Muhammad Ali: identity, civil rights and social memory. Sport in History, 38 (3), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/17460263.2018.1474129
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2018). Australian indigenous sport historiography: a review. Kinesiology Review, 7 (2), 193-198. doi: 10.1123/kr.2018-0007
Phillips, Murray G. (2018). Isolated, monitored and controlled: sport, Aborigines and the Protection Era. Australian Historical Studies, 49 (2), 203-220. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2018.1439073
Sterling, Jennifer J., Phillips, Murray G. and McDonald, Mary G. (2017). Doing sport history in the digital present. Journal of Sport History, 44 (2), 135-145. doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.44.2.0135
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2016). Standing Tall: Memorialising Australian Sport through Statues. Sporting Traditions, 33 (1), 1-8.
Phillips, Murray G. (2016). Introduction. Journal of Sport History, 43 (1), 55-55. doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.43.1.55
Phillips, Murray G, Osmond, Gary and Townsend, Stephen (2015). A Bird’s-Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading and Sport History. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 (15), 1725-1740. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1090976
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). Australia’s Women Surfers: History, Methodology and the Digital Humanities. Australian Historical Studies, 46 (2), 285-303. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2015.1044757
Bond, Chelsea, Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). Crossing lines: sport history, transformative narratives and aboriginal australia. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 (13), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1038704
Phillips, Murray G. (2015). Wikipedia and history: a worthwhile partnership in the digital era?. Rethinking History, 20 (4), 523-543. doi: 10.1080/13642529.2015.1091566
Olive, Rebecca, McCuaig, Louise and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). Women's recreational surfing: a patronising experience. Sport Education and Society, 20 (2), 258-276. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2012.754752
Panapa, Lameko and Phillips, Murray (2014). Ethnic persistence: towards understanding the lived experiences of pacific Island athletes in the national rugby league. International Journal of the History of Sport, 31 (11), 1374-1388. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2014.924105
Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary and Morgan, Sandra (2014). Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 9 (3), 212-227. doi: 10.1080/1743873X.2014.904317
Phillips, Murray G. (2014). Introduction. Journal of Sport History, 41 (1)
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2014). Viewed from all sides: Statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert. Australian Aboriginal Studies (1), 16-32.
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2013). Wicked Wikipedia? Communities of practice, the production of knowledge and Australian sport history. International Journal of the History of Sport, 30 (5), 545-559. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2013.767239
Phillips, Murray (2013). Introduction. Journal of Sport History, 40 (1), 1-2.
Phillips, Murray G. (2013). Conclusion. Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame, 249-257. doi: 10.4324/9780203155134-15
Borish, Linda J. and Phillips, Murray G. (2012). Sport history as modes of expression: material culture and cultural spaces in sport and history. Rethinking History, 16 (4), 465-477. doi: 10.1080/13642529.2012.728382
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2011). Reading Salute: Filmic representations of sports history. International Journal of the History of Sport, 28 (10), 1463-1477. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2011.577639
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2011). Enveloping the past: Sport stamps, visuality and museums. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 28 (8-9), 1138-1155. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2011.567768
Phillips, Murray G. and Tinning, Richard (2011). Not just 'a book on the wall': Pedagogical work, museums and representing the sporting past. Sport Education and Society, 16 (1), 51-65. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2011.531961
Phillips, Murray G. (2010). A historian in the museum: Story spaces and Australia's sporting past. Australian Historical Studies, 41 (3), 396-408. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2010.499600
O'Neill, Mark E. and Phillips, Murray G. (2010). Sport, film, and Australian cultural identity: Reading Hero to a Nation. Sport History Review, 41 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1123/shr.41.1.1
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2009). Filmic sports history: Dawn Fraser, swimming and Australian national identity. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26 (14), 2126-2142. doi: 10.1080/09523360903303094
Phillips, Murray G. (2008). An athletic Clio: Sport history and television history. Rethinking History, 12 (3), 399-416. doi: 10.1080/13642520802193270
Phillips, Murray G. (2008). Public history and sport history: Evaluating commissioned histories and historical documentaries. Journal of Sport History, 35 (3), 383-410.
Phillips, M. G., O'Neill, M. E. and Osmond, G. (2007). Broadening horizons in sport history: Films, photographs, and monuments. Journal of Sport History, 34 (2), 401-421.
Osmond, Gary, Phillips, Murray G. and O'Neill, Mark (2006). 'Putting up your Dukes': Statues, social memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 23 (1), 82-103. doi: 10.1080/09523360500386484
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2006). 'Look at that kid crawling': Race, myth and the 'crawl' stroke. Australian Historical Studies, 37 (127), 43-62. doi: 10.1080/10314610608601203
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2004). 'The bloke with a stroke' - Alick Wickham, the 'crawl' and social memory. Journal of Pacific History, 39 (3), 309-324. doi: 10.1080/0022334042000290379
Phillips, Murray George (2004). Remembering sport history: Narrative, social memory and the origins of the rugby league in Australia. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 21 (1), 50-66. doi: 10.1080/09523360412331306013
Phillips, M. and Hutchins, B. (2003). Losing control of the ball: The political economy of football and the media in Australia. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 27 (3), 207-214. doi: 10.1177/0193732503255761
Phillips, MG, Booth, D and Jaggard, E (2002). Analzing disputes in sport history: The surf lifesaving debate. Journal of Sport History, 29 (1), 1-5.
Phillips, Murray G. (2002). A Critical Appraisal of Narrative in Sport History: Reading the Surf Lifesaving Debate. Journal of Sport History, 29 (1), 25-40.
Phillips, M. (2001). Diminishing contrasts and increasing varieties: Globalisation theory and 'reading' amateurism in Australian sport. Sporting Traditions, 18 (1), 19-32.
Phillips, Murray George (2001). Deconstructing sport history: The postmodern challenge. Journal of Sport History, 28 (3), 327-343.
Phillips, Murray G. and Hicks, Frank (2000). Conflict, tensions and complexities: Athletic training in Australia in the 1950s. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 17 (2/3), 206-224. doi: 10.1080/09523360008714134
Mikosza, Janine M. and Phillips, Murray G. (1999). Gender, sport and the body politic: framing femininity in the Golden Girls of Sport calendar and The Atlanta Dream. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 34 (1), 5-16. doi: 10.1177/101269099034001001
Phillips, M. and Nauright, J. (1999). Sports fan movements to save suburban-based clubs threatened with amalgamation in different football codes in Australia. International Sports Studies, 21 (1), 23-38.
Adair, Daryl, Nauright, John and Phillips, Murray (1998). Playing fields through to battle fields: The development of Australian sporting manhood in its imperial context, c. 1850–1918. Journal of Australian Studies, 22 (56), 51-67. doi: 10.1080/14443059809387360
Phillips, Murray G. (1998). From suburban football to international spectacle: the commodification of rugby league in Australia, 1907-1995. Australian Historical Studies, 29 (110), 27-48. doi: 10.1080/10314619808596059
Hutchins, Brett and Phillips, Murray G. (1997). Selling permissible violence: The commodification of Australian rugby league 1970-1995. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 32 (2), 161-176. doi: 10.1177/101269097032002004
Moore, K and Phillips, MG (1996). From adulation to persecution and back: Australian boxer Les Darcy in America 1916-1917. Journal of Sport History, 23 (2), 140-156.
Phillips, Murray G. and Moore, Katharine (1994). The Champion Boxer Les Darcy: A Victim of Class Conflict and Sectarian Bitterness in Australia during the First World War. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 11 (1), 102-114. doi: 10.1080/09523369408713850
Conference Papers
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray (2023). Indigenous Public History: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls. Public Sport History and Community Sport Symposium, Sydney, NSW Australia, 5 December 2023.
Phillips, Murray G., Wheeler, Keane and Osmond, Gary (2023). The double folds of racism and history: silences, concussion and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sportspeople. Remembering the Injured Brain in Sport History’ (North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) pre-conference workshop, Washington, DC, United States, 25 May 2023.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). Torres Strait Islander history: sport, culture and identity. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), Virtual, 27-30 May 2022.
Sperka, Leigh and Phillips, Murray G. (2021). Looking in the rear view mirror, out the side window, and through the windscreen: Examining the past, current, and emerging quality indicators of Health and Physical Education journals. Australian Association for Research in Education, Online, 29 November - 2 December 2021.
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). ‘Taking a Walk on the Wild Side’: Distant and Close Reading in Sport History. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 42nd Annual Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado United States, May 2014. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Rossi, T., Rynne, S. B., Phillips, M. and Macdonald, D. (2014). Expecting too much? Can national sport policies and Indigenous sport programs in Australia deliver social outcomes?. AIESEP World Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, 10-13 February 2014.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2014). Re - Presenting The Black Power Salute: New Media and Sport History. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 41st Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 24-27 May 2013. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Phillips, M. (2010). Tensions, conflicts and exclusion: Sports medicine and sport science during the turbulent decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Asics Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport (ACSMS) 2010, Port Douglas, QLD, Australia, 3-6 November 2010. Chatswood, NSW, Australia: Elsevier Australia. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2010.10.462
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2009). Enveloping the Past: Sport Stamps, Visuality and Museums. The Visual Turn in Sports History Conference, Bristol, England, 13-14 June 2009.
Phillips, Murray (2007). Sport history and public history : Intersecting narratives. Australian Society for Sport History 16th Bi-Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 27-30 June, 2007. not found: not found.
Phillips, M. (2007). From print to screen: Cross currents in the narratives of Australia's swimming past. 2007 North American Society for Sport History Conference, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, 25-28 May 2007. Athens, GA, United States of America: Sadiki Publishing.
Hooper, S. L., Dudfield, O. and Phillips, M. (2006). Duty of care initiatives for elite junior athletes' health and welfare. 13th Commonwealth International Sport Conference CISC2006, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, 9-12 March, 2006. Jolimont, Vic, Australia: Sports Medicine Australia.
Phillips, M. (2006). An athletic clio on screen: Sport documentaries and approaches to the production of history. 34th Annual NASSH Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 19-22 May, 2006. Athens, GA: NASSH.
O'Keeffe, E. E., Auld, C., Phillips, M and Hooper, S. L. (2006). Towards the development of a talent identification and development program for coaches. 13th Commonwealth International Sport Conference CISC2006, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, 9-12 March, 2006. Jolimont, Vic, Australia: Sports Medicine Australia.
Phillips, M. (2005). Performing sport history: Alternate readings of the sporting past. Sporting Traditions XV, Melbourne, 11-14 July, 2005. Melbourne: ASSH.
Phillips, M. (2004). The rise of sport science and the role of coaches in the Australian context. Exercise and Sports Science 2004 - From Research to Practice, Brisbane, 14-16 April 2004. Brisbane: AAESS.
Hooper, S., Dudfield, O., Phillips, M. and Rynne, S. (2004). A multi-disciplinary approach for protecting the health and welfare of young elite athletes. 2004 Pre-Olympic Congress: Sport Science through the Ages, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-11 August, 2004. Thessaloniki, Greece: International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE).
Phillips, M. (2004). Sport Films, Documentaries and Social Memory: The Making of The Original Mermaid. 32nd Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History, Monterey, California, 28th - 31st May, 2004. United States: Sadiki Publishing.
Phillips, Murray G. (2004). Tunnel vision: The production of sport history. 3rd Biannual Researching Sport, Physical and Health Education Conference, Wollongong, May 2003. Australia: University of Wollongong.
Hooper, S. L., Macdonald, D. and Phillips, M. (2003). Development of the national junior sport framework. Tackling the Barriers to Participation and Performance. Abstracts of the 2003 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 25-28 October, 2003. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/S1440-2440(03)80060-9
Macdonald, D., Hooper, S. L. and Phillips, M. (2003). Australian Junior Sport Framework: Rethinking Junior Sport. 2nd International Conference: Teaching Sport and Physical Education for Understanding, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, 11-14 December, 2003. Parkville, Vic, Australia: The University of Melbourne.
Phillips, M. (2002). Looking in the closet: An examination of the rhetorical dimensions of sport history. French Lick, Indiana, 24-27 May, 2002. Massachusetts: NAASH.
Newspaper Article
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2023, 08 14). Trove, Surfing History and Myth Busting: Researching women's surfing history in Australia Trove blog
Creative Work
Osmond, Gary, Phillips, Murray G. and Naar, Tony (2019). Paralympic Stories. Online website: https://paralympichistory.org.au/: Paralympics Australia.
Research Report
Mallett, C. J., Macdonald, D., Rynne, S. B. and Phillips, M. (2012). Junior sport framework review. Briefing paper submitted to the Australian Sports Commission.. Canberra, ACT, Australia:
Reference Entry
Phillips, Murray and Osmond, Gary (2007). Seymour Vivian (Sam) Herford.
Thesis
Phillips, Murray G. (Murray George) (1992). Australian sport and World War One. PhD Thesis, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/305296