Academic staff

  • Dr Eimear Enright

    Honorary Associate Professor
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
  • Dr Michael Gard

    Honorary Associate Professor
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
  • Dr Stephanie Hanrahan

    Honorary Associate Professor
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
  • Dr Louise McCuaig

    Honorary Associate Professor & Project Manager
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
  • Professor Murray Phillips

    Professor
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
    Centre Director of Centre for Sport and Society
    Centre for Sport and Society
  • Associate Professor Steven Rynne

    Associate Professor & Director of Engagement and Partnerships
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
    Affiliate of Parenting and Family Support Centre
    Parenting and Family Support Centre
    Affiliate of Centre for Sport and Society
    Centre for Sport and Society
  • Emeritus Professor Richard Tinning

    Emeritus Professor
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
  • Dr Stephen Townsend

    Research Fellow
    School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
    Affiliate of Centre for Sport and Society
    Centre for Sport and Society

Affiliates

 

Students

PhD Candidates

Janet Beverley

Playing the Advantage and Pushing the Boundaries: Australian women’s hockey and practical feminism

CSS Supervisors: Dr Gary Osmond, Associate Professor Murray Phillips

 

Douglas Eacersall

The Revival and Reinvention of Western Martial Pursuits in Australia, 1969-2012

CSS Supervisor: Associate Professor Murray Phillips

 

Shaun Jennings

Chasing winter: An Exploration of Artistic Expression within the Snowboarding Subculture

CSS Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Olive

 

Adam Carey

Learning in the Daily Training Environment of high performance tennis

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Ken Edwards

Fighting for Acceptance: the life of Aboriginal boxer Jerry Jerome

CSS Supervisors: Dr Gary Osmond, Associate Professor Murray Phillips

 

Eva Ellmer

Learning in Action Sports

CSS Supervisors: Dr Steven Rynne, Dr Eimear Enright

 

Glenn Fyall

Learning in High Performance Rugby Union workplaces

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Jose Lobao-Ferreira

Personality, development and performance in coaching Rugby Union

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Bradley Mark

Paralympian Air Travel: Perspectives on Environmental Barriers and Additional Issues

CSS Supervisor: Stephanie Hanrahan, Emma Beckman

 

Pouria Nabi

Shared leadership within elite Australian sport teams

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Nick McCarthy

Pubs, Priests and Politics: The Gaelic Athletic Association, Nationalism and Local Identity in Rural Ireland

CSS Supervisors: Dr Gary Osmond, Associate Professor Murray Phillips

 

Natalie McMaster

Educating for healthy citizens: The health work of teachers in the Northern Territory

CSS Supervisors: Louise McCuaig, Doune Macdonald

 

Kath O’Brien

Workplace learning of NRL officials

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Lamenko Panapa

Pacific Islanders, Family and Professional Sport: A rugby league case study

CSS Supervisors: Dr Louise McCuaig, Associate Professor Murray Phillips

 

Fernanda Serra De Queiroz

Life Skills: Perceived Importance of Skills and At-risk Youth Experiences of LifeMatters

CSS Supervisors: Stephanie Hanrahan

 

Lee Sheppard

Sport for Development programs in Australia

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Leigh Sperka

The impact of the outsourcing of HPE on curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment

CSS Supervisors: Dr Eimear Enright, Professor Doune Macdonald, Dr Louise McCuaig

 

Stephen Townsend

Throwing the First Punches: Muhammad Ali and Sport History in the Digital Age

CSS Supervisors: Dr Gary Osmond, Associate Professor Murray Phillips

 

Jamie Young

The coach-athlete relationship in high performance football

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

 

MPhil Candidates

Paul Mead

Leadership and culture in high performance Indigenous sport

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Jonny McMurtry

Motivation and development in Rugby Union high performance development programs

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Paul Treschman

Mastery Motivation Climate in HPE

Supervisors: Dr Michalis Stylianou, Associate Professor Stephanie Hanrahan

 

Paul Thomas

Leadership, culture and learning in high performance AFL coaching

CSS Supervisor: Dr Steven Rynne

 

Coursework Masters

Mark McMahon (Master of Psychology)

CSS Supervisor: Stephanie Hanrahan