This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Just been through winter and carrying some excess baggage?
Come through Christmas with too much festive cheer?
Got a young baby and things are a bit hectic?
Simply carrying some extra kegs for no reason other than… it’s none of your business?
There’s very few of us who haven’t been there at some stage. Continue reading Leave @jamieoliver Alone!
Before starting a PhD myself, I remember attending a lot of drinks to celebrate various and often baffling milestones of colleagues’ candidature: being accepted and/or getting a scholarship; confirmation (which always sounded Catholic to me); thesis submission; examination; and finally, graduation. I didn’t really think too much about it – I was happy enough to go along to the drinks. Continue reading The yes whens and no buts of finishing your PhD
1. Sleepless nights
Both will give you a super hero-like resistance to fatigue that you would not have thought was previously possible.
2. Good organisation skills never go astray
There is little difference in the skills required to have 400+ journal articles filed with consistent naming conventions and getting to swimming lessons on time every week.
Continue reading Six reasons why doing a PhD is the same as being a parent
I have been both a Tweep and an attendee at the conference of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (#SMAANZ) since 2007. I have been itching to have a go at combining the two after watching others tweeting from conferences. I had a bit of a go in 2009, but it was only @GeoffSchoenberg and I, so it was a bit lonely. This year there was a critical mass of tweeps in attendance.
Continue reading Reflection on #SMAANZ 2011 – the value of tweeting from a conference
Having had three babies during my candidacy, I feel reasonably qualified to comment on the commonalities between confirmation, confinement and completion.
1. Everyone is asking you when it’s due
Have you submitted your thesis? Are you a doctor yet? Have you had those babies yet? Finishing a pregnancy is probably more obvious to spot, but don’t think I won’t be sharing either of these things with you. Repeatedly.
Continue reading Four reasons why doing a PhD is the same as being pregnant
Kwek, G. (2011, September 12). Open chequebook: Sam is in the serious money now. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved October 25, 2014, from http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/open-chequebook-sam-is-in-the-serious-money-now-20110912-1k5dw.html
This post is my PhD thesis.
The post contains the abstract and link to the full PDF.
Hodgetts, D. (2011). Legacy by Osmosis? Investigation of sport development legacies resulting from the conduct of a major sport event.Unpublished doctoral thesis, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia.
Sports researcher at CQUniversity, Danya Hodgetts, says with the London Olympics well on their way some people in the sporting world are predicting what’s known as the “trickle down affect”.
“That’s where the major sports events have an impact on grassroots sport, and people undertaking sporting activities or physical activity in general,” says Dr Hodgetts.
Danya says the theory is that if our sporting elite are doing well, it has an impact on those of us who undertake sport at a much less competitive level. But how does that theory hold up?
Dr Hodgetts says the trickle down affect was one of the original benefits touted in relation to the Sydney Olympics bid, but because the long-term legacy of such events was less understood at the time, we didn’t capitalise on it as much as we could have done.
View full and original article published 2 April 2012 Can elite sportspeople inspire armchair athletes? – ABC Southern Queensland – Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
This post is my presentation from the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) 2010 Conference.
The post contains the abstract and slides.
Hodgetts, D., Mummery, K., & Duncan, M. (2010). Sport development legacies from major events: Legacy by osmosis? Paper presented at the Sport Management Association of Australia New Zealand Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Continue reading Sport development legacies from major events: Legacy by osmosis?
This post is my presentation from the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) 2013 Conference.
The post contains the abstract, presentation video and slides.
Hodgetts, D., Mummery, K., & Duncan, M. (2010). Sport development legacies from major events: Legacy by osmosis? Paper presented at the Sport Management Association of Australia New Zealand Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Continue reading Sport development legacies from major events: Legacy by osmosis?
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