Tracy Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8847-7692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Conceptualizing an athlete support ecosystem for women in professional team sport
The expanse of women’s professional team sports has burgeoned in the last ten years. The inroads made by women’s leagues have raised questions about how to equitably and sustainably support, finance, and manage and foster the growth and development of women athletes. Women’s leagues have unique characteristics that warrant recognition and positioning which are different from their counterpart men’s leagues and enable gender specific value creatio…
Managing People in Sport Organizations
Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing People in Sport Organizations outlines the theory and practice of managing people within a strategic framework. A complete textbook for any human resource management (HRM) in sport course, it explains how sport managers can get the best out of their teams and organizations, develop their professional skills, and create a sustainable performance culture. Structured around the functional fl…
Let me give you something to think about
Workplace Experiences of Women With Disability in Sport Organizations
Women with disability often experience barriers to employment and career progression, most notably in hyper-masculinised industry sectors such as sport. Applying an intersectionality lens and insights from critical disability theory, this research explores the lived experiences of eight women with varying types of disability through their stories of working and volunteering in sport organizations in Victoria (Australia). Analyses of the interview…
Empowering Voices from the Past
This research explores the lived experiences of 10 retired Pasifika (Pacific Islander and Māori) rugby league players who migrated to Australia after 1969. The careers of these Pacific Islander and Māori rugby league players were shaped by their migration experience, hopes for upward socio-economic mobility, the influence of familial motivations and journeys of personal growth amidst challenges and obstacles surrounding Pasifika cultural identity…
Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management
This chapter provides an overview of the context of sport event security and of the various types of security agencies (local, national, international, public, and private organisations), and other related stakeholders involved in the planning and hosting of sport events. Following this overview, research associated with risk, sport event security, and safety is presented. The chapter concludes by providing suggestions for further reading and fut…
Socially sustainable ethnic tourism
Ethnic tourism is a catalyst for economic and sociocultural development in many countries. However, ethnic tourism development has given rise to many challenges associated with the sustainable development of ethnic regions within different cultural contexts. This paper addresses the social aspect of sustainable ethnic tourism through comparative case studies of two ethnic Hakka tourism destinations, Nanyuan and Sujiawei villages in Heyuan, Guangd…
Enabling Inclusive Sport Participation
Framed by a social approach to disability and leisure constraints theory, this paper presents the results of a national study examining the constraints to sport participation for people with disability. Responses were obtained from a multi-platform questionnaire survey capturing data on constraints to participation, dimensions of disability, and level of support needs. The Exploratory Factor Analysis identified five structural together with intra…
But I can do the job’
Natural data on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s website outlining the complaint cases generated from Disability Discrimination Act, 1992 (DDA) were used to examine the social construction of disability employment discrimination. Using a social model and human rights citizenship lens, some 987 complaint cases were analysed to assess the prevalence of disability discrimination in employment, and its relationship to the types of disability,…
Sistas’ and Aunties
Indigenous women have alarmingly low rates of participation in organized sport and physical activity (PA) in contemporary Australian society. To gain a better contextual and cultural understanding of the issues involved, we discussed the life experiences and the place of sport and PA with 22 Indigenous women. The research was guided by a culturally appropriate interpretative qualitative methodology. A complex amalgamation of cultural beliefs and …
Australian Sport
1. Introduction: Sport in Australia: 'Worth a Shout' Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor 2. The Australian Sport System and its Stakeholders: Development of Cooperative Relationships Kalliopi (Popi) Sotiriadou 3. The Janus Face of Diversity in Australian Sport Tracy Taylor, Daniel Lock and Simon Darcy 4. The Melbourne Cup: Australian Identity and Secular Pilgrimage Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance 5. Getting to the Game: Travel to Sports Stadia …
Fifa-isation
This paper presents a case-study of spatial brand protection and media management and security strategies at the 2010 Football World Cup (FWC) in South Africa (RSA). This focus stems from the realisation that commercially designated event spaces are very important environments for the interests of FWC sponsors, and that the media has a pivotal role in conveying messages about desirable conduct in such environments. In these respects, stakeholder …
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds
Does an instruction to forget enhance memory for other presented items
Surveillance and securitization
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games were the last Olympic Games held before 9/11. Even though the 2000 Games were held prior to this landmark terrorist incident, Australia implemented a range of increased security processes to safeguard the Games. As such, the Sydney Games provide a compelling case study to examine how Olympic security measures were implemented before and during the Games and how some of these have remained as an Olympic legacy in the …
Ensuring Safety at Australian Sport Event Precincts
Since 9/11, pervasive concerns about public safety have irrevocably changed the management of large sport events and these events are now under constant pressure to improve security. This empirical research contextualises contemporary safety issues associated with sport event hosting and locates security debates within the Australian sport event landscape. Public safety considerations, policies and legislation are explored through in-depth interv…
Disability citizenship
Research on disability and cultural life (the arts, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism) in the Australian context has largely been captured by medical approaches to disability. In contrast, this paper takes direction from social approaches to disability that place the experience of people with disabilities (PwD) at the centre of the research paradigm by examining this population’s human rights’ experiences. The paper is framed by reviewing th…
Issues of governance in sport organisations
Governance is a critical component of the effective management of a sport organisation. Due to the changing nature of sport organisations, most notably the movement to adopt business models of operation, questions of appropriate forms of governance have attracted increasing research attention in the sport sector. This paper reviews the governance literature in sport management, and discusses issues of board roles and board composition. Four gover…
Intimate Violence in Male Same-Sex Relationships
Adolescent sport, recreation and physical education
This paper explores the perceived benefits and challenges of sport, recreation and physical education participation of culturally diverse adolescent girls and boys who are recent arrivals to Canada. The aim of the research was to further our understanding of the attitudes and experiences of English as a second language (ESL) students. Following from the Ethnicity and Public Recreation Participation Model (Gómez, 2002 Gómez , E. (2002) The Ethnici…
Critical reflections on the economic impact assessment of a mega-event
The Rhetoric of Exclusion
This research investigates issues of cultural diversity and inclusiveness in women's netball in Australia using the rhetoric of exclusion. Women and girls from culturally diverse backgrounds spoke of reinforced difference and cultural assimilation in their netball experiences. Women born in other English-speaking countries recalled feelings of inclusion and limited cultural dissonance and indicated that netball helped them feel as part of their n…
Diversity Management in a Multi-cultural Society
A decade of research has indicated that organisations can obtain a significant competitive advantage through the effective management of cultural diversity. This research has fostered the growth of diversity management initiatives across wide range of organizations seeking better business outcomes. However, empirical studies suggest that sports organizations have been slow to embrace diversity management, despite its proven benefits. While sports…
Gender and cultural diversity in sport organisations
A diversity audit is used to profile gender and cultural diversity in selected Australian community sport clubs. The assessment aims to create a better understanding of sport and cultural diversity and provide the data to facilitate awareness of these issues in sport. The present study focussed on five team sports and their associated community clubs. Fifty clubs were surveyed about their policies, practices and attitudes to gender and cultural d…
Cultural Diversity and Leisure
There is a growing body of literature that seeks to better understand the relationships between leisure and cultural diversity. This study explored the leisure experiences of women from culturally diverse backgrounds in the multicultural country of Australia. The research draws comparisons with a similar study in Canada (Tirone and Pedlar, 2000) and comments on the similarities between the two countries in terms of immigration policies and their …
Critical reflections on the economic impact assessment of a mega-event
Intimate Violence in Male Same-Sex Relationships
But I can do the job’
Natural data on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s website outlining the complaint cases generated from Disability Discrimination Act, 1992 (DDA) were used to examine the social construction of disability employment discrimination. Using a social model and human rights citizenship lens, some 987 complaint cases were analysed to assess the prevalence of disability discrimination in employment, and its relationship to the types of disability,…
Sistas’ and Aunties
Indigenous women have alarmingly low rates of participation in organized sport and physical activity (PA) in contemporary Australian society. To gain a better contextual and cultural understanding of the issues involved, we discussed the life experiences and the place of sport and PA with 22 Indigenous women. The research was guided by a culturally appropriate interpretative qualitative methodology. A complex amalgamation of cultural beliefs and …
Enabling Inclusive Sport Participation
Framed by a social approach to disability and leisure constraints theory, this paper presents the results of a national study examining the constraints to sport participation for people with disability. Responses were obtained from a multi-platform questionnaire survey capturing data on constraints to participation, dimensions of disability, and level of support needs. The Exploratory Factor Analysis identified five structural together with intra…
Disability citizenship
Research on disability and cultural life (the arts, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism) in the Australian context has largely been captured by medical approaches to disability. In contrast, this paper takes direction from social approaches to disability that place the experience of people with disabilities (PwD) at the centre of the research paradigm by examining this population’s human rights’ experiences. The paper is framed by reviewing th…
Adolescent sport, recreation and physical education
This paper explores the perceived benefits and challenges of sport, recreation and physical education participation of culturally diverse adolescent girls and boys who are recent arrivals to Canada. The aim of the research was to further our understanding of the attitudes and experiences of English as a second language (ESL) students. Following from the Ethnicity and Public Recreation Participation Model (Gómez, 2002 Gómez , E. (2002) The Ethnici…
The Rhetoric of Exclusion
This research investigates issues of cultural diversity and inclusiveness in women's netball in Australia using the rhetoric of exclusion. Women and girls from culturally diverse backgrounds spoke of reinforced difference and cultural assimilation in their netball experiences. Women born in other English-speaking countries recalled feelings of inclusion and limited cultural dissonance and indicated that netball helped them feel as part of their n…
Cultural Diversity and Leisure
There is a growing body of literature that seeks to better understand the relationships between leisure and cultural diversity. This study explored the leisure experiences of women from culturally diverse backgrounds in the multicultural country of Australia. The research draws comparisons with a similar study in Canada (Tirone and Pedlar, 2000) and comments on the similarities between the two countries in terms of immigration policies and their …
Surveillance and securitization
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games were the last Olympic Games held before 9/11. Even though the 2000 Games were held prior to this landmark terrorist incident, Australia implemented a range of increased security processes to safeguard the Games. As such, the Sydney Games provide a compelling case study to examine how Olympic security measures were implemented before and during the Games and how some of these have remained as an Olympic legacy in the …
Ensuring Safety at Australian Sport Event Precincts
Since 9/11, pervasive concerns about public safety have irrevocably changed the management of large sport events and these events are now under constant pressure to improve security. This empirical research contextualises contemporary safety issues associated with sport event hosting and locates security debates within the Australian sport event landscape. Public safety considerations, policies and legislation are explored through in-depth interv…
Fifa-isation
This paper presents a case-study of spatial brand protection and media management and security strategies at the 2010 Football World Cup (FWC) in South Africa (RSA). This focus stems from the realisation that commercially designated event spaces are very important environments for the interests of FWC sponsors, and that the media has a pivotal role in conveying messages about desirable conduct in such environments. In these respects, stakeholder …
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds
Negotiating Cultural Diversity for Women in Sport
Research addressing the issue of sport or physical activity for women of non‐English speaking backgrounds in the Australian context is still in its infancy. This is an area rich for study given the multicultural composition of the country's population, combined with the popular view of sport as a major component of Australian cultural identity and the fact that levels of sporting involvement of women bom in non‐English‐speaking countries are extr…
Workplace Experiences of Women With Disability in Sport Organizations
Women with disability often experience barriers to employment and career progression, most notably in hyper-masculinised industry sectors such as sport. Applying an intersectionality lens and insights from critical disability theory, this research explores the lived experiences of eight women with varying types of disability through their stories of working and volunteering in sport organizations in Victoria (Australia). Analyses of the interview…
Issues of governance in sport organisations
Governance is a critical component of the effective management of a sport organisation. Due to the changing nature of sport organisations, most notably the movement to adopt business models of operation, questions of appropriate forms of governance have attracted increasing research attention in the sport sector. This paper reviews the governance literature in sport management, and discusses issues of board roles and board composition. Four gover…
Empowering Voices from the Past
This research explores the lived experiences of 10 retired Pasifika (Pacific Islander and Māori) rugby league players who migrated to Australia after 1969. The careers of these Pacific Islander and Māori rugby league players were shaped by their migration experience, hopes for upward socio-economic mobility, the influence of familial motivations and journeys of personal growth amidst challenges and obstacles surrounding Pasifika cultural identity…
Socially sustainable ethnic tourism
Ethnic tourism is a catalyst for economic and sociocultural development in many countries. However, ethnic tourism development has given rise to many challenges associated with the sustainable development of ethnic regions within different cultural contexts. This paper addresses the social aspect of sustainable ethnic tourism through comparative case studies of two ethnic Hakka tourism destinations, Nanyuan and Sujiawei villages in Heyuan, Guangd…
The Grand Inquest
Negotiating Cultural Diversity for Women in Sport
Research addressing the issue of sport or physical activity for women of non‐English speaking backgrounds in the Australian context is still in its infancy. This is an area rich for study given the multicultural composition of the country's population, combined with the popular view of sport as a major component of Australian cultural identity and the fact that levels of sporting involvement of women bom in non‐English‐speaking countries are extr…
Gender and cultural diversity in sport organisations
A diversity audit is used to profile gender and cultural diversity in selected Australian community sport clubs. The assessment aims to create a better understanding of sport and cultural diversity and provide the data to facilitate awareness of these issues in sport. The present study focussed on five team sports and their associated community clubs. Fifty clubs were surveyed about their policies, practices and attitudes to gender and cultural d…
Cultural Diversity and Leisure
There is a growing body of literature that seeks to better understand the relationships between leisure and cultural diversity. This study explored the leisure experiences of women from culturally diverse backgrounds in the multicultural country of Australia. The research draws comparisons with a similar study in Canada (Tirone and Pedlar, 2000) and comments on the similarities between the two countries in terms of immigration policies and their …
Diversity Management in a Multi-cultural Society
A decade of research has indicated that organisations can obtain a significant competitive advantage through the effective management of cultural diversity. This research has fostered the growth of diversity management initiatives across wide range of organizations seeking better business outcomes. However, empirical studies suggest that sports organizations have been slow to embrace diversity management, despite its proven benefits. While sports…
The Rhetoric of Exclusion
This research investigates issues of cultural diversity and inclusiveness in women's netball in Australia using the rhetoric of exclusion. Women and girls from culturally diverse backgrounds spoke of reinforced difference and cultural assimilation in their netball experiences. Women born in other English-speaking countries recalled feelings of inclusion and limited cultural dissonance and indicated that netball helped them feel as part of their n…
Adolescent sport, recreation and physical education
This paper explores the perceived benefits and challenges of sport, recreation and physical education participation of culturally diverse adolescent girls and boys who are recent arrivals to Canada. The aim of the research was to further our understanding of the attitudes and experiences of English as a second language (ESL) students. Following from the Ethnicity and Public Recreation Participation Model (Gómez, 2002 Gómez , E. (2002) The Ethnici…
Critical reflections on the economic impact assessment of a mega-event
Intimate Violence in Male Same-Sex Relationships
Issues of governance in sport organisations
Governance is a critical component of the effective management of a sport organisation. Due to the changing nature of sport organisations, most notably the movement to adopt business models of operation, questions of appropriate forms of governance have attracted increasing research attention in the sport sector. This paper reviews the governance literature in sport management, and discusses issues of board roles and board composition. Four gover…
Disability citizenship
Research on disability and cultural life (the arts, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism) in the Australian context has largely been captured by medical approaches to disability. In contrast, this paper takes direction from social approaches to disability that place the experience of people with disabilities (PwD) at the centre of the research paradigm by examining this population’s human rights’ experiences. The paper is framed by reviewing th…
Ensuring Safety at Australian Sport Event Precincts
Since 9/11, pervasive concerns about public safety have irrevocably changed the management of large sport events and these events are now under constant pressure to improve security. This empirical research contextualises contemporary safety issues associated with sport event hosting and locates security debates within the Australian sport event landscape. Public safety considerations, policies and legislation are explored through in-depth interv…
Does an instruction to forget enhance memory for other presented items
Surveillance and securitization
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games were the last Olympic Games held before 9/11. Even though the 2000 Games were held prior to this landmark terrorist incident, Australia implemented a range of increased security processes to safeguard the Games. As such, the Sydney Games provide a compelling case study to examine how Olympic security measures were implemented before and during the Games and how some of these have remained as an Olympic legacy in the …
Australian Sport
1. Introduction: Sport in Australia: 'Worth a Shout' Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor 2. The Australian Sport System and its Stakeholders: Development of Cooperative Relationships Kalliopi (Popi) Sotiriadou 3. The Janus Face of Diversity in Australian Sport Tracy Taylor, Daniel Lock and Simon Darcy 4. The Melbourne Cup: Australian Identity and Secular Pilgrimage Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance 5. Getting to the Game: Travel to Sports Stadia …
Fifa-isation
This paper presents a case-study of spatial brand protection and media management and security strategies at the 2010 Football World Cup (FWC) in South Africa (RSA). This focus stems from the realisation that commercially designated event spaces are very important environments for the interests of FWC sponsors, and that the media has a pivotal role in conveying messages about desirable conduct in such environments. In these respects, stakeholder …
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds
Sistas’ and Aunties
Indigenous women have alarmingly low rates of participation in organized sport and physical activity (PA) in contemporary Australian society. To gain a better contextual and cultural understanding of the issues involved, we discussed the life experiences and the place of sport and PA with 22 Indigenous women. The research was guided by a culturally appropriate interpretative qualitative methodology. A complex amalgamation of cultural beliefs and …
But I can do the job’
Natural data on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s website outlining the complaint cases generated from Disability Discrimination Act, 1992 (DDA) were used to examine the social construction of disability employment discrimination. Using a social model and human rights citizenship lens, some 987 complaint cases were analysed to assess the prevalence of disability discrimination in employment, and its relationship to the types of disability,…
Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management
This chapter provides an overview of the context of sport event security and of the various types of security agencies (local, national, international, public, and private organisations), and other related stakeholders involved in the planning and hosting of sport events. Following this overview, research associated with risk, sport event security, and safety is presented. The chapter concludes by providing suggestions for further reading and fut…
Socially sustainable ethnic tourism
Ethnic tourism is a catalyst for economic and sociocultural development in many countries. However, ethnic tourism development has given rise to many challenges associated with the sustainable development of ethnic regions within different cultural contexts. This paper addresses the social aspect of sustainable ethnic tourism through comparative case studies of two ethnic Hakka tourism destinations, Nanyuan and Sujiawei villages in Heyuan, Guangd…
Enabling Inclusive Sport Participation
Framed by a social approach to disability and leisure constraints theory, this paper presents the results of a national study examining the constraints to sport participation for people with disability. Responses were obtained from a multi-platform questionnaire survey capturing data on constraints to participation, dimensions of disability, and level of support needs. The Exploratory Factor Analysis identified five structural together with intra…
Empowering Voices from the Past
This research explores the lived experiences of 10 retired Pasifika (Pacific Islander and Māori) rugby league players who migrated to Australia after 1969. The careers of these Pacific Islander and Māori rugby league players were shaped by their migration experience, hopes for upward socio-economic mobility, the influence of familial motivations and journeys of personal growth amidst challenges and obstacles surrounding Pasifika cultural identity…
Workplace Experiences of Women With Disability in Sport Organizations
Women with disability often experience barriers to employment and career progression, most notably in hyper-masculinised industry sectors such as sport. Applying an intersectionality lens and insights from critical disability theory, this research explores the lived experiences of eight women with varying types of disability through their stories of working and volunteering in sport organizations in Victoria (Australia). Analyses of the interview…
Let me give you something to think about
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)