Greg Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lincoln University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9948-9998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia
The worst time of year in Rome for the Olympics’: Lessons and legacies in healthcare from the 1960 Olympic Games
The provision of medical support for athletes during the Olympic Games has been a feature of each Olympic event. Prior to 1960, medical services were largely utilitarian in nature, frequently relying on military medical services and focused on providing only the essential medical support to athletes, support staff and spectators during the games. However, the appointment of Professor Luigi Gedda to lead the Medical and Scientific Committee for Ro…
Who Walked against Time’: Nineteenth Century Intersections of Pedestrianism and Medicine
During the nineteenth century, both medicine and sport were transitioning into recognizably modern identities but no formal relationship between the two existed. It has been suggested that the medical profession had little engagement with sport during this period. One sport that was particularly popular during the nineteenth century was pedestrianism in which athletes performed a range of endurance walking challenges for money and fame. While it …
Debating Racial Hierarchy and the Exclusion of Māori from the 1928 All Blacks Rugby Tour to South Africa
The announcement by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union in 1927 that no Māori players would be selected for the following year’s All Blacks tour to South Africa, prompted heated debate within New Zealand. While some insisted that the Union should not send a team unless it was fully representative of a country in which Māori and Pākehā apparently enjoyed very harmonious relations, others argued that the exclusion was necessary to protect Māori fr…
We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand
Despite growing interest in the origins of sports medicine, there has been little academic attention paid to the development of healthcare in New Zealand sport. Using primary archival sources as well as contemporaneous literature from the post-world war period to the founding of the New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine (NZFSM) in 1963, this manuscript addresses this knowledge gap. By the mid-twentieth century, public health in New Zealand ha…
You Are Absolutely Indifferent to the Call of Your King’: Horse Racing, War and Politics in New Zealand 1914–18
As in other countries, the continuance of sport in New Zealand during the First World War was the subject of intense public debate, and especially in the case of horse racing as arguably the most widely followed sport in the country but also one that had been under attack from religious and moral reformers for several decades. Influential racing leaders argued that their activities were vital to the economy, tax revenue and maintaining morale in …
He is Our Opponent, Not Our Enemy’: Two Rugby Tours and Australasian Perceptions of Japan during the 1930s
This paper explores aspects of the Australian (1934) and New Zealand (1936) universities rugby union tours of Japan. These were conducted at a time when Australasian understandings of Japan were very limited – notwithstanding a number of very positive Japanese sporting excursions to Australia from the late 1920s. Equally this was a period when a rapidly modernizing and expansionist Japan was engendering contrasting reactions from the internationa…
Drugs, Denial, and Deflection: 1972, The Year New Zealand Sport Confronted Doping
Contemporaneously described as the unfortunate Games, the New Zealand team experience at the Munich Olympic Games was clouded by the Israeli hostage tragedy, and a series of controversies involving sex, amateurism and team mismanagement. However, the Munich Games also took place against an international background of overt political interference in sport and endemic drug use amongst athletes, juxtaposed with immature anti-doping systems. Using ar…
They Came to Sneer, and Remained to Cheer’: Interpreting the 1934–35 England Women’s Cricket Tour to Australia and New Zealand
This paper focuses generally on the history of women’s cricket during the earlier twentieth century, primarily on the 1934–35 England women’s cricket tour of Australia and New Zealand, and more so on the New Zealand dimension. The tour occurred at a critical time for women’s team sport in both countries in that from the 1920s consistent local and then national competitions brought continuity to previously fragmented activities. Hence the tour pro…
Sport and the British World, 1900–1930: Amateurism and national identity in Australasia and beyond, by Erik Nielsen
Although it is more than four decades since W. F. Mandle's first excursions into the relationship between cricket and Australian nationalism, academic historians in Australasia have generally conti
The Turning Point: The 1950 British Empire Games as an Imperial Spectacle
This article examines the origins, staging and reaction to the 1950 British Empire Games held in Auckland, New Zealand, in the context of broader attitudes to the British Empire and Commonwealth in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It argues that New Zealand, as perhaps the most loyal and Empire-focused of the former white dominions, viewed the Games far less as a sporting event than a spectacle through which the country could disp…
Men Who Defaulted in the Greatest Game of All: Sport, Conscientious Objectors and Military Defaulters in New Zealand 1916–1923
During the Great War most New Zealand sports bodies restricted their competitions in some way. A rhetoric against ‘sporting shirkers’ proliferated and was reinforced when the New Zealand government introduced military conscription in 1916 and adopted a trenchant attitude against any who were unwilling to serve. After the Great War the New Zealand Returned Soldier's Association (RSA) requested that regional and national sports bodies ban known con…
Development and trialling of a graduated descriptors tool for Australian pharmacy students
Profession-derived competency standards are key determinants for curriculum and assessment in many professional university programmes. An Australian Learning and Teaching Council funded project used a participatory action research approach to enable the collaborative development of a graduated (or incremental) descriptors tool related to competencies, applicable to Australian pharmacy students at various stages within their university programmes.…
Collaborative development of an online pharmacy experiential learning database
Academics preparing students for experiential placements within professional programs require considerable curriculum planning and pedagogical expertise. Communities of practice involving workshops and online processes provide opportunities for collaborative work in developing quality curriculum materials and also in supporting widespread dissemination. The aim of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council funded project was to collaboratively e…
A Tale of Two Dinners: New Zealand Rugby and the Embrace of Empire, 1919–32
This article challenges the standard portrayal of rugby as a vibrant component of New Zealand’s emerging national identity during the first third of the twentieth century. Deriving from a critique of the 1905 All Blacks tour of Britain, it argues that New Zealand rugby methods and attitudes attracted more condemnation than adulation from Britain and that the Antipodean game was itself sharply divided between reformers determined to modernise the …
The Scottish Contribution to New Zealand Beer: Exporters, Brewers and Anti-Prohibitionists
As counter to the narrow focus of a number of New Zealand historians on the prohibitionist activities of the Presbyterian Church, this article examines three significant Scottish contributions to the history of beer and brewing in New Zealand prior to 1940. These are: the reasons for and the nature of the disproportionate Scottish contribution to the export of British beer to New Zealand from the 1860s; the influence of leading Scottish-trained b…
Britishers Anxious to Appear on the Cricket Map’: Anglo-New Zealand Cricket in the Imperial Context 1927–58
In considering the ways in which New Zealand's mediocre performance on the international cricket stage was interpreted, this article provides a significant critique of the emphasis on a nexus between rugby and emergent nationalism that has dominated New Zealand historiography. After consideration of New Zealand's enduring ties to Britain and cleavage in formal relations with Australia, cricketing and otherwise, during the inter-war period, this a…
Amateurs in a Professional Game: Player Payments in New Zealand Cricket, c. 1977–2002
This article examines the genesis of and reactions to the six week strike by members of the New Zealand Cricket Players Association in late 2002 in which the primary focus was a claim for a 60 percent increase in pay. It argues that contrasting reactions to the strike among current and former players, cricket administrators, cricket fans and the media, must be understood in terms of a longer history of difficulty and dispute over players payment …
The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832-1914
It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed in New Zealand and how its character changed across time. Greg Ryan examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefiel…
Handsome physiognomy and blameless physique’: Indigenous colonial sporting tours and British racial consciousness, 1868 and 1888
It is seldom recalled in popular accounts, and less so with any degree of accuracy, that the first Australian and New Zealand sporting teams to visit Britain were both indigenous: the 1868 Aboriginal cricket team and the 1888-89 New Zealand Native1 rugby team. Even the most dedicated chroniclers of their respective sports have rendered these tours more in the manner of vaudeville than serious endeavour. What has generally been preserved is a cata…
Assessing the Practicum
The practicum appears in many different forms in professional education — as field placement, cooperative education, sandwich programs, internship and clinical placement. This review of current literature reveals many different conceptions of the kinds of learning outcomes that can be achieved through learning in the workplace and the contribution that the practicum can make to professional education. In consequence, assessment philosophies and m…
The Triple Jump Exercise in Inquiry‐based Learning: A case study showing directions for further research
The Triple Jump is a versatile but under‐studied instrument, used both for developing and assessing problem‐based learning (PBL). This paper evaluates its assessment of inquiry‐based learning (IBL) in a graduate course, along with a Group Assessment Task. Students' performance on the Triple Jump was not related to satisfaction with their small‐group discussion prior to completing a self‐directed learning task. Analysis of the self‐directed learni…
Student perceptions about self-directed learning in a professional course implementing problem-based learning
In a climate of rapid change and proliferating knowledge, there is an onus on teachers in higher education to assume more responsibility for helping students to develop as self-directed learners in their courses. In particular, problem-based learning is a potential educational framework within which to provide this assistance. From its theoretical basis, the paper reports on a study which explored the perceptions held by a group of students about…
Handsome physiognomy and blameless physique’: Indigenous colonial sporting tours and British racial consciousness, 1868 and 1888
It is seldom recalled in popular accounts, and less so with any degree of accuracy, that the first Australian and New Zealand sporting teams to visit Britain were both indigenous: the 1868 Aboriginal cricket team and the 1888-89 New Zealand Native1 rugby team. Even the most dedicated chroniclers of their respective sports have rendered these tours more in the manner of vaudeville than serious endeavour. What has generally been preserved is a cata…
The Turning Point: The 1950 British Empire Games as an Imperial Spectacle
This article examines the origins, staging and reaction to the 1950 British Empire Games held in Auckland, New Zealand, in the context of broader attitudes to the British Empire and Commonwealth in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It argues that New Zealand, as perhaps the most loyal and Empire-focused of the former white dominions, viewed the Games far less as a sporting event than a spectacle through which the country could disp…
Britishers Anxious to Appear on the Cricket Map’: Anglo-New Zealand Cricket in the Imperial Context 1927–58
In considering the ways in which New Zealand's mediocre performance on the international cricket stage was interpreted, this article provides a significant critique of the emphasis on a nexus between rugby and emergent nationalism that has dominated New Zealand historiography. After consideration of New Zealand's enduring ties to Britain and cleavage in formal relations with Australia, cricketing and otherwise, during the inter-war period, this a…
Student perceptions about self-directed learning in a professional course implementing problem-based learning
In a climate of rapid change and proliferating knowledge, there is an onus on teachers in higher education to assume more responsibility for helping students to develop as self-directed learners in their courses. In particular, problem-based learning is a potential educational framework within which to provide this assistance. From its theoretical basis, the paper reports on a study which explored the perceptions held by a group of students about…
Student perceptions about self-directed learning in a professional course implementing problem-based learning
In a climate of rapid change and proliferating knowledge, there is an onus on teachers in higher education to assume more responsibility for helping students to develop as self-directed learners in their courses. In particular, problem-based learning is a potential educational framework within which to provide this assistance. From its theoretical basis, the paper reports on a study which explored the perceptions held by a group of students about…
The Triple Jump Exercise in Inquiry‐based Learning: A case study showing directions for further research
The Triple Jump is a versatile but under‐studied instrument, used both for developing and assessing problem‐based learning (PBL). This paper evaluates its assessment of inquiry‐based learning (IBL) in a graduate course, along with a Group Assessment Task. Students' performance on the Triple Jump was not related to satisfaction with their small‐group discussion prior to completing a self‐directed learning task. Analysis of the self‐directed learni…
Assessing the Practicum
The practicum appears in many different forms in professional education — as field placement, cooperative education, sandwich programs, internship and clinical placement. This review of current literature reveals many different conceptions of the kinds of learning outcomes that can be achieved through learning in the workplace and the contribution that the practicum can make to professional education. In consequence, assessment philosophies and m…
Handsome physiognomy and blameless physique’: Indigenous colonial sporting tours and British racial consciousness, 1868 and 1888
It is seldom recalled in popular accounts, and less so with any degree of accuracy, that the first Australian and New Zealand sporting teams to visit Britain were both indigenous: the 1868 Aboriginal cricket team and the 1888-89 New Zealand Native1 rugby team. Even the most dedicated chroniclers of their respective sports have rendered these tours more in the manner of vaudeville than serious endeavour. What has generally been preserved is a cata…
The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832-1914
It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed in New Zealand and how its character changed across time. Greg Ryan examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefiel…
Amateurs in a Professional Game: Player Payments in New Zealand Cricket, c. 1977–2002
This article examines the genesis of and reactions to the six week strike by members of the New Zealand Cricket Players Association in late 2002 in which the primary focus was a claim for a 60 percent increase in pay. It argues that contrasting reactions to the strike among current and former players, cricket administrators, cricket fans and the media, must be understood in terms of a longer history of difficulty and dispute over players payment …
Britishers Anxious to Appear on the Cricket Map’: Anglo-New Zealand Cricket in the Imperial Context 1927–58
In considering the ways in which New Zealand's mediocre performance on the international cricket stage was interpreted, this article provides a significant critique of the emphasis on a nexus between rugby and emergent nationalism that has dominated New Zealand historiography. After consideration of New Zealand's enduring ties to Britain and cleavage in formal relations with Australia, cricketing and otherwise, during the inter-war period, this a…
Collaborative development of an online pharmacy experiential learning database
Academics preparing students for experiential placements within professional programs require considerable curriculum planning and pedagogical expertise. Communities of practice involving workshops and online processes provide opportunities for collaborative work in developing quality curriculum materials and also in supporting widespread dissemination. The aim of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council funded project was to collaboratively e…
A Tale of Two Dinners: New Zealand Rugby and the Embrace of Empire, 1919–32
This article challenges the standard portrayal of rugby as a vibrant component of New Zealand’s emerging national identity during the first third of the twentieth century. Deriving from a critique of the 1905 All Blacks tour of Britain, it argues that New Zealand rugby methods and attitudes attracted more condemnation than adulation from Britain and that the Antipodean game was itself sharply divided between reformers determined to modernise the …
The Scottish Contribution to New Zealand Beer: Exporters, Brewers and Anti-Prohibitionists
As counter to the narrow focus of a number of New Zealand historians on the prohibitionist activities of the Presbyterian Church, this article examines three significant Scottish contributions to the history of beer and brewing in New Zealand prior to 1940. These are: the reasons for and the nature of the disproportionate Scottish contribution to the export of British beer to New Zealand from the 1860s; the influence of leading Scottish-trained b…
Development and trialling of a graduated descriptors tool for Australian pharmacy students
Profession-derived competency standards are key determinants for curriculum and assessment in many professional university programmes. An Australian Learning and Teaching Council funded project used a participatory action research approach to enable the collaborative development of a graduated (or incremental) descriptors tool related to competencies, applicable to Australian pharmacy students at various stages within their university programmes.…
The Turning Point: The 1950 British Empire Games as an Imperial Spectacle
This article examines the origins, staging and reaction to the 1950 British Empire Games held in Auckland, New Zealand, in the context of broader attitudes to the British Empire and Commonwealth in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It argues that New Zealand, as perhaps the most loyal and Empire-focused of the former white dominions, viewed the Games far less as a sporting event than a spectacle through which the country could disp…
Men Who Defaulted in the Greatest Game of All: Sport, Conscientious Objectors and Military Defaulters in New Zealand 1916–1923
During the Great War most New Zealand sports bodies restricted their competitions in some way. A rhetoric against ‘sporting shirkers’ proliferated and was reinforced when the New Zealand government introduced military conscription in 1916 and adopted a trenchant attitude against any who were unwilling to serve. After the Great War the New Zealand Returned Soldier's Association (RSA) requested that regional and national sports bodies ban known con…
Sport and the British World, 1900–1930: Amateurism and national identity in Australasia and beyond, by Erik Nielsen
Although it is more than four decades since W. F. Mandle's first excursions into the relationship between cricket and Australian nationalism, academic historians in Australasia have generally conti
They Came to Sneer, and Remained to Cheer’: Interpreting the 1934–35 England Women’s Cricket Tour to Australia and New Zealand
This paper focuses generally on the history of women’s cricket during the earlier twentieth century, primarily on the 1934–35 England women’s cricket tour of Australia and New Zealand, and more so on the New Zealand dimension. The tour occurred at a critical time for women’s team sport in both countries in that from the 1920s consistent local and then national competitions brought continuity to previously fragmented activities. Hence the tour pro…
He is Our Opponent, Not Our Enemy’: Two Rugby Tours and Australasian Perceptions of Japan during the 1930s
This paper explores aspects of the Australian (1934) and New Zealand (1936) universities rugby union tours of Japan. These were conducted at a time when Australasian understandings of Japan were very limited – notwithstanding a number of very positive Japanese sporting excursions to Australia from the late 1920s. Equally this was a period when a rapidly modernizing and expansionist Japan was engendering contrasting reactions from the internationa…
Drugs, Denial, and Deflection: 1972, The Year New Zealand Sport Confronted Doping
Contemporaneously described as the unfortunate Games, the New Zealand team experience at the Munich Olympic Games was clouded by the Israeli hostage tragedy, and a series of controversies involving sex, amateurism and team mismanagement. However, the Munich Games also took place against an international background of overt political interference in sport and endemic drug use amongst athletes, juxtaposed with immature anti-doping systems. Using ar…
You Are Absolutely Indifferent to the Call of Your King’: Horse Racing, War and Politics in New Zealand 1914–18
As in other countries, the continuance of sport in New Zealand during the First World War was the subject of intense public debate, and especially in the case of horse racing as arguably the most widely followed sport in the country but also one that had been under attack from religious and moral reformers for several decades. Influential racing leaders argued that their activities were vital to the economy, tax revenue and maintaining morale in …
We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand
Despite growing interest in the origins of sports medicine, there has been little academic attention paid to the development of healthcare in New Zealand sport. Using primary archival sources as well as contemporaneous literature from the post-world war period to the founding of the New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine (NZFSM) in 1963, this manuscript addresses this knowledge gap. By the mid-twentieth century, public health in New Zealand ha…
Debating Racial Hierarchy and the Exclusion of Māori from the 1928 All Blacks Rugby Tour to South Africa
The announcement by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union in 1927 that no Māori players would be selected for the following year’s All Blacks tour to South Africa, prompted heated debate within New Zealand. While some insisted that the Union should not send a team unless it was fully representative of a country in which Māori and Pākehā apparently enjoyed very harmonious relations, others argued that the exclusion was necessary to protect Māori fr…
The worst time of year in Rome for the Olympics’: Lessons and legacies in healthcare from the 1960 Olympic Games
The provision of medical support for athletes during the Olympic Games has been a feature of each Olympic event. Prior to 1960, medical services were largely utilitarian in nature, frequently relying on military medical services and focused on providing only the essential medical support to athletes, support staff and spectators during the games. However, the appointment of Professor Luigi Gedda to lead the Medical and Scientific Committee for Ro…
Who Walked against Time’: Nineteenth Century Intersections of Pedestrianism and Medicine
During the nineteenth century, both medicine and sport were transitioning into recognizably modern identities but no formal relationship between the two existed. It has been suggested that the medical profession had little engagement with sport during this period. One sport that was particularly popular during the nineteenth century was pedestrianism in which athletes performed a range of endurance walking challenges for money and fame. While it …
Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia
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