Grant Cushman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6194403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Cushman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Cushman |
| SIGNATURE | CUSHMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lincoln University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Environmental influences on healthy and active ageing
This paper explores the evidence for environmental influences on older adult health and activity participation, identifies current knowledge gaps and limitations within this literature, and offers recommendations for future research via a systematic appraisal of 83 quantitative and qualitative studies. A Cochrane-type review procedure was followed, which incorporated structured database searches, inclusion and exclusion criteria, quality appraisa…
A place for visual research methods in the field of leisure studies? Evidence from two studies of older adults’ active leisure
Few researchers have explored perceptions of the local environment as a potential precursor to older adults’ active leisure participation; fewer still have employed visual research methods as a tool for examining the modalities of environmental influences on leisure behaviour. This article introduces leisure researchers to the visual research techniques of Q method with photographs and photovoice and highlights the opportunities and challenges re…
One Who Does Not Make His Living’
In 1892, cash amateur bicycle racing jumped the Tasman Sea from Melbourne, where it had been introduced in 1890, and the New Zealand Bicycle Union (NZBU) was founded to administer cash amateur bicycle racing in that colony. The premise was that cash amateur cyclists raced for cash prizes, but did not earn a living by doing so. Despite this, cash amateurs were immediately branded ‘professionals’ by the New Zealand Cyclists’ Alliance and the New Ze…
Outdoor recreation and gendered space
The purpose of this paper is to explore complexities associated with determining gendered recreational spaces in the context of ‘masculine’ outdoor recreational pursuits, using results from two data sets collected in New South Wales, Australia and North Canterbury, New Zealand, 2006–2008. The first data set is based on face-to-face interviews with 26 male recreational hunters, fly-fishers and scuba divers in Sydney and Christchurch. The second is…
Developing a National Leisure Research Strategy for New Zealand
This paper reports on a project relating to the development of a National Research Strategy for Leisure, Arts, Outdoor Recreation, Sport, and Community Recreation in New Zealand. The purpose of the strategy — as was the case with an earlier project in Australia, the Australian Leisure Research Agenda — is to stimulate the development, dissemination, and use of research in leisure‐related fields. In addition to raising selected issues in the devel…
Neighbourhood deprivation and older adults' preferences for and perceptions of active leisure participation
This paper examines the influence of neighbourhood deprivation on older adults’ preferences for and perceptions of active leisure participation using an original research approach. A mixed‐methods procedure, incorporating Q methodology and semi‐structured interviews, was undertaken with 63 elderly residents from high‐ and low‐deprivation neighbourhoods in Christchurch, New Zealand. Analysis of Q sort data and interview transcripts revealed that r…
A Response to Re-framing Questions
(2008). A Response to Re-framing Questions: Assessing the Significance of Leisure. World Leisure Journal: Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 138-145
Leisure time physical activity differences among older adults from diverse socioeconomic neighborhoods
Bringing Men Back In? Male recreational hunters, divers and fly‐fishers and the creation of recreational space
This paper investigates the extent to which men who engage in the types of ‘blokes’ leisure which involve trips away from home — recreational hunting, diving, and fishing — negotiate their recreational space in consultation with significant others, notably their partners. The research is based upon 28 in‐depth, tape‐recorded interviews conducted in Sydney, Australia and Christchurch, New Zealand.2 The authors acknowledge the financial support giv…
World Leisure Participation
The social, cultural and economic significance of leisure is increasing around the world. Watching television, reading, socializing with friends and family, playing sport, attending entertainment, arts and sporting events, and visiting the coast, the countryside, historic sites, museums, galleries and exhibitions are important aspects of modern life, and providing for these activities is an increasingly significant feature of modern economies. In…
Behavioral conceptualization of tourism and leisure
The New Generation of Leisure Surveys—Implications for Research on Everyday Life
Managing the New Zealand Leisure and Tourism Boom
With the focus on New Zealand, this paper attempts to identify some of the management skills needed to manage a leisure and tourism industry boom. It considers the context in which such a boom might take place and various associated issues and problems. These include uneven benefits of leisure and tourism growth between regions resulting in increased divisiveness, depletion of non-renewable leisure and tourism resources, increasing negative socia…
Behavioral conceptualization of tourism and leisure
A place for visual research methods in the field of leisure studies? Evidence from two studies of older adults’ active leisure
Few researchers have explored perceptions of the local environment as a potential precursor to older adults’ active leisure participation; fewer still have employed visual research methods as a tool for examining the modalities of environmental influences on leisure behaviour. This article introduces leisure researchers to the visual research techniques of Q method with photographs and photovoice and highlights the opportunities and challenges re…
Leisure time physical activity differences among older adults from diverse socioeconomic neighborhoods
Outdoor recreation and gendered space
The purpose of this paper is to explore complexities associated with determining gendered recreational spaces in the context of ‘masculine’ outdoor recreational pursuits, using results from two data sets collected in New South Wales, Australia and North Canterbury, New Zealand, 2006–2008. The first data set is based on face-to-face interviews with 26 male recreational hunters, fly-fishers and scuba divers in Sydney and Christchurch. The second is…
Bringing Men Back In? Male recreational hunters, divers and fly‐fishers and the creation of recreational space
This paper investigates the extent to which men who engage in the types of ‘blokes’ leisure which involve trips away from home — recreational hunting, diving, and fishing — negotiate their recreational space in consultation with significant others, notably their partners. The research is based upon 28 in‐depth, tape‐recorded interviews conducted in Sydney, Australia and Christchurch, New Zealand.2 The authors acknowledge the financial support giv…
One Who Does Not Make His Living’
In 1892, cash amateur bicycle racing jumped the Tasman Sea from Melbourne, where it had been introduced in 1890, and the New Zealand Bicycle Union (NZBU) was founded to administer cash amateur bicycle racing in that colony. The premise was that cash amateur cyclists raced for cash prizes, but did not earn a living by doing so. Despite this, cash amateurs were immediately branded ‘professionals’ by the New Zealand Cyclists’ Alliance and the New Ze…
Developing a National Leisure Research Strategy for New Zealand
This paper reports on a project relating to the development of a National Research Strategy for Leisure, Arts, Outdoor Recreation, Sport, and Community Recreation in New Zealand. The purpose of the strategy — as was the case with an earlier project in Australia, the Australian Leisure Research Agenda — is to stimulate the development, dissemination, and use of research in leisure‐related fields. In addition to raising selected issues in the devel…
A Response to Re-framing Questions
(2008). A Response to Re-framing Questions: Assessing the Significance of Leisure. World Leisure Journal: Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 138-145
The New Generation of Leisure Surveys—Implications for Research on Everyday Life
Managing the New Zealand Leisure and Tourism Boom
With the focus on New Zealand, this paper attempts to identify some of the management skills needed to manage a leisure and tourism industry boom. It considers the context in which such a boom might take place and various associated issues and problems. These include uneven benefits of leisure and tourism growth between regions resulting in increased divisiveness, depletion of non-renewable leisure and tourism resources, increasing negative socia…
Managing the New Zealand Leisure and Tourism Boom
With the focus on New Zealand, this paper attempts to identify some of the management skills needed to manage a leisure and tourism industry boom. It considers the context in which such a boom might take place and various associated issues and problems. These include uneven benefits of leisure and tourism growth between regions resulting in increased divisiveness, depletion of non-renewable leisure and tourism resources, increasing negative socia…
The New Generation of Leisure Surveys—Implications for Research on Everyday Life
Behavioral conceptualization of tourism and leisure
World Leisure Participation
The social, cultural and economic significance of leisure is increasing around the world. Watching television, reading, socializing with friends and family, playing sport, attending entertainment, arts and sporting events, and visiting the coast, the countryside, historic sites, museums, galleries and exhibitions are important aspects of modern life, and providing for these activities is an increasingly significant feature of modern economies. In…
A Response to Re-framing Questions
(2008). A Response to Re-framing Questions: Assessing the Significance of Leisure. World Leisure Journal: Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 138-145
Leisure time physical activity differences among older adults from diverse socioeconomic neighborhoods
Bringing Men Back In? Male recreational hunters, divers and fly‐fishers and the creation of recreational space
This paper investigates the extent to which men who engage in the types of ‘blokes’ leisure which involve trips away from home — recreational hunting, diving, and fishing — negotiate their recreational space in consultation with significant others, notably their partners. The research is based upon 28 in‐depth, tape‐recorded interviews conducted in Sydney, Australia and Christchurch, New Zealand.2 The authors acknowledge the financial support giv…
Neighbourhood deprivation and older adults' preferences for and perceptions of active leisure participation
This paper examines the influence of neighbourhood deprivation on older adults’ preferences for and perceptions of active leisure participation using an original research approach. A mixed‐methods procedure, incorporating Q methodology and semi‐structured interviews, was undertaken with 63 elderly residents from high‐ and low‐deprivation neighbourhoods in Christchurch, New Zealand. Analysis of Q sort data and interview transcripts revealed that r…
Developing a National Leisure Research Strategy for New Zealand
This paper reports on a project relating to the development of a National Research Strategy for Leisure, Arts, Outdoor Recreation, Sport, and Community Recreation in New Zealand. The purpose of the strategy — as was the case with an earlier project in Australia, the Australian Leisure Research Agenda — is to stimulate the development, dissemination, and use of research in leisure‐related fields. In addition to raising selected issues in the devel…
Outdoor recreation and gendered space
The purpose of this paper is to explore complexities associated with determining gendered recreational spaces in the context of ‘masculine’ outdoor recreational pursuits, using results from two data sets collected in New South Wales, Australia and North Canterbury, New Zealand, 2006–2008. The first data set is based on face-to-face interviews with 26 male recreational hunters, fly-fishers and scuba divers in Sydney and Christchurch. The second is…
One Who Does Not Make His Living’
In 1892, cash amateur bicycle racing jumped the Tasman Sea from Melbourne, where it had been introduced in 1890, and the New Zealand Bicycle Union (NZBU) was founded to administer cash amateur bicycle racing in that colony. The premise was that cash amateur cyclists raced for cash prizes, but did not earn a living by doing so. Despite this, cash amateurs were immediately branded ‘professionals’ by the New Zealand Cyclists’ Alliance and the New Ze…
Environmental influences on healthy and active ageing
This paper explores the evidence for environmental influences on older adult health and activity participation, identifies current knowledge gaps and limitations within this literature, and offers recommendations for future research via a systematic appraisal of 83 quantitative and qualitative studies. A Cochrane-type review procedure was followed, which incorporated structured database searches, inclusion and exclusion criteria, quality appraisa…
A place for visual research methods in the field of leisure studies? Evidence from two studies of older adults’ active leisure
Few researchers have explored perceptions of the local environment as a potential precursor to older adults’ active leisure participation; fewer still have employed visual research methods as a tool for examining the modalities of environmental influences on leisure behaviour. This article introduces leisure researchers to the visual research techniques of Q method with photographs and photovoice and highlights the opportunities and challenges re…
Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Recreation (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · Leisure studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (4 works)