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2025

Journal Article

Water is a conductor: outdoor swimming as social infrastructure of care and connectivity

Olive, Rebecca and Schnioffsky, Bess (2025). Water is a conductor: outdoor swimming as social infrastructure of care and connectivity. Leisure Studies, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/02614367.2025.2580008

Water is a conductor: outdoor swimming as social infrastructure of care and connectivity

2025

Journal Article

Swimming with sharks: Drones, social media and ocean relationalities

Olive, Rebecca (2025). Swimming with sharks: Drones, social media and ocean relationalities. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 8 (4) 25148486251345997, 1371-1388. doi: 10.1177/25148486251345997

Swimming with sharks: Drones, social media and ocean relationalities

2024

Journal Article

‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting

Irving, Rohann, Olive, Rebecca, Phillips, Murray G. and Carah, Nicholas (2024). ‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting. Leisure Studies, 1. doi: 10.1080/02614367.2024.2364788

‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting

2024

Journal Article

Concussion’s Past: An Introduction

Townsend, Stephen, Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary and Olive, Rebecca (2024). Concussion’s Past: An Introduction. Journal of Sport History, 51 (2), 2-14. doi: 10.5406/21558450.51.2.02

Concussion’s Past: An Introduction

2024

Journal Article

Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA

Stephens, Elizabeth, Offord, Baden, Slater, Lisa, Khorana, Sukhmani, Noble, Greg, Gibson, Mark, Montgomery, Lola and Olive, Rebecca (2024). Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA. Continuum, 37 (6), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2023.2296343

Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA

2023

Journal Article

The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand

Wheaton, Belinda and Olive, Rebecca (2023). The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand. Qualitative Research, 24 (5), 1162-1185. doi: 10.1177/14687941231216643

The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand

2023

Journal Article

Oceans of knowledge: navigating ecologies of time and place

Olive, Rebecca (2023). Oceans of knowledge: navigating ecologies of time and place. Sporting Traditions, 40 (1), 19-30.

Oceans of knowledge: navigating ecologies of time and place

2023

Journal Article

A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices

Toffoletti, Kim, Thorpe, Holly, Olive, Rebecca, Pavlidis, Adele and Moran, Claire (2023). A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices. New Media & Society, 27 (1), 43-61. doi: 10.1177/14614448231171560

A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices

2023

Journal Article

Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity

Olive, Rebecca (2023). Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity. Leisure Studies, 42 (5), 679-692. doi: 10.1080/02614367.2022.2149842

Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity

2022

Journal Article

Connection is key when there's no planet B: the need to innovate environmental science communication with transdisciplinary approaches

Burrows, Stephen, Olive, Rebecca, O'Brien, Stacey and Galloway, Tamara (2022). Connection is key when there's no planet B: the need to innovate environmental science communication with transdisciplinary approaches. Science of the Total Environment, 853 158435, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158435

Connection is key when there's no planet B: the need to innovate environmental science communication with transdisciplinary approaches

2022

Journal Article

‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals

Olive, Rebecca, Townsend, Stephen and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). ‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58 (3) 10126902221107467, 431-454. doi: 10.1177/10126902221107467

‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals

2021

Journal Article

Sustainability in the Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: an ecofeminist analysis

Olive, Rebecca and Enright, Eimear (2021). Sustainability in the Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: an ecofeminist analysis. Sport, Education and Society, 26 (4), 389-402. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.1888709

Sustainability in the Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: an ecofeminist analysis

2021

Journal Article

Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

Wheaton, Belinda, Waiti, Jordan T. A., Olive, Rebecca and Kearns, Robin (2021). Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (2) 450, 450-20. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020450

Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021

Journal Article

Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea

Olive, Rebecca and Wheaton, Belinda (2021). Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 45 (1), 3-19. doi: 10.1177/0193723520950549

Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea

2021

Journal Article

Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure

Olive, Rebecca, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2021). Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure. Annals of Leisure Research, 24 (1), 13-28. doi: 10.1080/11745398.2019.1624181

Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure

2021

Journal Article

Visibility and vulnerability on Instagram: negotiating safety in women’s online-offline fitness spaces

Toffoletti, Kim, Thorpe, Holly, Pavlidis, Adele, Olive, Rebecca and Moran, Claire (2021). Visibility and vulnerability on Instagram: negotiating safety in women’s online-offline fitness spaces. Leisure Sciences, 45 (8), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/01490400.2021.1884628

Visibility and vulnerability on Instagram: negotiating safety in women’s online-offline fitness spaces

2021

Journal Article

Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward

Toffoletti, Kim, Olive, Rebecca, Thorpe, Holly and Pavlidis, Adele (2021). Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13 (1), 11-25. doi: 10.1080/2159676x.2020.1836513

Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward

2020

Journal Article

Questioning representations of athletes with elevated testosterone levels in elite women’s sports: a critical policy analysis

Brömdal, Annette, Olive, Rebecca and Walker, Brooke (2020). Questioning representations of athletes with elevated testosterone levels in elite women’s sports: a critical policy analysis. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 12 (4), 699-715. doi: 10.1080/19406940.2020.1834432

Questioning representations of athletes with elevated testosterone levels in elite women’s sports: a critical policy analysis

2020

Journal Article

Sinking and Floating on a Shoreless Sea: Co-Reading ‘The Fool and His Inheritance’

Mills, Catriona, Olive, Rebecca and Clark, Nina (2020) Sinking and Floating on a Shoreless Sea: Co-Reading ‘The Fool and His Inheritance’. Paradoxa, 31 271-292.

Sinking and Floating on a Shoreless Sea: Co-Reading ‘The Fool and His Inheritance’

2019

Journal Article

The trouble with newcomers: women, localism and the politics of surfing

Olive, Rebecca (2019). The trouble with newcomers: women, localism and the politics of surfing. Journal of Australian Studies, 43 (1), 39-54. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1574861

The trouble with newcomers: women, localism and the politics of surfing