Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
I joined the Faculty of Education in 2018 as Professor of Sport, Health and Physical Education. I have worked in tertiary education since 1992. My research and teaching is primarily within the broader sociology of sport and health/physical education fields and is underpinned by a critical interest to promote issues of social justice. I am particularly interested in how people are shaped by the workings of power and how, in turn, power relations can be shaped by people. Through examining how power ‘works’, I am hopeful that we can make a positive difference in people’s lives, particularly in the contexts of sport, health and physical education, active leisure, ‘embodiment’ and exercise.
Prior to coming to Monash University, I have worked at the University of Auckland (as Associate Dean Postgraduate Research within the Faculty of Education and Social Work), University of Waikato and Auckland University of Technology. I have also taught health and physical education and economics at secondary schools.
Research interests
I am a critical qualitative researcher who primarily draws from post-structural theorists to examine socio-cultural and pedagogical issues associated with sport, HPE and exercise, particularly in relation to: injury and pain; gender/sexualities; health, fitness, obesity; embodiment; sports media, the Olympics and elite sport governance, youth sport and coaching. My doctorate drew on Foucauldian tools to critically examine rugby union’s influence on masculinities and gender relations in Aotearoa New Zealand.
I currently serve on the editorial boards of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport (since 2014) and Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education. I have previously been the associate editor for the Sociology of Sport Journal (2010-12) and I have served on the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal (2008-09) Annals of Leisure Research (2006-2018) and the Asia Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education (2010-2017).
I am the co-author of Foucault, Sport and Exercise: Power, Knowledge and transforming the Self (with Pirkko Markula) and Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure (with Robert Rinehart and Jayne Caudwell) and co-editor of Examining Sport Histories (with Murray Phillips). I have also co-edited two special editions of Annals of Leisure Research (Vol 14, 2011, double volume: 181 p.: with Ruth Sibson) and (Vol 10, 2007, double volume 337 p.: with Tess Kay and John Jenkins).
I am currently co-editing a book with Hakan Larsson and Göran Gerdin that aims to explore the difference that critical research has made in the context of sport, physical and health education.
Supervision interests
I am always interested in talking to prospective graduate students about their research interests and how I could help them. I am particularly interested in working with students who aspire to be critical qualitative researchers. Given my interdisciplinary background I have supervised students who have drawn on a range of methods (e.g. ethnography, Foucualdian analysis, narrative inquiry, in-depth interviews, participant-observation, genealogy, 'new' materialist approaches, and phenomenology) and have examined a range of topics, including:
• E-motion: guilt and women’s bodies
• Performing masculinities in school physical education
• Lifestyle sports, participation and ethics
• A Foucauldian genealogy of women’s football in New Zealand
• Formula one, ‘agency’ and the fan
• Using social theories to explore female youth physical culture (snow-boarding)
• International students: linguistics, power and schooling
• Schooling, physical culture and homosexualities
• Chinese women’s understandings of western sport
Research area keywords
- sport sociology
- physical education
- health education
- genders/sexualities
- pain and injury
- Foucault
- Qualitative Research Methodologies
- poststructuralism
- (new) materialism
- pleasure/affect
- critical research
- Ethnography
Network
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Research Output 1990 2019
Coaching and ethical self-creation: problematizing the "efficient tennis machine"
Gerdin, G., Pringle, R. & Crocket, H., 2019, In : Sports Coaching Review. 8, 1, p. 25-42 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education: How to Make a Difference
Pringle, R. (ed.), Larsson, H. (ed.) & Gerdin, G. (ed.), 2019, 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge. 270 p. (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review
Introduction: are we making a difference?
Pringle, R., Larsson, H. (ed.) & Gerdin, G., 2019, Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education: How to Make a Difference. Pringle, R., Larsson, H. & Gerdin, G. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 1-24 24 p. (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
Review of Sport and the New Zealanders: A History
Pringle, R., 2019, In : Australian Historical Studies. 50, 4, p. 553-554 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Other › peer-review
"What do we want? When do we want it? Now!”: Some concluding observations
Pringle, R., Larsson, H. & Gerdin, G., 2019, Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education: How to Make a Difference. Pringle, R., Larsson, H. & Gerdin, G. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 241-251 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
Prizes
Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) Thesis of the Year Award
Richard Pringle (Recipient), 2005
Prize: National/international honour
Australian Society for Sport History, Anthology Award
Richard Pringle (Recipient) & Murray Phillips (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Honorable Mention for the Sociology of Sport Journal Award
Richard Pringle (Recipient) & Pirkko Markula (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Outstanding Book of the Year Award
Richard Pringle (Recipient) & Pirkko Markula (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Research Fellow Award
Richard Pringle (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities 1999 2010
- 2 Editorial responsibility
Sociology of Sport Journal (Journal)
Richard Pringle (Associate editor)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
Leisure experiences: Interpretation and action, 4th Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies Conference Proceedings (Journal)
Bevan Grant (Editor in chief), Richard Pringle (Editor in chief)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility