
Richard Keith WrightAuckland University of Technology | AUT · School of Sport and Recreation
Richard Keith Wright
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Richard Keith Wright is a leisure sociologist within the Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), Auckland University of Technology. Richard’s research focuses of Active Ageing, Sports Event legacies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport and Sport for Social Change and Sustainable Development. He is an advocate of creative analytical practice (storytelling) and explores sport leadership and management from a the serious leisure perspective
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In 2018, the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand launched the Five Ways to Wellbeing, consisting of five actions adapted from those first created by the New Economic Foundation. These actions are designed to improve physical, psychological and sociological wellbeing in everyday life. They are: give; be active; keep learning; take notice; and co...
The sudden rise of coronavirus in the world had various effects on the sports industry. Nevertheless, sports organizations around the world adopted new and different methods to manage the crisis, which in turn, enriched global knowledge of sports management. Also, some industries changed their products and adapted their structure and performance ac...
The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis management strategies adopted by world leaders across the globe in 2020 impacted the work-life balance of billions of people. Entire populations were forced to stay at home and maintain a safe distance from family members, friends, colleagues, and customers. Occupational devotion is defined as a feeling of st...
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council's (WTTC) most recent reports, one in every ten jobs (an estimated 330 million) is influenced if not directly supported by travel and tourism-related activity, making it one of the world's largest economic sectors. Whilst the boundaries that separate adventure tourism from active/sport tourism are bl...
I seek to demonstrate the extent to which meaningful truth(s) can be extracted from a work of memorable literary fiction. This evocative autoethnography employs elements of Creative Analytical Practice (CAP) within a trilogy of short stories (episodes) each inspired by ‘Shoeless Joe’, the fictional novel that provided the inspiration for the fantas...
Cricket is a team sport that dates back to the 13th Century. Its many traditions and terminologies are not the easiest to explain to someone who has never seen it before, or indeed to someone watching it live for the very first time. In 2018, over a thousand Test Match Cricket spectators were approached at two 5‑day Test Matches between New Zealand...
In terms of community-focused sport provision, the Aotearoa/New Zealand market place has traditionally been dominated by the small- to medium-sized, volunteer run, not-for-profit incorporated society. A change in consumer behaviour habits over the past couple of decades, however, has led to the emergence of lifestyle entrepreneurs hoping to turn th...
Sometimes it is easier to not think too long or hard about the future, and to just accept that ‘what will be, will be’ (that the future is pre-determined or out of our control). My paper invites you to consider the application of socially-constructed creative analytical practice (CAP) within the production and consumption of critical sports event t...
This book provides insights into the development and management of sacred journeys, and the varying motivations for undertaking such journeys. The book is divided into three distinct parts. Part 1 aims to contribute towards the development of theoretical perspectives in the field. Part 2 undertakes studies of the processes and impacts of managing m...
It started on Friday 21st April 2017. That was the opening day of a multi-sport event that involved 24,905 participants, 1,094 non-playing officials and 3,216 volunteers. It was a day that I had been waiting for since March 2012. It was a day I spent largely by myself, surrounded by likeminded active participants and hobbyists from all over 100 dif...
This is a true story about the active sport tourists encountered at the 17th World Veterans Championships (WVC 2014), with a particular focus on the movements and memories of the world's oldest international table tennis player. Through the employment of creative analytical practice and, more specifically, creative non-fiction, I offer an (auto)eth...
Project based learning (PBL) facilitators seek to establish long-term understanding by encouraging students to team up, take control of their own educational environments, and embrace the knowledge gained through personal experience. This article offers a new contextualized perspective to an already expansive body of academic knowledge, much of whi...
The past decade has seen a noticeable rise in the number of people embracing autoethnography as an “alternate” research methodology. As a result, a plethora of first-person narratives and pieces of creative non-fiction now exist for truth-seeking scholars to access for authentic inspiration. The author’s unique contribution to the ongoing conversat...
Sports event tourism has rapidly evolved into one of the most fashionable facets of the 21st Century. As a result, staging high-profile fixtures are increasingly being seen as a prominent method of strengthening a destination's domestic and international image. Despite the plethora of academic interest in special event management, there remains an...