PP0626 - Sport Business Management in New Zealand and Australia, 1st Edition | AU/NZ

Sarah Leberman is a Professor and the Associate Head of School in the School of Management at Massey University in Palmerston North. She has a PhD in Management and an MA (Applied) in Recreation Administration from Victoria University in Wellington, as well as an MA in Geography from Cambridge University in England. Prior to her academic life she managed the Recreation and Sport Centre at Massey University.

Chris Collins is Chief Executive at the Eastern Institute of Technology, a large public sector tertiary education institution based in Hawke¿s Bay. He has wide experience in sport, both as a participant, senior level coach, in governance, senior management and as an academic. His undergraduate study was in Physical Education at Otago University, with post graduate studies being completed at Victoria University Recreation Administration. He spent 17 years employed in the University sector, at Victoria and Massey University, before taking up executive roles in the Institute of Technology sector in 2002. At Massey University he served as the University¿s Director or Sport and Recreation, responsible for facility development, staffing, facilities and programmes, and for a while also concurrently headed the University¿s sport management and coaching academic programme, before moving into senior management roles heading student services and as Regional Registrar. Prior to his current CEO role, he was the General Manager and Dean of Health, Science and Technology, at UCOL. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New Zealand Academy of Sport ¿ Central, and the Regional Indoor Sport and Events Centre Trust in Hawke¿s Bay. He was co-editor of two previous texts on sport management, has contributed chapters to several other academic publications, and is Editor of the companion text Sport in New Zealand Society, which was first published in 2000.

Linda Trenberth is presently head of the Management Department and Assistant Dean Learning and Teaching at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests include workplace bullying and stress, workplace stress and coping, human resource management and performance, and of course sport management. She was an Olympic gymnast and had a significant impact in setting up the very successful sport management programme at Massey University in New Zealand and then at Birkbeck, University of London in the UK. She has published four texts in sport management and has now moved her career in the direction of senior management in Higher Education.