Recent Member Publications

If you are a SAANZ member and have a recent publication, email online@saanz.net with the details. Members’ names are in bold.


Birch, O., Adams, P., Cohen, B., & Newcombe, D. (2025). The Autonomy Paradox and Performing Dependence—Responsibility and Resistance at an Opioid Substitution Treatment Service. Contemporary Drug Problems, 0(0).

Chubb, L. A., Nickels, H., Beddoe, L., Guild, G., & Joy, E. (2025). Supporting choice, preventing harm: Social workers’ knowledge gaps and ethical challenges with assisted dying in Aotearoa New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 37(2), 77-92.

Cohen, B. M. (2026). Culture and Society: A Critical Introduction. Springer Nature.

Friedlander, A., Thorpe, H., Nelson, M., & Gibbons, A. (2026). Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue: Sport, Menstrual Tracking Apps and More-Than-Hormonal Bodies. Qualitative Inquiry, 32(3-4), 298-310.

Gibbons, A. E., Pedlar, C., Varner, H. K. et. al (2024). Moving from ethnic exclusions to cultural safety: how is athlete ethnicity discussed in research on menstrual health in sports? A scoping review. British Journal of Sports Medicine, Published Online First. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2023-107449

Gibbons, A., Thorpe, H., Hemi, K. V., Bruinvels, G., Pedlar, C., & Hamilton, B. (2025). “My menstruation journey in sport was sad and lonely”: The menstruation experiences of Pacific sports women in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 0(0).

Howland, P. J. (Ed.). (2025). Time and Alcohol: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere!. Taylor & Francis.

Ibeka, V. (2025). “I don’t really feel a big difference between an international and the locals”: Exploring educational migrants’ experience of New Zealand as a study and migration destination. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 34(4), 631-652.

Ireland-Blake, N., Cram, F., Dew, K., Bacharach, S., Snelling, J., Stone, P., … & Filoche, S. (2025). “Knowledge was clearly associated with education.” epistemic positioning in the context of informed choice: a scoping review and secondary qualitative analysis. BMC medical ethics, 26(1), 1.

Jones, G., & Cohen, B. (2025). Sentencing the ‘Psychopath’: How Labelling Affects Judges’ Decision Making in Aotearoa/New Zealand. New Zealand Sociology, 40(2), 1-15.

Kamran, R., & Burns, E. A. (2025). Getting behind workplace bullying of women academics and professional women in Pakistan’s universities and corporations. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 26(4), 637-649.

Matthews, K. R., Bond, S., & Nairn, K. (2025). Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand. Social Movement Studies, 1-18.

McMillan, C. (2025). A Crisis of (Environmental) Imagination: Sport and the Limits to Environmental Action in Aotearoa New Zealand. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1-19.

McMillan, C. (2025). Sustainable Symptoms: Olympism, Air Transportation, and Fetishistic Disavowal. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 01937235251327102.

McMillan, C. (2026). A mediated collision: nationalism, mediacricket, and Indian cricketing hegemony. Sport in Society, 1-15.

Mills, A., Low, G., & Lindsay Latimer, C. (2026). Barriers and Limitations of Employment in Desistance: Exploring the Experiences of Men Leaving Prison in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 70(1), 104-124.

Nazari, H., Oleson, J. C., & De Haan, I. (2025). Socioeconomic Status and Child Maltreatment: A Critical Literature Review. Social Sciences, 14(6), 331.

Nelson, M. (2025). Stronger together: Towards constructive conversations about strength differences, gender, and sex. Sport, Education and Society, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2024.2338401

Nelson, M., Thorpe, H., Wheaton, B., Clarke, G. H., & Sims, S. (2026). Eternal Wound, Performance Enhancement, or Minor Inconvenience?: Managing the Menstrual Cycle in Olympic Weightlifting. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723526142437

Nelson, M., Thorpe, H., Wheaton, B., Clarke, G. H., & Sims, S. (2025). Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902251385612

Nelson, M., Thorpe, H., Wheaton, B., Clarke, G. H., & Sims, S. (2026). Mapping un/contested knowledge of sex/gender in high performance sport: Applying Actor-Network Theory to women’s Olympic Weightlifting. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 18(2), 210–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2025.2578839

Rankine, M., Beddoe, L., Weld, N., & Davys, A. (2025). Supervisors as the beacons of hope in the “new normal”: the opportunities and lessons learned. The Clinical Supervisor, 1-24.

Rocha, Z. L. (2025). “ … soul food or Indian food, depending on what spices you chose”: theoretical synergies, mixedness and decolonial approaches to critical mixed race studies. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2598398

Singh, S. (2025). NEGOTIATION AND AGENCY: HOW DO WOMEN JOURNALISTS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA NAVIGATE GENDERED PRESSURES? New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 27(1), 73–94.

Young, J. E., Lyons, A. C., Dew, K., & Egan, R. (2026). Is there a right time to die? How patients, families and assisted dying providers decide on and anticipate a date with death. Death Studies, 50(1), 103–115. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2414277

Zeng, Z., & Cohen, B. M. (2026). The SK Group Scandal and Systemic Corporate Crime: Structural, Institutional, and Cultural Logics in South Korea’s Chaebol System. Asian Journal of Criminology, 21(1), 18.