Lesley Ferkins | |
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Academic background | |
Education | Victoria University of Wellington |
Alma mater | Deakin University |
Thesis | Sport Governance: Developing strategic capability in national sport organisations (2007) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Deakin University Auckland University of Technology |
Lesley Ferkins is a New Zealand sports management academic and professor in the School of Sport and Recreation at Auckland University of Technology.
Ferkins graduated with an MA in recreation and leisure studies from Victoria University of Wellington in 1992. [1] After a PhD titled Sport Governance:Developing strategic capability in national sport organisations at Deakin University, [2] where she also worked as senior lecturer,Ferkins returned to New Zealand as associate professor at Unitec Institute of Technology. [1] In 2015 she moved to Auckland University of Technology as associate professor,rising to full professor in 2018. [3]
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