Professor Kristine Toohey

Professor Kristine Toohey

Dip Education, B Arts, M Arts, PhD

Head (Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management), Griffith Business School

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Research expertise

  • Olympic Games, sport management, sport event managment, knowledge management
  • Sport and terrorism

Current teaching areas

  • Sport Development Systems
  • Sport Event Management
  • Sport in the Global Marketplace

Publications

Books

  • Toohey, K. and Veal, A. (2004) The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective, Oxon, UK: CABI (ISBN 0-85199-342-7) Chinese Translation.
  • Cashman, R. and Toohey, K. (2002) The Contribution of the Higher Education Sector to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Centre for Olympic Studies, UNSW (ISBN 0-7334-1910-0)
  • Toohey, K. (senior editor) (2002) Official Report of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad: Preparing for the Games (Volume 1), Sydney: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (ISBN 0-9579616-1-8)
  • Toohey, K. (senior editor) (2002) The Official Report of the Games of the XXVII. Olympiad: Celebrating the Games (Volume 11), Sydney: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (ISBN 0-9579616-0-x)

Book chapters

  • Toohey, K. (2006) Commonwealth Games, Folk origins, Folklore, Image, in Bartlett, R., Gratton, C. and Rolf, C. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 283-84; 535-56; 536-37; 646-48. (ISBN 0415-27713-2)
  • Frawley, S. and Toohey, K. (2005) Shaping Sport Competition: The SOCOG Sports Commission and the Planning and Delivery of Sport at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, in Guoth, N., Adair, D. and Coe, B. (Eds.), Beyond the Torch - Olympics and the Australian Culture, ASSH Special Series 17, pp. 15-28. ISBN 0-9757616-4-1.
  • Toohey, K. (2005) National Olympic Committees, in Kluka, D.A., Schilling, G., and Stier, W.F. (Eds.), Aspects of sport governance. Perspectives Volume V. Oxford: Meyer and Meyer Sports, pp. 33-50. ISBN 1-84126-132-7.
  • Toohey, K. (2005) The 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games Boycotts, in Kluka, D.A., Schilling, G., and Stier, W.F. (Eds.), Aspects of sport governance. Perspectives Volume V, Oxford: Meyer and Meyer Sports, pp. 79-92. ISBN 1-84126-132-7.
  • Toohey, K. and Halbwirth, S. (2004) Sydney Olympic Games Case study, in Allen, J. et al, Festival and Special Event Management, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 500-505. ISBN 0-470-80470-X.
  • Taylor, T. and Toohey, K. (2001) Sport and cultural diversity: why are the women being left out? in Gratton, C. and Henry, I. (Eds.), Sport in the city: the role of sport in economic and social regeneration, London: Routledge, pp. 204-213. ISBN 0-415-24349-1.

Refereed journal articles

  • Taylor, T. and Toohey, K. (2006) Security and spectator enjoyment at the Rugby World Cup 2003: Profiling visitor perceptions, Tourism Review International, (accepted)
  • Taylor, T. and Toohey, K. (2006) Impacts of terrorism related safety and security measures at a major sport event, Event Management, 9 (4), pp. 199-209.
  • Toohey, K. and Taylor, T. (2006) Here be savages, here be dragons, here be bad plumbing: Australian media representations of sport and terrorism, Sport in Society, 9 (1), pp. 71-94.
  • Cashman, R., Toohey, K., Darcy, S., Symons C. and Stewart, B. (2004) When the carnival is over: evaluating the outcomes of mega sporting events in Australia, Sporting Traditions, 21 (1), pp. 1-32.
  • Toohey, K., Taylor, T. and Lee, C. (2003) The FIFA World Cup 2002: the effects of terrorism on sports tourists, Journal of Sports Tourism, 8 (3), August, pp. 186-196.
  • Taylor, T. and Toohey, K. (2002) Behind the Veil: exploring the recreation needs of Muslim Women, Leisure, 26 (1/2), pp. 85-105.
  • Halbwirth, S. and Toohey, K. (2001) The Olympic Games and knowledge management; a case study of the Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, European Sport Management Quarterly, 1 (2), pp. 91- 111.

Refereed conference proceedings

  • Toohey, K. and Halbwirth, S. (2005) Sport Event Management and Knowledge Management: a useful partnership, The Impact of Events. Proceedings of the 2005 Events Management Research Conference, Sydney, July, pp. 302-314. ISBN 0 975095722
  • Taylor, T. and Toohey, K. (2004) Security and spectator enjoyment at the Rugby World Cup 2003. E. De Boever, M. Buelens and M.Maes (Eds.) Innovation in co-operation. 12th European Sport Management Congress, PVLO, Gent, Belgium, September, 63-64.
  • Toohey, K. (2004) An antipodean approach to rethinking the Olympics in the new millennium: should we turn the Games upside down, V. Klisouras, S. Kellis and I. Mourradtidis (Eds.), in Sport Science through the ages: Proceedings of the 2004 Pre-Olympic Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece, August, pp. 279-80.
  • Toohey, K. and Taylor, T. (2004) The Balance between security and spectator enjoyment: a case study of the rugby world cup 2003, V. Klisouras, S. Kellis and I. Mourradtidis (Eds.), in Sport Science through the ages: Proceedings of the 2004 Pre-Olympic Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece, August, pp. 283-284.
  • Taylor, T., Toohey, K. and Lee, C. (2003) Terrorism and sport tourism: The 2002 World Cup,in R. Carlson, A. Wahlberg and E. Fors (Eds.) Sport Management in a changing world. 11th European Sport Management Congress, Swedish Sports Confederation, Stockholm, September, 186-187.
  • Toohey, K., Taylor, T. and Lee, C. (2003) Terrorism and sport tourism: The World Cup, in Current Research, Future Strategies, Bridging Uncertainty, T. Griffin and R. Harris (Eds.) University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney: pp. 609-618.
  • Toohey, K. (2002) The social, economic, cultural, legacy and tourism impacts of the Sydney 2000 Games, International Conference for the success of the 2002 World Cup, Seoul, Korea: Dongguk University, pp. 109-123.

Conference proceedings

  • Halbwirth, S., Johanson, J. and Toohey, K. (2005) Sporting event websites: friend or foe, The 12th International Association for Sport Information Proceedings, Beijing, pp. 54-62.
  • Halbwirth, S. and Toohey, K. (2005) Leveraging Knowledge: sport and success, The 12th International Association for Sport Information Proceedings, Beijing, pp. 278-285.
  • Toohey, K., Sport information: where are we now?, The 12th International Association for Sport Information Proceedings, Beijing, pp. 2-10.
  • Toohey, K. (2004) Beijing 2008: lessons from Sydney 2000. Australian Universities International Alumni Convention, Hong Kong, December.
  • Toohey, K. and Taylor, T. ( 2003) Sport and terrorism in the Australian media: the flow-on effects of September 11, in Proceedings of the International Sociology of Sport Association, Sport and social order: challenges for theory and practice, Cologne, Germany, p. 150.
  • Toohey, K. (2002) Sponsoring and merchandising rights related to major sporting events: an Olympic history, Proceedings of the Union Internationale des Advocats Intenational Association of Lawyers 75th Anniversary Congress, CD Rom.
  • Toohey, K. and Taylor, T. (2002) Managing diversity in sport organisations: the after effects of September 11, 2001 Proceedings of the 12th Commonwealth International Sport Conference, Manchester.
  • Toohey, K. (2001) The Official Report of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad Sports Information in the Third Millennium: 11th IASI World Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, IOC, pp. 399-410.
  • Toohey, K. and Halbwirth, S. (2001) The Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and knowledge management: learning from experience, SPRIG Proceedings, Manchester, England, pp. 21-33.
  • Warning P., Toohey, K. and Ching, R. (2001) Mapping the discipline of the Olympic Games: an author co-citation analysis, Sports Information in the Third Millennium: 11th IASI World Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, IOC, pp. 339-345.

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