Trish Bradbury

Patricia Elizabeth Florence Bradbury is a New Zealand academic, who retired as a full professor at Massey University, specialising in sport management, in December 2023. In 2024, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to sport and education.

Academic career Bradbury completed a Master of Physical Education degree at the University of Ottawa. She then moved to New Zealand to take up a lecturing position at Massey University's Albany campus in 1993, where she was the programme leader, and initially the sole teacher, of the sports and recreation management programme. She completed a PhD titled Athletes doing it for themselves: self-coaching experiences of New Zealand Olympians at Massey in 2000. Bradbury remained at Massey and held a number of senior roles at the university, including university proctor.

Bradbury was a board member of the World Association of Sport Management, and held roles in the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, with Paralympics New Zealand, University and Tertiary Sport New Zealand, and Volleyball New Zealand.

Bradbury retired from the university in 2023.

Honours and awards Bradbury was awarded Massey University's Richard Buchanan Teaching Excellence Award and, after her retirement, the title Distinguished Friend of Massey.

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