Baka, Richard

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2009

Baka, Richard (2009) Australian Initiatives Aimed at Addressing the children and Youth Physical Inactivity and Obesity Epidemic. In: 2009 ISCPES Regional Summit, Vancouver, Canada : ISCPES Regional Conference. Church, Anthony, Semotiuk, Darwin, Hess, Rob and Baka, Richard, eds. International Society for Comparative Physical Education & Sport, Williamstown, Vic., pp. 1-22.

Osler, Brett and Baka, Richard (2009) Golden Opportunities: Australia's Next Generation of High Performance Training Centres. In: 2009 ISCPES Regional Summit, Vancouver, Canada : ISCPES Regional Conference. Church, Anthony, Semotiuk, Darwin, Hess, Rob and Baka, Richard, eds. International Society for Comparative Physical Education & Sport, Williamstown, Vic., pp. 1-17.

Funk, Roger and Baka, Richard (2009) New Information Communication Technologies to Enhance Research and Teaching Collaboration and Work by Professional Associations. In: 2009 ISCPES Regional Summit, Vancouver, Canada : ISCPES Regional Conference. Church, Anthony, Semotiuk, Darwin, Hess, Rob and Baka, Richard, eds. International Society for Comparative Physical Education & Sport, Williamstown, Vic., pp. 1-12.

Baka, Richard (2009) Sports, Kids and Camps: A Cross Cultural Analysis. In: 2009 ISCPES Regional Summit, Vancouver, Canada : ISCPES Regional Conference. Church, Anthony, Semotiuk, Darwin, Hess, Rob and Baka, Richard, eds. International Society for Comparative Physical Education & Sport, Williamstown, Vic., pp. 1-12.

2010

Baka, Richard (2010) Global Initiatives Aimed at Addressing the Childhood Inactivity and Obesity Crisis. In: Global Perception: Sport Education, Teaching of Physical Education and Curriculum Studies. Ho, Walter and Ren, Hai, eds. Meyer & Meyer Sport , Adelaide, pp. 129-138.

Baka, Richard (2010) Winter Olympic Opening Games Ceremonies : Did Vancouver Try to Raise the Bar Too High? In: Rethinking Matters Olympic : Investigations into the Socio-Cultural Study of the Modern Olympic Movement. Barney, R, Forsyth, J and Heine, M, eds. International Centre for Olympic Research, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada, pp. 265-277.

Baka, Richard (2010) Olympic glory: an analysis of Australia's success at the Summer Olympics. Journal of Olympic History, 18 (3). pp. 6-16. ISSN 1085-5165

2011

Nawaz, Akhtar, Hess, Rob and Baka, Richard (2011) From Jinnah to Musharraf: Government Involvement in the Delivery of Elite Sport in Pakistan, 1947-2008. In: Sport, Culture and Society: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives. Burke, Michael, Hanlon, Clare and Thomen, Carl, eds. Maribyrnong Press, Hawthorn, Victoria, pp. 143-162.

2012

Baka, Richard (2012) Australia at the Olympic Winter Games: "A Late Bloomer". Journal of Olympic History, 29 (3). pp. 38-47. ISSN 1085-5165

Baka, Richard (2012) OIympic Houses: a comparative investigation between Canada, Germany and Australia. In: Problems, possibilities, and promising practices: critical dialogues on the Olympic and Paralympic games: Eleventh International Symposium for Olympic Research. Forsyth, J and Heine, M, eds. International centre for Olympic studies, Western University, Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, pp. 116-123.

2013

Baka, Richard (2013) A 'Home Away From Home': The Family and Friends Program of Canada Olympic House. In: On the Periphery: New Perspectives on the Olympic Movement. Baka, Richard and Hess, Rob, eds. Walla Walla Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 49-56.

Feindler, Fabian and Baka, Richard (2013) The German Olympic House: Setting and Standard for National Olympic Hospitality Houses. In: On the Periphery: New Perspectives on the Olympic Movement. Baka, Richard and Hess, Rob, eds. Walla Walla Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 41-48.

Winterton, Rachel and Hess, Rob (2013) Sideshow Alley? Australian Rules Football as a Demonstration Sport at the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games. In: On the Periphery: New Perspectives on the Olympic Movement. Baka, Richard and Hess, Rob, eds. Walla Walla Press, Petersham, NSW, pp. 75-80.

Abeza, G, Baka, Richard, Burton, Richard, O'Reilly, N and Seguin, B (2013) National Olympic Hospitality Houses: Objectives, Variations and Mini-Cases. In: On the Periphery: New Perspectives on the Olympic Movement. Baka, Richard and Hess, Rob, eds. Walla Walla Press, Petersham, NSW, pp. 33-40.

Baka, Richard (2013) 'Bucking the Trend': National Olympic Hospitality Houses in an Australian Context. In: On the Periphery: New Perspectives on the Olympic Movement. Baka, Richard and Hess, Rob, eds. Walla Walla Press, Petersham, NSW, pp. 57-64.

31 October 2014

Baka, Richard (2014) 'More Events, More Medals, More Interest!': The Growth and Expansion of the Winter Olympic Games. In: Intersections and Intersectionalities in Olympic and Paralympic studies. Twelfth International Symposium for Olympic Research. Forsyth, J, O'Bonsawin, C and Heine, M, eds. International Centre for Olympic Studies, London, Ontario, pp. 35-42.

19 November 2014

Watson, E, Baka, Richard and Wong, K (2014) Show Them the Money: Can Funding Australian Sport Get Results. [Video]

2015

Hess, Rob and Baka, Richard (2015) Victorian Institute of Sport. In: Sport in Victoria: A History. Nadel, D and Ryan, G, eds. Ryan Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 259-260.

24 June 2015

Baka, Richard (2015) On the Periphery: New Perspectives on the Olympic Movement: Olympic Houses. In: 20th Annual Congress of the European Congress of Sports Science, 24 June 2015-27 June 2015, Malmo, Sweden.

23 November 2015

Baka, Richard (2015) New Perspectives on the Olympic Movement: : a comparative investigation of national Olympic Hospitality Houses. In: World Congress on Elite Sport Policy, 23 November 2015-24 November 2015, Melbourne, Victoria. (In Press)

16 May 2016

Wassong, S, Baka, Richard and Forsyth, J (2016) Introduction: Olympic Perspectives. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33 (4). 367 - 368. ISSN 0952-3367

1 January 2017

Cahill, J and Baka, Richard (2017) Australia: Olympic education: Inspiring young Australians to be better. In: Olympic Education: An International Review. Naul, R, Binder, D, Rychtecky, A and Culpan, I, eds. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 75-88.

3 February 2019

Baka, Richard (2019) Melbourne’s status as an Olympic city: past, present, and future perspectives. International Journal of the History of Sport, 35 (9). pp. 874-897. ISSN 0952-3367