THURSDAY 29th JUNE (DAY 1)

830am-930am Cultural Welcome Green Room 930am-10am Morning Tea (SRI Foyer)

10am-1055am Keynote Speaker (1) Ken Hodge Conference Room

11am-1125am Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Mike Chu Leg Muscle Function on Front Row Is Rugby Culturally Rugby Training Simulator National Coach Development Manager Scrummaging Blind or Competent? POWA Rugby Equipment Mostafa Yaghoubi Jeremy Hapeta Kicking Robot (Keynote) Sarah Shultz, Sally Lark Conference Room Syndicate Room Board Room Green Room

1130am-1155am Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 The Challenge of Japan Rugby Football Union: Concussion App Development Plenary Session: Rugby Training Simulator Developing Fans from Casual Spectators Based on the SCAT3 Cultural Compentence in Rugby POWA Rugby Equipment Yusuke Kuroda, Farah Palmer, Satoshi Iwamura David Sturrock Jeremy Hapeta & Eroni Clarke Kicking Robot Makoto Nakazawa, Naoko Yoshioka Wyatt Page, Sally Lark Conference Room Syndicate Room Board Room Green Room

12pm-1pm LUNCH: SRI FOYER

1pm-125pm Session 9 Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Do Dual Pathways Burst Performance The Story of Neck Function in Rugby Players Rugby Training Simulator Bubbles or Build Champions? Building a Community Through Rugby: So Far POWA Rugby Equipment Greg Mumm How Rugby is Changing Lives in Toronto Sally Lark Kicking Robot Conference Room Toronto Inner-City Rugby Foundation Board Room Green Room Ige Egal & Paul Myers 130pm-155pm Session 13 Session 14 Session 15 What is the World Cup Really Worth to a Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Knowing Where We Rugby Training Simulator Host Country? Evidence from NZ 2011 Come From Helps Us Know Where to Go POWA Rugby Equipment Sam Richardson Tania Cassidy & Phil Handcock Kicking Robot Conference Room Syndicate Room Board Room Green Room

2pm-225pm Session 16 Session 17 Session 18 Session 19 Impact of Travel on Team Performance Women & Leadership in Rugby Rugby Training Simulator The Case of Super Rugby Farah Palmer POWA Rugby Equipment Walk with the Wise and Become Wise David Bond Kicking Robot Wisconsin Rugby Sports Complex Syndicate Room Board Room Green Room Robert Buchanan, Donald Becker 230pm-255pm & Robert Jafferis Session 20 Session 21 Session 22 The Difficulty in Retaining Rugby Union Pacific Island Perspectives on Rugby Training Simulator Referees from Season to Season Leadership in Rugby POWA Rugby Equipment Christopher Baldwin Katie Dee, Gaye Bryham, Lesley Ferkins, Mike Naylor Kicking Robot Conference Room Syndicate Room Board Room Green Room

3pm-330pm Afternoon Tea: SRI FOYER

330pm-355pm Session 23 Session 24 Session 25 Session 26 Exploring performance enhancement Pat Lam's Coaching Evolution: Evolving Game Practices in NZ using virtual rugby simulation From Auckland to Connacht Rugby Dennis Slade, Andrew Martin, Geoff Watson haka/rugby activity Gabe Redding & Cain Redding Gary Byrne & Tania Cassidy Conference Room Syndicate Room Board Room Green Room

4pm-445pm Keynote Speaker (2) John Nauright 445pm-5pm Conference Notices Conference Room

N.B. Some abstract titles have be shortened to fit the schedule formatting. Full abstract titles are noted with accompanying abstracts in the conference programme (to be released in June). FRIDAY 30th JUNE (DAY 2)

9am-955am Keynote Speaker (3) John Evans Conference Room

10am-1025am Session 27 Session 28 Session 29 The New Rugby Smart Symbolic Resistance and Contested Allegiance: Joe Harawira, Danielle Salmon, Ian Murphy Pelanary Session: Rugby Culture Pacific Peoples in New Zealand Rugby Andrew Grainger Conference Room Syndicate Room Board Room

1030am MORNING TEA: SRI FOYER

11am-1125am Session 30 Session 31 Session 32 Session33 Measurement of Competitive Balance in NSW The Rugby Tour Gets Down to the Bedrock of The Challenge of Japan JRFU: Intelligent Career After Rugby Premiership Rugby & the Player Points System New Zealand's Sporting Life The Need for Strengthening Relationships with Spectators Getting Your Head in the Game David Bond Greg Ryan Makoto Nakazawa, Satoshi Iwamura, Naoko Yoshioka Julia Richardson, Stephen McKenna, Marilyn Clarke, Naoki Maed, Yusuke Kuroda Subramaniam Anathram Conference Room A Conference Room B Syndicate Room Board Room

1130am-1155am Session 34 Session 35 Session 36 Session 37 Coaching & Promoting Rugby in Regional Schools Tales of the Tours: Accounts of the 1959, 1966, Values of Oral Traditions in Rugby Public Health Agenda Influence on Problems, needs and successes. 1971 & 1977 Lions Tours in Sporting Literature (Wisconsin Rugby Sports Complex) Regional Rugby Sponsorship Dave Robinson Geoff Watson Robert Buchanan Rachel Batty & Sarah Gee Conference Rooom A Conference Room B Syndicate Room Board Room

12pm-1225pm Session 38 Session 39 Session 40 Session 41 & 45 Rugby Injury: A Conspiracy of Pain Overseas Rugby World Cup New Zealand Rugby Concussion: Phil Handcock & Tania Cassidy Fans' Constraints Analysis Management & Treatment Tatsuru Nishio, Frank Scrimgeour, Danielle Salmon Harald van Heerde, Valentyna Melnyk Conference Room A Conference Room B Syndicate Room Plenary Session: Injury & Prevention

1230pm-1255pm Session 42 Session 43 Session 44 Nationalism, Rugby & Emotion: A Systems Perspective on Governance Do the world's best influence on-field performance? Love, Hate & Everything in Between in Sport Organisations Estimating the impact of NZ rugby coaches Toni Bruce John Davies Sam Richardson Conference Room A Conference Room B Syndicate Room Board Room

1pm-2pm LUNCH: SRI FOYER

2pm-255pm Keynote Speaker (5) Melodie Robinson Conference Room

3pm-325pm Session 46 Session 47 Session 48 NZ Rugby's Leadership of Anti-Homophobia Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Livelihoods, Creation and Poverty Reduction & Inclusion Policies in NZ Sport Fronting Up to Contemporary Issues and Practice through Rugby Genreated Remittances Sally Shaw & Ian Long Tania Cassidy & Phil Handcock Rochelle Stewart-Withers Koli Sewabu, Sam Richardson Conference Room Syndicate Room Board Room

330pm AFTERNOON TEA: SRI FOYER

4pm-425pm Session 49 Session 50 Session 51 Session 52 What is the Purpose? Rugby Coaching "Barbed-Wire Boks": The Long Shadow of the 1981 in NZ Secondary Schools Springbok Tour of New Zealand Plenary Session: History, Culture & Nationalism Blake Bennett Sebastian Potgieter Kava Session Conference Room A Conference Room B Board Room

430pm-455pm Session 53 Session 54 Session 55 Changing the Paradigm: Quantifying & Compairing the Physical Injury Prevention in Male & Female Rugby Players More Than Just a Player! Characteristics of Sub-Elite Level Rugby Players Mike Harnett, Darryl Cochrane, Scott Pinfold Glenn Fyall Marrin Haggie, N Saga, Frans van der Merwe & Masaru Ito Conference Room A Conference Room B Syndicate Room Board Room

N.B. Some abstract titles have be shortened to fit the schedule formatting. Full abstract titles are noted with accompanying abstracts in the conference programme (to be released in June).