| Toni Bruce | |
| Fields: | Sociology of sport |
| Workplaces: | University of Auckland |
| Alma Mater: | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis1 Title: | What we talk about when we talk about the locker room: Women sportswriters' stories |
| Thesis1 Url: | https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/UIUdb.6750835 |
| Thesis1 Year: | 1995 |
| Doctoral Students: | Barbara Cox[1] |
Toni Bruce is a New Zealand sociology academic, specialising in the sociology of sport. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.[2] She gained her Masters and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois in the USA. She previously worked at the University of New Hampshire (USA) University of Canberra (Australia) and University of Waikato (New Zealand). While teaching at the University of Auckland Bruce participated in many fields of research. Her main topics involve sports media, gender issues, nationalism, race/ethnicity and disability. Bruce is an expert in many different topics including journalism, media analysis and theory, and the impacts of sociological aspects of identity on people's experiences. She supervises students throughout the Masters and the Doctorate programs that include her main topics of research.[3]
After a 1995 PhD titled What we talk about when we talk about the locker room: Women sportswriters' stories at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.[2]
Bruce's research has been discussed in the New Zealand media[4] [5] [6] and they are frequently used as expert commentators on sports issues[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] and have written opinion pieces.[12]
Toni is currently researching ethnographic fieldwork on netball fandom in New Zealand. This type of study requires her to observe and have conversations with the fans that are attending the netball games. This also requires her to observe the TV ratings and newspaper coverage of the netball sport. She is also doing a recent study of what the Rugby World Cups means to New Zealanders. She is doing so by observing studies from recent and past games during the 2015, 2011 and 2007 Cups. She is researching in particular the relationship between all blacks and other nationalities. [13]
Selected works