Doctor Wayne Peake
SENIOR SCHOOL ADMIN. OFFICER,
Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Western Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Contact
| Email: | W.Peake@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6685 |
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| Location: | 5.G.04 Bankstown |
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Biography
Wayne obtained the award Doctor Of Philosophy from The University of Western Sydney for the thesis 'Unregistered proprietary horse racing in Sydney 1888-1942'. His primary research interests are the cultural history of horse racing, the morphology of the racecourses of Sydney, and historical racecourse design and infrastructure.
His recent publications include chapters in the Cambridge Companion to Horseracing 2013 ('Sydney or the Bush') and the Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 18 2012 ('George Ryder'), and the collection of racing novellas and short stories The Gambler's Ghost and Other Racing Oddities.
Wayne has worked previously for the University of Technology Sydney, The Sydney Turf Club, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, News Ltd and Telstra.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Peake.
Publications
Books
- Peake, W. (2006), 'Sydney's Pony Racecourses: an Alternative Racing History', : Walla Walla Press 9781876718022.
Chapters in Books
- Peake, W. (2013), 'Sydney or the bush : adaptation, centrality and periphery in Australian horseracing', The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing, Cambridge University Press 9781107013858.
- Peake, W. (2008), 'Taking the Heat Out of the 'Red Hots': The Americanisation of harness racing in Australia', A global racecourse : work, culture and horse sports, Australian Society for Sports History 9780980481501.
Journal Articles
- Peake, W. (2004), ''The significance of proprietary pony racing in the social history of Sydney horse racing', Sporting Traditions: the Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History, .
Other Publications
- 2012, 'The Gambler's Ghost and Other Racing Oddities', Published Work
- 2012, 'The Gambler's Ghost and Other Racing Oddities', Published Work
Research
Selected Publications
Book Chapter: 'Sydney or the Bush': adaptation, centrality and periphery in Australian horseracing, in Rebecca Cassidy (ed), Cambridge Companion to Horseracing, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2013.
Book: The Gambler’s Ghost and Other Racing Oddities, Ascot Press, Sydney, 2012.
Book Chapter: ‘George Ryder’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 18, Australian National University Press, Canberra 2012.
Book Chapter: ‘Taking the heat out of the “Red Hots”: the Americanization of harness racing in Australia?’ Australian Society for Sports History Studies no. 23, A Global Racecourse: work, culture and horse sports, September 2008.
Book: Sydney's Pony Racecourses: An Alternative Racing History, Sydney: Walla Walla Press 2006
Edited book (with Professor Stephanie Lawson) Globalization and Regionalization: Views from the Pacific Rim, the fourth volume in the series ‘Pacific Rim: Globalization, Regionalization, and Domestic Trajectories’ (2006).
Journal article: ‘Taking the heat out of the “Red Hots”: has the Americanization of harness racing in Australia been a shot in the arm-or the hoof?’ Harness Racing International, March/April 2006 Melbourne, Ellikon. 2006. http://www.iis.uts.edu.au/research/HRI.pdf
Edited book (with Dr Kate Barclay), Convergences and Exclusions: Regional Integration and Social Change around the Pacific Rim, the second volume in the series ‘Pacific Rim: Globalization, Regionalization, and Domestic Trajectories’ (2005).
Journal article: ‘The significance of proprietary pony racing in the social history of Sydney horse racing’, Sporting Traditions (Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History), May 2004: http://home.iprimus.com.au/marclambourne/
Book chapters: ‘Bidding for the Games’ and ‘Torch Relay’ in The Official Report of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, http://www.gamesinfo.com.au/postgames/en/pg000449.htm (credits)(2000).
Journal Article: 'Rosebery, where the Baron Ruled the Turf, Australasian Turf Monthly, July 1995.
Journal article: 'Victoria Park; the Randwick of the Ponies', Australasian Turf Monthly, February 1995.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Peake.
Media
| Title: | Wayne Peake |
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