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Associate Professor Nicholas Apoifis

Associate Professor Nicholas Apoifis

Associate Dean (International)

ARTS/LLB (Macq-Hons), MA Research (аIJʹÙÍø), PhD (Macq)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
Executive

Dr Apoifis is the Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA).

Prior to this he was the Director of Education Innovation & Engagement for ADA and in 2021 was awarded аIJʹÙÍø's prestigious Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (General Category). He is also President of the аIJʹÙÍø Football Club, with teams competing in the National Premier League. In 2023, he received the аIJʹÙÍø Sports Volunteer of the Year award for his services to the аIJʹÙÍø sporting community and for his work in gender equality in sport.

As a researcher in the School of Politics & International Relations at аIJʹÙÍø, he works with the application and development of settler colonial theories, sport for social change theories, social movement theories and radical qualitative research practices. Dr Apoifis is the co-founder of Coaching Unlimited, an initiative that provides sport specific coaching accreditation and research based health promotion workshops to support Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander coaches, and the co-author of the 2020 manuscript Aboriginal Sports Coaches, Community, and Culture (Springer).

His 2017 manuscript Anarchy in Athens (Manchester University Press) was awarded the аIJʹÙÍø Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Dean's Award for Best Monograph for an Early Career Researcher, 2017. The book was based on unprecedented access to the world’s most militant anarchist movement and involved highly engaged ethnographic fieldwork, referred to as Militant Ethnography. An aspect of this methodological approach has Dr Apoifis disseminating his research insights and findings amongst international activist networks and anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian collectives.
Phone
9385 2407
E-mail
n.apoifis@unsw.edu.au
Location
162 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2020
    Marlin D; Apoifis N; Bennie A, 2020, Aboriginal Sports Coaches, Community, and Culture, Springer
    Books | 2017
    Apoifis N, 2017, Anarchy in Athens: An Ethnography of Militancy, Emotions and Violence, Manchester University Press
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Apoifis N; Wadds P; Spurway K; Schmeidl S, 2020, 'Collecting Stories', in Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Apoifis N, 2020, '‘I Hope Little Worms Die in Your Arse’: Fieldwork, Anarchists, Fascists and Academic Snitches', in Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107 - 128
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K, 2020, 'Sharing Stories', in Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K (ed.), Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences:Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan, London
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Apoifis N, 2014, 'Unity in Street-Militancy: Athenian Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians', in Arvanitakis J; Kabesh A (ed.), Revolt and Revolution: Reaching for the Possible, The Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 79 - 89,
  • Edited Books | 2020
    Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K, (eds.), 2020, Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Prankumar SK; Aggleton P; Bryant J; Apoifis N, 2024, 'Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young Australians’ experiences at school and university: an analysis from the middle', Journal of Youth Studies, 27, pp. 1426 - 1442,
    Journal articles | 2022
    , 2022, 'Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach', Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 10,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Apoifis N, 2022, 'Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach', Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 10, pp. 21 - 36,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bennie A; Marlin D; Apoifis N; White RL, 2021, '‘We were made to feel comfortable and … safe’: co-creating, delivering, and evaluating coach education and health promotion workshops with Aboriginal Australian peoples', Annals of Leisure Research, 24, pp. 168 - 188,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Bennie A; Apoifis N; Marlin D; Caron JG, 2019, 'Cultural connections and cultural ceilings: exploring the experiences of Aboriginal Australian sport coaches', Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11, pp. 299 - 315,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Elkington M; Bunde-Birouste A; Apoifis N, 2019, 'Sustainable Funding Mechanisms Used by Sport for Social Change Organisations', The International Journal of Sport and Society, 10, pp. 43 - 55,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Apoifis N; Marlin D; Bennie A, 2018, 'Noble athlete, savage coach: How racialised representations of Aboriginal athletes impede professional sport coaching opportunities for Aboriginal Australians', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 53, pp. 854 - 868,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Apoifis N, 2017, 'Fieldwork in a furnace: anarchists, anti-authoritarians and militant ethnography', Qualitative Research, 17, pp. 3 - 19,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Bennie A; Caron J; Marlin D; Koh KT; Apoifis N; Falcao W; Bengoechea EG; Macmillan F; George E, 2017, 'A Guide to Conducting Systematic Reviews of Coaching Science Research', INTERNATIONAL SPORT COACHING JOURNAL, 4, pp. 191 - 205,
  • Reports | 2017
    Apoifis N; Marlin D; White R; Bennie A, 2017, Coaching Unlimited: Empowering Generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leaders: A Research Report Commissioned by Netball Australia and Netball New South Wales, Western Sydney University, Penrith, N.S.W.,
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Bennie A; Apoifis N; Caron JG, 2016, 'Facilitating opportunity and reducing barriers in sports coaching: A qualitative study with indigenous Australian sport coaches', in JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY, HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC, pp. S15 - S16,

Awards

  • аIJʹÙÍø Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Dean's Award for Best Monograph for an Early Career Researcher, 2017Ìý
  • аIJʹÙÍø Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (Early Career), 2017.
  • аIJʹÙÍø Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (General Category), 2021
  • аIJʹÙÍø Doug Crawford Sports Recognition Award, 2023
  • аIJʹÙÍø Sports: Volunteer of the Year, 2023,

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My Teaching

Arts 3820Ìý How to start a revolution: activism, social movements and political change

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