Publications

Shanks, A. and Taylor, C., 2026. Boots on the ground: what it is really like working in football during a FIFA Women’s World Cup. In: A. Beissel, J. Brice, and V. Postlethwaite, eds. Critical perspectives on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: events, issues, controversies. New York, NY: Routledge, 148–158.

Shanks, A, Chloe Knott’s sudden resignation from Wellington Phoenix highlights problems with women’s sport in New Zealand, Stuff, 9 December 2023.

Shanks, A. ‘Women’s football timeline’, https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/womens-football-timeline, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, updated 20 July 2023.

Atkinson, N., Watters, S., and Shanks, A. ‘Football’, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/football

The development of the Te Ara page and NZHistory timeline as part of the legacy of the FIFA Women’s World Cup are summarised here.

Shanks, A. Shifting the focus from gender diversity and inclusion to belonging and gender equity in Aotearoa New Zealand community football organisations: how did we get here and where are we going? PhD thesis, Massey University, 2023. Available here.

Thorpe, H., and Shanks, A. The Black Ferns review shows – again – why real change in women’s high performance sport is urgently overdue, 12 April 2022, The Conversation.

Shanks, A., Leberman, S., Shaw, S., Watson, G. (2022). Symbolic equality in Aotearoa New Zealand sports organisations. In Kerr, R., & Sturm, D. (Eds.) Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested terrain. Routledge.

Shanks, A., Opinion: Move the focus from conflict to what brings us together’ 18 December 2021, Stuff.

Interviews

Zoe George, How you can help fill the women’s football history gap, 15 August, 2023, Stuff.

RNZ’s The Panel, Momentum and legacy of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, 15 August 2023 (8’45 in).

Tom Kitchin, Capitalising on NZ football’s fever, 15 August 2023, RNZ’s The Detail podcast.

Holly Thorpe and Julie Brice, The Football Ferns’ historic win in the World Cup opener scores another goal for all women’s sport in New Zealand, 21 July 2023, The Conversation.

Zoë George, The long-lasting impacts of a 50-year ban on women in football in Aotearoa, 14 July 2023, Stuff.

Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023: Zambia Copper Queens arrive in Hamilton ahead of first NZ match, 10 July 2023, NZ Herald.

FIFA World Cup: Facility upgrades offer community teams ‘quality experience’ too, 6 July 2023, RNZ.

Legacy of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in the Waikato, 10 June 2023, Waikato Newstalk ZB’s All Sports Breakfast.

Tom Kitchin, Fifa Women’s World Cup lighting up local clubrooms, 19 April 2023, RNZ, The Detail Podcast.

Blog

As part of my doctoral research, I collated a timeline of key events and media stories on women’s sport, diversity, and inclusion. I turned this into a weekly email called HerStory, where I wrote a blog on the events of the week and collated a digest of media headlines. Previous issues of my blog can be found here.