Biography
Jayne’s teaching and research interests are concerned with social justice and equality, critical socio-cultural analysis of leisure and sport cultures, feminist theory and activism, LBGT+ inclusion and theories of sexualities, and qualitative research methodologies.
Jayne is currently leading two funded research projects designed to improve the physical activity opportunities for the LGBT+ community in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. One funded by the British Academy (Safe Swim: Supporting physical activity and well being for transgender young people); the other funded by Energise Me and Sport England (Pride in our Workforce).
Jayne’s academic citizenship includes Equality Officer for University and College Union BU branch, co-convenor for BU Women's Academic Network, Managing Editor of Leisure Studies (2013 - 2020), Associate Editor of Sociology of Sport Journal (2014-17), and editorial board member for: SSJ (2007-10); International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2007-11); Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health (2013-17); Journal of Sport and Social Issues (2016 - )... She reviews for journals including: Emotion, Space & Society; Environment & Planning A; Feminist Review; Gender, Place & Culture; Gender & Society; Gender Studies; Journal of Homosexuality; Men & Masculinities; New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film; Journal of Film & Screen Media; Qualitative Sociology; Research in Social Movements, Conflict & Change; Sexualities; Soccer & Society; Sociology; Sociological Inquiry; Sport Management Review; Sport & Society; Symbolic Interaction; Urban Studies.
She has examined 15 PhDs and external examined UG programmes at Huddersfield, Wolverhampton, Leeds Beckett, Bath & Brunel London Universities.
Her community engagement involves volunteering for organisations, including: EuroPride 2015, Latvia; The Clock Tower Sanctuary (a drop-in centre for young homeless people); The Justin Campaign; and Football 4 Peace.
moreJournal Articles
- Caudwell, J., 2022. Queering Indoor Swimming in the UK: Transgender and Non-binary wellbeing. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 46 (4), 338-362.
- Caudwell, J., 2020. Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety. Frontiers in Sociology, 5.
- Caudwell, J., Choe, J., Dickinson, J.E., Lavrushkina, N. and Littlejohns, R., 2020. ‘Multicultural lunches’: sharing food in post-Brexit south coast of England. Annals of Leisure Research, 23 (4), 544-561.
- Rinehart, R.E. and Caudwell, J., 2018. Sport–war cartoon art. Media War and Conflict, 11 (2), 223-243.
- Caudwell, J. and McGee, D., 2018. From promotion to protection: human rights and events, leisure and sport. Leisure Studies, 37 (1), 1-10.
- Caudwell, J., 2017. Configuring human rights at EuroPride 2015. Leisure Studies, 37 (1), 49-63.
- Caudwell, J. and Sugden, J., 2017. "You should see me on the inside": Researching the post-stroke mental health of a male professor of sport. Sociology of Sport Journal, 34 (2), 176-182.
- Silk, M., Caudwell, J. and Gibson, H., 2017. Views on leisure studies: pasts, presents & future possibilities? Leisure Studies, 36 (2), 153-162.
- Caudwell, J., 2015. ‘Feeling blue’: the ordinary pleasures of mundane motion. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health, 7 (3), 309-320.
- Caudwell, J. and Rinehart, R.E., 2014. Liminoidal spaces and the moving body: Emotional turns. Emotion Space and Society, 12 (1), 1-3.
- Caudwell, J., 2014. [Transgender] young men: gendered subjectivities and the physically active body. Sport Education and Society, 19 (4), 398-414.
- Caudwell, J., 2012. Theorising women’s sport participation: debating sport feminisms. Psychology of Women Section Review, 14, 4-9.
- Caudwell, J., 2012. Jazzwomen: Music, sound, gender, and sexuality. Annals of Leisure Research, 15 (4), 389-403.
- Caudwell, J., 2011. Gender, feminism and football studies. Soccer and Society, 12 (3), 330-344.
- Caudwell, J., 2011. Sport feminism(s): Narratives of linearity? Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 35 (2), 111-125.
- Caudwell, J., 2011. Reviewing UK football cultures: Continuing with gender analyses. Soccer and Society, 12 (3), 323-329.
- Caudwell, J. and Browne, K., 2011. Sexy spaces: Geography and leisure intersectionalities. Leisure Studies, 30 (2), 117-122.
- Caudwel, J., 2011. 'Does your boyfriend know you're here?' The spatiality of homophobia in men's football culture in the UK. Leisure Studies, 30 (2), 123-138.
- Caudwell, J., 2011. 'Easy, Oar!': Rowing reflections. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health, 3 (2), 117-129.
- Caudwell, J., 2011. Space, place, and sex: geographies of sexualities. LEISURE STUDIES, 30 (2), 257-261.
- Caudwell, J., 2011. Football fixtures: Highbury vs. Hackney Marshes. Soccer and Society, 12 (1), 94-95.
- Caudwell, J., 2010. The jazz-sport analogue: Passing notes on gender and sexuality. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 45 (2), 240-248.
- Caudwell, J., 2009. Girlfight and Bend it like Beckham: Screening women, sport, and sexuality. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13 (3), 255-271.
- Caudwell, J., 2008. Girlfight: Boxing women. Sport in Society, 11 (2-3), 227-239.
- Caudwell, J., 2007. Queering the field? The complexities of sexuality within a lesbian-identified football team in England. Gender Place and Culture, 14 (2), 183-196.
- Caudwell, J., 2006. Women Playing Football at Clubs, in England, with Socio-Political Associations. Soccer and Society, 7, 423-438.
- Scraton, S., Caudwell, J. and Holland, S., 2005. 'Bend it like patel': Centring 'race', ethnicity and gender in feminist analysis of women's football in England. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 40 (1), 71-88.
- Caudwell, J., 2003. Sporting Gender: Women's Footballing Bodies as Sites/Sights for the (Re) Articulation of Sex, Gender, and Desire. Sociology of Sport Journal, 20 (4), 371-386.
- Caudwell, J., 2002. Women?s Experiences of Sexuality within Football Contexts: A Particular and Located Footballing Epistemology. Football Studies, 5, 24-45.
- Caudwell, J., 1999. Women's football in the United Kingdom: Theorizing gender and unpacking the butch lesbian image. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 23 (4), 390-402.
Books
- Caudwell, J. and McGee, D., 2018. Human Rights and Events, Leisure and Sport 2018. London: Routledge.
- Mansfield, L., Caudwell, J., Wheaton, B. and Watson, B., 2017. The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education 2017. Palgrave.
- Pringle, R., Rinehart, R. and Caudwell, J., 2015. Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure. Routledge.
- Caudwell, J. and Browne, K., 2013. Sexualities, spaces and leisure studies. Routledge.
- Caudwell, J., 2012. Women’s football in the UK: continuing with gender analyses. Routledge.
- Caudwell, J., Andrews, H., Hackett, P., Meadows, M. and Selby, M., 2009. Tourism and Leisure: Local Communities and Local Cultures in the UK. Leisure Studies Association.
- Caudwell, J., Redhead, S.C. and Tomlinson, A., 2008. Relocating the Leisure Society: Media, Consumption and Spaces. Leisure Studies Association.
- Magee, J., Caudwell, J., Liston, K. and Scraton, S., 2007. Women, football and Europe: histories, equity and experience. Meyer & Meyer.
- Caudwell, J., 2006. Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory. Taylor & Francis.
- Bramham, P. and Caudwell, J., 2005. Sport, active leisure and youth cultures. Leisure Studies Association.
Chapters
- De Martini Ugolotti, N. and Caudwell, J., 2021. Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems (Introduction). Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems. Routledge.
- Watson, R., Caudwell, J., Wheaton, B. and Mansfield, L., 2021. Physical Education, Sports and Gender. In: Mayo, C., ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education.. Oxford University Press.
- Wheaton, B., Mansfield, L., Caudwell, J. and Watson, R., 2020. Caster Semenya: The surveillance of sportswomen’s bodies, feminism and transdisciplinary research. Feminist Transdisciplinary Research: Innovations in Theory, Method & Practice.. Routledge.
- Caudwell, J. and Spacey, G., 2018. Football 4 Peace versus (v) Homophobia: A critical exploration of the links between theory, practice and intervention. In: Pringle, R., Larsson, H. and Gerdin, G., eds. Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education: How to make a Difference.. Routledge.
- Caudwell, J., 2017. Everyday sexisms: Exploring the scales of misogyny in sport. Sport and Discrimination. 61-76.
- Caudwell, J., 2017. Sporting events, the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation and human rights. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 537-556.
- Caudwell, J., Wheaton, B., Watson, B. and Mansfield, L., 2017. Feminist theories of sport, leisure and physical education. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 353-356.
- Watson, B., Mansfield, L., Caudwell, J. and Wheaton, B., 2017. Challenges and transformations in women’s leisure, sport and physical education movements. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 19-23.
- Caudwell, J., Mansfield, L., Watson, B. and Wheaton, B., 2017. Feminist praxis in sport, leisure and physical education. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 723-727.
- Mansfield, L., Caudwell, J., Wheaton, B. and Watson, B., 2017. Introduction: Feminist thinking, politics and practice in sport, leisure and physical education. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 1-15.
- Wheaton, B., Watson, B., Mansfield, L. and Caudwell, J., 2017. Feminist epistemologies, methodologies and method. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 203-208.
- Mansfield, L., Caudwell, J., Wheaton, B. and Watson, B., 2017. Contemporary feminist issues in sport, leisure and physical education. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 517-522.
- Caudwell, J. and Englefield, L., 2017. Pride sports and lou englefield interview date: 31 march 2016. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport Leisure and Physical Education. 729-737.
- Caudwell, J., 2017. 'I Love Going to Watch Norwich': The Experiences of a Transgender Football Fan. 27-44.
- Caudwell, J., 2016. Football and misogyny. Routledge Handbook of Football Studies. 304-313.
- Kipnis, H. and Caudwell, J., 2015. The boxers of Kabul: women, boxing and Islam. In: Channon, A. and Matthews, C.R., eds. Global perspectives on women in combat sports: women warriors around the world. Palgrave Macmillan, 41-56.
- Caudwell, J., 2015. Sexualities and sport. Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport. 240-250.
- Pringle, R., Rinehart, R.E. and Caudwell, J., 2015. Proem: Sport and the social significance of pleasure. Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure. 1-11.
- Caudwell, J., 2015. Studying sport, feminism and pleasure. Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure. 64-79.
- Caudwell, J., 2015. Running for pleasures. Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure. 97-115.
- Caudwell, J., 2015. 'I just love watching football'. Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure. 133-150.
- Caudwell, J., 2012. Rowing/sculling, British Isles. In: Nauright, J. and Parrish, C., eds. Sports around the world: history, culture, and practice. ABC-CLIO, 169-170.
- Caudwell, J., 2011. Sex watch: surveying women’s sexed and gendered bodies at the Olympics. In: Sugden, J. and Tomlinson, A., eds. Watching the Olympics. Routledge, 151-164.
- Caudwell, J., 2009. Queer-in the sociology of sport. Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. 219-236.
- Caudwell, J., Redhead, S.C. and Tomlinson, A., 2008. Relocating the Leisure Society: Editors’ introduction. Relocating the Leisure Society: Media, Consumption and Spaces. Leisure Studies Association, v-xi.
- Caudwell, J., 2008. Critically Queer: Possibilities for a Sport Studies of the Body. In: Tomlinson, A. and Woodham, J., eds. Image, Power and Space: Studies in Consumption and Identity. Meyer and Meyer, 83-96.
- Caudwell, J., 2008. Girlfight: Boxing Women. In: Poulton, E. and Roderick, M., eds. Introducing Sport in Films. Routledge.
- Caudwell, J., 2007. Hackney Women’s Football Club: Lesbian United? In: Magee, J., Liston, K. and Scraton, S., eds. Women, Football and Europe: Histories, Equity and Experience Vol 1. Meyer & Meyer, 64-84.
- Caudwell, J., 2007. On Shifting Sands: The Complexities of Women’s and Girls’ Involvement in Football for Peace. In: Sugden, J. and Wallis, J., eds. Football for Peace: Teaching and Playing Sport for Conflict Resolution in the Middle East. Meyer & Meyer, 97-112.
- Caudwell, J., 2006. Introduction. 1-9.
- Caudwell, J., 2006. Femme-fatale: Re-thinking the femme-inine. Sport Sexualities and Queer Theory. 145-158.
- Caudwell, J., 2004. ’Out on the field of play: women’s experiences of gender and sexuality in football contexts’. In: Wagg, S., ed. British football and social exclusion. Taylor and Francis Group, 127-146.
- Caudwell, J., 2004. Tipping the Velvet: Straight[forward] Voyeurism? Problematising the Viewing of Lesbianism. In: Kennedy, E. and Thornton, A., eds. Leisure, Media and Visual Culture: Representations and Contestations. Leisure Studies Association, 227-249.
- Caudwell, J., 2000. Football in the UK: women, tomboys, butches and lesbians. In: Scraton, S. and Watson, B., eds. Sport, Leisure Identities and Gendered Spaces. Leisure Studies Association, 95-110.
- Caudwell, J., 1998. Sex and politics: sites of resistance in women’s football. In: Aitchison, C. and Jordan, F., eds. Gender, space and identity: leisure, culture and commerce.. Leisure Studies Association, 151-161.
Internet Publications
- Caudwell, J., 2022. For Women’s Euro 2022 to have a meaningful legacy, football must do more to tackle racism and sexism. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/for-womens-euro-2022-to-have-a-meaningful-legacy-football-must-do-more-to-tackle-racism-and-sexism-188084.
- Caudwell, J., 2022. Jake Daniels: how homophobia in men's football is changing. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/jake-daniels-how-homophobia-in-mens-football-is-changing-183303.
- Caudwell, J., 2020. British Academy Blog: The impact of safe swimming sessions on wellbeing among transgender people. Available from: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/the-impact-of-safe-swimming-sessions-on-wellbeing-among-transgender-people/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ideas-researchers__.
- Wheaton, B., Caudwell, J., Watson, B. and Mansfield, L., 2019. Making sense of the Caster Semenya ruling: Sex, gender, race and discrimination in elite athletics.. Available at: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/lockerroom/making-sense-of-the-caster-semenya-ruling.
- Caudwell, J., 2018. Why this football tournament should be called the men's World Cup. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/why-this-football-tournament-should-be-called-the-mens-world-cup-98348.
- Caudwell, J., Mansfield, L., Wheaton, B. and Watson, R., 2017. New Premier League season begins … but child abuse scandal hangs heavy over football,. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/new-premier-league-season-begins-but-child-abuse-scandal-hangs-heavy-over-football-75335.
- Mansfield, L., Caudwell, J., Wheaton, B. and Watson, R., 2017. Sportswomen still face sexism, but feminism can help achieve a level playing field. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/sportswomen-still-face-sexism-but-feminism-can-help-achieve-a-level-playing-field-76748.
- Stewart, C. and Caudwell, J., 2017. Vicious cycle: the ‘troublemakers’ tackling sexism in elite sport. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/vicious-cycle-the-troublemakers-tackling-sexism-in-elite-sport-75687.
PhD Students
- Georgina Roy. Feminism in 'new' sporting spaces: gender, subjectivity and the female surfer in Britain
- Hillary Kipnis. Occupation, Resistance and Unbreakable Spirit: A Study on the Meaning of Sport and Physical Activity in the Lives of Palestinian Women
- Noreen Orr. Heritage, leisure and identity in museum volunteering
Invited Lectures
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Jumping In: Transgender and non-binary swimming., UK, 09 Oct 2019 more
University of Central Lancashire funded by Wellcome Trust -
Transgender and non-binary peoples' moving bodies, Northumbria University, 11 Apr 2018 more
Communi-T Swim: Transgender and non-binary peoples' moving bodies, invited paper in Culture, Sport, Media and Food Stream at British Sociological Association. Annual Conference, Northumbria University, UK -
A tale of two football cultures: HWFC v FA Women’s, Antalya, Turkey, 03 Nov 2016 more
Invited Panelist: A tale of two football cultures: HWFC v FA Women’s. 14th International Sport Sciences Congress, Antalya, Turkey (2016) -
Exploring the scales of misogyny in sport, University of Sunderland, 01 May 2015 more
Keynote Presentation: Exploring the scales of misogyny in sport. Sport and Discrimination Conference. University of Sunderland (2015) -
Turning to feminist & feminist-queer methodologies, Loughborough University, 02 Sep 2014 more
Keynote Presentation: Turning to feminist & feminist-queer methodologies. 4th International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport & Exercise: “Turning point moments in the field”. Loughborough University (2014) -
LGBT Sport, Campaigning for Change, University of Southern California, USA, 23 Oct 2013 more
Invited Speaker: Senior Scholars Panel: LGBT Sport, Campaigning for Change. Annenberg Institute of Sports, Media & Society Conference: Sport & The LGBT Experience. University of Southern California, USA (2013) -
The Justin Campaign. LGBT: Are we Living Equally?, Chester, UK, 13 Feb 2012 more
Keynote Presentation: The Justin Campaign. LGBT: Are we Living Equally? Diversity Festival, University of Chester, UK (2012) -
Football in the UK, LGBTQ participation, Victoria University, Australia, 28 Sep 2010 more
Keynote Presentation: Football in the UK, LGBTQ participation. The Worlds of Football International Conference. Victoria University, Australia (2010)
Grants
- The UK-Mexico Leisure and Tourism Academic Writing Workshop: Supporting Mexican ECRs in writing for publication (British Academy, 31 Jan 2020). Completed
- Increasing opportunities for LGBT+ physical activity participation in Hampshire and Isle of Wight (IOW). (BU Charity Impact Funding, 18 Oct 2019). Completed
- Pride in our Workforce. Sport England-funded LGBT+ workforce initiative. (Energise Me, 20 Aug 2019). Completed
- Safe swim: Exploring the potential of water-based active leisure for transgender young people. (Leisure Studies Association, 01 Jul 2019). Completed
- Imagining our Impact: Providing indoor water-based physical activity opportunities for transgender and gender nonconforming participants. (quality-related research (QR) funding, 01 Jun 2019). Completed
- Safe Swim: Supporting physical activity and well being for transgender young people. Stakeholder network development. (Events and Leisure Department Surplus Funding, 01 Mar 2019). Completed
- Safe Swim: Supporting physical activity and wellbeing for transgender young people (BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, 01 Dec 2018). Completed
- We Love EU: Migrant and refugee leisure spaces and community well-being post Brexit (quality-related research (QR) funding, 01 Mar 2017). Completed
- F4P V Homophobia: Celebrating 5 yrs. of student-led community action (University of Brighton ECHO Grant (Excellence, Community and Heritage Opportunity), 01 Jun 2015). Completed
- Understanding the potential of informal and lifestyle sports (Economic and Social Research Council, 01 Jul 2014). Completed
- Rapid topic overview on physical activity among LGBT communities in England, (Public Health England, 01 Mar 2014). Completed
- Being in the Zone: the Importance of Culture to Peak Performance in Sport, Arts and Work (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 01 Jun 2012). Completed
- Taking a Stand: Sport and Sexualities (University of Brighton, 01 Jan 2012). Completed
- LGBT youth, school sport, health & well-being (University of Brighton, 01 Feb 2011). Completed
Public Engagement & Outreach Activities
- Cambridge University Public Lecture (19 Feb 2014)
- Inclusive, diverse and sustainable sport, community event in Split, Croatia (02 Mar 2012)
- Homophobia and anti-homophobia in men’s football (17 Feb 2012)
- The Justin Campaign: Football, Sexuality and Equity (19 Jul 2011-20 Jul 2011)
- The Olympics Games: Excluding Sportswomen?, (06 Jul 2011)
- Winchester men's prison: Anti-homophobia workshop & event (09 Feb 2011)
Conference Presentations
- ‘New’ Gender Identities and Sport: Understanding and rising to the challenge, Jumping in: Transgender and non-binary swimming, 09 Oct 2019, Univesrity of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). Preston
- International Sociology of Sport Association, World Congress of Sociology of Sport., Challenging transphobia in sport: Indoor water-based physical activity for transgender and gender nonconforming people., 24 Apr 2019, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Royal Geographical Society International Conference, Multicultural lunches: leisure, food, migrants and refugees in the south of England, 28 Aug 2018, Cardiff University
- Sport Matters: Physics, Politics, Performances, Pedagogies., The Water Dancers: Transgender and non-binary peoples’ moving bodies., 01 Nov 2017, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Enacting Lesiure, Recreating Lesiure., We Love EU: Migrant and refugee leisure spaces and community wellbeing post Brexit., 04 Jul 2017, Leeds, UK
- 14th International Sport Sciences Congress, A tale of two football cultures: HWFC v FA Women’s Cup, 01 Nov 2016, Antalya, Turkey
- Locating Leisure: Blurring Boundaries, Blurring Vernacular/Spectacular: LGBT Rights are Human Rights: EuroPride 2015, Rīga, Latvia., 05 Jul 2016, Liverpool John Moores University
- Global Societies: Fragmenting and Connecting, British Sociological Association annual conference, The Pride Movement: Configuring Human Rights at EuroPride 2015, 06 Apr 2016, Aston University, UK
- Political Studies Association, Sport, Politics & Social Justice, Sexual Exploitation, Sex Work and Sports Events, 04 Mar 2016, Bournemouth University, UK
- The Sporting Arena: Academics, Activists and Activism[s]., Activism, intervention and academic-student collaboration on campus: Fighting homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in/through football, 05 Nov 2014, Portland, Oregon
- Third Visual Methods Conference: Visual Methods in Mediated Environments: Connecting Diverse Worlds, Sport-War Cartoon Art., 02 Sep 2013, Aotearoa/New Zealand
- 2nd Annual Football and Community, “… But he wasn’t used to players who went to what he described as ‘puffs’ clubs”: Intersections of race, gender and sexuality in English football, 13 Jun 2013, Manchester, UK
- Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines., The pleasures of mundane movement, 20 Nov 2012, Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines., Community University Partnership Projects (CUPP), 20 Nov 2012, Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Sport in Place, Running for Pleasures., 07 Nov 2012, New Orleans, USA
- Leisure, Living, Learning: Education in Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, Young Transgender People and Sport/Physical Activity, 17 Jul 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Sport and the Winds of Change International Society for Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Surfing sexualities: queer-feminist theory and UK surf space, 10 Jul 2011, Havana, Cuba
- Sport and the Winds of Change International Society for Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, The Justin Campaign: Football, sexualities and gender politics, 10 Jul 2011, Havana, Cuba
- Leisure in Transition: People, Policy and Places, The Justin Campaign: Homophobia, Football, Education and Art, 05 Jul 2011, Southampton Solent University
- Congress of Qualitative Inquiry,, United we stand, divided we fall: Campaigning for change, 17 May 2011, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines, Physical (and Cultural) Capital and Whiteness – The Case of Rowing, 16 Nov 2010, University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Transforming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Lives Conference Activism and Research for Gender and Sexual Liberation, Homophobia in UK football and The Justin Campaign, 15 Sep 2010, Brighton, UK
- Sport and Bodily Culture in Hard Times, Jazz-Sport Analogies: The Aesthetics of Gender and Sexuality, 04 Nov 2009, Ottawa, Canada
- Leisure Experiences, Participating, Planning, Providing, Jazzwomen: Notes on gender., 07 Jul 2009, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
- Sexy Spaces: Leisure and Geography, Tenor Madness: Jazz and the containment of women saxophonists, 22 May 2009, Brighton, UK
- Sport and Peace/Social (in)Justice., Girlfight and Bend it Like Beckham: The fights for equal rights…, 05 Nov 2008, Denver, USA
- Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Sporting Bodies, Identities and the Reproduction of Difference. Girlfight – The film, 09 Jan 2008, Cardiff, Wales
- Re-Imagining Community. Re-Envisioning Sport, The Global Games: Israel, Football for Peace and Gender, 01 Nov 2006, Vancouver, Canada
- Interdisciplinary Dialogues, The Femme and Football: Queering Femininity, Queering Football?, 03 Nov 2004, Tucson, USA
- Leisure and Visual Culture, Tipping the Velvet. Straight[forward] Voyeurism? Problematising the viewing of lesbian bodies and lesbian pleasure, 08 Jul 2003, Roehampton University, UK
- Sport and Social Order: Challenges for Theory and Practice, Exploring ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Gender: The Experiences of Black and South Asian Women Footballers, 18 Jun 2003, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
- Out from the Centre. Queer Studies Conference, Football in the UK: [non] Queering the pitch and [gender] marking players., 29 Nov 2002, Newcastle, Australia
- Beyond Sex and Gender: The Future of Women’s Studies?, Sporting gender: Women’s footballing bodies as sites/sights for the (re)materialisation of sex, gender and desire., 19 Sep 2002, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Journeys in Leisure. Current and Future Alliances, Feminist epistemological approaches to the study of gender and sexuality., 17 Jul 2001, University of Luton, UK
- Pre-Olympic Congress., Embodying masculinity? The experiences of women footballers in the UK, 07 Sep 2000, Brisbane, Australia
- Queer Games? Theories, Politics, Sports, The cultural arena of women’s football in the UK: A sport space for lesbian gender?, 29 Jul 1998, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- The Big Ghetto. Gender, Sexuality and Leisure., Sportswomen’s sexuality: Exclusive design of the self?, 16 Jul 1998, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
- Gendered Spaces: Women’s Choices and Constraints, Women who play football: Is there a space for lesbian gender?, 14 Jul 1998, University of Hull, UK
- Leisure, Culture and Commerce, Sex and politics: Resistance and acceptance in women’s football., 09 Sep 1997, Roehampton Institution, UK
- Women, Policy and Politics, Late nineteenth century and twentieth century images of the female footballer: Sites of resistance, gender and sexuality, 14 Jul 1997, University of London, UK
Qualifications
- MA in Human Rights (University of Sussex, 2015)
- PhD in Sport, Gender and Sexualities (London Metropolitan University, 2001)
- MSc in Recreation Management (Loughborough University, 1989)
- BSc (Hons) in Sport Studies and Geography (Brunel University, 1988)
Memberships
- British Sociological Association, Member,
- Leisure Studies Association, Member,
- North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Member,
- Political Studies Association, Member,
- University & College Union, Member,