About Me

Dr Emma Rich, BSc, PhD,

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I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Education, Department of Education, University of Bath. For several years prior to this I worked as a Senior Lecturer (The Body, Pedagogy and Physical Culture) in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University where I also obtained my PhD in the Sociology of Physical Education. I have worked as an external examiner for the University of Bath and an invited visiting scholar at the University of Otago in New Zealand and the University of Wollongong, Australia.

My major publications (books) are The Medicalization of Cyberspace (2008, Routledge, with Professor Andy Miah) Education, Disordered eating and Obesity Discourse: Fat Fabrications (2008, Routledege, with Professor John Evans) and Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives (2011, Palgrave, with Monaghan and Aphramor).

My work draws upon the sociology of education, pedagogy, the body and physical culture. The research I undertake in this area engages with questions about body pedagogies in relation to different physical cultures across formal institutions and everyday popular culture. I am particularly interested in health discourses and the body and draw upon critical perspectives on the body, health and illness in my research. In recent years, research projects have explored issues such as moral panic over obesity, eating disorders and education and surveillance of young people’s bodies. Much of my research also discusses the relationship between pedagogy, emerging technologies and health (e.g. exergaming, social media, medicalization of cyberspace).

I have published over 90 academic articles for conferences, books, encyclopedias and academic journals. I have been awarded significant research funding from a range of sources including the Economic and Social Research Council, the Society for Educational Studies, the International Olympic Committee, the International Olympic Academy and the Australian Research Council. I am a member of various academic associations and working groups including the British Educational Research Association, International Critical Obesity Network, International Olympic Academy Association, founder of the International Gender Sport and Society Forum and an invited associate fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

I aspire towards developing creative approaches within qualitative research. In 2009 I led a successful funding bid and was co-director of LiQUID LAB – A state of the art lab for qualitative digital and visual research at Loughborough University. I am currently working with a number of artists to explore the use of creative methods (specifically art, photography) within social science research (my photography site is here)

I am an editorial board member of Sport, Education and Society and was an invited special edition guest editor of issues of International Journal of Qualitative Studies in education and Sport, Education and Society. In 2010 I was appointed as a member of the Economic and Social Research Council Peer review college, undertaking reviews of grant proposals and reports submitted to this research council. I lecture internationally on various subject areas focused around sociology of the body, education, health, medicalization and physical culture and reflecting my commitment to teaching, during my probationary assessment at Loughborough University I achieved the highest category possible for teaching excellence.

CONTACT:
Email: E.Rich@bath.ac.uk

Department of Education

University of Bath,

Bath, BA2 7AY

Photography site here