Esteem

SPECIAL MENTIONS

2007: Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World

BOARD MEMBERSHIP

Editorial Board: Sport Education and Society

Guest Editor: International Qualitative Studies in Education

Founder of International Gender Sport and Society Forum (GSSF, current membership of over 150 International scholars in this field)

2004-2007: Editorial Board Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Journal.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Invited Associated Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine

Invited Member of ICONet (International Critical Obesity Network)

International Olympic Academy Participants Association

Autobiography Study Group (British Sociological Association)

British Educational Research Association Member

British Educational Research Association Special Interest Group – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

2010: Economic and Social Research Council Peer Review College Invited Member (review college members are expected to provide expert quality reviews of grant proposals and final reports).

2006: Invited member of International meeting on Genetics Technology and Sport: Focus on Geneotyping, Genetic Tests and Selection. UK Sport. October 2006.

2005: Invited member of Foresight Obesity scoping workshops, informing the Government office of Science and Technology on Obesity issues.

BOOK PROPOSAL REFEREE

Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Oxon and New York

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RESEARCH COUNCIL REFEREE

Economic Social and Research Council: Academic Reviewer for the Peer Review College for Funding Grant Applications

Medical Research Council

REFEREE FOR JOURNALS

Autobiography; Body and Society; British Journal Of Physical Education; Canadian Studies; European Eating Disorders Review; European Journal Of Physical Education; European Physical Education Review; Feminism and Psychology; ‘Health’: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine; Journal of Curriculum Studies; Leisure Studies; Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy; Social Science and Medicine; Social Theory and Health; Sociological forum; Sociology of Health and Illness; Sociology of Sport Journal; Sport, Education and Society; Sport, Ethics and Philosophy; Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise; Women In Sport and Physical Activity Journal

AWARDS AND HONOURS

2002 International Olympic Committee/International Olympic Academy Grant Award for research at Olympic Study Center, Lausanne, Switzerland

2001 British Olympic Association Representative. International Olympic Academy, Olympia Greece

1998-2001 Director of ‘The Runway’ – UK development programme for Women’s Javelin Throwing, short listed for UK Athletics Initiative of the Year, 2000.

1995 Celsis International Science Student of the Year, Runner up Prize

INVITED PLENARIES AND KEYNOTES

Invited speaker and member of ‘core group’ for ESRC Seminar Series: Young Women in Movement – Sexualities, Vulnerabilities, Needs and Norms. Goldsmiths University. 24th November 2009.

Invited keynote: ESRC Seminar Series, Gender Education and The Body, Lancaster University, September 2008

Invited speaker: Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Estoril, Portugal, July 9 – 12, 2008.

Invited Speaker: Physical Education and Childhood Obesity Specialist Seminar, association for Physical Education, May 2007.

Invited Speaker: Roehampton Seminar Series. April 2007.

Invited Speaker : Enhancing Physical Capacities: Ethics, Regulation and European Policy Stockholm Bioethics Centre, Stockholm University – 28/29 March 2007

Invited Plenary Speaker: Bio-pedagogies, University of Wollongong, 2007.

Invited Plenary Speaker: Expanding the Obesity debate, University of Limerick, Ireland, Jan 2006.

2005 Invited speaker British Sociological Association, and British Psychological Association Seminar events on ‘weighty issues’.

Part of Keynote presentation – International Olympic Committee Third World Conference on Women and Sport. Marrakech, Morocco, March 2004.

OTHER

International Reviewer for International Electronic Arts Conference 2009