Affiliations and awards

Funding and Research Grants

  • 2007 – co-researcher on successful Australian Research Council Funding Award – Australia project is a collaborative partner on ESRC project listed below ($150,000)
  • 2007 – Principle Investigator on ESRC Research Funding Award (£82,680.77)
  • 2007 – Society for Educational Studies Funding award to host follow up seminar on ‘every child matters’ policy (£3,000)
  • 2006 – Early career research funding, Loughborough University Faculty award
  • 2002-2004 International Olympic Committee Research Grant – Project: Women and Olympic Governance – Co-investigators – Prof Ian Henry, Dr. Eleni Theodoraki, Prof Anita White (£40,000, matched by Loughborough University £40,000)
  • 2002 International Olympic Committee/International Olympic Academy Grant Award for research at Olympic Study Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2002 Loughborough University Research Grant – Project: Education and eating disorders (£5,000)
  • 1998-2001 Loughborough University Studentship

  

Affiliations and professional membership

  • Invited Associated fellow Royal Society of Medicine
  • Invited Member of ICONet (International Critical Obesity Network)
  • International Olympic Academy Participants Association
  • Autobiography Study Group (British Sociological Association)

2007 – Nominated for inclusion in Marquis ‘Whose who in the world’ directory 

2007 – Invited member of the International Advisory Panel for ‘Inside Anorexia’

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.

2004 – Founder of GSSF – Gender Sport and Society Forum. This is an International forum which brings together scholars and students with an interest in social issues in gender and sport. (http://www.gssf.co.nr/). I set up the forum in 2004. Currently over 130 international scholars have joined the forum  

Academic Reviews and Editorials

Lead editor of forthcoming book ‘expanding the obesity debate: critical readings’ (with Lee Monaghan and Lucy Aphramor)

Member of the editorial board for Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Journal.

I have reviewed book proposals for: Routledge Publishers

Forthcoming editor of special edition of Sport Education and Society

Forthcoming editor of special edition of International Qualitative Studies in Education

 I have reviewed articles for the following journals

  • Autobiography
  • British Journal Of Physical Education
  • Canadian Studies
  • 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
  • Sociology of Health and Illness
  • Sociology of Sport Journal
  • Sport, Education and Society
  • Women In Sport and Physical Activity Journal

Awards

  • 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 Womens Javelin Throwing, shortlisted for UK Athletics Initative of the Year, 2000.
  • 1998-2001 Awarded Loughborough University Scholarship for three years full time doctoral research
  • 1995 Celsis International Science Student of the Year, Runner up Prize
  • 1995-1998 B.Sc. Recreation Management, Loughborough University, Course Representative
  • 1994 – Youngest member of a Sports Counsil (now Sport England) working group (women and sport working group, SW)

 

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