Outputs (12)

Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating (2024)
Journal Article
Hockin‐Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (online). Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating. Sociology of Health & Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13821

Under the conditions of neo‐liberal individual responsibilisation, self‐tracking has become the predominant model of health management. More recently, though, intuition‐based approaches to exercise and eating are also gaining traction. These two appr... Read More about Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating.

Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes (2024)
Journal Article
Roderick, M., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (online). Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2024.2378157

In careers that span anonymity to public individual, the work of professional athletes is highly visible: anyone can observe and comment on what they do. Based on the accounts of 26 full-time, UK-based professional athletes from seven sports, eight f... Read More about Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes.

‘Shy girl workouts’ aren’t just a great way to get fit – they may also help women gain confidence in the gym (2023)
Digital Artefact
Hockin-Boyers, H. (2023). ‘Shy girl workouts’ aren’t just a great way to get fit – they may also help women gain confidence in the gym

Social media is full of fitness trends. While some of these are outlandish or verging on dangerous, others are actually helpful.

Take the “shy girl workout” trend. While this has been floating around the internet since late 2022, it continues to b... Read More about ‘Shy girl workouts’ aren’t just a great way to get fit – they may also help women gain confidence in the gym.

Slideshow activism on Instagram: Constructing the political activist subject (2022)
Journal Article
Dumitrica, D., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (2022). Slideshow activism on Instagram: Constructing the political activist subject. Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2022.2155487

An emerging activist tactic on visual-based social media such as Instagram, slideshow activism adapts the production and consumption of political information to the logic of the platform. In so doing, slideshow activism provides followers with an ide... Read More about Slideshow activism on Instagram: Constructing the political activist subject.

‘Digital pruning’ helps women protect their mental health (2021)
Other
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2021). ‘Digital pruning’ helps women protect their mental health

Can women curate their social media feed to protect mental health? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2021). Can women curate their social media feed to protect mental health?. [Durham University Thought Leadership]

The politics of #diversifyyourfeed in the context of Black Lives Matter (2021)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., & Clifford-Astbury, C. (online). The politics of #diversifyyourfeed in the context of Black Lives Matter. Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1925727

In the past decade, the idiom “diversify your feed” (DYF) has emerged concurrently with the rise of social media and communicates the idea that “following” accounts presenting a range of bodies and identities online creates inclusive digital environm... Read More about The politics of #diversifyyourfeed in the context of Black Lives Matter.

Women, exercise and eating disorder recovery: The normal and the pathological (2021)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., & Warin, M. (2021). Women, exercise and eating disorder recovery: The normal and the pathological. Qualitative Health Research, 31(6), 1029-1042. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732321992042

The appropriate form, regularity, and intensity of exercise for individuals recovering from eating disorders is not agreed upon among health care professionals or researchers. When exercise is permitted, it is that which is mindful, embodied, and non... Read More about Women, exercise and eating disorder recovery: The normal and the pathological.

#gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2020). #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(1), 94-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2020.1836511

In this article, we explore transformation photos on Instagram as ‘digital artefacts’ that can inform understandings of eating disorder recovery in the context of sport, exercise and health. Transformation photos are two images (from different time p... Read More about #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders.

Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (2020). Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies. Women's Studies International Forum, 83, Article 102416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102416

Since their entry onto the competitive scene in 1977, female bodybuilders have been the subject of sustained debate among scholars from a range of disciplines. Within this body of literature, discourses are polarised and offer two opposing representa... Read More about Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies.