Outputs (6)

204 Physical activity insecurity in children and young people at risk of marginalisation: navigating an equitable and safe research experience using co-production principles (2024)
Journal Article
Dodd-Reynolds, C., Hall, S., Crowder, M., Goodyear, V., Griffin, N., Fairbrother, H., Pope, S., & Scott, S. (2024). 204 Physical activity insecurity in children and young people at risk of marginalisation: navigating an equitable and safe research experience using co-production principles. European Journal of Public Health, 34(Supplement_2), ckae114.097. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae114.097

Purpose: We recently proposed a new conceptualisation for physical activity (PA) insecurity as ‘a limited or restricted ability to be active, reinforced by worries and experiences of feeling uncomfortable, emotionally or physically unsafe’ (Dodd-Reyn... Read More about 204 Physical activity insecurity in children and young people at risk of marginalisation: navigating an equitable and safe research experience using co-production principles.

Women’s football fandom and stadium attendance in Iran: a form of everyday resistance? (2024)
Journal Article
Phipps, C., Afrouzeh, A., Pope, S., Pourkiani, M., & Boroumand, M. R. (online). Women’s football fandom and stadium attendance in Iran: a form of everyday resistance?. World Leisure Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2024.2406487

To date, there is a scarcity of research examining women’s leisure lives in Iran, particularly their football fandom. In this study, we examine the development and negotiation of women’s fan identities, their experience of stadium attendance and alte... Read More about Women’s football fandom and stadium attendance in Iran: a form of everyday resistance?.

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.

Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom (2024)
Journal Article
Allison, R., Kossakowski, R., & Pope, S. (2024). Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom. Sociology of Sport Journal, https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2024-0036

Scholars have recognized that sports fandom is not static, but temporal and fluid. However, little longitudinal research has traced the development of fandom over time. This analysis makes a new contribution to the sociology of fandom and women’s spo... Read More about Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom.

The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus (2024)
Journal Article
Naidu-Young, S., May, A., Pope, S., & Gérard, S. (2024). The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus. Sociology of Sport Journal, 41(3), 255–266. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0094

This article is the first to examine experiences of women with leadership roles in the U.K. Higher Education sport sector. We carried out detailed interviews with women leaders. We utilized Bourdieu’s model of habitus, capital, and field; Acker’s con... Read More about The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus.

‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’ (2024)
Journal Article
Allison, R., Culvin, A., & Pope, S. (2024). ‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’. Sport in Society, 27(10), 1529-1548 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2304230

We draw from 102 interviews with American and English adults who attended the 2019 Women’s World Cup to examine how fans perceive women footballers as ‘role models’, with attention to the operations of gender ideology. Despite the recent professional... Read More about ‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’.