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View article: “Everything Plays a Part Doesn’t It?’’: A Contemporary Model of Lifelong Coach Development in Elite Sport
“Everything Plays a Part Doesn’t It?’’: A Contemporary Model of Lifelong Coach Development in Elite Sport Open
Coach development is typically considered to consist of a complex mix of experiences, including formal, informal and non-formal. Elements of the early research in this area led to the production of a model of long-term coach development (L…
View article: All the little pointers: a poetic representation of a female elite athlete’s experience of living with and seeking treatment for an eating disorder
All the little pointers: a poetic representation of a female elite athlete’s experience of living with and seeking treatment for an eating disorder Open
Eating disorders are highly prevalent in elite athletes but the lived experience of these has not been investigated extensively. In this article, we draw on life story data generated from four hours of interviews with a young (20 years plu…
View article: Autoethnography as an ethically contested terrain: some thinking points for consideration
Autoethnography as an ethically contested terrain: some thinking points for consideration Open
In this article, I select items from various lists of published ethical guidelines for autoethnographers and use them as starting points prior to subjecting each to interrogation. This interrogation takes place via the following six thinki…
View article: Who is “Us” in “Nothing About Us Without US”? Rethinking the Politics of Disability Research.
Who is “Us” in “Nothing About Us Without US”? Rethinking the Politics of Disability Research. Open
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View article: Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative Open
This study explores the reasons given by five elite athletes for choosing to seek psychiatric support and treatment outside, rather than inside, their own sport environments. Life story interviews were conducted with these athletes, who we…
View article: ‘The second I got the phone call, everything changed.’ Exploring the temporal experiences of the spouses and partners of spinal cord injured sportsmen
‘The second I got the phone call, everything changed.’ Exploring the temporal experiences of the spouses and partners of spinal cord injured sportsmen Open
Just as those who suffer a disabling spinal cord injury (SCI) through sport become wounded storytellers so do their spouses/partners. Little however is known about the experiences of such spouses/partners and even less is known about how t…
View article: Stop fearing blindness! Visually impaired people reflect on the ethics of sighted prospective teachers simulating visual impairment
Stop fearing blindness! Visually impaired people reflect on the ethics of sighted prospective teachers simulating visual impairment Open
Disability simulations have developed as a popular professional development tool to help increase knowledge and awareness of disability and facilitate pedagogical learning among prospective and pre-service teachers. The aim of this researc…
View article: Volunteering for Research in Prison: Issues of Access, Rapport and Ethics and Emotions During Ethnography
Volunteering for Research in Prison: Issues of Access, Rapport and Ethics and Emotions During Ethnography Open
Gaining access to formal institutions can be problematic for ethnographers. This is especially so when it comes to prisons where people are incarcerated by the state against their will for various crimes committed by them. Here, in such hi…
View article: Exploring Trans People’s Narratives of Transition: Negotiation of Gendered Bodies in Physical Activity and Sport
Exploring Trans People’s Narratives of Transition: Negotiation of Gendered Bodies in Physical Activity and Sport Open
This paper explores how trans people who make transitions negotiate their gendered bodies in different moments of this process, and how their narrative storylines are emplotted in physical activity and (non)organized sports (PAS) participa…
View article: Making a Spectacle of Oneself in the Academy Using the H-Index: From Becoming an Artificial Person to Laughing at Absurdities
Making a Spectacle of Oneself in the Academy Using the H-Index: From Becoming an Artificial Person to Laughing at Absurdities Open
This article offers autoethnographic insights into the consequences of making a spectacle of oneself in the audit culture of the academy. Spectacle 1 explores my experiences of using the h-index as part of an annual salary review and how t…
View article: ‘It’s better than going into it blind’: reflections by people with visual impairments regarding the use of simulation for pedagogical purposes
‘It’s better than going into it blind’: reflections by people with visual impairments regarding the use of simulation for pedagogical purposes Open
Disability simulations have been advocated as a tool to facilitate pedagogical learning among prospective physical education (PE) teachers. However, much of the research currently available neglect the views of people with disabilities abo…
View article: Autoethnography: accept, revise, reject? An evaluative self reflects
Autoethnography: accept, revise, reject? An evaluative self reflects Open
In this article I offer some reflections of how my evaluative self goes about passing judgement on different kinds of autoethnography. I begin by making distinctions between the autobiographical and the autoethnographic before raising ques…
View article: The influence of early life experiences on English and Australian Super League coaches’ learning
The influence of early life experiences on English and Australian Super League coaches’ learning Open
This article focuses on the influence of early life experiences and socio-cultural context on coach learning in the sport of rugby league. It draws on the findings of a study that investigated the influence of cultural context on the devel…
View article: Disability, sport and physical activity
Disability, sport and physical activity Open
This chapter deals with disability and sport, and focuses on recent work on parasport, social activism and sporting cyborgs. It looks at disability and physical activity and proposes evidenced health benefits, barriers to being active, phy…
View article: Autonomic dysreflexia and boosting in disability sport: exploring the subjective meanings, management strategies, moral justifications, and perceptions of risk among male, spinal cord injured, wheelchair athletes.
Autonomic dysreflexia and boosting in disability sport: exploring the subjective meanings, management strategies, moral justifications, and perceptions of risk among male, spinal cord injured, wheelchair athletes. Open
Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening condition unique to individuals with spinal cord injury above the sixth thoracic spinal level. When this condition is induced by spinal cord injured athletes to enhance performan…
View article: Stories as actors causing trouble in lives: a dialogical narrative analysis of a competitive cyclist and the fall from grace of Lance Armstrong
Stories as actors causing trouble in lives: a dialogical narrative analysis of a competitive cyclist and the fall from grace of Lance Armstrong Open
This article examines how stories as actors can cause trouble in lives by focusing on the reactions of a competitive cyclist, named David, to the public confession by Lance Armstrong of being a drug cheat and a bully. We begin by providing…
View article: How Are University Gyms Used by Staff and Students? A Mixed-Method Study Exploring Gym Use, Motivation, and Communication in Three UK Gyms
How Are University Gyms Used by Staff and Students? A Mixed-Method Study Exploring Gym Use, Motivation, and Communication in Three UK Gyms Open
This study examined university gym use by staff and students using mixed methods: participant observation and an e-survey. Research in three UK universities entailed 16 observation sessions and an e-survey that reached 3396 students and st…
View article: Me, osteogenesis imperfecta, and my classmates in physical education lessons: a case study of embodied pedagogy in action
Me, osteogenesis imperfecta, and my classmates in physical education lessons: a case study of embodied pedagogy in action Open
Pupils with disabilities have been found to experience a narrower physical education curriculum and participate less frequently than pupils without disabilities. A lack of knowledge, skills, relevant experiences and confidence amongst phys…
View article: ‘It’s a part of me’: an ethnographic exploration of becoming a disabled sporting cyborg following spinal cord injury
‘It’s a part of me’: an ethnographic exploration of becoming a disabled sporting cyborg following spinal cord injury Open
In much research dealing with sport technologies and the process of cyborgification there is a significant lack of attention given to the experiences of athletes themselves. This is particularly so for disabled athletes. Against this backd…
View article: Weighty: NICE's Not-So-Nice Words
Weighty: NICE's Not-So-Nice Words Open
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 06 December 2016Sec. Eating Behavior Volume 7 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01919
View article: ‘Sorry mate, you’re probably a bit too fat to be able to do any of this’: Men’s Experiences of Weight Stigma and Its Implications
‘Sorry mate, you’re probably a bit too fat to be able to do any of this’: Men’s Experiences of Weight Stigma and Its Implications Open
This study explores men’s experiences of weight stigma with a sample of men attending a weight management programme. Men’s understanding of stigma, including its sources, their responses to it, and its impact, were discussed using focus gr…
View article: Aging bodies and desistance from crime: Insights from the life stories of offenders
Aging bodies and desistance from crime: Insights from the life stories of offenders Open
View article: Taking sporting autobiographies seriously as an analytical and pedagogical resource in sport, exercise and health
Taking sporting autobiographies seriously as an analytical and pedagogical resource in sport, exercise and health Open
This article makes the case for taking sporting autobiographies seriously as both an analytical and pedagogical resource. First, the nature of autobiography is clarified and the interest shown by other disciplines in this genre is discusse…
View article: Book review: RaÚl SÁnchez GarcÍa and Dale C. Spencer (eds), <i>Fighting Scholars: Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports</i>
Book review: RaÚl SÁnchez GarcÍa and Dale C. Spencer (eds), <i>Fighting Scholars: Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports</i> Open
View article: Eve: Integration of machine learning with compound testing in a robot scientist
Eve: Integration of machine learning with compound testing in a robot scientist Open
View article: Sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport: Learning from Bella's story
Sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport: Learning from Bella's story Open
Through a process of collaborative autoethnography, we explore the experiences of one female athlete named Bella who was groomed and then sexually abused by her male coach. Bella’s story signals how the structural conditions and power rela…
View article: Cheaper faster drug development validated by the repositioning of drugs against neglected tropical diseases
Cheaper faster drug development validated by the repositioning of drugs against neglected tropical diseases Open
There is an urgent need to make drug discovery cheaper and faster. This will enable the development of treatments for diseases currently neglected for economic reasons, such as tropical and orphan diseases, and generally increase the suppl…