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42Learning in sport: From life skills to existential learningSport, Education and Society 25. 2020.Youth sport is habitually promoted as an important context for learning that contributes to a person’s broader development beyond sport-specific skills. A growing body of research in this area has operated within a life skills discourse that focuses on useful, positive and decontextualised skills in the production of successful and adaptive citizens. In this paper, we argue that the ideological discourse of life skills, underpinned by ideas about sport-based positive youth development, has undul…Read more
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405Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimmingThe Sociological Review 68. 2020.In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing ‘sensory sociology’ that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and ‘sensory work’, but where there remains a dearth of sociological exploration i…Read more
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413Endurance work’: embodiment and the mind-body nexus in the physical culture of high-altitude mountaineeringSociology 52 (6): 1324-1341. 2018.The 2015 Nepal earthquake and avalanche on Mount Everest generated one of the deadliest mountaineering disasters in modern times, bringing to media attention the physical-cultural world of high-altitude climbing. Contributing to the current sociological concern with embodiment, here we investigate the lived experience and social ‘production’ of endurance in this sociologically under-researched physical-cultural world. Via a phenomenological-sociological framework, we analyse endurance as cogniti…Read more
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654Sporting embodiment: sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenologyQualitative Research in Sport and Exercise 1 (3): 279-296. 2009.Whilst in recent years sports studies have addressed the calls ‘to bring the body back in’ to theorisations of sport and physical activity, the ‘promise of phenomenology’ remains largely under-realised with regard to sporting embodiment. Relatively few accounts are grounded in the ‘flesh’ of the lived sporting body, and phenomenology offers a powerful framework for such analysis. A wide-ranging, multi-stranded, and interpretatively contested perspective, phenomenology in general has been taken u…Read more
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32Identity Change: Doctoral students in art and designArts and Humanities in Higher Education 4 (1): 77-93. 2005.For over a decade, practice-based research degrees in art and design have formed part of the United Kingdom research degree education portfolio, with a relatively rapid expansion in recent years. This route to the PhD still constitutes an innovative, and on occasion a disputed, form of research study and students embarking upon the practice-based doctorate find themselves in many ways undertaking pioneering work. To date there has been a dearth of empirical studies of the actual experiences of s…Read more
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896Intention and epochē in tension: autophenomenography, bracketing and a novel approach to researching sporting embodimentQualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 3 (1): 48-62. 2011.This article considers a novel approach to researching sporting embodiment via what has been termed ‘autophenomenography’. Whilst having some similarities with autoethnography, autophenomenography provides a distinctive research form, located within phenomenology as theoretical and methodological tradition. Its focus is upon the researcher’s own lived experience of a phenomenon or phenomena. This article examines some of the key elements of a sociological phenomenological approach to studying sp…Read more
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134Feminist Phenomenology and the Woman in the Running BodySport, Ethics and Philosophy 5 (3). 2011.Modern phenomenology, with its roots in Husserlian philosophy, has been taken up and utilised in a myriad of ways within different disciplines, but until recently has remained relatively underused within sports studies. A corpus of sociological-phenomenological work is now beginning to develop in this domain, alongside a longer-standing literature in feminist phenomenology. These specific social-phenomenological forms explore the situatedness of lived-body experience within a particular social s…Read more
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Lincoln UniversityProfessor
University of South Wales
PhD, 2004
Areas of Specialization
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Sociology |
Anthropology |
Feminist Phenomenology |
Cultural Feminism |
Analytic Feminism |
Varieties of Feminism, Misc |
Perception and Phenomenology |
Areas of Interest
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Sociology |
Anthropology |
Cultural Feminism |
Feminist Phenomenology |
Materialist Feminism |
Varieties of Feminism, Misc |
Analytic Feminism |