About us

This special interest group investigates sport’s diverse roles in a transforming social world. The team work with a wide variety of stakeholders to provide contemporary assessments sport’s intersection with community development and cohesion, positive youth development through sport, subcultural and elite sport participation and representation, the cultural impact on sport of a transforming technological and media landscape and sport and sustainable lifestyles.

Staff Members

• Dr Joanne Hill
• Dr Amanda Jones
• Dr Alex Psaltis (Stewart)

Recent papers

• Martínez Bello, V. E., & Hill, J. (2020). Gender, age and physical activity representation in children’s colouring books / Representación del género, la edad y la actividad física en libros para colorear infantiles. Cuestiones de Género: De La Igualdad y La Diferencia, 15, 291–312.
• Lynch, S., & Hill, J. (2020). “I had to pop a wheelie and pay extra attention in order not to fall:” Embodied experiences of two wheelchair tennis athletes transgressing ableist and gendered norms in disability sport and university spaces. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2020.1731575
• Pang, B. & Hill, J. (2018). Representations of Chinese gendered and racialised bodies in contemporary social media sites. Sport, Education and Society, 23(8), 773-785.
• Pang, B. & Hill, J. (2018). Rethinking the ‘aspirations’ of Chinese girls within and beyond Health and Physical Education and physical activity in Greater Western Sydney. Sport, Education and Society, 23(5), 421-434.
• Hill, J., Sandford, R.A. & Enright, E. (2016). ‘It's really amazed me what my body can now do’: Creating a body-positive community in and through dance. Sport in Society19(5), 667-679.

Recent conference presentations

• Hill, J., Wesley, K., Baird, A., & Stewart, A. (2019, September). Student Journeys: a collaborative project on academic identity with commuting and first generation higher education students. Paper presented at British Academy Research Association annual conference, Manchester.
• Pang, B. & Hill, J. (2018, July). Representations of Chinese gendered and racialised bodies in contemporary media sites. Paper presented at AIESEP World Congress, Edinburgh, 26 July.
• Hill, J. (2014, September). Girls’ meanings of their physically active bodies at the intersections of gender, race and age. Paper presented at British Education Research Association Annual Meeting, London.
• Martinez Bello, V. and Hill, J. (2014, November). Body representation in colouring books. Presentation at Congreso Internacional Educación Artística y Diversidad Sexual (EDADIS), Valencia.
• Hill, J., Field, J. and Martinez Bello, V. (2016, September). Gendered physical activity representation in physical education textbooks and children’s colouring books. Paper presented at British Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Leeds.

Recent book publications

• Craig, P. (2016). Sport Sociology. (3rd ed). London: Sage

Recent book chapters

• Bartle, M. & Craig, P. (2017). Learning through international volunteering. In A. Benson and N. Wise (Eds.) International sport volunteering. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Craig, P. & Bartle, M. (2016). Sport in a digital age. In P. Craig, Sport Sociology (3rd ed). London: Sage.
• Craig, P. (2016). Sport sustainability and climate change. In P. Craig, Sport Sociology (3rd ed). London: Sage
• Craig, P. & Hill, J. (2016). Class and gender differentiation in sport. In P. Craig, Sport Sociology (3rd ed). London: Sage
• Craig P. & Wu, P. (2016). Sport and the media. In P. Craig, Sport Sociology (3rd ed). London: Sage.
• Hill, J. & Jones, A. (2016). Sport and the body. In P. Craig, Sport Sociology (3rd ed). London: Sage.
• Stewart, A. (2015). The boxer in the mirror: The ethnographic self as a resource in research among professional boxers. In G. Molnar and L. Purdy. Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research. Abingdon: Routledge

Internally funded projects

• Hill, J. and Stewart, A. (2016). Student journeys: narratives of student engagement in higher education.