Iain Lindsey

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Women football fans in China: A call to action for expanding global understandings of gender, football and fandom In recent years, women’s participation in football fandom has attracted growing scholarly attention, reflecting broader debates about gender, cultural…

New Publication with Zhuotong Wu: Women Football Fans in China: A Call to Action for Expanding Global Understandings of Gender, Football and Fandom, published in Football Studies, currently available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wow, congratulations Virginia. Big cause for celebrations next month!

Dr Toni Williams, from our @dusportexsci.bsky.social, is leading vital research into how people with a disability often live in fear of engaging in physical activity due to the potential impact on their benefits.

Insightful review ⬇️ of 'Implementing Sport Policy' book edited by Marc Keech, myself and John Hayton.

Thanks Richard Tacon for spending the time reading and writing about the book!

Book link here: www.routledge.com/Implementing...

Both touching & celebratory. Well written
James.

Congratulations to our graduands from last weeks Graduation Ceremony. Amongst those who graduated were Dr Gianmarco Dellacasa and the second cohort of students on our MSc Physical Activity, Health and Society.

Congratulations to all!

IJSPP Paper - Political Philosophy and Sport Policy YouTube video by Iain Lindsey

Delighted to have article published proposing 'a new normative underpinning for sport policy research'

My first article engaging with political philosophy - hopefully more and others will follow

Article open access doi.org/10.1080/1940...

Preview of me speaking about article
youtu.be/OxYXySHVa6Q

Can they be bought anywhere other than Amazon? Or is publishing so broken that supporting the Bezos oligarchy the only way?

Thanks for writing and sharing, Tim.

Loved being part of this workshop, presenting a sufficientarian take on distributive justice in sport policy.

I learned so much from being amongst wonderful philosophers. Thanks to all ... and here's to next time!

Thank you Javi - it was a wonderful two days!

A little random, but I've analysed grants given by Sport England to local councils over time. If anyone thinks there's any interesting features/trends here, then please do reply ... I'd be interested at least!

As part of our second year Sports Development module, we welcomed Sandi Procter, President of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), to the department to give a guest lecture to our student about developing participation in British tennis.

Alumna and Olympic rower Lauren Irwin opens new landing stage at Hild Bede - Durham University

DSES graduate and Olympic athlete Lauren Irwin recently opened a new student rowing facility at her former college!

Lauren graduated with a degree in Sport, Health & Exercise from Durham in 2019 & won Bronze with Team GB as part of the women’s eight rowing team.

Read more here: bit.ly/4nkoZM5

Participants taking part in a Dance Break at Young Leaders for Arts and Health London Summit. People sat down in a room with ornate ceiling and chandeliers, waving their arms in the air.

More dance breaks required! 💃🕺

Emily Davis, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab, was invited to facilitate participatory dance activities at two major arts and health events in the UK @dusportexsci.bsky.social

Read about it here 👇
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Thanks @karimzidan.com for this summary - brilliantly captures the flow and achievements of the recent Play the Game debate on trans athletes in sport.

Link for those who want to watch here: www.playthegame.org/conferences/...

October Sport and Exercise Sciences @ Durham Research Newsletter Welcome to the October 2025 issue of the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences (DSES) research newsletter.

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We hope you enjoy reading about the current research and activities happening in the department.

Happy Birthday Jamie!

In London, hate will never win.

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Huge thanks to Mark & Nick - I really enjoyed chatting to them about my research last week!

Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.

25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? and What Now? Qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology has grown over the last 25 years. The number of papers published in journals like Psychology of …

New paper '25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? & What Now?'

We talk about fallacies, interviewing, AI, digital methods, story completion, analysis & physical activity guidelines!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dusportexsci.bsky.social

Lottery sports funding - only as a means for winning Olympic medals. Lots spent on increasing participation, but not much change in that data and the 1970s was last period in which there was significant increase.

Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping: An Annotated Methodology - Christopher R. Matthews, 2025 Social scientific methods are not as they should be. In this extended essay, I offer a way of framing and writing about methodological discussions that can tack...

The follow up 'twin paper' is now published 👇. If the first one laid a solid but rather bland foundation, this one zeros in on a much more obvious set of critical issues. I think the opening line is telling - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Here's your chance to name storms after oil companies- there's a SM effort to include BP, Exxon, Shell, BigOil and Equinor.
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Lindsay Macnaughton, was recently invited by the Swiss Sports Nutrition Society to delivered a keynote session on Body Composition Assessment in Athletes: Why? When? How?. Lindsay also co-presented with her collaborator Therese Fostervold Mathisen from Østfold University College (HiØ) in Norway.

Delighted that the #JASPA team have been shortlisted for #FuseAwards25 more info on our project and amazing young people below #coproduction #physicalactivity #youngpeople @nihrsphr.bsky.social @dusportexsci.bsky.social