Thursday 11 February 2016

6:30pm - 8pm

6th Floor Studio, Saw Swee Student Centre

Historically, sports have been a male dominated arena, where women have been excluded from taking part. Today, the numbers of female athletes are rising significantly, yet, women’s sports are highly underrepresented in the media, and female athletes earn considerably less than their male counterparts.
This panel debate will cover a wide range of topics relating sport to gender, disability, class etc., where our confirmed panellists thus far are Dr. Jayne Caudwell, Hayley Ginn and Laura Plant.

Jayne is an Associate Professor and Head of Research in the Department of Events and Leisure at Bournemouth University. Jayne’s teaching and research interests are concerned with leisure and sport cultures, feminist theory, theories of sexualities and qualitative research methodologies, and she has published several books and articles on women, gender and sport.

Hayley is a high-profile paralympic coach, and has coached James Peacock, paralympic gold medalist, amongst others. Hayley recognised that there was a distinctive lack in support for amputees wishing to engage in running from a more ‘recreational’ perspective, and hence set up her own company, “Carbon Motion”, which provides bespoke coaching for people with lower-limb amputations.

Laura is a former England lacrosse player, and a high-level pentathlete. She is now in sustainability consulting at PWC, and involved in Project Awesome, a free fitness movement in London.