The WiSEAN Podcast: Women’s Sport & Exercise Research
Episodes
Dr Simone Fullagar and Dr Adele Pavlidis
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Themes:How both researchers came to feminist sport sociology and began collaboratingWomen's recovery from depression — the link between movement...
Dr Simone Fullager & Dr Adele Pavlidis: Feminist Research, Inclusion and the Future of Women's Sport
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Themes:How both researchers came to feminist sport sociology and began collaboratingWomen's recovery from depression — the link between movement...
Prof Holly Thorpe: Researching Women's Bodies, Sport and the Fight for Inclusion
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Holly Thorpe (she/her) is a Professor in the Sociology of Sport and Gender at the University of Waikato (New Zealand). She has published over 140 art...
Dr Nicole M. LaVoi: Advancing Girls and Women in Sport through Research and Impact (audio)
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Audio: Dr Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer of social and behavioural sciences in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota a...
Dr Nicole M. LaVoi: Advancing Girls and Women in Sport through Research and Impact
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer of social and behavioural sciences in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota and the ...
Verity Postlethwaite: Social impact and legacy in women's sport
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Verity Postlethwaite is a Lecturer in Strategic Event Management at Loughborough University and Co‑Chair of the WiSEAN 2026 Conference Orga...
Dr Verity Postlethwaite: Social impact and legacy in women's sport
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Verity Postlethwaite is a Lecturer in Strategic Event Management at Loughborough University and Co‑Chair of the WiSEAN 2026 Conference Organising Co...
Dr Britta Sorensen: Understanding Pain in Women’s Ultra-Endurance Sports
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Britta Sorensen is a researcher specialising in female athletes’ pain experiences through holistic, biopsychosocial approaches. Her PhD ...
Dr Britta Sorensen: Understanding Pain in Women’s Ultra-Endurance Sports (video version)
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Britta Sorensen is a researcher specialising in female athletes’ pain experiences through holistic, biopsychosocial approaches. Her PhD exa...
Dr Britta Sorensen: Understanding Pain in Women’s Ultra-Endurance Sports
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Britta Sorensen is a researcher specialising in female athletes’ pain experiences through holistic, biopsychosocial approaches. Her PhD examined ...
Dr Tegan Hartmann & Dr Danielle Girard: Reproductive Health and Advancing WiSEAN across Australasia
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Tegan HartmannTegan is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Science at Charles Sturt University. Her research is focussed on women’s health, particularl...
Dr Tegan Hartmann & Dr Danielle Girard: Reproductive Health and Advancing WiSEAN across Australasia
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Tegan HartmannTegan is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Science at Charles Sturt University. Her research is focussed on women’s health, particularl...
Dr Ross Julian: Researching Performance in Women’s Football
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ross Julian: Researching Performance in Women’s Football (video version)Themes talked about: Reasons for initial interest in doing res...
Dr Ross Julian: Researching Performance in Women’s Football
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ross Julian: Researching Performance in Women’s FootballWe talked about:Reasons for initial interest in doing research on the effects (or perceiv...
Prof Charlie Pedlar: Building a Career in Sports Science and Supporting Women through Research and Practice
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie is a Professor of Applied Sports and Exercise Science at St Mary's in the Faculty of Sport, Technology and Health Sciences. Charlie also...
Dr Aoife Lane: Research in Ireland on Women in Sport
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aoife is Head of Department of Sport and Health Sciences in Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) Athlone, lead of the SHE Research Centre and...
Professor Elizabeth Pike: Exploring Global Gender and Sport
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Elizabeth Pike has worked at the Universityof Hertfordshire since August 2017, where she is Professor and Head of the Institute of Sport, ha...
Dr Malika Felton: Pregnancy, breathing & cold water swimming
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Malika Felton is a Senior Lecturer in Health and ExercisePhysiology within the Centre for Midwifery and Women’s Health at Bournemouth University....
Melissa Lodge: REDs, fuelling and scientific communication
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Lodge, MSMelissa Lodge is an Interdisciplinary Health Sciences PhD candidate and graduate assistant at the University of Rhode Island. Her re...
Prof Stacey Pope: Women Football Fans and Safer Spaces
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Pope is a professor based in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University, UK. Professor Pope leads research in the area ...
Dr Emma Cowley: Invisible Sportswomen
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Emma Cowley is a postdoctoral researcher at the SHE Research Centre in TUS Athlone. She is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie alumna and earned her PhD from ...
Dr Stacey Emmonds. From Pitch to Policy: Navigating Research in Football and Beyond
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stacey Emmonds is an Associate Professor in SportsPerformance in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University. Dr Emmonds has extensive...
Harry Meadley, Merging Art & Sport: Inclusive Skateboarding Cultures
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Meadley is an artist, researcher and skateboarder based in Leeds, UK, who initiates projects that, through inclusion, participation and co-produ...
Professor Margie Davenport: Preconception, pregnancy & postpartum/sport and physical activity
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Margie Davenport leads the Program for Pregnancy and Postpartum Health, and has published more than 175 manuscripts related to physical activity an...
Dr Alex Culvin. Professional Women's Football
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Alex Culvin is the Director of Global Policy and StrategicRelations, Women’s Football at FIFPro, theglobal player union. Alex is also an academic...
Dr Ali Bowes: Professionalisation of women's sport
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ali Bowes is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Nottingham Trent University. Ali primarily researches the sociocultural dimensions in e...
Professor Kerry McGawley, menstrual health literacy
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kerry McGawley is a professor in sports science at the Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre, part of Mid Sweden University. She is also the senior ma...
Dr Christy Greenleaf, psychosocial aspects of weight and body image in fitness/exercise settings
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christy Greenleaf, Ph.D. is a Professor of Kinesiology at Zilber College of Public Health, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Dr Greenleaf’s resear...
Dr Marlize de Vivo, exercise in pregnancy
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Marlize De Vivo is a qualified Biokineticist, Sports Rehabilitator and Sport & Exercise Scientist with extensive experience spanning health and...
Jenny Burbage, breast health and bra requirements for active occupations
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I chat with Dr Jenny Burbage, who is a senior lecturer in biomechanics and part of the Research Group in Breast Health within the Sch...
Emma O'Loughlin, ACL rehabilitation with menstrual cycle-phased training
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emma completed her BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy from Trinity College Dublin. She completed rotations in Geriatrics, General Medicine, Neurology and Spor...
Dr Hanya Pielichaty, Critical Pedagogies in Sport
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
About Dr Hanya Pielichaty and Critical Pedagogies in Sport When I retired from playing football in 2015, I had clocked up three decades of unwavering ...
Professor Győző Molnár, politics, gender & sport
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Győző Molnár joined the University of Worcester in September 2008. Győző is a critical sociologist with a research focus on identity po...
Gráinne Donnelly, physical activity postpartum and diastasis rectus abdominis
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gráinne Donnelly is an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner and clinical researcher from N. Ireland in the UK. She is incoming co-editor for the journ...
Emma Brockwell: Pelvic health, returning to running postnatally, and research impact
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Brockwell is a Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist. She treats women of all ages with all women’s health-related conditions. She is passio...
Dr Natalie Brown: Menstrual cycle and concussion
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Natalie Brown is a research associate based at Swansea University and Sport Wales, working with the Welsh Institute of Performance Science. Her spe...
Dr Lori Gano-Overway, the WSPAJ and caring environments in coaching
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lori Gano-Overway is the director of and instructor in the coaching education minor program at James Madison University. She has been involved in c...
Dr Georgie Bruinvels, menstrual cycle, Orreco and Fitrwoman
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Georgie Bruinvels is a Research Scientist and the Female Athlete lead at Orreco. Georgie is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Univer...
Lorna Mackay: Percussive therapy, pregnancy, football & qualitative research
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lorna Mackay runs her own business as a personal trainer and Zumba instructor. Her specialist interest lies in the management of chronic pain through ...
Dr Philippa Velija on gender equity in sport
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Philippa Velija is Head of School for Social Sciences, Psychology and Education and Associate Professor in the Sociology of Sport at Solent Univers...
Dr Naomi Datson on women's football - career and research
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Naomi Datsonis a Reader within the Institute of Sport, Nursing and Allied Health at the University of Chichester. Naomi is an experienced practitio...
Dr Maurizio Valenti on women's football
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Maurizio Valenti is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Law at Manchester Metropolitan University and member of the Faculty’s Sports...
Dr Emma Ross on work at the English Institute of Sport and her Well HQ company
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Emma Ross was, until recently, the Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport (EIS), supporting practitioners working across Olympic and ...
Dr Marie-Stephanie Abouna and Mme Balkis Lefebvre on the European Women in Sport (E-WinS) Erasmus project
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Marie-Stéphanie Abouna and Balkis Lefebvre. We talked about the 3-year, Erasmus+-funded project, E-WinS, but I also asked M...
Kelly McNulty on menstrual cycle/oral contraception effects on performance and 'the period of the period'
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly McNulty is a PhD student at Northumbria University in the UK, investigating the effects of the menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use on...
Dr John Dickinson on respiratory issues related to COVID-19 and females
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John W. Dickinson, PhD is Reader within the School of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Kent, UK. He has over 17 years’ experience ...
Rebecca Myers talks about journalism in women's sport & COVID-19-related issues
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Myers is a journalist for The Times and Sunday Times and the lead reporter for the prestigious Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year awards. Sh...
Dr Glen Davison on COVID-19 risk, females, exercise & nutrition
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Glen Davison is Reader and Director of Research in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Kent, where he also co-ordinates ...
Dr Nicky Keay: energy availability questionnaires, amenorrhoea treatment, and RED-S
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Nicola Keay BA, MB (Cantab), MB, BChir, MRCP, studied medicine at Cambridge University, with clinical attachments including sports medicine clinics...
Áine Brislane on vascular function in postmenopause and pregnancy
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Áine Brislane is a lecturer in exercise physiology at York St. John University (YSJU) within the School of Sport, where she is responsible for delive...
Jane Dowling from Meno & Me, on exercise in the menopause
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Dowling is a clinical exercise specialist and has over 20 years’ experience in the health and fitness arena. She is a public speaker and blogge...
Emily Pappas talks about Relentless Athletics and issues around strength & conditioning for females
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Pappas has a strong background in the physiological sciences, holding a bachelor’s degree in biology with a concentration in biochemistry, and...
Podcast with Julie Harrington, Chief Executive of British Cycling
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Harrington was announced as British Cycling’s new chief executive in March 2017. Before her current role, Julie amassed almost 15 years’ exp...
Podcast with Professor Nanette Mutrie MBE
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Nanette Mutrie is the Chair of Physical Activity for Health at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and directs the Physical Activity for H...
Professor Wolfgang Kemmler on osteoporosis and whole-body electromyostimulation
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Wolfgang Kemmler is a professor and research director at the Institute of Medical Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg...
Dr Jenny Burbage and Miss Brogan Horler on breast health, bra fitting and breast support for the exercising female
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jenny Burbage completed a BSc (Hons) Sports Science degree in 2006 at the University of Portsmouth and an MSc Sport & Exercise Biomechanics deg...
Joan Eckerson and nutrition and supplements for the female athlete
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Eckerson, PhD, FNSCA, FACSM, CSCS, CEP is Professor and Chair in the Department of Exercise Science and Pre-Health Professions at Creighton Unive...
Dr Lucy Piggott on gender equity in sport governance
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lucy Piggott is a Research Fellow at the University of Chichester. Both her research and applied activities are focused around women and sport. She...
Dr Donna Duffy and head injuries among female athletes
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk with Dr Donna Duffy about the issue of head injuries being unreported in women’s sport, her work as part of the Female BRAIN...
Dr Nancy Williams on energy availability
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Nancy Williams is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Kinesiology at Penn State University. She earned her doctorate in anatomy and p...
Dr Amber Mosewich and Dr Leah Ferguson on self-compassion for the female athlete
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Amber Mosewich is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. A key directive of her ...
Dr Mimi Zumwalt MD and prevention of injury
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk to Dr Mini Zumwalt about her work as an orthopaedic surgeon. We talk about factors that are thought to increase injury inciden...
Dr Leanne Norman on gender equality in sports coaching
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Leanne Norman is a Reader in Sports Coaching within the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University. She is an internationally leading res...
Robin Pickering on exercise in pregnancy and social media/self-efficacy
09 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the podcast, I talk to Robin Pickering about a number of issues concerning the exercising female, from exercise in pregnancy to the impact of socia...
The immune system with Dr Judith Allgrove & Dr Glen Davison
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I speak to Dr Glen Davison (@GlenD800) and Dr Judith Allgrove about their research and activities associated with the immune system. W...
Lindsay Woodford on the adolescent female athlete & The Sporting Mindset
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsay Woodford is a chartered sport and exercise psychologist at The Sporting Mindset and co-programme lead for the masters degree in Sport and Exer...
Molly Hurford talks about increasing visibility of girls in cycling and more...
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Molly Hurford, who is a coach & journalist in love with all things cycling, running, yoga, and nutrition. When not ou...
Mark De Ste Croix on injury management and robustness training for young female athletes
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I chat with Professor Mark De Ste Croix about: injury management and robustness training for young females who take part in sport; hi...
Nicole Sapstead from UK Anti-Doping
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Sapstead, Chief Executive of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD), talks about her career as a woman, her challenges, her role models and her advice for other...
Claire-Marie Roberts and career termination
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Claire-Marie talks about her latest research and insights on athlete career termination, specifically for female athletes, and how she applies her res...
Rachael Bullingham on Homophobia in Sport
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I am chatting to Dr Rachael Bullingham, who is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at the University of Worcester. Rachael’s re...
Kate Nicholson and Tanya Martin from Women in Sport
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Kate Nicholson and Tanya Martin, both of whom are from Women in Sport. Kate is Head of Insight and Innovation and Tanya i...
Hanya Pielichaty on female footballer identities
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I chat with Hanya about her research in which she used critical ethnographic exploration to identify and describe player identities a...