Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Annette Stride
Course Director and Reader
Annette is a Reader in the Carnegie School of Sport, working within the Physical Education Academic Group. Her research has a social justice agenda, focusing upon populations that experience marginalisation, discrimination and disadvantage in PE, sport and physical activity contexts.
Taking a critical approach to her work, Annette is interested in advancing knowledge regarding the ways that gender intersects with other social locations to influence the opportunities for and experiences of a diversity of women and girls. Her research also considers creative ways of generating and alternative means of representing data.
Annette has written for academic and practitioner textbooks, produced educational resources around diversity and inclusion for practitioners, and published in a range of academic journals. She has led and been involved in a number of national and international research projects funded by governing bodies, charities, and sports organisations.
Annette is the Theme Lead for Identities and (In)equalities within the Centre for Social Justice in Sport and Society where she also oversees the Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange programme. This provides an opportunity to work with partners, to challenge sport organisations to think and act differently, and to ensure the Centre’s research is impactful.
Annette draws upon her research expertise and experiences to teach across the Physical Education programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and to supervise doctoral students.
Current Teaching
- BA (Hons) Physical Education
- BA (Hons) Physical Education with Outdoor Education
- MA Physical Education and Youth Sport
Research Interests
Annette's research typically has a social justice agenda, working with populations often marginalised or disadvantaged within sport, PE and physical activity contexts. More specifically, she is interested in how the connections between gender and other identity markers including ethnicity, disability and sexuality influence people’s involvement in sport, PE and physical activity. Within her research, Annette draws on a range of innovative, creative and participatory research methods to engage her participants.
Annette has worked with practitioners and policy makers on various external research projects, including the British Council, the Football Association, Women in Sport, the Institute of Youth Sport and Sportscoach UK and the Women’s Sports and Fitness Foundation. Annette presents her work at national and international conferences and is the Co-Convener of the Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Special Interest Group of the British Educational Research Association.
Ask Me About
- Diversity
- Equality and inclusion
- Feminism
- Gender
- Physical education
- Sport
