Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Alice Hoole
Part-Time Lecturer
Alice is currently undertaking a PhD at Leeds Beckett University critically examining the experiences of women, non-binary, and transgender footballers participating in queer radical football spaces. Her main sociological research interests include gender, sexuality, queer anarchism, football, DIY and radical spaces.
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Alice is currently undertaking a PhD at Leeds Beckett University critically examining the experiences of women, non-binary, and transgender footballers participating in queer radical football spaces. Her main sociological research interests include gender, sexuality, queer anarchism, football, DIY and radical spaces.
Alice is currently undertaking a PhD that critically examines the experiences of women, transgender and non-binary players who participate in queer radical and subcultural football spaces. She is utilising a poststructuralist queer anarchist theoretical framework to deconstruct how gender and sexuality are experienced within alternative footballing spaces. Additionally, she has an interest in other DIY radical cultures, such as the DIY punk scene, and seeks to understand how other subcultural practices and leisure time can influence these football spaces.
Previous to beginning her PhD, Alice completed a Masters in Social Justice and Education at UCL which considered the lived experiences of women, transgender and non-binary players within grassroots Sunday League and other DIY spaces. She has had a journal paper published from some of the findings from this MA research (Hoole, 2024).
Alice's main research interests lie within qualitative sociological research that considers the intersectionality of gender and sexuality for those within football who don't identify as CIS-gender men and how their experiences of the male-dominated game have been shaped by these identities. At a broader level, she is interested in social justice within sport and, in addition, she is currently employed as a research assistant for a project commissioned by the Disability Football Collective. This involves conducting interviews with those working in leadership positions within football who live with disabilities and how this may impact on their experiences of employment.
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Research interests
Alice is currently undertaking a PhD that critically examines the experiences of women, transgender and non-binary players who participate in queer radical and subcultural football spaces. She is utilising a poststructuralist queer anarchist theoretical framework to deconstruct how gender and sexuality are experienced within alternative footballing spaces. Additionally, she has an interest in other DIY radical cultures, such as the DIY punk scene, and seek to understand how other subcultural practices and leisure time can influence these football spaces. With the use of horizontalist research methods such as knowledge-exchange workshops, she hopes to create meaningful impact within the research group by offering ways to collaborate between teams to seek solutions to any difficulties these groups may have. She also hopes that her research creates impact within the wider football community by raising awareness of the radical alternatives available to those who seek to reimagine sporting structures and communities.
Featured Research Projects
'Anchors of Belonging' framework for those working in sports organisations
Working within the Centre for Social Justice in Sport and Society (CSJ) has provided opportunities for the research team to work with various sports organisations on issues of equity, diversity and inclusion.
