Dr Annette Stride, Course Director and Reader

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.

Dr Annette Stride, Course Director and Reader

Ask Me About

  1. Diversity
  2. Equality and inclusion
  3. Feminism
  4. Gender
  5. Physical education
  6. Sport

Selected Outputs

  • Fitzgerald H; Stride A (2010) Young People's Narratives of Family, Sport and Disability.

  • Stride A; Flintoff A; Scraton S (In press) ‘Homing in’ on South Asian, Muslim girls’ and their stories of physical activity. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 9 (3), pp. 253-269.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/25742981.2018.1478673

  • Stride A; Fitzgerald H; Rankin-Wright AJ; Barnes L (In press) The en/gendering of volunteering: “I’ve pretty much always noticed that the tail runner is always female”. Sport Management Review

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2019.05.006

  • Drury S; Stride A; Firth O; Fitzgerald H (2022) The transformative potential of trans*-inclusive PE: the experiences of PE teachers. Sport, Education and Society, pp. 1-14.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2034142

  • Drury S; Stride A; Fitzgerald H; Hyett-Allen N; Pylypiuk L; Whitford-Stark J (2022) “I'm a Referee, Not a Female Referee”: The Experiences of Women Involved in Football as Coaches and Referees. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3

    https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.789321

  • Fitzgerald H; Stride A; Drury S (2021) Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing. Sport in Society

    https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2021.1878148

  • Stride A; Brazier R; Piggott S; Staples M; Flintoff A (2020) Gendered power alive and kicking? An analysis of four English secondary school PE departments. Sport, Education and Society, pp. 1-15.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2020.1825933

  • Fitzgerald H; Stride A; Enright E (2020) Messy methods: Making sense of participatory research with young people in PE and sport. European Physical Education Review

    https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336x20953462

  • Fitzgerald H; Stride A; Drury S (2020) COVID-19, lockdown and (disability) sport. Managing Sport and Leisure

    https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2020.1776950

  • Foster R; Fitzgerald H; Stride A (2019) The socialization and participation of Deaflympians in sport. Sport in Society, 22 (12), pp. 1904-1918.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1530219

  • Stride A; Flintoff A; Fitzgerald H; Drury S; Brazier R (2018) Gender, Physical Education and Active Lifestyles: New Directions and Challenges - Introduction to Special Issue. Sport, Education and Society, 23 (7), pp. 633-637.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1494564

  • Stride A; Drury S; Fitzgerald H (2018) ‘Last goal wins’: re/engaging women of a ‘forgotten’ age through football?. Sport, Education and Society, 24 (7), pp. 770-783.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1428548

  • Stride A; Fitzgerald H; Allison W (2017) A narrative approach: The possibilities for sport management. Sport Management Review, 20 (1), pp. 33-42.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2016.10.002

  • Stride A; Flintoff A (2016) ‘I don’t want my parents’ respect going down the drain’: South Asian, Muslim young women negotiating family and physical activity. Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education

    https://doi.org/10.1080/18377122.2016.1240592

  • Stride A (2015) Being Physically Active..South Asian Muslim Girls Negotiate Familial Boundaries. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 86 (S2),

  • Stride A (2014) Centralising space: the physical education and physical activity experiences of South Asian, Muslim girls. Sport, Education and Society

    https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2014.938622

  • Stride A (2014) Let US tell YOU! South Asian, Muslim girls tell tales about physical education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 19 (4), pp. 398-417.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2013.780589

  • Fitzgerald H (2012) Stories about Physical Education from Young People with Disabilities.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2012.697743

  • Fitzgerald H; Stride A (2012) Stories about Physical Education from Young People with Disabilities. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 59 (3), pp. 283-293.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2012.697743

  • Stride A; Fitzgerald H (2011) Girls with learning disabilities and football on the brain. , 12 (3), pp. 457-470.

  • Stride A; Fitzgerald HF (2011) Girls with learning disabilities and 'football on the brain'. Soccer and Society, 12 (3), pp. 457-470.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2011.568111

  • Stride A (2019) Stories of Difference and Sameness: South Asian, Muslim Young Women Talk Physical Education. In: Dagkas S; Azzarito L; Hylton K ed. ‘Race’, Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Health: Global Perspectives. London: Routledge,

  • Fitzgerald H; Drury S; Stride A (2017) ‘Representations of the sporting female: Queering Paralympic Barbie’. In: Mansfield L; Caudwell J; Wheaton B; Watson B ed. Palgrave Handbook of Feminism in Sport, Leisure and PE. London: Palgrave,

  • Stride A; Flintoff A (2017) Girls, physical education and feminist praxis. In: Wheaton B; Caudwell J; Watson R ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education. London: Palgrave,

  • Drury S; Stride A; Flintoff A; Williams S (2017) Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people’s experiences of PE and the implications for youth sport participation and engagement. In: Fletcher T; Long JA; Watson R ed. Sport, Leisure and Social Justice. London: Routledge,

  • Drury S; Stride A; Flintoff A; Williams S (2017) Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people's experiences of PE and the implications for youth sport participation and engagement. In: Sport, Leisure and Social Justice. pp. 84-97.

  • Stride A; Fitzgerald HF (2017) Working towards social justice through participatory research with young people in sport and leisure. In: Long J; Watson R; Fletcher T ed. Sport, Leisure and Social Justice. London: Routledge,

  • Stride A; Fitzgerald H; May E (2016) Coaching Disabled Footballers..A Study of the Coach Journey. In: Allison W; Abraham A; Cale A ed. Advances in Coach Education and Development..From Research to Practice. Oxon: Routledge,

  • Fitzgerald HF; Stride A (2014) Narratives of disability and PE: ‘It’s PE on my school report that counts the most’. In: Dillon M; Gaul D; Hardie M; Woods C ed. Youth Sport: Understanding, intervening and prolonging engagement in youth sport, physical education and physical activity. Dublin: Proceedings of the Seventh Physical Education, Physical Activity and Youth Sport (PE PAYS) Forum,

  • Fitzgerald H; Stride A; Jobling A (2012) Inclusivity and Research - Capturing the lived experiences of young people with disabilities. In: Moore D; Gorra A; Reaney J; Smith H ed. Disabled Students in Education: Technology, Transition and Inclusivity. London: IGI,

  • Stride A; Fitzgerald HF (2012) Girls with learning disabilities and football on the brain. In: Caudwell J ed. Women’s football in the UK: Continuing with Gender Analyses. London: Routledge, pp. 135-148.