Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Kate Dashper
Reader
Kate Dashper is Reader and Director of Research Degrees in the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management. Her research applies a critical sociological lens to examine practices of work and leisure, particularly focusing on gender issues and interspecies encounters.
Kate’s work combines expertise in gender studies and human-animal studies. Her PhD (Keele University), sponsored by the journal Gender, Work and Organization, was a study of gender relations within the mixed-sex context of equestrian sport. Her research has since developed her interest in gender and diversity, considering how more-than-human perspectives can inform understanding of the complexities of multispecies worlds.
Kate is an internationally recognised researcher for her work in human-animal studies. Through her research on equestrian sport and leisure, Kate examines how humans and nonhumans work and play together, and the interspecies relationships that can develop through joint action and interaction. Her research considers the potential contributions that multispecies perspectives can make to understanding events, tourism and hospitality practices and organisations. She is author of the 2017 monograph Human-animal Relationships in Equestrian Sport and Leisure (Routledge) and co-editor of the first book on multispecies events, Humans, horses and Event Management (CABI, 2021).
Kate’s other main area of expertise is gender, and she has conducted research and consultancy projects within both the events and equestrian industries, evaluating gender equality initiatives in organisations and exploring the gendered experiences of women and men within professional and leisure contexts. She is editor of Sport, Gender and Mega-events (Emerald, 2021).
Ask Me About
- Gender
- Sport
- Tourism
- Horse riding
Publications
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Dashper K (2015), The event workforce: Understanding job satisfaction, stress and job experience in the events industry:
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Long JA; Dashper K; Fletcher T; Ormerod N (2015), Understanding participation and non-participation in sport amongst Black and minority ethnic groups in Wales: Report to Sport Wales from the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure
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Dashper K (2021), Holidays with my horse: Human-horse relationships and multispecies tourism experiences: Elsevier
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Dashper K; Finkel R (2020), ‘Doing gender’ in Critical Event Studies: A dual agenda for research:
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Dashper K; Ormerod N; Fletcher T; Lomax D; Bradley A; Marvel A (2020), Informed consumers?: Students, choices and Events Management degrees: Elsevier
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Fenner K; Dashper K; Serpell J; McLean A; Wilkins C; Klinck M; Wilson B; McGreevy P (2020), The Development of a Novel Questionnaire Approach to the Investigation of Horse Training, Management, and Behaviour: MDPI AG
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Dashper K; Turner J; Wengel Y (2020), Gendering knowledge in tourism: Gender (in)equality initiatives in the tourism academy: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Helgadottir G; Dashper K (2020), 20 years of Nordic rural tourism research: A review and future research agenda: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Fenner K; Dashper K; Wilkins C; Serpell J; McLean A; Wilson B; McGreevy P (2020), Building bridges between theory and practice: how citizen science can bring equine researchers and practitioners together: MDPI AG
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Dashper K; Finkel R (2020), Accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the UK meetings industry: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Wood E; Dashper K (2020), ‘Purposeful togetherness’: Theorising gender and ageing through creative events: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Dashper K (2020), Mentoring for gender equality: Supporting female leaders in the hospitality industry: Elsevier
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Dashper K; Buchmann A (2019), Multispecies event experiences : Introducing more-than-human perspectives to event studies: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Dashper K; Fletcher T; Long JA (2019), Intelligent investment’? Welsh sport policy and the (in)visibility of ‘race’: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Danby P; Dashper K; Finkel R (2019), Multispecies leisure: Human-animal interactions in leisure landscapes: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Dashper K; Fletcher T (2019), ‘Don’t call me an academic’: Professional identity and struggles for legitimacy within the vocational field of Events Management higher education.: Elsevier
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Dashper K; Abbott J; Wallace C (2019), 'Do horses cause divorces?' Autoethnographic insights on family, relationships and resource-intensive leisure: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Fenner K; Caspar G; Hyde M; Henshall C; Dhand N; Probyn-Raspey F; Dashper K; McLean A; McGreevy P (2019), It's all about the sex, or is it? Humans, horses and temperament: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Dashper K (2019), Challenging the gendered rhetoric of success? The limitations of women-only mentoring for tackling gender inequality in the workplace: Wiley
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Dashper K; Brymer E (2019), An ecological-phenomenological perspective on multispecies leisure and the horse-human relationship in events: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Dashper K (2019), More-than-human emotions: Multispecies emotional labour in the tourism industry: Wiley
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Dashper K; Fenner K; Hyde M; Probyn-Rapsey F; Caspar G; Henshall C; McGreevy P (2018), The Anthropomorphic Application Of Gender Stereotypes To Horses: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Dashper K (2018), Moving beyond anthropocentrism in leisure research: multispecies perspectives:
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Dashper K (2018), Smiling assassins, brides-to-be and super mums: The importance of gender and celebrity in media framing of female athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games: Taylor & Francis
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Dashper K (2018), Confident, focused and connected: The importance of mentoring for women’s career development in the events industry: Routledge
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Kola A; Ratna A; Dashper K (2018), ‘On the Hunt for Belonging’: Culture, Hunting and Indo-Muslim Men in South Africa: Routledge
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Dashper K (2017), Listening to horses: Developing attentive interspecies relationships through sport and leisure: Brill Academic Publishers
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Dashper K (2016), Strong, active women: (Re)doing rural femininity through equestrian sport and leisure: SAGE Publications
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Dashper KL; Roth S (2016), Sociology in the 1980s: the rise of gender (and intersectionality): SAGE Publications (UK and US)
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Helgadóttir G; Dashper K (2016), 'Dear International guests and friends of the Icelandic horse': Experience, meaning and belonging at a niche sporting event: Taylor & Francis
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Channon A; Dashper K; Fletcher T; Lake RJ (2015), The promises and pitfalls of sex integration in sport and physical culture:
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Dashper K; St John M (2015), Clothes make the rider? Equestrian competition dress and sporting identity:
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Dashper KL (2015), Revise, resubmit and reveal? An autoethnographer’s story of facing the challenges of revealing the self through publication: Sage
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Dashper K (2014), Tools of the trade or part of the family? Horses in competitive equestrian sport: Brill Academic Publishers
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Fletcher TE; Dashper K (2013), “Like a Hawk Among House Sparrows”: Kauto Star, a steeplechasing legend: Taylor & Francis
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Fletcher T; Dashper K (2013), 'Bring on the dancing horses!': Ambivalence and class obsession within British media reports of the dressage at London 2012:
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Dashper K; Fletcher T (2013), Introduction: diversity, equity and inclusion in sport and leisure:
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Dashper K (2013), The 'right' person for the job: The aesthetics of labor within the events industry: Cognizant Communication Corporation
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Dashper K (2012), Together, yet still not equal? Sex integration in equestrian sport: Taylor and Francis
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Dashper K (2012), Dressage is full of Queens! Masculinity, sexuality and equestrian sport: Sage Publications Limited
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Dashper K (2010), It's a form of Freedom: The experiences of people with disabilities within equestrian sport: Taylor and Francis
