Rebecca Jackson
PhD Researcher,
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Research Summary
In partnership with The FA, my current research aims to understand the realities of girl footballers' experiences of gendered environments and deliver recommendations for change based on these… read more
Current Research
In partnership with The FA, my current research aims to understand the realities of girl footballers' experiences of gendered environments and deliver recommendations for change based on these experiences. With ongoing inequalities surrounding girls' opportunities and experiences within football, a gendered environmental approach (Parsons et al., 2021) is taken to highlight how gendered norms and practices can become embedded in sporting settings and ultimately disadvantage girls' participation, performance and health.
In line with the study's ethic of social justice, this study's uses creative participatory methods to centre the voices of girls who play grassroots football. This research will contribute towards the FA's current 'Reaching Higher' strategy, which seeks to deliver equal opportunities for women and girls to play, by offering feasible policy recommendations in how to understand and address gendered environmental inequalities.