- Principal Lecturer in Sport Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
Beth teaches sport sociology, focusing particularly on sports media, social inclusion and gender issues. Her research centres on women working in sport organisations, affirmative action policies in sport and the relationship between sport and the mass media. She researched representations of gender in media coverage of the London 2012 Olympics and is now doing an analysis of how both gender and the different home nations are represented in BBC Sport news.
Experience
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–presentPrincipal Lecturer in Sport Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
Education
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2007Manchester Metropolitan University, PhD
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