Simone Fullagar

Simone Fullagar is Professor of Sport Management at Griffith University. As an interdisciplinary sociologist Simone’s work has focused on understanding how gender inequalities impact on women’s sport and leisure participation, representation and leadership, as well as their health and emotional wellbeing in society. Simone has led ARC and related projects that examine inequality in sport, inclusion and women's and young people's mental health as a sociocultural issue. She has published widely on the sociology of health and diverse sport and leisure cultures.

In 2015 her gender research was internationally recognised through the Shaw-Mannell Award for Leisure Research, University of Waterloo. Simone was previously Chair of the Physical Culture, Sport and Health research group at the University of Bath, UK. She supervises PhD students with interests in qualitative methods, feminist and new materialist theories and social change within and beyond sport.