Position
- Lecturer in Sports Sociology
- Year 1 Leader BA/BSc Sport and Physical Education
Profile
Teaching Expertise
- Masters in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
- Unit Leader – Research Methods in Sport
Undergraduate
- Unit Leader – Sport and Physical Activity in Society (Year 1)
- Unit Leader – Applied Case Studies (Year 2)
- Dissertation supervision (Year 3)
- Foundations for Degree Studies – Quantitative Research Methods (Year 1)
Doctoral Students
Hyunwoo Jung – Second Supervisor
- Project: The social construction of sport policy in Physical Education and School Sport: Policy, Practice and Evaluation (PhD, full time, year 2)
Research Interests
My research interests include: sports fandom and gender; the sociology of football and rugby union, especially in relation to fan culture; comparative research in sports fandom; gender, sport and leisure; sports involvement and structural issues of gender, class, age and ethnicity; and sport and family relations. My research interests are interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating sociology, leisure studies, socio-historical perspectives on sport, physical education and sports geography.
Conference Presentations
- Pope, S. (2011) Invisible But Not Lost: Female Experiences of Football in Sixties Britain, British Society of Sports History (BSSH) Annual Conference, London Metropolitan University, UK, September.
- Pope, S. (2011) ‘The Love of My Life’: The Meaning and Importance of Sports Fandom for Women. International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), World Congress for the Sociology of Sport. Havana, Cuba, July.
- Pope, S. (2011) ‘White Shoes to a Football Match!’ Female Experiences of Football’s ‘Golden Age’ in England. Sport and Gender History Symposium. University of Central Lancashire, UK, June.
- Pope, S. (2011) ‘It’s Just Such a Class Thing’: Rivalry and Hostility between Female Football and Rugby Union Fans in one British City. British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference, London School of Economics, UK, April.
- Pope, S. (2010) Gendered Barriers to Young Girls’ Participation in Sport, Transnational Scholars of Gender and Sport Conference, University of Bath, UK, November.
- Pope, S. (2010) Challenging the Positioning of Women as ‘New Consumer’ Fans, presented at The Development of Football: Commercialization, Culture and Identity Conference, Malmö University, Sweden, April.
- Pope, S. (2010) Putting Women on the Sports Research Agenda: The Meaning of Sports Fandom for Females in Britain, presented at The Development of Women Sport: Separate but not Equal Conference, Malmö University, Sweden, April.
Invited Presentations
- PhD thesis nominated to deliver one of the College of Social Science Doctoral Inaugural Lectures at the University of Leicester in 2011.
- Pope, S. (2011) ‘You Wear the Shirt, it’s Your Identity’: The Importance of Sporting Costumes for Female Football and Rugby Union Fans. Sport, Fashion and Clothing Symposium, International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
- Pope, S. (2011) Female Experiences of Football’s ‘Golden Age’. International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montford University, UK.
External Roles
- Journal reviewer.
- Elected as General Secretary for the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) in 2011.
- Invited member of the Sport and Citizenship Thinktank – European Network on Women and Sport.
Publications
- Recent Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Pope, S. (2010) ‘‘Like Pulling down Durham Cathedral and Building a Brothel’:
- Women as ‘New Consumer’ Fans?’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport.Published online before print on October 8th 2010.
- Pope, S. & Williams, J. (2011) ‘Beyond Irrationality and the Ultras: Some Notes on Female English Rugby Union Fans and the ‘Feminised’ Sports Crowd’. Leisure Studies. 30 (3), pp. 293-308.
- Pope, S. and Williams, J. (2011) ‘‘White Shoes to a Football Match!’: Female
- Experiences of Football’s ‘Golden Age’ in England’. Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol. 6.
Others
- Pope, S. (2008) Out in the Field. Sociology Review, 17(8), 14-16.
- Pope, S. (2010) Female Fandom in an English ‘Sports City’: A Sociological Study of Female Spectating and Consumption around Sport’, unpublished PhD thesis, available electronically at https://lra.le.ac.uk/handle/2381/8343
Contact Details
Dr. Stacey Pope
Room P2.34
Faculty of Education, Sport and Tourism
Polhill Avenue
Bedford, MK41 9EA
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)1234 793019
E: Stacey.Pope@beds.ac.uk
