The Short Corner: Women's Football & Spatial Justice with Nadia Bevan

The Far Post

Our conversation with Nadia Bevan continues our series profiling research about women's football. Angela Christian-Wilkes and Nadia delve into Nadia's ethnographic research on developing a women's football team at a club in Melbourne. We discuss the structures that include and exclude within community sport, building inclusive practices, and the messiness of insider research.

Nadia is an early career researcher specialising in the barriers and enablers of access to sport for a range of groups, including women, girls, youth and the LGBTQIA+ community. She completed a PhD in Education at Monash University, looking at weight stigma as a barrier to physical activity.

The Short Corner is a The Far Post's home for all things interesting, different and fun that don't fit under our usual programming of women's football analysis and news.

Paper discussed: Bevan, N., Jeanes, R., & Truskewycz, H. (2023). Spatial justice in the development of a women’s football team in Melbourne, Australia; an ethnographic study. Gender, Place & Culture, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2023.2201401

Article about the project: https://lens.monash.edu/@nadia-bevan/2023/07/12/1385747/the-world-cup-legacy-how-can-we-create-sustainable-participation-for-girls-and-womens-football

Ruth Jeanes' team's work on informal sport: https://www.monash.edu/education/research/projects/informal-sport-as-a-health-and-social-resource/team

Papers published from Nadia's PhD: Bevan, N., O’Brien, C. K. S., Latner, J. D., Vandenberg, B., Jeanes, R., & Lin, C.-Y. (2023). The Relationship Between Weight Stigmatization, Avoidance, Enjoyment and Participation in Physical Activity and Sport, and Psychological Distress. American Journal of Health Behavior, 47(2), 360–368. https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.47.2.15

Bevan, N., O’Brien, K. S., Latner, J. D., Lin, C.-Y., Vandenberg, B., Jeanes, R., & Fung, X. C. C. (2022). Weight Stigma and Avoidance of Physical Activity and Sport: Development of a Scale and Establishment of Correlates. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(23), 16370. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316370

Bevan, N., O’Brien, K. S., Lin, C.-Y., Latner, J. D., Vandenberg, B., Jeanes, R., Puhl, R. M., Chen, I.-H., Moss, S., & Rush, G. (2021). The Relationship between Weight Stigma, Physical Appearance Concerns, and Enjoyment and Tendency to Avoid Physical Activity and Sport. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(19), 9957. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18199957

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