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Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastDr Britta Sorensen: Understanding Pain in Women’s Ultra-Endurance SportsDr Britta Sorensen is a researcher specialising in female athletes’ pain experiences through holistic, biopsychosocial approaches. Her PhD examined how female ultra-endurance athletes perceive and manage pain, combining retrospective, longitudinal, and real-time methodologies. With 19 years in sport science teaching and management, an MPhil in Sport Performance Psychology, and soft tissue therapist experience supporting athletes from club to Olympic and Paralympic level, Britta brings diverse expertise to WiSEAN. Her research advocates for interdisciplinary support networks and personalised pain-coping strategies that balance physical performance with psychological wellbeing, contributing both academic rigour and practical experience to advancing women's representation in sport.Topics...
2026-02-0922 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastDr Britta Sorensen: Understanding Pain in Women’s Ultra-Endurance SportsDr Britta Sorensen is a researcher specialising in female athletes’ pain experiences through holistic, biopsychosocial approaches. Her PhD examined how female ultra-endurance athletes perceive and manage pain, combining retrospective, longitudinal, and real-time methodologies. With 19 years in sport science teaching and management, an MPhil in Sport Performance Psychology, and soft tissue therapist experience supporting athletes from club to Olympic and Paralympic level, Britta brings diverse expertise to WiSEAN. Her research advocates for interdisciplinary support networks and personalised pain-coping strategies that balance physical performance with psychological wellbeing, contributing both academic rigour and practical experience to advancing women's representation in sport....
2026-02-0922 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastDr Tegan Hartmann & Dr Danielle Girard: Reproductive Health and Advancing WiSEAN across AustralasiaDr Tegan HartmannTegan is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Science at Charles Sturt University. Her research is focussed on women’s health, particularly examining the links between physical activity, mental wellbeing and complex health conditions. She is passionate about addressing conditions such as endometriosis, pregnancy loss and other under-researched areas that significantly impact women’s quality of life. Through her work, she advocates for greater awareness, education and strategies to support women across the lifespan. Dr Hartmann also mentors students and early career researchers, encouraging innovation, compassion and evidence-based practice in the exercise sciences.
2026-01-2043 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastDr Tegan Hartmann & Dr Danielle Girard: Reproductive Health and Advancing WiSEAN across AustralasiaDr Tegan HartmannTegan is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Science at Charles Sturt University. Her research is focussed on women’s health, particularly examining the links between physical activity, mental wellbeing and complex health conditions. She is passionate about addressing conditions such as endometriosis, pregnancy loss and other under-researched areas that significantly impact women’s quality of life. Through her work, she advocates for greater awareness, education and strategies to support women across the lifespan. Dr Hartmann also mentors students and early career researchers, encouraging innovation, compassion and evidence-based practice in the exercise sciences.
2026-01-2043 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastProfessor Elizabeth Pike: Exploring Global Gender and SportProfessor Elizabeth Pike has worked at the Universityof Hertfordshire since August 2017, where she is Professor and Head of the Institute of Sport, having previously worked at St Mary's University and the University of Chichester. Elizabeth’s work takes as its focus issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in and through sport. She has published widely on these topics and has been an invited speaker, researcherand advisor at many Universities and conferences across the globe, including numerous media appearances. Her expertise has been recognised in her election to the Presidency of the International Sociology ofSport Association (ISSA...
2025-09-1330 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastDr Malika Felton: Pregnancy, breathing & cold water swimmingDr Malika Felton is a Senior Lecturer in Health and ExercisePhysiology within the Centre for Midwifery and Women’s Health at Bournemouth University. She completed herpost-doc at University of Exeter as part of the Moving Through Motherhood research group, running co-design workshops on supporting physical activity during and after pregnancy. This research won her the Early Career Researcher Award at the WiSEAN conference in 2023, and in 2024 she won the Best Oral Presentation for the SwimHer Research Network work on recommendations for cold water swimming and pregnancy. Malika also supports the
2025-08-2123 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastHarry Meadley, Merging Art & Sport: Inclusive Skateboarding CulturesHarry Meadley is an artist, researcher and skateboarder based in Leeds, UK, who initiates projects that, through inclusion, participation and co-production, seek to reclaim and reappropriate civic space. From municipal art galleries, universities and city centres to remote locations, Meadley’s socially engaged artistic practice aims to question not just the structures of power within society but of artistic production itself. Recent projects include the Civic kateboarding festival for marginalised gender skateboarders as part of Leeds 2023 Year of Culture and Free-for-All at Touchstones, Rochdale, which saw the entire gallery given over to the people of Rochdale to use however th...
2025-04-3032 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastJenny Burbage, breast health and bra requirements for active occupationsIn this podcast, I chat with Dr Jenny Burbage, who is a senior lecturer in biomechanics and
part of the Research
Group in Breast Health within the School of Sport, Health and Exercise
Science at the University of Portsmouth.
Her research
focuses on biomechanics, health and education related to the female breast, and
she is one of the few world experts in this area. She is passionate about
ensuring functional breast support and comfort for workers, especially when
additional equipment needs to be worn (e.g., body armour), and increasing
breast health education for all.
2024-05-2228 min
MomentumChurch.tvIf I'm Being Honest Wk 4 - Pr. Ross WiseanIf I'm Being Honest Wk 4 - Pr. Ross Wisean by Ross Wiseman
2023-08-2745 min
Cinema60The Films of Robert Wise in the '60sKicking off our fifth season are the films of Robert Wise, arguably the most important director of the sixties – that is if you’re going by box office profits. Despite the musical genre not being one he ever associated with before this decade, Wise almost single-handedly shaped the evolution of the Hollywood Musical. Previously known for his noirs and a few notable sci-fi and horror films, by the 1960s he became the director for two of the biggest movie musicals of all time. In this episode, Bart and Jenna cover these two Best Picture-winning films along with seve...
2023-03-281h 57
La Semana NBA#LSNBA37 - Las nuevas juventudes que acechan la ligaAcabada ya la temporada 2021/2022 de la NBA, Golden State Warriors es la franquicia que se ha alzado con el anillo tras ganar a Boston en el TD Garden. Una plantilla experimentada y repleta de jóvenes como Kuminga, Wisean, Moody... Todos ellos llegaron vía Draft, que se celebra este jueves y traerá a una nueva generación de jugadores que buscan asaltar el trono de la liga. Jabari Smith, Chet Holmgren y Paolo Banchero lideran una lista que traerá cola en los próximos días por elecciones y traspasos, que se pueden dar. Porque la agencia libre está al...
2022-06-2151 min
Phit for a Queen: A Female Athlete Podcast“They are more than JUST athletes.” Dr. Claire-Marie Roberts shares on PHIT for a QueenDr. Claire-Marie Roberts shares on PHIT for a Queen why it is important for her athletes to know “They are more than JUST athletes.”
Her experience as a swimmer helped her experience sports psychology first hand.
Sports psychology even though she knew was her passion ended up being a second career however her experience as a civil engineer helped her navigate a male-dominated field.
She has created an interdisciplinary approach focusing her efforts on the staff that works with the athletes treating them holistically and compassionately.
Many female athletes felt they ha...
2019-09-1336 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastMark De Ste Croix on injury management and robustness training for young female athletesIn this podcast, I chat with Professor Mark De Ste Croix about: injury management and robustness training for young females who take part in sport; his latest ventures and research, such as the risk project, which is a grass-root coach education programme aiming to support the health and well-being of young people; and his advice on being successful in gaining research grants. Mark is an invited speaker at our WISEAN conference on 11th/12th June 2019, 'Pushing the Boundaries', being held at St Mary's University, Twickenham, London...Mark gives us a flavour of what he will be talking about!
2019-05-2322 min
Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network PodcastNicole Sapstead from UK Anti-DopingNicole Sapstead, Chief Executive of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD), talks about her career as a woman, her challenges, her role models and her advice for other women pursuing a career in sport and exercise. She also talks about some of the emerging and current issues among females in terms of doping in sport. We have delighted to have Nicole speaking at our WISEAN conference this year on 11th/12th June 2019 at St Mary's University, Twickenham.
Nicole Sapstead was appointed as interim Chief Executive of UKAD in January 2015 and was appointed to the position permanently in March 2015.
Pr...
2019-05-1427 min
The Pelvic Health PodcastHormones, exercise and bone health with Dr Jacky ForsythAssociated Professor of exercise physiology at Staffordshire University, UK, Dr. Jacky Forsyth, is a prominent researcher and speaker in the area of women’s exercise and health. Her research is centred on the interactive effect of ovarian hormones, exercise, and bone - which is what we discuss today on this episode.
One of her research priorities is to promote, raise awareness, and advance understanding of the key influences that impact the exercising female. She is vice chair of the Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network (WISEAN), the aim of which is ‘To grow, strengthen, and promote resea...
2019-02-1553 min
BJSMResearch imbalance: Sport and Exercise in Women versus Men. Episode #341In this podcast Katie Marino speaks to Jack Forsyth.
Jacky Forsyth (@JackyForsyth) is a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. She is a lead organiser of the Women in Sport and Exercise Conference. In this podcast Katie Marino (@krmarino1) speaks to Jacky about the difference in the amount of research done on exercise in women compared to exercise in men, and why we need to correct this imbalance. The research community needs to strengthen and promote research on women in sport and exercise, with the goal of optimising women’s athletic success and increase their participation rates.
The Women in Sport an...
2018-07-2009 min
BJSM PodcastResearch imbalance: Sport and Exercise in Women versus Men. Episode #341In this podcast Katie Marino speaks to Jack Forsyth.
Jacky Forsyth (@JackyForsyth) is a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. She is a lead organiser of the Women in Sport and Exercise Conference. In this podcast Katie Marino (@krmarino1) speaks to Jacky about the difference in the amount of research done on exercise in women compared to exercise in men, and why we need to correct this imbalance. The research community needs to strengthen and promote research on women in sport and exercise, with the goal of optimising women’s athletic success and increase their participation rates.
The Women in Sport an...
2018-07-2009 min