Dr Belinda Wheaton
Principal Research Fellow
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643889
Email: B.Wheaton@brighton.ac.uk
Dr Belinda Wheaton's Google Scholar Profile
Research interests
- Lifestyle sport cultures
- The sporting body, identity and difference (race, gender & age)
- The politics of popular culture
- Qualitative research methods, particularly ethnography and audience research
- Leisure and Environmental politics
Biography
Belinda’s first degree was Sport Sciences BSc (University of Brighton). She then did postgraduate studies in sociology and media studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before being awarded an ESRC studentship to complete her PhD in sociology at the University of Brighton.
She worked at the University of Surrey, Roehampton (senior lecturer) teaching sport sociology, leisure management and cultural studies. At Brighton, Belinda teaches in the areas of sport journalism, sport sociology, and qualitative methods.
Dr Wheaton has published widely on lifestyle sport, gender identity, and consumer culture. She is currently working on projects exploring sport policy and parkour (with Paul Gilchrist funded by the British Academy) and on the cultural politics of lifestyle sport focusing on surfing and ‘race, and surfing, risk and ageing.
Selected external research-related roles
- Editorial board of Sociology of Sport Journal (2011) Leisure Studies (2009), International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2007), Sport and Tourism (2007), Journal of Sport History (2008-2011)
- Editor, book reviews, International Review for the Sociology of Sport (Feb. 2000 – April 2003)
- Referee for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2008, 2009 )
- Referee for Newton Postdoctoral fellowship Scheme (2008, 2009)
- PhD examinations around lifestyle sports/ extreme sport cultures in Sport & Leisure Studies (Leeds Metropolitan, Glasgow Caledonian, University of Brighton, University of Ottowa, Canada ), Art & design (Manchester), Anthropology (UCL), Cultural Studies (Murdock, Australia)
Selected conference plenaries
- 2012 - Invited panellist, Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement, panel on lifestyle sports, 17th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Sciences (ECSS), Bruges (July)
- 2012 - Invited talk, Lifestyle sport, gendered bodies and the politics of identity at University of Warwick (Sociology dept. Gender and sport seminar, (May)
- 2011 - Invited talk to Symposium ‘The new territorialities of sports in the city’ hosted by Les Entretiens Jacques Cartier and the GREF (Groupe de Recherche sur les Espaces Festifs, Montreal (Canada) (October 2011).
- 2011 - Plenary address, Movement Activities and Youth. A need for a holistic human development perspective? Seminar at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Norwegian Institute of Sport Sciences, Oslo, (January, 2011).
- 2010 - ‘Acting together on technological playing fields: Computer games, e-sports, and team play’, PhD workshop, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (May, 2010).
- 2008 - On the edge: Leisure, consumption and the representation of adventure sports’, University of Manchester (School of History of Art and Design), (March 2008).
- 2006 - ‘Understanding youth sport: assessing the potential of lifestyle sport’, Researching Youth Sport: Diverse Perspectives’, Institute of Youth Sport and Institute of Leisure Policy, Loughborough University, (September 2006).
Research Publications
WHEATON, BELINDA (2013) The cultural politics of lifestyle sports Routledge Critical Studies in Sport . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9780415478588
WHEATON, BELINDA (2012) The consumption and representation of lifestyle sports Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415682817
WHEATON, BELINDA (2011) ‘Generation X Games’, action sports and the Olympic Movement: understanding the cultural politics of incorporation Sociology, 45 (5). pp. 830-847. ISSN 0038-0385
Mansfield, L. and Wheaton, B. (2011) Leisure and the politics of the environment Leisure Studies, 30 (4). pp. 383-386. ISSN 0261-4367
Thorpe, H. and Wheaton, B (2011) The Olympic Movement, action sports, and the search for Generation Y In: Sugden, John and Tomlinson, Alan, eds. Watching the Olympics. Routledge, London, pp. 182-200. ISBN 0415578337
GILCHRIST, PAUL and WHEATON, BELINDA (2011) Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement: examining the emergence of parkour International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 3 (1). pp. 109-131. ISSN 1940-6940
Bruce, T. and Wheaton, B (2010) Diaspora and global sports migration: a case study in the British and New Zealand context In: Maguire, J. and Falcous, M., eds. Sport and migration: borders, boundaries and crossings. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 189-199. ISBN 0415498341
WHEATON, BELINDA (2010) Introducing the consumption and representation of lifestyle sports Sport in Society, 13 (7-8). pp. 1057-1081. ISSN 1743-0437
Bruce, T. and Wheaton, B. (2009) Rethinking global sports migration and forms of transnational, cosmopolitan and diasporic belonging: a case study of international yachtsman Sir Peter Blake Social Identities, 15 (5). pp. 585-608. ISSN 1363-0296
Wheaton, B (2009) The cultural politics of lifestyle sport (re)visited: beyond white male lifestyles In: Ormrod, J and Wheaton, B, eds. On the Edge: Leisure, Consumption and the Representation of Adventure Sports. Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne. ISBN 1905369158
Ormrod, J and Wheaton, B, eds. (2009) On the Edge: Leisure, Consumption and the Representation of Adventure Sports Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne. ISBN 1905369158
Gilchrist, P. and Wheaton, B., eds. (2008) Whatever happened to the Leisure Society? Theory, debate and policy Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne. ISBN 9781905369133
Wheaton, B (2008) From the pavement to the beach: Politics and identity in Surfers Against Sewage In: Atkinson, M and Young, K, eds. Tribal Play: Subcultural Journeys Through Sport. Research in the Sociology of Sport, 4 (4). JAI Press, Amsterdam, pp. 113-134. ISBN 0762312939
Wheaton, B (2008) Lifestyle sport In: Malcolm, D, ed. The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies. Sage Ltd, London, pp. 155-157. ISBN 1412907357
Wheaton, B. (2007) Sailing a board - an extreme sport? Anthropology Today (Special Issue on Extreme sport) . ISSN 1467-8322
Dant, T and Wheaton, B (2007) Windsurfing: An extreme from of material and embodied interaction? Anthropology Today, 23 (6). pp. 8-12. ISSN 1467-8322
Wheaton, B (2007) After Sport Culture: Rethinking Sport and Post-Subcultural Theory Journal of sport and social issues, 31 (3). pp. 283-307. ISSN 1552-7638
Wheaton, B (2007) Identity, politics, and the beach: environmental activism in Surfers Against Sewage Leisure Studies, 26 (3). pp. 279-302. ISSN 1466-4496
Tomlinson, A, Ravenscroft, N, Wheaton, B and Gilchrist, P (2005) Lifestyle Sports and National Sport Policy: An Agenda for Research Sport England, London.
Wheaton, B (2004) Selling out? The globalization and commercialization of lifestyle sports In: Allison, L, ed. Global Politics of Sport (Sport in the Global Society). Routledge, London. ISBN 0415346029
Wheaton, B (2004) Introduction: Mapping the lifestyle sport-scape In: Wheaton, B, ed. Lifestyle Sport: Consumption, Identity and Difference. Routledge, London, pp. 1-28. ISBN 041525955X
Wheaton, B (2004) "New Lads"? competing masculinities in the windsurfing culture In: Wheaton, B, ed. Lifestyle Sport: Consumption, Identity and Difference. Routledge, London, pp. 131-153. ISBN 041525955X
Wheaton, B, ed. (2004) Understanding lifestyle sports: Consumption, identity and difference Routledge Critical Studies in Sport . Routledge, London. ISBN 041525955X
Wheaton, Belinda (2004) Lifestyle Sport: Consumption, Identity and Difference Routledge Critical Studies in Sport . Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 0415259541
Wheaton, B and Beal, B (2003) Consuming Images of Lifestyle Sports In: Fleming, S and Jones, I, eds. Leisure Cultures: Investigations in Sport, Media and Technology. LSA Publications (79). Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne, pp. 69-90. ISBN 0906337909
Wheaton, Belinda (2003) Lifestyle sports magazines and the discourses of sporting masculinity In: Benwell, Bethan, ed. Masculinity and men's lifestyle magazines. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 193-221. ISBN 1405114649
Wheaton, Belinda and Beal, Becky (2003) "Keeping it real": subcultural media and the discourses of authenticity in alternative sport International review for the sociology of sport, 38 (2). pp. 155-176. ISSN 1461-7218
Wheaton, B (2003) Windsurfing lifestyles: A culture of commitment In: Sydor, S and Rinehart, B, eds. To the Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out. State University of New York Press, New York. ISBN 0791456668
Wheaton, Belinda (2002) Babes on the beach, women in the surf: researching gender, power and difference in the windsurfing culture In: Sugden, John and Tomlinson, Alan, eds. Power games: a critical sociology of sport. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 240-266. ISBN 0415251001
