Dr Gillian Lines
Principal Lecturer
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643708
Email: G.A.Lines@brighton.ac.uk
Research
- Media Sport - textual and audience analysis of media sport events, sport stars and gendered identities
- Young People - media and sporting interests, consumption and interpretation
- Physical Education- socio-cultural issues in pedagogy
Biography
Cert.Ed.,(teacher status) Human Movement, Education and Social Studies; B.Ed (Hons) Human Movement - Social Aspects (Chelsea College of Physical Education, University of Sussex); M.A. Physical Education (Brighton Polytechnic); Ph.D (University of Brighton).
She has until recently been Programme Leader for the Sport and Leisure Cultures Undergraduate courses and Course Leader for the B.A.(Hons) Leisure and Sport Studies/with PE. Gill is teaching predominantly in the social history of sport, media and gender studies in sport and leisure and professional studies in Physical Education.
She co-edited The Production and Consumption of Sport Cultures, Leisure, Culture and Commerce' (LSA, 1998) with Udo Merkel and Ian Mcdonald and has published in journals such as Media, Culture and Society, Bulletin of Physical Education and The Journal of Teaching Physical Education
Research Publications
STIDDER, GARY, LINES, GILLIAN and Keyworth, Saul (2012) Investigating the gender regime in physical education and dance In: Stidder, G. and Hayes, G., eds. Equity and inclusion in physical education and sport. Taylor & Francis, London, UK. ISBN 9780415670616
Lines, G. (2007) The impact of media sports events on the active participation of young people and some implications for PE pedagogy Sport, Education and Society, 12 (4). pp. 349-366. ISSN 1470-1243
Lines, G and Stidder, G (2003) Reflections on the Mixed and Single sex PE Debate In: Hayes, S and Stidder, G, eds. Equity and Inclusion in Physical Education. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415282268
Lines, G (2002) The Sport Star in the Media. The gendered construction and youthful consumption of sports personalities In: Tomlinson, A and Sugden, J, eds. Power Games: A Critical Sociology of Sport. Routledge, London, pp. 196-215. ISBN 041525101X
Lines, G (2001) Villains, fools or heroes? Sport stars as role models for young people Leisure Studies, 20 (4). pp. 285-303. ISSN 0261-4367
