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Dr Jayne Caudwell

Principal Lecturer

contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643746

Email: J.C.Caudwell@brighton.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • The socio-cultural analysis of gender and sexuality
  • The body, poststructuralism, feminism and queer theory
  • Feminist theories and methodologies
  • Narrative and auto-ethnographies
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual and queer sport cultures

Biography

Jayne is principal lecturer and course leader for Sport Studies BA (Hons) and Sport Studies with Physical Education BA (Hons). Her teaching and research interests are concerned with gender, sexuality, feminist theory and qualitative research methodologies. She came to University of Brighton in 2004 from Leeds Metropolitan University where she worked on the Physical Activity, Exercise and Health degree.

Research Publications

Caudwell, J. (2012) Jazzwomen: Music, sound, gender and sexuality. Annals of Leisure Research, 15(4): 389-403

Caudwell, J. (2012) Theorizing Women’s Sport Participation: Debating Sport Feminisms, Psychology of Women Section Review, 14(2): 4-9 (ISBN 1466-3724)

Caudwell, J. and Browne, K. (Eds). (2012) Sexualities, Spaces and Leisure Studies London: Taylor and Francis ISBN 978 0415 623322 

Caudwell, J. (Ed). (2012) Women’s Football in the UK: Continuing with Gender Analyses London: Taylor and Francis ISBN 978 0415 560870

Caudwell, J.C. (2012) [Transgender] young men: gendered subjectivities and the physically active body Sport, Education and Society, Published ahead of print . ISSN 1470-1243

Caudwell, J. (2012) Rowing/Sculling, British Isles in J. Nauright & C. Parrish (ed.) (2012). Sports Around the World: History, Culture, Practice. 4 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN: 9781598843002

Caudwell, J. (2011) Special Issue Editor & Editorial. Reviewing UK Football Cultures: Continuing with Gender Analyses. Soccer and Society, 12(3): 323-329 DOI 10.1080/14660970.2011.568097

Caudwell, J. (2011) Gender, Feminism and Football Studies. Soccer and Society, 12(3): 323-329

Caudwell, J. (2011) “Easy, Oar!: Rowing Reflections”. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 3(2): 117-129 DOI 10.1080/215967X.2011.572179

Caudwell, J.C. (2011) Sex watch: surveying women's sexed and gendered bodies at the Olympics In: Watching the Olympics. Routledge, London, pp. 151-164. ISBN 0415578337

Caudwell, J.C. (2011) Sport feminism(s): narratives of linearity? Journal of Sport & Social Issues , 35 (2). pp. 111-125. ISSN 1552-7638

Caudwell, J.C. (2011) ‘Does your boyfriend know you’re here?’ The spatiality of homophobia in men’s football culture in the UK Leisure Studies, 30 (2). pp. 123-138. ISSN 0261-4367

Caudwell, J.C. and Browne, K. (2011) Sexy spaces: geography and leisure intersectionalities Leisure Studies, 30 (2). pp. 117-122. ISSN 0261-4367

Caudwell, J. (2011) Football Fixtures: Highbury V Hackney Marshes. Soccer and Society, 12(1): 94-95 ISSN 1466-0970

Caudwell, J.C. (2010) The jazz-sport analogue: passing notes on gender and sexuality International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 45 (2). pp. 240-248. ISSN 1461-7218

Caudwell, J. (2009) Queer-in the Sociology of Sport In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, pp. 367-394. ISBN 978-0754671350

Caudwell, J.C., Andrews, H., Hackett, P., Meadows, M. and Selby, M., eds. (2009) Tourism and Leisure: Local Communities and Local Cultures in the UK Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne. ISBN 9781905369164

Caudwell, J. (2009) Girlfightand Bend it Like Beckham: screening sport, sexuality and women Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13 (3). pp. 255-271. ISSN 1540-3548

Caudwell, J.C., Redhead, S.C. and Tomlinson, A. (2008) Relocating the Leisure Society: Editors' introduction. In: Relocating the Leisure Society: Media, Consumption and Spaces. Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne, v-xi. ISBN 978 1 905369 12 6

Caudwell, J.C., Redhead, S. and Tomlinson, A., eds. (2008) Relocating the Leisure Society: Media, Consumption and Spaces Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne. ISBN 978 1 905369 12 6

Caudwell, J.C. (2008) Critically Queer: Possibilities for a Sport Studies of the Body In: Image, Power and Space: Studies in Consumption and Identity. Meyer and Meyer, Aachen, pp. 83-96. ISBN 978-1-84126-244-4

Caudwell, J.C. (2008) Girlfight: boxing women Sport in Society, 11 (2-3). pp. 227-239. ISSN 1743-0445

Caudwell, J (2007) Hackney Women's Football Club: Lesbian United? In: Women, Football and Europe: Histories, Equity and Experience Vol 1. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen, pp. 64-84. ISBN 1841262250

Magee, J, Caudwell, J, Liston, K and Scraton, S (2007) Women, Football and Europe: Histories, Equity and Experience Vol 1 Meyer & Meyer, Aachen. ISBN 1841262250

Caudwell, J (2007) On Shifting Sands: The Complexities of Women's and Girls' Involvement in Football for Peace In: Football for Peace: Teaching and Playing Sport for Conflict Resolution in the Middle East. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen, pp. 97-112. ISBN 1841261815

Caudwell, J. (2007) Queering the Field? The Complexities of Sexuality within a Lesbian-Identified Football Team in England Gender, Place and Culture. A Journal of Feminist Geography, 14 (2). pp. 183-196. ISSN 1360-0524

Caudwell, J. (2006) Women Playing Football at Clubs, in England, with Socio-Political Associations Soccer and Society, 7 (4). pp. 423-438. ISSN 1743-9590

Caudwell, J.C. (2006) Femme-Fatale: Re-Thinking the Femme-Inine In: Sport, Sexualities and Queer / Theory. Routledge, pp. 145-158. ISBN 978-0415367622

Caudwell, Jayne (2006) Sport, Sexualities and Queer / Theory (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport) Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, London. ISBN 0415367611

Scraton, Sheila, Caudwell, Jayne and Holland, Samantha (2005) ‘Bend it like Patel’: centring ‘race’, ethnicity and gender in feminist analysis of women’s football in England International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 40 (1). pp. 71-88. ISSN 1461-7218

Bramham, P and Caudwell, Jayne (2005) Sport, Active Leisure and Youth Cultures Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne. ISBN 0 906337 97 6

Caudwell, Jayne (2004) 'Out on the field of play: women's experiences of gender and sexuality in football contexts' In: British football and social exclusion. Taylor and Francis Group, London, pp. 127-146. ISBN 0-203-58266-7

Caudwell, Jayne (2004) Tipping the Velvet: Straight[forward] Voyeurism? Problematising the Viewing of Lesbianism In: Leisure, Media and Visual Culture: Representations and Contestations. Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne, pp. 227-249. ISBN 0 906337 94 1

Caudwell, Jayne (2003) Sporting gender: women’s footballing bodies as sites/sights for the (re) articulation of sex, gender, and desire Sociology of sport journal, 20 (4). pp. 371-386. ISSN 0741-1235

Caudwell, Jayne (2002) Women’s Experiences of Sexuality within Football Contexts: A Particular and Located Footballing Epistemology Football Studies, 5 (1). pp. 24-45. ISSN 1442-3146

Caudwell, J. (2000) Football in the UK: Women, Tomboys, Butches and Lesbians, in S. Scraton and B. Watson (Eds) Sport, Leisure and Gendered Spaces Eastbourne: LSA, pp. 95-110 ISBN 0906337798

Caudwell, J.C. (1999) Women’s Football in the United Kingdom Theorizing Gender and Unpacking the Butch Lesbian Image Journal of Sport and Social Issues , 23 (4). pp. 390-402. ISSN 1552-7638

Caudwell, J. (1998) Sex and Politics: Sites of Resistance in Women’s Football, in C. Aitchison and F. Jordan (Eds) Gender, Space and Identity. Leisure, Culture and Commerce. Eastbourne: LSA, pp. 151-161 ISBN 0906337739

Research & Scholarship profile

Recent invited conference/seminar papers

LGBTQ Young People and Sport, invited speaker at Conte[s/x]ting Sport, conference for more inclusive, diverse and sustainable sport, Split, Croatia, 2 March, 2012

Caudwell, J. and Hall, J. (2011) Anti-homophobia in Football and The Justin Campaign. Winchester Men’s Prison, Winchester, UK, 9th February, 2011

Caudwell, J. (2010) Football in the UK, LGBTQ participation and The Justin Campaign. Keynote paper presented at The Worlds of Football Conference, Victoria University, Australia, 27th – 28th September, 2010

Journal editorial board member

2011-present      Organizational Ethnography
2010-present      Leisure Studies
2007-2011          International Review for the Sociology of Sport
2007-2010          Sociology of Sport Journal

Research application reviewer

Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), February 2011
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), December 2010
 Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), May 2008
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), November 2003

PhD external & internal examiner

University of Keele, UK
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
University of Brighton, UK
Loughborough University, UK
Roehampton University, UK
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia

Committee membership

2009-2010 - NASSS (North American Society for the Sociology of Sport) Best Journal Article Award – Sociology of Sport Journal (2009)

2007-2010 - Publications Officer, Leisure Studies Association Executive Committee                    
2002-2010 - Executive Member, Leisure Studies Association Executive Committee

Conference committees and conference organisation

2010/11/12 - Member of programme committee—Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines Hui, at University of Waikato, New Zealand
                       
2006/7 - Chair of conference academic committee—Whatever happened to the Leisure Society? Critical and Multidisciplinary [Retro]spectives, at University of Brighton, UK

2004/5 - Editorial board member, International Football Institute Conference, Women, Football and
Europe, at University of Central Lancashire, UK

2003/4 - Chair of conference academic committee—Active Leisure and Young People, at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Jayne Caudwell