Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
For full text copies of publications please see - https://griffith.academia.edu/SimoneFullagar Simone is an interdisciplinary sociologist who has published widely on gender equity in sport, mental health, active communities and social well-being. With an interest in social and organisational change her work contributes to thinking differently about inequalities. Simone also has a professional background in community service management for diverse populations. In 2014 she moved from Australia to the University of Bath, UK, to join the Physical Culture, Sport & Health research group. In July 2019 she returned to Griffith University as Professor of Sport Management with a strategic focus on gender equity in sport. Simone has received funding from the Australian Research Council and other programs to conduct qualitative research into leisure, sport and health related areas. For example, women’s recovery from depression, the socio-cultural context of youth suicide in rural and urban communities and equine programs for at risk youth. She has also undertaken research on the challenges to active family lifestyles, critical obesity and the emergence of the slow travel movement. With colleagues she has published on the rise of new women's sports such as roller derby, the importance of gender inclusion in cycling tour events and the inclusive potential of parkrun. Her latest books include 'Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges' (edited with Pavlidis, Rich & van Ingen, Routledge 2021), and 'Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery' (co-authored with O'Brien & Pavlidis, Palgrave in 2019). Simone is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies. In 2015, she was the first Australian to receive the Shaw-Mannell International Leisure Research Award for her contribution to feminist scholarship in leisure, sport and health from the University of Waterloo, CA. In 2019, Simone was appointed as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.
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