Iain Lindsey
@iainlindsey.bsky.social
Academic: youth and community sport, sport for development, policy. Beware: I will post my own stuff.
Loved being part of this workshop, presenting a sufficientarian take on distributive justice in sport policy.
I learned so much from being amongst wonderful philosophers. Thanks to all ... and here's to next time!
I learned so much from being amongst wonderful philosophers. Thanks to all ... and here's to next time!
Just wrapped up two incredible days at KU Leuven for the Toward a Political Philosophy of Sport workshop. Grateful to the university and the Hoover Ethical Initiative for supporting such meaningful collaboration between scholars from around the world. #PhilSky
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Loved being part of this workshop, presenting a sufficientarian take on distributive justice in sport policy.
I learned so much from being amongst wonderful philosophers. Thanks to all ... and here's to next time!
I learned so much from being amongst wonderful philosophers. Thanks to all ... and here's to next time!
A little random, but I've analysed grants given by Sport England to local councils over time. If anyone thinks there's any interesting features/trends here, then please do reply ... I'd be interested at least!
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A little random, but I've analysed grants given by Sport England to local councils over time. If anyone thinks there's any interesting features/trends here, then please do reply ... I'd be interested at least!
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As part of our second year Sports Development module, we welcomed Sandi Procter, President of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), to the department to give a guest lecture to our student about developing participation in British tennis.
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
As part of our second year Sports Development module, we welcomed Sandi Procter, President of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), to the department to give a guest lecture to our student about developing participation in British tennis.
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DSES graduate and Olympic athlete Lauren Irwin recently opened a new student rowing facility at her former college!
Lauren graduated with a degree in Sport, Health & Exercise from Durham in 2019 & won Bronze with Team GB as part of the women’s eight rowing team.
Read more here: bit.ly/4nkoZM5
Lauren graduated with a degree in Sport, Health & Exercise from Durham in 2019 & won Bronze with Team GB as part of the women’s eight rowing team.
Read more here: bit.ly/4nkoZM5
Alumna and Olympic rower Lauren Irwin opens new landing stage at Hild Bede - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
DSES graduate and Olympic athlete Lauren Irwin recently opened a new student rowing facility at her former college!
Lauren graduated with a degree in Sport, Health & Exercise from Durham in 2019 & won Bronze with Team GB as part of the women’s eight rowing team.
Read more here: bit.ly/4nkoZM5
Lauren graduated with a degree in Sport, Health & Exercise from Durham in 2019 & won Bronze with Team GB as part of the women’s eight rowing team.
Read more here: bit.ly/4nkoZM5
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More dance breaks required! 💃🕺
Emily Davis, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab, was invited to facilitate participatory dance activities at two major arts and health events in the UK @dusportexsci.bsky.social
Read about it here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/re-thinking-...
Emily Davis, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab, was invited to facilitate participatory dance activities at two major arts and health events in the UK @dusportexsci.bsky.social
Read about it here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/re-thinking-...
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
More dance breaks required! 💃🕺
Emily Davis, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab, was invited to facilitate participatory dance activities at two major arts and health events in the UK @dusportexsci.bsky.social
Read about it here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/re-thinking-...
Emily Davis, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab, was invited to facilitate participatory dance activities at two major arts and health events in the UK @dusportexsci.bsky.social
Read about it here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/re-thinking-...
Thanks @karimzidan.com for this summary - brilliantly captures the flow and achievements of the recent Play the Game debate on trans athletes in sport.
Link for those who want to watch here: www.playthegame.org/conferences/...
Link for those who want to watch here: www.playthegame.org/conferences/...
I wrote about a debate I attended about trans inclusion in women's sports, my initial opposition to said debate, and why I changed my mind about the merits of debating the other side
www.sportspolitika.news/p/sports-pol...
www.sportspolitika.news/p/sports-pol...
The case for debating the other side
I had my reservations ahead of a debate about trans inclusion in women’s sports last week, but the outcome reminded me that there is merit (and catharsis) in dialogue and debating the other side.
www.sportspolitika.news
October 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Thanks @karimzidan.com for this summary - brilliantly captures the flow and achievements of the recent Play the Game debate on trans athletes in sport.
Link for those who want to watch here: www.playthegame.org/conferences/...
Link for those who want to watch here: www.playthegame.org/conferences/...
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The latest issue of DSES Research Newsletter is now available here: sway.cloud.microsoft/TtQ0keVLQwzD...
We hope you enjoy reading about the current research and activities happening in the department.
We hope you enjoy reading about the current research and activities happening in the department.
October Sport and Exercise Sciences @ Durham Research Newsletter
Welcome to the October 2025 issue of the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences (DSES) research newsletter.
sway.cloud.microsoft
October 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The latest issue of DSES Research Newsletter is now available here: sway.cloud.microsoft/TtQ0keVLQwzD...
We hope you enjoy reading about the current research and activities happening in the department.
We hope you enjoy reading about the current research and activities happening in the department.
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In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
In London, hate will never win.
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Huge thanks to Mark & Nick - I really enjoyed chatting to them about my research last week!
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
My chat about Cricket and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka with @bhildred.bsky.social & Nick Brookes:
youtu.be/zgqJHFawN7k
youtu.be/zgqJHFawN7k
Can Cricket help Sri Lanka on it's path to Reconciliation
YouTube video by Cricket Smash
youtu.be
August 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Huge thanks to Mark & Nick - I really enjoyed chatting to them about my research last week!
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
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New paper '25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? & What Now?'
We talk about fallacies, interviewing, AI, digital methods, story completion, analysis & physical activity guidelines!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dusportexsci.bsky.social
We talk about fallacies, interviewing, AI, digital methods, story completion, analysis & physical activity guidelines!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dusportexsci.bsky.social
25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? and What Now?
Qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology has grown over the last 25 years. The number of papers published in journals like Psychology of …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New paper '25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? & What Now?'
We talk about fallacies, interviewing, AI, digital methods, story completion, analysis & physical activity guidelines!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dusportexsci.bsky.social
We talk about fallacies, interviewing, AI, digital methods, story completion, analysis & physical activity guidelines!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dusportexsci.bsky.social
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The follow up 'twin paper' is now published 👇. If the first one laid a solid but rather bland foundation, this one zeros in on a much more obvious set of critical issues. I think the opening line is telling - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Approaching, Contacting, and Grasping: An Annotated Methodology - Christopher R. Matthews, 2025
Social scientific methods are not as they should be. In this extended essay, I offer a way of framing and writing about methodological discussions that can tack...
journals.sagepub.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The follow up 'twin paper' is now published 👇. If the first one laid a solid but rather bland foundation, this one zeros in on a much more obvious set of critical issues. I think the opening line is telling - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📣 Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity where you can explore interests and develop interdisciplinary laboratory skills? 📣 Then this Technician post with us (DSES) and the Faculty of Social Sciences may be for you.
For full details see the advert here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
For full details see the advert here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Technician - Faculty Flexible Deployment
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
July 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣 Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity where you can explore interests and develop interdisciplinary laboratory skills? 📣 Then this Technician post with us (DSES) and the Faculty of Social Sciences may be for you.
For full details see the advert here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
For full details see the advert here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Here's your chance to name storms after oil companies- there's a SM effort to include BP, Exxon, Shell, BigOil and Equinor.
#britishecologists
@mrhenrymorris.substack.com
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
#britishecologists
@mrhenrymorris.substack.com
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Met Office launches search for new storm names
Is your grandma a force of nature? Does your best friend cause an impact wherever they go? Now you can give them the recognition they deserve, by naming a storm after them.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Here's your chance to name storms after oil companies- there's a SM effort to include BP, Exxon, Shell, BigOil and Equinor.
#britishecologists
@mrhenrymorris.substack.com
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
#britishecologists
@mrhenrymorris.substack.com
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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🌍 Studied in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences? Your voice can shape what comes next.
Take the Global Alumni Survey 2025, it only takes 10 minutes.
💡 Check your inbox for your personalised link.
⏳ Closes Monday 30 June at 11:59pm (BST).
Take the Global Alumni Survey 2025, it only takes 10 minutes.
💡 Check your inbox for your personalised link.
⏳ Closes Monday 30 June at 11:59pm (BST).
June 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌍 Studied in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences? Your voice can shape what comes next.
Take the Global Alumni Survey 2025, it only takes 10 minutes.
💡 Check your inbox for your personalised link.
⏳ Closes Monday 30 June at 11:59pm (BST).
Take the Global Alumni Survey 2025, it only takes 10 minutes.
💡 Check your inbox for your personalised link.
⏳ Closes Monday 30 June at 11:59pm (BST).
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Lindsay Macnaughton, was recently invited by the Swiss Sports Nutrition Society to delivered a keynote session on Body Composition Assessment in Athletes: Why? When? How?. Lindsay also co-presented with her collaborator Therese Fostervold Mathisen from Østfold University College (HiØ) in Norway.
June 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Lindsay Macnaughton, was recently invited by the Swiss Sports Nutrition Society to delivered a keynote session on Body Composition Assessment in Athletes: Why? When? How?. Lindsay also co-presented with her collaborator Therese Fostervold Mathisen from Østfold University College (HiØ) in Norway.
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Delighted that the #JASPA team have been shortlisted for #FuseAwards25 more info on our project and amazing young people below #coproduction #physicalactivity #youngpeople @nihrsphr.bsky.social @dusportexsci.bsky.social
👏 Congratulations to the #SPHR projects and researchers that have received nominations for the upcoming #FuseAwards25
▶️ Project 2,999🧶; Twinkle, Twinkle Arti⭐; the Joyful and Safe Physical Activity project team👟; Cassey Muir and Neha Jain
Find out more about the finalists below:
▶️ Project 2,999🧶; Twinkle, Twinkle Arti⭐; the Joyful and Safe Physical Activity project team👟; Cassey Muir and Neha Jain
Find out more about the finalists below:
📢 We’re excited to reveal the #FuseAwards25 finalists, recognising #PublicHealth excellence in the North East, North Cumbria & beyond!
🏆 Winners revealed 16 June - join us in Newcastle!
Huge thanks to all who entered - the standard was exceptional.
Meet our finalists 🔽
fuse.ac.uk/news/finalis...
🏆 Winners revealed 16 June - join us in Newcastle!
Huge thanks to all who entered - the standard was exceptional.
Meet our finalists 🔽
fuse.ac.uk/news/finalis...
June 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Delighted that the #JASPA team have been shortlisted for #FuseAwards25 more info on our project and amazing young people below #coproduction #physicalactivity #youngpeople @nihrsphr.bsky.social @dusportexsci.bsky.social
How has research addressed sustainability in elite youth sports? What are the lessons and the gaps to be filled?
Very grateful that Astrid Schubring and her excellent team had me on board for this newly published article. @dusportexsci.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very grateful that Astrid Schubring and her excellent team had me on board for this newly published article. @dusportexsci.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Sustainable Elite Youth Sports: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Social Dimensions
Sports have been identified as an important contributor to social sustainability, and the benefits for health, well-being, and social learning in young people are well evidenced. Youth elite sports, ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
How has research addressed sustainability in elite youth sports? What are the lessons and the gaps to be filled?
Very grateful that Astrid Schubring and her excellent team had me on board for this newly published article. @dusportexsci.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very grateful that Astrid Schubring and her excellent team had me on board for this newly published article. @dusportexsci.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Fantastic to present our co-produced JASPA work with practice partners from Chilypep today. Powerful video from young people speaking about bringing joy and empowerment to physical activity. More days like this please 🙏 @dusportexsci.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social
Keeley, Ruby and Fuse colleague Carolyn Dodds-Reynolds exploring involvement with young people through the Joyful and Safe Physical Activity (JASPA) project
May 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Fantastic to present our co-produced JASPA work with practice partners from Chilypep today. Powerful video from young people speaking about bringing joy and empowerment to physical activity. More days like this please 🙏 @dusportexsci.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social
Speaking about new theoretical ideas for sport policy (on behalf of @dusportexsci.bsky.social ) at the #psasportpolitics conference. Always a brilliant & stimulating gathering to attend.
May 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Speaking about new theoretical ideas for sport policy (on behalf of @dusportexsci.bsky.social ) at the #psasportpolitics conference. Always a brilliant & stimulating gathering to attend.
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A consistent trend of Trump & his coterie is they're so thoroughly and amoral that they genuinely do not understand the thought processes of normal people with consciences.
Disgusting, yes, but don’t miss how weak it is.
These fascists expected to ride a popular wave of mass deportation, but only a few months in they’re facing mounting revulsion at their illegality, cruelty, and rejection of innocent-until-proven-guilty, and down to smaller-scale scapegoat reminders.
These fascists expected to ride a popular wave of mass deportation, but only a few months in they’re facing mounting revulsion at their illegality, cruelty, and rejection of innocent-until-proven-guilty, and down to smaller-scale scapegoat reminders.
The driveway of the White House is now lined with mugshots….disgusting….this had to be a Stephen Miller idea
*posted this morning by Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt
*posted this morning by Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt
April 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A consistent trend of Trump & his coterie is they're so thoroughly and amoral that they genuinely do not understand the thought processes of normal people with consciences.
Particularly striking in the latest Active Lives report
- Activity rates have and are increasing over long-term
- Similarly, inactivity rates have decreased
- Economic inequalities in activity are getting worse
Report here: sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
- Activity rates have and are increasing over long-term
- Similarly, inactivity rates have decreased
- Economic inequalities in activity are getting worse
Report here: sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Particularly striking in the latest Active Lives report
- Activity rates have and are increasing over long-term
- Similarly, inactivity rates have decreased
- Economic inequalities in activity are getting worse
Report here: sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
- Activity rates have and are increasing over long-term
- Similarly, inactivity rates have decreased
- Economic inequalities in activity are getting worse
Report here: sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
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This is really good.
Parliament, not the Supreme Court should have decided today. I've written about why that's so problematic and why I fear today's judgment will be used to further delegitimise trans people, even though that is not what the Court intends.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...
Why I worry this Supreme Court ruling will be used to delegitimise trans people
And why Parliament ducked its responsibilities
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is really good.
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Are you a UK based self-funded post grad researcher? (PhD, MRes etc) If so, I'd like to send you a copy of my book. I have *five* to give away. Please share and drop a note below or DM me. I'll announce next Friday (from the pub) 🐕 📖 🍺 more info -
www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop
www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop
April 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Are you a UK based self-funded post grad researcher? (PhD, MRes etc) If so, I'd like to send you a copy of my book. I have *five* to give away. Please share and drop a note below or DM me. I'll announce next Friday (from the pub) 🐕 📖 🍺 more info -
www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop
www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop
New job available here working with wonderful colleague @lsmacnaughton.bsky.social !
Dr Lindsay Macnaughton is seeking to appoint a part time Research Assistant to support an exciting & innovative project in collaboration with an industry partner, Applied Monitoring Limited, who have designed a device to measure lactate using non-invasive technology.
Full details: shorturl.at/XvYTc
Full details: shorturl.at/XvYTc
Research Assistant
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
April 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New job available here working with wonderful colleague @lsmacnaughton.bsky.social !
