The Paris Olympics should be the first to have equal numbers of male and female athletes, but not of coaches. Just 13% of coaches were women at the last Games in Tokyo. Nuala McGovern speaks to Elizabeth CJ Pike from University of Hertfordshire & Emily Handyside from UK Coaching to find out why ⬇️

🌟 More of our incredible WISH coaches are in Paris this year! Meet another outstanding coach and read her reflections on the WISH Programme. 🏅✨ #WISHCoaches #Paris2024 IOC MEDIA World Skate

Well done to Elizabeth CJ Pike in the Institute of Sport. Many female coaches off to support athletes at the Paris Olympics 2024 🔥 #WISH #FemaleEmpowerment #Equality UniofHertsIoS bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🌟 More of our incredible WISH coaches are in Paris this year! Meet another outstanding coach and read her reflections on the WISH Programme. 🏅✨ #WISHCoaches #Paris2024 @FIH_hockey IOC MEDIA

Loved discussing how scholarship can inform activism with Idle Ethnographer, and the roles that IWG Women & Sport, Anita White Fund and Women In Sport High Performance Pathway UniofHertsIoS are playing in contributing to a world where all women and girls thrive

At Great Britain Basketball we won’t rest until everyone has the opportunity to enjoy this beautiful, unifying sport and to fulfil their potential in education, work & life. Great to partner with London's Violence Reduction Unit & Sported

WISH Olympics recap! A huge shoutout 📢📢to WISH Coaches Suvi Mikkonen, Laura Marimon-Giovannetti and Maria Elena Panetti for their teams’ and athletes’ Olympic med🥇🥈🥉 wins at the #Paris2024 Olympic Games! Congratulations! We are incredibly proud of all you WISH coaches!

Carnegie School of Sport Carnegie Sport Coaching Leeds Beckett Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett SafeSportInternational Dr Tom Quarmby Faye Didymus

JOB ALERT: come and work with CRIPACC UH University of Hertfordshire NIHR ARC East of England Patient and Public Involvement - Senior Research Assistant. Inclusive Involvement in Research theme. Professor Wendy Wills NIHR Involvement NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) - contact Elspeth Mathie for an informal chat. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJD727/sen…

Great to see this at Watford Football Club on Tuesday - some great opportunities for our current students and those joining us this year #UCAS #clearing2024 linkedin.com/posts/martyn-m…

“When I first started studying #sociology and sports studies, it was still a marginal field, but now it has become a very significant area of study.” Elizabeth CJ Pike IWG Women & Sport Women In Sport High Performance Pathway in conversation with @IdlEthnographer in #TSRGamesPlay. buff.ly/4dmHuuP

The IWG is recruiting! We are looking to appoint a Conference Producer who will oversee all aspects of the pre-production and delivery of the IWG Global Summit, set to take place from 9-11 July 2026 at the ICC in Birmingham. Full info here: iwgwomenandsport.org/iwg-job-vacanc…

A great opportunity as part of our partnership with Watford Football Club University of Hertfordshire UH Psychology, Sport and Geography UniofHertsIoS to work in football whilst getting a degree. Will need to be quick for this one! linkedin.com/posts/martyn-m…

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It was great speaking with Alexander Aucott on FRANCE 24 English about the Paralympics. We talked about the history of the Paralympics and its development. I also considered some athletes to watch. I was on at 12.20pm (ish) if you want to watch it on demand. #Paris2024 #paralympics

It was great to discuss the Paralympics with Annita McVeigh on BBC World News yesterday! We discussed the legacy of London 2012, the Paris Paralympics & the Games' impact on disability rights. Below is a clip from our discussion. #Paralympics2024 #Paris2024 #London2012

Job Opportunity: Conference Producer with IWG Women & Sport, for the IWG Global Summit taking place in Birmingham in 2026. The role is fixed term to Sept 2026, 0.8FTE, UK Based Closing: Sun 8 September iwgwomenandsport.org/iwg-job-vacanc…

My take on the London 2012 #Paralympics sport participation legacy: youtu.be/gJDB3MHfgZg Full explainer video can be found here: youtu.be/_FC4TloEKA4 #Paralympics2024 #Paris2024 #Paralympic2024 #leveraging #Legacy #Disability #London2012