• “I know when I did it, I got frustrated”: the influence of ‘living’ a curriculum for preservice teachers (Pre published version) 

  Dillon, Michelle; Tannehill, Deborah; O'Sullivan, Mary (2023-02-03)

  In addressing the theory-practice divide, this research provides valuable insight into preservice teachers' (PSTs) learning through an experiential learning (EL) framework during teacher education. Utilising an interpretivist ...

• Health and wellbeing in an outdoor and adventure sports context 

  Allan, John; Hardwell, Ashley; Kay, Chris; Peacock, Suzanne; Hart, Melissa; Dillon, Michelle; Brymer, Eric (MDPI, 2020-04-14)

  While the world responds to the latest health issue, it is perhaps timely that we think broadly about human and planetary health and wellbeing. Across the globe, there is a call for a different future, one that prioritises ...

• ‘The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are’: feminist perspectives in the online blog of a female professional golfer 

  Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; MacLaren, Meghan (Routledge, 2022-09)

  Many female athletes are using online platforms to control their own portrayals, and such representations have been examined mostly through neoliberal and postfeminist perspectives, which position female athletes as ...

• “Didn’t know she could shout that loud”: the performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf 

  Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; Whigham, Stuart; Bairner, Alan (2022-06-20)

  While a growing body of evidence exists around women fans of men’s sport, less is known about women fans’ perspectives and identities in relation to women’s sport, and what is known tends to focus on homogenous representations ...

• A case for change in how we refer to dual career athletes: a person first approach (Pre published) 

  Geary, Marion; Kitching, Niamh; Campbell, Mark; Houghton, Frank (Routledge, 2021-10-21)

  Rationale/Purpose: Dual Career Athletes (DCA) combine education, training, or work with a sporting career within broader sports management and educational environments. A holistic approach embraces the DCA as a “person ...

• ABC's and 123's: The Role of the Home Learning Environment in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood 

  Hoyne, Clara (2022-04-05)

  Play in early childhood is known to have benefits for children across cognitive and socioemotional domains. The purpose of this research was to examine factors that influence play and learning in the home environment in ...

• 'Top of the tree': examining the print news portrayal of the world's best female amateur golfer during her transition to professional golf (Pre-published) 

  Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali (Cork University Press, 2020-05-20)

  Sport occupies a central position in Irish social and cultural life, yet has been relatively marginal within the academy. Significant research has been undertaken by individual scholars, and various important books have ...

• 'Write when it hurts. Then write till it doesn’t’: athlete voice and the lived realities of one female professional athlete (Pre-published) 

  Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; MacLaren, Meghan (2020-11-21)

  Digital media has played a central role in promoting women’s sport, where female athletes are increasingly using online platforms to control their own representations and challenge male dominated sporting institutions. ...

• Selling Scotland? Selling women’s golf? The 2019 Solheim Cup in the ‘Home of Golf’ (Pre-published) 

  Whigham, Stuart; Bowes, Ali; Kitching, Niamh; Bairner, Alan (Routledge, 2021-07-10)

  In 2019, Scotland played host to the Solheim Cup, a competition contested by leading women professional golfers representing Europe and the United States. The event was given further political significance by the fact that ...

• The Solheim Cup: media representations of golf, gender and national identity (Pre-published) 

  Bowes, Ali; Kitching, Niamh (Emerald publishing, 2021-11-29)

  The increasing inclusion of women in sport has been mediated by societal gendered expectations. It is an oft-cited notion that sport is “an institution created by and for men” (Messner and Sabo, 1990: 9), and sport is ...

• Women, war and sport: the battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup (Pre-published) 

  Bowes, Ali; Bairner, Alan; Whigham, Stuart; Kitching, Niamh (Taylor and Francis, 2021-05-29)

  One of the most significant and/or prevalent symbols of nationhood is to be found in the international (men’s) sporting arena. Sport is often imbued with notions of national identity and war, although the sport of golf ...

• Online activism and athlete advocacy in professional women’s golf: risk or reward? (Pre-published) 

  Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; MacLaren, Meghan (Routledge, 2021-12-10)

  Whilst golf provides an avenue by which women can play professionally, more men have the opportunity to do so and when they do, they make more money than women. In terms of visibility, endorsements, prize money and media ...

• 'Battle of the Sixes': investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men's tour event (Pre published) 

  Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali (SAGE Publications, 2019-04-14)

  In May 2018, the men’s European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle ...

• "Our wee country": national identity, golf and ‘Ireland’ (Pre published) 

  Liston, Katie; Kitching, Niamh (Routledge, 2019-03-19)

  The careers of professional golfers offer a noteworthy opportunity to examine the ways in which national identity is imagined, constructed and experienced. This paper examines the nexus of national identity and golf in ...

• Shifting hegemony in a "man's world": incremental change for female golf professional employment (Pre-published) 

  Kitching, Niamh; Grix, Jonathan; Phillpotts, Lesley (Routledge, 2017-02-08)

  There is much evidence to suggest that the golf environment is unequal in terms of gender. This study examines female golf professionals’ understanding of the barriers and opportunities to employment in the golf industry. ...

• Women in golf: a critical reflection (Pre-published) 

  Kitching, Niamh (Routledge, 2017)

• An examination of the elite development pathways for male golfers in Ireland (Pre-published) 

  Kitching, Niamh; Campbell, Mark (Routledge, 2019-11-01)

  Research question: In recent years, Irish men’s professional golf has enjoyed global success, resulting in an increased focus on golfer development and talent pathways in Ireland. Using the SPLISS model as a guiding ...

• 'Wow these girls can play’: sex integration in professional golf (Pre-published) 

  Bowes, Ali; Kitching, Niamh (Routledge, 2020-02-20)

  Men and women typically operate in separate spaces in the sporting world, with sport being one of the few social institutions that continues to segregate the two sexes. The culture of golf, like sport more broadly, is ...

• Shared learning, different contexts: understanding teaching for meaning in pre-service physical education teacher education 

  Sweeney, Tony; Bowles, Richard; Coulter, Maura (EdTechBooks.org, 2020-07-14)

• Strengthening the fabric, untangling the knots: a collaborative self-study involving coaching and teaching 

  Bowles, Richard; O'Dwyer, Anne (EdTechBooks.org, 2020-07-14)

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