The @bssh.bsky.social are pleased to announce the details of its 2025-26 Extended Project Prize. It's a great opportunity for students to submit their work on sports history (small or large). All the info can be found here: www.sportinhistory.org/categories/e... or in the image below. Please share.

Come and join our fabulous editorial team at @sportinhistory.bsky.social. Feel free to get in touch if you are interested.

Lovely to visit Notts County today to hear about their sports history plans. A lot of exciting plans and some potential collaboration. It was also great to see some of Meadow Lane on a short tour.

Eek. It's all feeling a bit real that my book will be hitting shelves in a few months. It's exciting but also a bit nerve-racking! I wouldn't be here without the lovely folks at @utpress.bsky.social and the wonderful staff at @icshc.bsky.social.

Had the best day at the Rugby World Cup Final. A record crowd, the top four sides in the world and England are World Champions. Amazing to see the love for women's sport.

Thanks to a funded Scholarship Project for Undergraduate Researchers, @drdavehindley.bsky.social and I worked with one of our students (Megs Bainbridge) on a project over the summer investigating the transition to first year for new students. Megs had five key findings.

A showery day at Donington Park today. But when life gives you rain showers, it also gives you rainbows! Back tomorrow for, almost certainly, more 🌧️. #MarshalLife

30 September 5-6pm BST: We're launching a new research report on the history of women's cricket in Scotland. I'll be chatting to Fiona Reid @bayfirth.bsky.social, Nic Wilson (Cricket Scotland) & former Scotland players. Zoom link & more info here - come along! www.bayfirth.co.uk/women-s-cric...

Feeling a bit down today and with the hubby out I'm indulging in one of my favourite passions - Shakespeare's history plays. My love of Shakespeare (I've seen all 37 plays) comes from my Dad. My love of the history plays from an inspiring A-Level England Lit teacher when we studied Richard II.

Sign up today via this link to be part of a great evening whether you’ll be joining us in-person or via zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

It's such a privilege and honour to take over as Chair of the @bssh.bsky.social. Being a part of this community has played a key role in my academic journey and I look forward to continuing to support our members and maintaining our reputation as a friendly space for research in the discipline.

Sometimes (esp. just before the start of the academic year) you just need to hang out in some fields for three days with your friends and listen to music! #TheLongRoadFestival

It was fantastic to be back at Peter Symonds College today to deliver three "Preparing for University" sessions to a great bunch of sports students. They engaged with all the activities brilliantly. It's hopefully the start of a bigger project and pilots at other colleges.

Great stuff from Adam Borrie. I certainly need to better understand how to use AI for my own work but also helping students. Loads of top tips to not only save time but come up with new ideas/activities for lectures. #TILT2025.

Day two of #TILT2025. @drsbroadberry.bsky.social getting us started by helping us reflect on ten years of TILT and what is to come in the next ten.

Celebrating 10 years of the NTU Trent Institute of Learning & Teaching (TILT) with some excellent cakes. Getting involved in TILT activities helped me find a fabulous community of like minded folks including @wcarey.bsky.social @edfoster.bsky.social @drsbroadberry.bsky.social and others! #TILT2025.

I always love this time of year and the NTU TILT Teaching and Learning Conference. It was great to be presenting the Peer Assisted Learning Scheme (PALS) that James Rowland and I introduced in the Department of Sport Science this year. It'll be bigger and better next year! #TILT2025

It's the end of #VolunteersWeek. Appropriately, I spent Saturday and Sunday marshalling at Donington Park. The sport cannot run without volunteers and I had a fab weekend with my #OrangeFamily. This thread goes through a bit of a day in the life of a pit lane marshal.

Beautiful reflections on last night's post-work paddle. Being on the water is so calming and just the tonic after a busy day. I was even convinced to try a bit of yoga on a paddle board and I didn't fall off! Winning all around.

Solo theatre trip to the RSC to see one of my favourite actors in Shakespeare's bloodiest play! 🥧 #IYKYK

Fantastic to see NTU's own @edfoster.bsky.social winning the EFYE Champion Award. Ed reminds us that what we are doing works and makes an impact. By trying something to support students, we are making a difference. Ed is a supportive colleague whose support I value. @efye2025.bsky.social #EFYE2025.

An important reminder for all of us teaching students as part of Anneliese Raes's keynote on day three of @efye2025.bsky.social. If you can deliver your session the same way with no students in the room, don't do it. Interesting discussions around hybrid learning spaces and their potential.

Given that I (with the support of other fab colleagues) set up a peer mentoring system in our department last year, this is the perfect way to kick off day three of @efye2025.bsky.social. #EFYE2025.

A fantastic @efye2025.bsky.social conference dinner at De Hoorn Brewery. Fabulous food and company with the addition of some student-led drinking songs. One more day of the conference to go! #EFYE2025.

Fabulous final two presentations of day two of @efye2025.bsky.social. Both really resonated with some of the work I am doing. Lots to explore and some ideas are percolating! #EFYE2025.

A new one to me at a conference - an ice-cream van for our dessert at lunch! Fun stuff at @efye2025.bsky.social. #EFYE2025.

An excellent conference social at @efye2025.bsky.social. The chance to meet new folks, catch up with colleagues you rarely see day to day, and enjoy a tipple. Thanks to the wonderful staff at Hal 5 for looking after us so well. Roll on day two! #EFYE2025

A really great turnout for the show and tell session I was part of. Lots of interest in the workbook I've been developing and some useful tips! Fascinating other presentations that I didn't get to chat to the presenters 😞 @efye2025.bsky.social #EFYE2025

And we're off. The opening session of @efye2025.bsky.social which included an important reminder by @wcarey.bsky.social that if we are feeling confused about finding our way around and unsure/nervous about networking, remember that this is how our first years feel. #EFYE2025.

Ready to go for the first full day of #EFYE2025. What else could be in the swag for a conference in Belgium but chocolates! Plus a conferenve bingo card! I'm up at 5pm talking about the academic skills workbook I've been working on. @efye2025.bsky.social

Getting ready for #EFYE2025 with my favourite pre-Eurostar treat. Looking forward to seeing everyone there and for an inspiring few days.

Its's great to see that the "The Status and Future of Tackle Football" special issue of Kinesiology Review is out. It was a pleasure to contribute my research on the media's reaction to women who coach in the NFL. @skysportsnfl.bsky.social journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

You can't have a conference in Wales without Welsh cakes for the tea break! This is my kind of conference in so many ways! #PeerForum25

Having started a peer-assisted learning scheme in the department this year, it's great to be at #PeerForum25. Looking forward to an informative and inspiring day.

Learn how to design authentic #assessments that challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills in meaningful, real-world scenarios, in our latest spotlight guide: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/spotl... #assessment #edusky #academicsky #highered #learning #teaching

valid every day but especially today: love & strength to trans pals, you don't deserve all this shit being flung in your direction, here's to hoping these freaks find a new obsession soon and you can live your lives peacefully and happily x

It was an @footycon.bsky.social reunion today in the glorious sunshine to watch the Newport Pagnell Town FC Women's First Team. It was lovely to catch up with Walter and see a 2-1 victory.

My research focuses on pioneering women in American footy. It's not always easy being a woman in the sport so I enjoy amplifying what women do/have done. Check out some bits on women coaches for #InternationalWomensDay www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Giving an #InternationalWomensDay shout out to some of the women in academia who inspire me, have supported me, or are just fab: @kaseysymons.bsky.social @fionaskillen.bsky.social @rafnicholson.bsky.social Ali Bowes, Anika Leslie-Walker, Lindsay Parks Pieper & my other NTU women colleagues.

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

The @bssh.bsky.social Extended Project prize closes for entries in just over a month. Any project (artefact, essay, performance etc.) is eligible as long as it has some connection to sports history. See the flyer below for more details. Please share this amongst your contacts.

Following two positive reviews of my manuscript, and with agreement from the board, my book on the history of women playing American football should be published in 2026. It's been a joy working with @utpress.bsky.social thus far and I'm celebrating with a glass of English fizz!

I have some capacity = i've never had less capacity Apologies for the late reply = it's a miracle you're getting anything No worries = very many worries

Being up close to Brothers Osborne was just what the doctor ordered after a dreadful week at work. Music really can make a lot of things better.

Come and join us in Belfast for the @bssh.bsky.social annual conference. It's always a friendly, supportive atmosphere and perfect for anyone regardless of stage of career or experience.

Please share this call for the @bssh.bsky.social Extended Project Prize with any schools, colleges etc. who might be interested. Their project only needs a bit of sports history to be eligible. @fenews.bsky.social

Applications are now open for this year's EPQ prize. Teachers are invited to enter their students' EPQ essays on any sports history-related subject. The deadline is 18th April 2025. See here for more details. www.sportinhistory.org/categories/e...

Always wonderful to spend the day talking about pedagogy at our department Teaching and Learning Away Day. Some fantastic conversations, complemented by some fabulous students. Time for @drdavehindley.bsky.social and I to start thinking about the summer one.

Nothing says end of the hols like rearranging your bookshelves. Of the six squares visible, only one is my husband's. These are mostly the ones that need reading, split into non-fiction history, non-fiction other and, fiction. Of course I also have a Shakespeare section. Time to go back to reading!

A good haul of books as Christmas presents from various family members. Each year all I ask from my Dad are a few fiction books he thinks I will enjoy. He's always spot on and it is a joyous thing discovering them.