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Emma Rich
Dr Emma Rich is a senior Lecturer in the Physical Cultural Studies Research Group at the University of Bath. Her research engages with the varied expressions of active physicality as they emerge in different sites and practices of contemporary culture, drawing on the disciplines of Physical Cultural Studies and Public Pedagogy. She is author of; The Medicalisation of Cyberspace (2008, Routledge); Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: Fat fabrications (2008, Routledge); Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives (2011, Palgrave) and the forthcoming book Moving Bodies: Bodies, Culture and Public Pedagogies (Palgrave Macmillan)
Physical Cultural Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Bath
Claverton Down
BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Email: e.rich@bath.ac.uk
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Dr Laura De Pian is Lecturer in Sport and Social Sciences in the Physical Cultural Studies Research Group at the University of Bath, UK. Her teaching and publications to date involve critical engagement with obesity and health discourse, teachers’ enactment of health policy and pedagogy in schools and young people’s embodied learning through health education. Her interests in these areas pertain to issues of diversity and social class in particular, as well as innovative methods to engage young people in research.
Physical Cultural Studies
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Bath
Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Email: L.de.pian@bath.ac.uk
Dr Jessica Francombe-Webb is a lecturer in Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Bath, UK. Her work is focused around the interdisciplinary interrogation of the practices of the body and identities that are included and excluded in relation to health, body size and appearance, gender, social class, race, (dis)ability across the lifespan and the way this is understood in relation to the media and technology. Principal publications include 'I cheer, you cheer, we cheer': physical technologies and the normalized body. Television & New Media (2010), Methods that move: a physical performative pedagogy of subjectivity. Sociology of Sport Journal (2014) & Learning to Leisure: Femininity & practices of the body. Leisure Studies.
Physical Cultural Studies
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Bath
Claverton Down, Bath,BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Email: jmf22@bath.ac.uk