PhD Opportunity! “Changing the Game: A Youth-driven Co-design Approach to Exploring Gendered Environments in Girls’ Football”
We are thrilled to announce a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with The Football Association (The FA) commencing in October 2025.
Changing the Game: A Youth-driven Co-design Approach to Exploring Gendered Environments in Girls’ Football
This project aims to understand the realities of girl footballers’ experiences of gendered environments and deliver recommendations for change based on these experiences. The research design employs participatory methods to work with youth to identify and transform structural constraints on girls’ sport participation and health. A key outcome is co-producing a resource with girl footballers to mobilise the findings towards solutions for more equitable girls’ youth football environments. The candidate will work alongside The FA to engage in meetings related to the project and the wider girls’ football portfolio and will be embedded in EDGE Lab.
Funded through the Midlands Graduate School Economic and Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership (MGS ESRC DTP), the candidate will be based in the Human Geography Pathway at the University of Nottingham and co-supervised by Dr Stephanie Coen (School of Geography, University of Nottingham), Dr Ali Bowes (Department of Sport Science, Nottingham Trent University), and Alice Kempski (National Development Manager - Women and Girls Pathways, The FA).
View the full description and application instructions HERE and learn more on the MGS ESRC DTP Collaborative and Joint Studentships page.
