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Contact Details

Telephone: +44 (0) 1243 816356

Fax: +44 (0) 1243 816080

Office: N203

Email: e.pike@chi.ac.uk

Education

BA Hons (Kent); MSc (Loughborough); PGCE (Loughborough); PhD (Loughborough).

Personal Introduction

Elizabeth has worked at the University of Chichester since September 2000, and is Acting Head of Sport Development and Management. In addition to the work that she does at Chichester, she has also been a speaker at many Universities and conferences both in the UK and abroad. Elizabeth serves on the editorial board of the journals Leisure Studies and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport.  She is on the executive board of the International Sociology of Sport Association, and serves as the General Secretary for the Association.

Current teaching

For the current academic year, Elizabeth will be responsible for the following modules:

• Sport and Social Inclusion (SDM114)
• Developing and Managing Mega Sports Events (SDM123)
• Directed Study (SDM223)
• The Sporting Body (SPL315)

Administration

• Acting Head, Sport Development and Management
• Programme Coordinator, Sport Development
• Field Leader, Sociology of Sport
• University of Chichester Academic Board
• University of Chichester Faculty Research and Scholarship Committee

Research Interests

• Risk
• Pain, illness and injury
• Health care
• Ageing

Membership

• British Sociological Association
• International Sociological Association
• International Sociology of Sport Association (General Secretary, member of Executive Board)
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

Selected Publications (2001-present)

Pike, E. (2010).  The Elite Child Athlete and Injury Risk.  In C. Brackenridge and D. Rhind (eds.) Elite Child Athlete Welfare: International Perspectives. Brunel: Brunel University Press.

Pike, E. (2010) Growing Old (Dis)Gracefully?: The Gender/Ageing/Exercise Nexus. In E. Kennedy and P. Markula (eds.) Women and Exercise: The Body, Health and Consumerism. London: Routledge.

Pike, E. (2010) The Benefits and Challenges of Complementary and Alternative Medicines for Health-Care in Sport.  In D. Malcolm and P. Safai (eds.)  The Social Organisation of Sports Medicine.  London: Routledge, in press.

Pike, E. (2010). Review of J. Baker, S. Horton and P. Weir (eds.). The Masters Athlete: Understanding the Role of Sport and Exercise in Optimizing Aging. Journal of Sports History, 37, 2.

Pike, E. (2010). Review of L. Wenner and S. Jackson (eds.).  Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life.  Journal of Sports History, 37, 2.

Coakley, J. and Pike, E. (2009). Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies. London: Open University Press/McGraw Hill.

Pike, E. and Coakley, J. (2009). The Social Significance of Sport, eSocialScience.

Beames, S. and Pike, E. (2008). Goffman Goes Rock Climbing: Using Creative Fiction to Explore The Presentation of Self in Outdoor Education, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 12, 2, 3-11.

Pike, E. (2007). Revisiting the ‘Physical Activity, Sexual Health, Teenage Identity Construction Nexus’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 42, 309-319.

Pike, E. and Beames, S. (2007). A Critical Interactionist Analysis of ‘Youth Development’ Expeditions. Leisure Studies, 26, 2, 147-159.

Pike, E. (2007). Injury. Encyclopedia of Extreme Sport. Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Pike, E. (2005). “Doctors just say ‘rest and take Ibuprofen’” A Critical Examination of the Role of Non-Orthodox Health Care in Women’s Sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 40, 2, 201-219.

Pike, E. (2005). Injury Risk in Women’s Sport. Encyclopedia of World Sport. Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Pike, E. (2004). Risk, Pain and Injury: ‘A Natural Thing in Rowing’? In K. Young (Ed). Damaged Bodies, Sporting Selves. Oxford: Elsevier Press.

Pike, E. (2004). Review of B. Houlihan and A. White ‘The Politics of Sports Development’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 39, 4.

Pike, E. and Maguire, J. (2003). Injury in Women’s Sport: Classifying Key Elements of a ‘Risk Encounter’. Sociology of Sport Journal, 20, 3, 232-251

Pike, E. (2003). Review of B. Houlihan (Ed.) ‘Sport and Society: A Student Introduction’. European Physical Education Review, 9, 3.

Media Presentation

Pike, E. (2008) BBC Radio 4, Warrior Girls, June 26th 2008
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2008_26_mon.shtml