1st Edition
Life Story Research in Sport Understanding the Experiences of Elite and Professional Athletes through Narrative
Introduction Chapter 1. Public portrayals of elite athletes Chapter 2. Life story research and the contribution of the insider Chapter 3. Our research journey Chapter 4. The performance narrative Chapter 5. The discovery narrative Chapter 6. The relational narrative Chapter 7. Learning the story: Enculturation of young athletes Chapter 8. Living, playing and resisting the part of ‘athlete’ Chapter 9. The consequences of stories at retirement Chapter 10. Asylum and the conditions for story change Chapter 11. Reflections
Biography
Kitrina Douglas is Director of the boomerang-project.org.uk, an ambassador for the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), a member of the National Anti-Doping Panel for Sport, has a visiting fellowship at the University of Bristol, UK and a .2 contract at Leeds Beckett University. She played elite and professional golf for twenty years, was British amateur, English Open and twice European Masters Champion. For a decade she was a member of the BBC’s 'Radio five live' award winning outside broadcasting team.
David Carless is a professor at the Research Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research uses narrative, performative and arts-based methods to understand how identity and mental health can be developed or threatened through sport and physical activity
