Sheree Bekker
Biographic Data
| ID | 229245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheree Bekker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheree |
| FAMILY NAME | Bekker |
| SIGNATURE | BEKKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0161-6280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does Menstrual Cycle Tracking Enhance Female Athlete Health and Performance? Evaluating Five Implicit Assumptions of an Emerging Paradigm
Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy
Sex and gender policy has become a battleground for attacks on science and expertise. As researchers committed to rigorous evaluation of evidence, the authors examine how evidence is used and misused in debates on sex and gender policy affecting transgender people. Drawing on examples from healthcare, prison housing, and sport, they identify recurring pitfalls: elevating opinion as evidence, excluding trans expertise, discrediting scientific cons…
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: The Contested Terrains of Trans and Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion
In this introduction to the second special issue on Sports and the Limits of the Binary: Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Equity in Sport , we offer a snapshot of the landscape around trans and nonbinary athlete inclusion as of May 2025. We attend to the intensifying political backlash and cultural anxieties surrounding trans and nonbinary people’s participation in sport within the Global North, highlighting the critical interventions of scholars…
“Connecting the Dots”: Developing a Doctoral Qualitative Community of Practice
This article focuses on the development of a community of practice (CoP) for qualitative doctoral researchers at the University of Bath (UK). Although the sources of support that qualitative doctoral researchers can access have grown substantially across the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and South Africa (e.g., supervisor meetings, discrete courses, and standalone workshops), they generally remain “disjointed,” forcing qualitative doc…
Critical Reflections on the Governance of Women and Gender Expansive Athletes: An Intersectional Interdisciplinary Dialogue
In response to growing reactionary movements pushing an antigender, transphobic moral panic, sports organizations are increasingly pressured to implement policies for the women’s category that more heavily regulate and/or exclude marginalized groups of women. These efforts are the latest iteration in a long history of the paternalistic, white supremacist, heteropatriarchal governance of women athletes. Drawing on a panel convened at the annual co…
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: An Introduction
In this special issue introduction for “Sports and the Limits of the Binary: Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Equity in Sport,” we provide an overview of the contemporary landscape of trans/nonbinary athlete inclusion, from both academic and nonacademic perspectives. We especially highlight the sociology of sport’s contributions to the literature on this topic, as well as the key foundations and influences from black, queer, decolonial/postcoloni…
Advancing feminist innovation in sport studies: A transdisciplinary dialogue on gender, health and wellbeing
Athlete health and wellbeing requires a holistic, multidimensional approach to understanding, supporting, and treating individual athletes. Building more supportive, inclusive, and equitable environments for the health and wellbeing of women and gender expansive people further requires gender-responsive approaches that promote broader cultural change. Feminist sport and exercise medicine practitioners, sports scientists, and social science resear…
Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: ‘Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right’
Safeguarding in sports settings: Unpacking a conflicting identity
Safeguarding is a major area of research, policy, and practice for contemporary sports scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders. In recent years, the concept of safeguarding (broadly: the prevention of harassment and abuse) as applied to sport settings has expanded to include not only sexual harassment and abuse, but also individual (e.g. disordered eating; self-harm), relational (e.g. psychological, physical, sexual harassment and abuse), and o…
Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry: Theories, Methods and Practices
Rhythmanalysis (Lefevbre, 2004) is a particular approach to qualitative research that asks us to consider the rhythms, the pauses, the discordant notes and the eurhythmic moments. As explained and utilised by Dawn Lyon (2016) it is an embodied approach to research, that incorporates a holistic, reflexive researcher, aware of their physicality and occupation of space, and positionality within their research. Like other embodied approaches to resea…
Improving Qualitative Research Findings Presentations: Insights From Genre Theory
Every year thousands of presentations of qualitative research findings are made at conferences, departmental seminars, meetings, and student defenses. Yet scant scholarship has been devoted to these presentations, their nature and relevance to qualitative research, and how they can be improved. This article addresses this important gap by positioning 'research findings' presentations as a distinctive genre, part of qualitative method, and an expr…
Improving Qualitative Research Findings Presentations: Insights From Genre Theory
Every year thousands of presentations of qualitative research findings are made at conferences, departmental seminars, meetings, and student defenses. Yet scant scholarship has been devoted to these presentations, their nature and relevance to qualitative research, and how they can be improved. This article addresses this important gap by positioning 'research findings' presentations as a distinctive genre, part of qualitative method, and an expr…
Advancing feminist innovation in sport studies: A transdisciplinary dialogue on gender, health and wellbeing
Athlete health and wellbeing requires a holistic, multidimensional approach to understanding, supporting, and treating individual athletes. Building more supportive, inclusive, and equitable environments for the health and wellbeing of women and gender expansive people further requires gender-responsive approaches that promote broader cultural change. Feminist sport and exercise medicine practitioners, sports scientists, and social science resear…
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: An Introduction
In this special issue introduction for “Sports and the Limits of the Binary: Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Equity in Sport,” we provide an overview of the contemporary landscape of trans/nonbinary athlete inclusion, from both academic and nonacademic perspectives. We especially highlight the sociology of sport’s contributions to the literature on this topic, as well as the key foundations and influences from black, queer, decolonial/postcoloni…
Improving Qualitative Research Findings Presentations: Insights From Genre Theory
Every year thousands of presentations of qualitative research findings are made at conferences, departmental seminars, meetings, and student defenses. Yet scant scholarship has been devoted to these presentations, their nature and relevance to qualitative research, and how they can be improved. This article addresses this important gap by positioning 'research findings' presentations as a distinctive genre, part of qualitative method, and an expr…
Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry: Theories, Methods and Practices
Rhythmanalysis (Lefevbre, 2004) is a particular approach to qualitative research that asks us to consider the rhythms, the pauses, the discordant notes and the eurhythmic moments. As explained and utilised by Dawn Lyon (2016) it is an embodied approach to research, that incorporates a holistic, reflexive researcher, aware of their physicality and occupation of space, and positionality within their research. Like other embodied approaches to resea…
Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: ‘Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right’
Safeguarding in sports settings: Unpacking a conflicting identity
Safeguarding is a major area of research, policy, and practice for contemporary sports scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders. In recent years, the concept of safeguarding (broadly: the prevention of harassment and abuse) as applied to sport settings has expanded to include not only sexual harassment and abuse, but also individual (e.g. disordered eating; self-harm), relational (e.g. psychological, physical, sexual harassment and abuse), and o…
Advancing feminist innovation in sport studies: A transdisciplinary dialogue on gender, health and wellbeing
Athlete health and wellbeing requires a holistic, multidimensional approach to understanding, supporting, and treating individual athletes. Building more supportive, inclusive, and equitable environments for the health and wellbeing of women and gender expansive people further requires gender-responsive approaches that promote broader cultural change. Feminist sport and exercise medicine practitioners, sports scientists, and social science resear…
“Connecting the Dots”: Developing a Doctoral Qualitative Community of Practice
This article focuses on the development of a community of practice (CoP) for qualitative doctoral researchers at the University of Bath (UK). Although the sources of support that qualitative doctoral researchers can access have grown substantially across the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and South Africa (e.g., supervisor meetings, discrete courses, and standalone workshops), they generally remain “disjointed,” forcing qualitative doc…
Critical Reflections on the Governance of Women and Gender Expansive Athletes: An Intersectional Interdisciplinary Dialogue
In response to growing reactionary movements pushing an antigender, transphobic moral panic, sports organizations are increasingly pressured to implement policies for the women’s category that more heavily regulate and/or exclude marginalized groups of women. These efforts are the latest iteration in a long history of the paternalistic, white supremacist, heteropatriarchal governance of women athletes. Drawing on a panel convened at the annual co…
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: An Introduction
In this special issue introduction for “Sports and the Limits of the Binary: Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Equity in Sport,” we provide an overview of the contemporary landscape of trans/nonbinary athlete inclusion, from both academic and nonacademic perspectives. We especially highlight the sociology of sport’s contributions to the literature on this topic, as well as the key foundations and influences from black, queer, decolonial/postcoloni…
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: The Contested Terrains of Trans and Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion
In this introduction to the second special issue on Sports and the Limits of the Binary: Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Equity in Sport , we offer a snapshot of the landscape around trans and nonbinary athlete inclusion as of May 2025. We attend to the intensifying political backlash and cultural anxieties surrounding trans and nonbinary people’s participation in sport within the Global North, highlighting the critical interventions of scholars…
Does Menstrual Cycle Tracking Enhance Female Athlete Health and Performance? Evaluating Five Implicit Assumptions of an Emerging Paradigm
Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy
Sex and gender policy has become a battleground for attacks on science and expertise. As researchers committed to rigorous evaluation of evidence, the authors examine how evidence is used and misused in debates on sex and gender policy affecting transgender people. Drawing on examples from healthcare, prison housing, and sport, they identify recurring pitfalls: elevating opinion as evidence, excluding trans expertise, discrediting scientific cons…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Doping in Sports (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Art (2 works)