Carolynne Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolynne Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1570-1902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social research with women in Saudi Arabia
This article examines the opportunities and challenges of conducting qualitative research in Saudi Arabia through the lens of a Saudi women researcher educated abroad. Drawing on interviews with Saudi women from different generational and socioeconomic backgrounds in Jeddah and Riyadh, it reflects on how the researcher’s positionality – shaped by insider/outsider dynamics – influenced research access, rapport, and data interpretation. The study e…
The Impact of Dance Interventions on Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior
INTRODUCTION: Adolescents are increasingly affected by complex societal challenges that impact their psychosocial development. Prosocial behaviors such as empathy, cooperation, and peer support are critical during this stage and contribute to positive academic, emotional, and social outcomes. While sport has been widely studied in this regard, the potential of dance to foster prosocial behaviors remains underexplored, particularly in educational …
It Is a Team Game
Interpersonal violence is now widely acknowledged as a key concern throughout sport. In response, governing bodies have started to introduce safeguarding strategies. One such example is the FIFA Guardians programme, which aims to introduce stronger safeguarding measures throughout global football. The programme includes nominated learners from FIFA’s 211 Member Associations completing the FIFA Guardians Safeguarding in Football Diploma. There is …
Saudi women and sport participation
This study investigates the alignment between Saudi Arabia's Sports for All (SFA) policy and women's experiences in sports participation. The study employs Bacchi's ‘What Is the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) framework as its theoretical framework. This framework not only enables a policy critique but also provides a lens to uncover unexamined narratives influencing women's experiences in sports. Interviews were conducted with women from diver…
Precarity in inclusive school sport and extracurricular provisions
This study examines the current landscape of inclusive school sport for disabled young people in the UK. Guided by Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital and field, the research draws on interviews and focus groups with eleven adult stakeholders involved in school and community sport provision. Using a qualitative, interpretivist approach and reflexive thematic analysis, the study finds that access to inclusive sport often relies on the presence…
You’ve got to make yourself uncomfortable to finally feel comfortable’
Homeless youth are largely absent from the literature, yet homelessness affects a growing number of young people aged 16–24 in the United Kingdom. To date, research has focused on identifying risk and protective factors for becoming homeless. Pathways out of homelessness are reliant on young people accessing appropriate support services. However, they exist within liminal spaces, experiencing material, psychological, relational and developmental …
Refugee footballers
Against the background of the recent European 'refugee crisis' and its long-term consequences, this article investigates the research question 'how do footballers with a refugee background experience the process of accessing top-level football?', using ethnographic material and interviews with competitive footballers with a refugee background in Italy and Germany from two studies. The material was examined using qualitative content analysis and i…
Exploring the feasibility of using evidence-based feeding practices to promote children’s healthy eating in holiday clubs
Objective: Encouraging healthy eating is a public health priority in the United Kingdom (UK), given the high prevalence of poor diet and overweight/obesity among school-aged children. Holiday clubs are organisations providing childcare and activities during the school holidays and frequently provide food to children at risk of food insecurity, primarily through government-funded programmes like the Holiday Activities and Food programme. However, …
Exploring adaptive ways to implement positive feeding practices to promote children’s healthy eating in holiday clubs
Co-producing Desistance Opportunities with Women in Prison
The following paper provides a sport coach developer's refl ective narrative account of his fi rst experience of delivering a football-based development programme within a women's prison. The account highlights the notion that initial 'up-front' desistance work can be a process of co-production where all those involved engage in a journey of discovery in which the seeds of desistance are planted and begin to take root. The interplay between pract…
Participatory research with young people with special educational needs and disabilities
This paper responds to the calls for researchers to be more transparent about their processes of conducting participatory research with young people. Set within the context of a doctoral project that explores the inclusion of young people with SEND in the UK School Games framework, the paper highlights challenges and triumphs of researching alongside young people with SEND. Participants were aged between 11 and 18 and attended either a special sc…
Lampedusa, football and Covid-19
Lampedusa is a remote Italian island, known as a border zone and European point of entry for many asylum-seekers coming by boat from North Africa. This research seeks to understand the value of sport in Lampedusa for its local and migrant population, in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with experts from the local community. Results show that sport in Lampedusa is often synonymous …
Staff perspectives on the feeding practices used in holiday clubs to promote healthy eating in disadvantaged communities
An increasing number of holiday clubs provide free meals to alleviate children's hunger during the school holidays. Holiday clubs are well-placed to promote healthy eating among children from disadvantaged communities who may be at risk of experiencing food insecurity, but currently little is known about the feeding practices used by staff and whether these are conducive to maximising opportunities to promote healthy eating. Unlike previous resea…
Feeding children during a global crisis
Adaptations to Holiday Club Food Provision to Alleviate Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Holiday clubs play a pivotal role in providing food and vital enrichment opportunities to alleviate food insecurity among children during the school holidays (holiday hunger). The need for these opportunities increased substantially for families throughout 2020, as food insecurity quadrupled in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this qualitative study, holiday club staff from England and Wales reflected on the adaptations they implemented in…
Voice, vlogs and visibility
The voices of young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have historically been omitted from research concerning their sporting experiences and provisions [Coates, J., & Vickerman, P. (2013). A review of methodological strategies for consulting children with special educational needs in physical education. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 28(3), 333–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2013.797705; Wickman, K…
Feeding children over the summer
Children's rights and the regulations on the transfer of young players in football
Children who interact with football's recruitment and transfer processes encounter a complex web of regulations and practices. Debates over how to ensure that the interests and well-being of young football players are adequately protected, and that risks to their rights and welfare are identified and addressed, have become a topic of academic, political and media concern. This commentary article provides an overview of the Fédération Internationa…
Rights, Risks and Responsibilities in the Recruitment of Children within the Global Football Industry
This paper examines children’s engagement with the increasingly global and commercialised football industry. By combining a Global Production Network approach and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child it is argued that, for children’s rights and best interests to be better upheld and realised within the football industry, regulatory conditions need to account for geographical contextuality and incorporate scope for children to …
Recruitments, engagements, and partitions
This paper examines the social practices children use to manage participation in play activities. Part of a wider research project looking at children's physical activity in play, this article considers the role of social interaction in shaping active play. The focus is on how children get others to take part in play they have initiated, and how inclusion and exclusion in play is managed. The data examined are video-recordings of seven- to eight-…
Ability to be active
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 05 Oct 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1060569
Problematising pupil voice using visual methods
This article explores how pupils and teachers in an 11–16 mixed secondary school in an area of urban disadvantage in the UK experience pupil voice. It used visual methods to unpick some of the ways in which official and unofficial discourses of pupil voice, engagement, discipline and inclusion were played out in this school. A typology of pupils, based on analysis of school policy documentation was produced. Whilst these ‘types’ were expressed th…
Learning to (Dis)Engage? The Socialising Experiences of Young People Living in Areas of Socio-Economic Disadvantage
Young people are increasingly required to demonstrate civic engagement in their communities and help deliver the aspirations of localism and Big Society. Using an ecological systems approach this paper explores the experiences of different groups of young people living in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. Using volunteering as an example of civic engagement it is shown that barriers and motivators for young people stem from within the micro, …
Children's rights and the regulations on the transfer of young players in football
Children who interact with football's recruitment and transfer processes encounter a complex web of regulations and practices. Debates over how to ensure that the interests and well-being of young football players are adequately protected, and that risks to their rights and welfare are identified and addressed, have become a topic of academic, political and media concern. This commentary article provides an overview of the Fédération Internationa…
Recruitments, engagements, and partitions
This paper examines the social practices children use to manage participation in play activities. Part of a wider research project looking at children's physical activity in play, this article considers the role of social interaction in shaping active play. The focus is on how children get others to take part in play they have initiated, and how inclusion and exclusion in play is managed. The data examined are video-recordings of seven- to eight-…
Problematising pupil voice using visual methods
This article explores how pupils and teachers in an 11–16 mixed secondary school in an area of urban disadvantage in the UK experience pupil voice. It used visual methods to unpick some of the ways in which official and unofficial discourses of pupil voice, engagement, discipline and inclusion were played out in this school. A typology of pupils, based on analysis of school policy documentation was produced. Whilst these ‘types’ were expressed th…
Lampedusa, football and Covid-19
Lampedusa is a remote Italian island, known as a border zone and European point of entry for many asylum-seekers coming by boat from North Africa. This research seeks to understand the value of sport in Lampedusa for its local and migrant population, in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with experts from the local community. Results show that sport in Lampedusa is often synonymous …
Voice, vlogs and visibility
The voices of young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have historically been omitted from research concerning their sporting experiences and provisions [Coates, J., & Vickerman, P. (2013). A review of methodological strategies for consulting children with special educational needs in physical education. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 28(3), 333–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2013.797705; Wickman, K…
Ability to be active
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 05 Oct 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1060569
Learning to (Dis)Engage? The Socialising Experiences of Young People Living in Areas of Socio-Economic Disadvantage
Young people are increasingly required to demonstrate civic engagement in their communities and help deliver the aspirations of localism and Big Society. Using an ecological systems approach this paper explores the experiences of different groups of young people living in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. Using volunteering as an example of civic engagement it is shown that barriers and motivators for young people stem from within the micro, …
You’ve got to make yourself uncomfortable to finally feel comfortable’
Homeless youth are largely absent from the literature, yet homelessness affects a growing number of young people aged 16–24 in the United Kingdom. To date, research has focused on identifying risk and protective factors for becoming homeless. Pathways out of homelessness are reliant on young people accessing appropriate support services. However, they exist within liminal spaces, experiencing material, psychological, relational and developmental …
Refugee footballers
Against the background of the recent European 'refugee crisis' and its long-term consequences, this article investigates the research question 'how do footballers with a refugee background experience the process of accessing top-level football?', using ethnographic material and interviews with competitive footballers with a refugee background in Italy and Germany from two studies. The material was examined using qualitative content analysis and i…
Staff perspectives on the feeding practices used in holiday clubs to promote healthy eating in disadvantaged communities
An increasing number of holiday clubs provide free meals to alleviate children's hunger during the school holidays. Holiday clubs are well-placed to promote healthy eating among children from disadvantaged communities who may be at risk of experiencing food insecurity, but currently little is known about the feeding practices used by staff and whether these are conducive to maximising opportunities to promote healthy eating. Unlike previous resea…
Rights, Risks and Responsibilities in the Recruitment of Children within the Global Football Industry
This paper examines children’s engagement with the increasingly global and commercialised football industry. By combining a Global Production Network approach and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child it is argued that, for children’s rights and best interests to be better upheld and realised within the football industry, regulatory conditions need to account for geographical contextuality and incorporate scope for children to …
Problematising pupil voice using visual methods
This article explores how pupils and teachers in an 11–16 mixed secondary school in an area of urban disadvantage in the UK experience pupil voice. It used visual methods to unpick some of the ways in which official and unofficial discourses of pupil voice, engagement, discipline and inclusion were played out in this school. A typology of pupils, based on analysis of school policy documentation was produced. Whilst these ‘types’ were expressed th…
Learning to (Dis)Engage? The Socialising Experiences of Young People Living in Areas of Socio-Economic Disadvantage
Young people are increasingly required to demonstrate civic engagement in their communities and help deliver the aspirations of localism and Big Society. Using an ecological systems approach this paper explores the experiences of different groups of young people living in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. Using volunteering as an example of civic engagement it is shown that barriers and motivators for young people stem from within the micro, …
Ability to be active
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 05 Oct 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1060569
Recruitments, engagements, and partitions
This paper examines the social practices children use to manage participation in play activities. Part of a wider research project looking at children's physical activity in play, this article considers the role of social interaction in shaping active play. The focus is on how children get others to take part in play they have initiated, and how inclusion and exclusion in play is managed. The data examined are video-recordings of seven- to eight-…
Rights, Risks and Responsibilities in the Recruitment of Children within the Global Football Industry
This paper examines children’s engagement with the increasingly global and commercialised football industry. By combining a Global Production Network approach and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child it is argued that, for children’s rights and best interests to be better upheld and realised within the football industry, regulatory conditions need to account for geographical contextuality and incorporate scope for children to …
Children's rights and the regulations on the transfer of young players in football
Children who interact with football's recruitment and transfer processes encounter a complex web of regulations and practices. Debates over how to ensure that the interests and well-being of young football players are adequately protected, and that risks to their rights and welfare are identified and addressed, have become a topic of academic, political and media concern. This commentary article provides an overview of the Fédération Internationa…
Adaptations to Holiday Club Food Provision to Alleviate Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Holiday clubs play a pivotal role in providing food and vital enrichment opportunities to alleviate food insecurity among children during the school holidays (holiday hunger). The need for these opportunities increased substantially for families throughout 2020, as food insecurity quadrupled in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this qualitative study, holiday club staff from England and Wales reflected on the adaptations they implemented in…
Voice, vlogs and visibility
The voices of young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have historically been omitted from research concerning their sporting experiences and provisions [Coates, J., & Vickerman, P. (2013). A review of methodological strategies for consulting children with special educational needs in physical education. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 28(3), 333–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2013.797705; Wickman, K…
Feeding children over the summer
Co-producing Desistance Opportunities with Women in Prison
The following paper provides a sport coach developer's refl ective narrative account of his fi rst experience of delivering a football-based development programme within a women's prison. The account highlights the notion that initial 'up-front' desistance work can be a process of co-production where all those involved engage in a journey of discovery in which the seeds of desistance are planted and begin to take root. The interplay between pract…
Participatory research with young people with special educational needs and disabilities
This paper responds to the calls for researchers to be more transparent about their processes of conducting participatory research with young people. Set within the context of a doctoral project that explores the inclusion of young people with SEND in the UK School Games framework, the paper highlights challenges and triumphs of researching alongside young people with SEND. Participants were aged between 11 and 18 and attended either a special sc…
Lampedusa, football and Covid-19
Lampedusa is a remote Italian island, known as a border zone and European point of entry for many asylum-seekers coming by boat from North Africa. This research seeks to understand the value of sport in Lampedusa for its local and migrant population, in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with experts from the local community. Results show that sport in Lampedusa is often synonymous …
Staff perspectives on the feeding practices used in holiday clubs to promote healthy eating in disadvantaged communities
An increasing number of holiday clubs provide free meals to alleviate children's hunger during the school holidays. Holiday clubs are well-placed to promote healthy eating among children from disadvantaged communities who may be at risk of experiencing food insecurity, but currently little is known about the feeding practices used by staff and whether these are conducive to maximising opportunities to promote healthy eating. Unlike previous resea…
Feeding children during a global crisis
Exploring the feasibility of using evidence-based feeding practices to promote children’s healthy eating in holiday clubs
Objective: Encouraging healthy eating is a public health priority in the United Kingdom (UK), given the high prevalence of poor diet and overweight/obesity among school-aged children. Holiday clubs are organisations providing childcare and activities during the school holidays and frequently provide food to children at risk of food insecurity, primarily through government-funded programmes like the Holiday Activities and Food programme. However, …
Exploring adaptive ways to implement positive feeding practices to promote children’s healthy eating in holiday clubs
Refugee footballers
Against the background of the recent European 'refugee crisis' and its long-term consequences, this article investigates the research question 'how do footballers with a refugee background experience the process of accessing top-level football?', using ethnographic material and interviews with competitive footballers with a refugee background in Italy and Germany from two studies. The material was examined using qualitative content analysis and i…
Precarity in inclusive school sport and extracurricular provisions
This study examines the current landscape of inclusive school sport for disabled young people in the UK. Guided by Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital and field, the research draws on interviews and focus groups with eleven adult stakeholders involved in school and community sport provision. Using a qualitative, interpretivist approach and reflexive thematic analysis, the study finds that access to inclusive sport often relies on the presence…
You’ve got to make yourself uncomfortable to finally feel comfortable’
Homeless youth are largely absent from the literature, yet homelessness affects a growing number of young people aged 16–24 in the United Kingdom. To date, research has focused on identifying risk and protective factors for becoming homeless. Pathways out of homelessness are reliant on young people accessing appropriate support services. However, they exist within liminal spaces, experiencing material, psychological, relational and developmental …
Social research with women in Saudi Arabia
This article examines the opportunities and challenges of conducting qualitative research in Saudi Arabia through the lens of a Saudi women researcher educated abroad. Drawing on interviews with Saudi women from different generational and socioeconomic backgrounds in Jeddah and Riyadh, it reflects on how the researcher’s positionality – shaped by insider/outsider dynamics – influenced research access, rapport, and data interpretation. The study e…
The Impact of Dance Interventions on Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior
INTRODUCTION: Adolescents are increasingly affected by complex societal challenges that impact their psychosocial development. Prosocial behaviors such as empathy, cooperation, and peer support are critical during this stage and contribute to positive academic, emotional, and social outcomes. While sport has been widely studied in this regard, the potential of dance to foster prosocial behaviors remains underexplored, particularly in educational …
It Is a Team Game
Interpersonal violence is now widely acknowledged as a key concern throughout sport. In response, governing bodies have started to introduce safeguarding strategies. One such example is the FIFA Guardians programme, which aims to introduce stronger safeguarding measures throughout global football. The programme includes nominated learners from FIFA’s 211 Member Associations completing the FIFA Guardians Safeguarding in Football Diploma. There is …
Saudi women and sport participation
This study investigates the alignment between Saudi Arabia's Sports for All (SFA) policy and women's experiences in sports participation. The study employs Bacchi's ‘What Is the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) framework as its theoretical framework. This framework not only enables a policy critique but also provides a lens to uncover unexamined narratives influencing women's experiences in sports. Interviews were conducted with women from diver…
Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · Football (5 works)