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Emma Pullen

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ID3596672
NAMEEmma Pullen
GIVEN NAMESEmma
FAMILY NAMEPullen
SIGNATUREPULLEN E
AFFILIATIONSLoughborough University
ORCID0000-0001-8862-6275
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS53
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5
  • The twin transition puzzle: Can city governments align digital and sustainability paradigms

    Open Access•Veiko Lember, Peeter Vihma et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Innovation and…•2026

    Cities are increasingly expected to harness the potential of the “twin transition” — the coupling of sustainability and digital transitions — to shape the speed and direction of socio-technical change. Yet, little is known about how the twin transition imperative is approached and acted upon by city governments and what internal capabilities and support structures they develop to align the twin transition. Drawing on 82 interviews and extensive d…

  • Government Capabilities for the Twin Transition: A Multilevel Framework Based on a Narrative Literature Review

    Open Access•Albert Meijer, Albert J Meijer et al.•ARTICLE•Information Polity•2026

    Two different external socio-technical developments – the (ecological) sustainability transition and the digital transition – require governments to build the capability to respond and lead the way. While there is extensive literature on the sustainable transition and on the digital transition, so far limited attention has been paid to the interconnectedness of these transitions. Furthermore, a thorough understanding of the government capabilitie…

  • Professional work in turbulent times: A conceptualization of public professionals’ navigation tactics in shifting service settings

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Marlot Kuiper et al.•ARTICLE•Public Policy and Administration•2026

    Public professionals such as medical doctors, teachers, and police officers are key actors in delivering public health, education, and security. However, the service settings in which professionals operate and the cases they face are affected by societal turbulence. The sudden spread of pandemics, geopolitical upheaval, or new digital technologies affect the societal context, organizational resources, and clients’ demands. In this paper, we contr…

  • Governing Ethics for the Digital Transformation: Developing, Testing, and Validating a Framework

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Erna Ruijer et al.•ARTICLE•Government Information Quarterly•2026•References: 16

    The digital transformation in the public sector and administrative organizations promises to enhance efficiency and personalized service delivery. At the same time, the usage of digital technologies such as algorithms, chatbots, and camera surveillance can jeopardize citizens' fundamental rights and public values, like autonomy and privacy. To mitigate risks of digital technologies, embedding digital ethics as an organizational practice is necess…

  • The health-physical activity entanglement in a neoliberal landscape: Alternative possibilities for inquiry

    Open Access•F Santos, D Malcolm et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2025

    Health-physical activity (PA) seem to be inseparable undisputed partners in the incessant quest for increased well-being, prosocial behaviors, motor competence and positive mental health. However, it should be noted this is not an innocent partnership that simply aims to create a healthier and therefore more just world. Neoliberal and capitalistic health-PA seeks not only to achieve economic and political gains but also to instill standards, prog…

  • Valuing Disability

    Emma Pullen, Michael Silk•CHAPTER•Sport, Advertising and Global…•2024

    The Paralympic spectacle is now one of the most visible and celebrated sites of disability representation in popular culture and has been an important vehicle for stimulating wider forms of disability representation across the media industries. This chapter discusses the ways contemporary Paralympic media cultures have developed to shape new disability mediated landscapes, inclusionary politics, and emergent openings for disability re-presentatio…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Production Politics and the Reimagined Postcolonial

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Mufunanji Magalasi et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2024•References: 34

    The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was broadcast for the first time on free to air (FTA) television across 49 territories in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article charts the story of this historic development and marks the first study to explore Paralympic broadcast production beyond the cultural specificities of Global North/Western-centric media practices, infrastructure availability and disability discourses. Drawing on an integrated qualitative datas…

  • A feminist materialist inspired analysis of the meaning and management of pregnancy and reproductive health in Olympic and Paralympic female athletes

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, B Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2023

    The number of elite female athletes returning to professional sport following childbirth has gradually increased in recent years. There now exists a burgeoning of scholarship across sport and health-related disciplines that have paid attention to the experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in elite female athlete populations. This paper contributes to this expanding topic of inquiry by taking inspiration from feminist materialist approaches to ex…

  • Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Laura Mora et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 8

    Paralympic athletes are increasingly using social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to self-represent and engage audiences in disability counter narratives that resist dominant disability stereotypes. This is particularly the case at the intersection of gender and sexuality where social media is being harnessed to visibly reclaim gendered and sexualised disabled identities in new and diverse ways. In this article, we advance scholarshi…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sport, Media and Communication for Social Change

    Open Access•Jessica Noske-Turner, Emma Pullen et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    The purpose of this commentary is to discuss how Paralympic coverage in sub-Saharan Africa can be effectively mobilised to stimulate discursive and structural change around disability. Paralympic coverage has demonstrated its pedagogical power to engage public(s) and challenge stigma toward disability. Yet, the Global picture of Paralympic broadcasting is deeply uneven, with audiences in parts of the Global South afforded limited opportunities to…

  • Materiality, mediation and affective encounters: Rising Phoenix' and the cultural representation of disability

    Open Access•Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2022•References: 71

    Paralympic and Para sport representation has provided an important cultural site from which to explore the role of popular disability media in shaping everyday disability knowledge(s) through relations of power, ideology and meaning. Yet limited attention has been afforded to the affective dimensions of Para sport media that may help extend our understanding of its performative power on audiences. In critique of the recent Netflix Paralympic docu…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting and Social Change: An Integrated Mixed Method Approach to Understanding the Paralympic Audience in the UK

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 4

    Despite the successful transition of the Paralympics from relative obscurity to global mega-event, we still know little about how it is consumed by audiences. Using a methodological approach that draws on survey ( n = 2008) and focus group ( n = 216) data from Paralympic audiences across the UK, this study provides the first mixed method and integrated empirical analysis of Paralympic audiences to date. We attempt to identify who the UK Paralympi…

  • Gender, technology and the ablenational Paralympic body politic

    Emma Pullen, Michael Silk•ARTICLE•Cultural Studies•2020

    The Paralympic games is a pedagogic, pervasive, political, powerful, and ‘popular’ cultural site where the heightened visibility of disability bring into being specific forms of disability as they articulate within cultures, institutions and practices. Regarded as a ‘positive charge’ by Stuart Hall, the Paralympics intends to challenge the devalued disabled body politic of typical disability representation. This has been stimulated by the entry o…

  • Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

    Open Access•Daniel Jackson, Filippo Trevisan et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identify…

  • Disability, Masculinity, Militarism: The Paralympics and the Cultural (Re-)production of the Para-athlete-soldier

    Emma Pullen, Michael Silk•ARTICLE•Journal of War and Culture Studies•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    In this paper, we unpack the body politic of the para-athlete-soldier and its positioning within masculinizing, militarized, national, popular cultural discourses. Drawing on an integrated methodological approach that explored the media production, representation and consumption of the 2016 Paralympics, we focus on the inscription of a disabled masculinity onto the bodies of ex-military personnel that inculcate normative notions of heterosexualit…

  • Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives

    Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    In the United Kingdom, significant changes have occurred in the Paralympic media production environment and style of Paralympic broadcasting. Given the generative nature of media texts on cultural representation, the authors explore the circulation of disability narratives in contemporary Paralympic media coverage. Drawing on an integrated data set that brings together textual analysis and audience perceptions, the authors highlight the presence …

  • Watching disability: UK audience perceptions of the Paralympics, equality and social change

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 25

    Despite the social change ambitions of Paralympic governing bodies and National broadcasters, there is still a shortage of evidence of where public social attitudes stand with respect to disabled bodies, and how these respond to the changing nature of Paralympic broadcasting. Based on a large-scale qualitative audience study across England and Wales, we aim to address this empirical gap. Our findings demonstrate how audiences internalise socially…

  • The experiences of cancer patients within the material hospital environment: Three ways that materiality is affective

    Open Access•Gareth Wiltshire, Emma Pullen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 45

  • Everything I enjoy doing I just couldn't do: Biographical disruption for sport-related injury

    Open Access•D Malcolm, Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 36

    This article draws on interview data with a population of non-elite sport/exercise participants (n = 20) to illustrate the interrelationship between biographical disruption and sport-related injury. It argues that contrary to the significance implied by their lack of prominence on current public health agendas, sport-related injuries can have a devastating personal impact, comparable to the more extreme variants of biographical disruption depicte…

  • (Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the “Able-Disabled”

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2019•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    The relationship between media, sport, nations, and nationalism is well established; yet, there is an absence of these discussions at the intersection of communication, Paralympics, and disability studies. This omission is particularly significant considering the rapid commodification of the Paralympic spectacle, exacerbated by the entry of Channel 4 (C4) as the UK Paralympic rights holders, that has seen the games become an important site of dis…

  • Re-presenting the Paralympics: (Contested) Philosophies, Production Practices and the Hypervisibility of Disability

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the United Kingdom’s Paralympic broadcas…

  • Assessing the side effects of the ‘exercise pill’: The paradox of physical activity health promotion

    Emma Pullen, D Malcolm•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2018

    The Exercise is Medicine movement, centralised in Physical Activity Health Promotion (PAHP) policy, is illustrative of neoliberal health governance that acts to sustain the population’s regular participation in physical activity (PA) through the logics of self-care, productivity, personal responsibility and choice. One way this is propagated is through the promotion of exercise as the ‘best buy’ (AMRC 2015 AMRC, 2015. Exercise: the miracle cure a…

  • Monadic, material and mirroring: Female bodies in track athletics culture

    Open Access•Carly Stewart, Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    This study explored how female track athletes experience and use their bodies within the contexts (social places) that form part of their everyday routines. Using ethnographic methods (focus groups, observations, self-directed photographic elicitation, and reflexive diary entries) the research focused on a training group of five semi-elite female track athletes based in the UK in which one researcher was a full participant. Arthur Frank's theory …

  • Demographic characteristics and health behaviours of consenters to medical examination. Results from the Welsh Heart Health Survey

    Emma Pullen, Don Nutbeam et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•1992•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to compare the demographic characteristics and health related behaviours of people who consented to a medical examination as part of a population survey with those who did not. STUDY DESIGN--The study formed part of the (1985) Welsh Heart Health Survey, which comprised a three stage design involving household interview, self completion questionnaire, and medical examination. Subjects for medical examination were selec…

  • (Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the “Able-Disabled”

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2019•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    The relationship between media, sport, nations, and nationalism is well established; yet, there is an absence of these discussions at the intersection of communication, Paralympics, and disability studies. This omission is particularly significant considering the rapid commodification of the Paralympic spectacle, exacerbated by the entry of Channel 4 (C4) as the UK Paralympic rights holders, that has seen the games become an important site of dis…

  • Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Laura Mora et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 8

    Paralympic athletes are increasingly using social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to self-represent and engage audiences in disability counter narratives that resist dominant disability stereotypes. This is particularly the case at the intersection of gender and sexuality where social media is being harnessed to visibly reclaim gendered and sexualised disabled identities in new and diverse ways. In this article, we advance scholarshi…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting and Social Change: An Integrated Mixed Method Approach to Understanding the Paralympic Audience in the UK

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 4

    Despite the successful transition of the Paralympics from relative obscurity to global mega-event, we still know little about how it is consumed by audiences. Using a methodological approach that draws on survey ( n = 2008) and focus group ( n = 216) data from Paralympic audiences across the UK, this study provides the first mixed method and integrated empirical analysis of Paralympic audiences to date. We attempt to identify who the UK Paralympi…

  • Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives

    Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    In the United Kingdom, significant changes have occurred in the Paralympic media production environment and style of Paralympic broadcasting. Given the generative nature of media texts on cultural representation, the authors explore the circulation of disability narratives in contemporary Paralympic media coverage. Drawing on an integrated data set that brings together textual analysis and audience perceptions, the authors highlight the presence …

  • Watching disability: UK audience perceptions of the Paralympics, equality and social change

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 25

    Despite the social change ambitions of Paralympic governing bodies and National broadcasters, there is still a shortage of evidence of where public social attitudes stand with respect to disabled bodies, and how these respond to the changing nature of Paralympic broadcasting. Based on a large-scale qualitative audience study across England and Wales, we aim to address this empirical gap. Our findings demonstrate how audiences internalise socially…

  • Re-presenting the Paralympics: (Contested) Philosophies, Production Practices and the Hypervisibility of Disability

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the United Kingdom’s Paralympic broadcas…

  • Disability, Masculinity, Militarism: The Paralympics and the Cultural (Re-)production of the Para-athlete-soldier

    Emma Pullen, Michael Silk•ARTICLE•Journal of War and Culture Studies•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    In this paper, we unpack the body politic of the para-athlete-soldier and its positioning within masculinizing, militarized, national, popular cultural discourses. Drawing on an integrated methodological approach that explored the media production, representation and consumption of the 2016 Paralympics, we focus on the inscription of a disabled masculinity onto the bodies of ex-military personnel that inculcate normative notions of heterosexualit…

  • Everything I enjoy doing I just couldn't do: Biographical disruption for sport-related injury

    Open Access•D Malcolm, Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 36

    This article draws on interview data with a population of non-elite sport/exercise participants (n = 20) to illustrate the interrelationship between biographical disruption and sport-related injury. It argues that contrary to the significance implied by their lack of prominence on current public health agendas, sport-related injuries can have a devastating personal impact, comparable to the more extreme variants of biographical disruption depicte…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sport, Media and Communication for Social Change

    Open Access•Jessica Noske-Turner, Emma Pullen et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    The purpose of this commentary is to discuss how Paralympic coverage in sub-Saharan Africa can be effectively mobilised to stimulate discursive and structural change around disability. Paralympic coverage has demonstrated its pedagogical power to engage public(s) and challenge stigma toward disability. Yet, the Global picture of Paralympic broadcasting is deeply uneven, with audiences in parts of the Global South afforded limited opportunities to…

  • The experiences of cancer patients within the material hospital environment: Three ways that materiality is affective

    Open Access•Gareth Wiltshire, Emma Pullen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 45

  • Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

    Open Access•Daniel Jackson, Filippo Trevisan et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identify…

  • Monadic, material and mirroring: Female bodies in track athletics culture

    Open Access•Carly Stewart, Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    This study explored how female track athletes experience and use their bodies within the contexts (social places) that form part of their everyday routines. Using ethnographic methods (focus groups, observations, self-directed photographic elicitation, and reflexive diary entries) the research focused on a training group of five semi-elite female track athletes based in the UK in which one researcher was a full participant. Arthur Frank's theory …

  • Demographic characteristics and health behaviours of consenters to medical examination. Results from the Welsh Heart Health Survey

    Emma Pullen, Don Nutbeam et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•1992•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to compare the demographic characteristics and health related behaviours of people who consented to a medical examination as part of a population survey with those who did not. STUDY DESIGN--The study formed part of the (1985) Welsh Heart Health Survey, which comprised a three stage design involving household interview, self completion questionnaire, and medical examination. Subjects for medical examination were selec…

  • Demographic characteristics and health behaviours of consenters to medical examination. Results from the Welsh Heart Health Survey

    Emma Pullen, Don Nutbeam et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•1992•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to compare the demographic characteristics and health related behaviours of people who consented to a medical examination as part of a population survey with those who did not. STUDY DESIGN--The study formed part of the (1985) Welsh Heart Health Survey, which comprised a three stage design involving household interview, self completion questionnaire, and medical examination. Subjects for medical examination were selec…

  • Monadic, material and mirroring: Female bodies in track athletics culture

    Open Access•Carly Stewart, Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    This study explored how female track athletes experience and use their bodies within the contexts (social places) that form part of their everyday routines. Using ethnographic methods (focus groups, observations, self-directed photographic elicitation, and reflexive diary entries) the research focused on a training group of five semi-elite female track athletes based in the UK in which one researcher was a full participant. Arthur Frank's theory …

  • Assessing the side effects of the ‘exercise pill’: The paradox of physical activity health promotion

    Emma Pullen, D Malcolm•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2018

    The Exercise is Medicine movement, centralised in Physical Activity Health Promotion (PAHP) policy, is illustrative of neoliberal health governance that acts to sustain the population’s regular participation in physical activity (PA) through the logics of self-care, productivity, personal responsibility and choice. One way this is propagated is through the promotion of exercise as the ‘best buy’ (AMRC 2015 AMRC, 2015. Exercise: the miracle cure a…

  • (Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the “Able-Disabled”

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2019•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    The relationship between media, sport, nations, and nationalism is well established; yet, there is an absence of these discussions at the intersection of communication, Paralympics, and disability studies. This omission is particularly significant considering the rapid commodification of the Paralympic spectacle, exacerbated by the entry of Channel 4 (C4) as the UK Paralympic rights holders, that has seen the games become an important site of dis…

  • Re-presenting the Paralympics: (Contested) Philosophies, Production Practices and the Hypervisibility of Disability

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the United Kingdom’s Paralympic broadcas…

  • Gender, technology and the ablenational Paralympic body politic

    Emma Pullen, Michael Silk•ARTICLE•Cultural Studies•2020

    The Paralympic games is a pedagogic, pervasive, political, powerful, and ‘popular’ cultural site where the heightened visibility of disability bring into being specific forms of disability as they articulate within cultures, institutions and practices. Regarded as a ‘positive charge’ by Stuart Hall, the Paralympics intends to challenge the devalued disabled body politic of typical disability representation. This has been stimulated by the entry o…

  • Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

    Open Access•Daniel Jackson, Filippo Trevisan et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identify…

  • Disability, Masculinity, Militarism: The Paralympics and the Cultural (Re-)production of the Para-athlete-soldier

    Emma Pullen, Michael Silk•ARTICLE•Journal of War and Culture Studies•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    In this paper, we unpack the body politic of the para-athlete-soldier and its positioning within masculinizing, militarized, national, popular cultural discourses. Drawing on an integrated methodological approach that explored the media production, representation and consumption of the 2016 Paralympics, we focus on the inscription of a disabled masculinity onto the bodies of ex-military personnel that inculcate normative notions of heterosexualit…

  • Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives

    Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    In the United Kingdom, significant changes have occurred in the Paralympic media production environment and style of Paralympic broadcasting. Given the generative nature of media texts on cultural representation, the authors explore the circulation of disability narratives in contemporary Paralympic media coverage. Drawing on an integrated data set that brings together textual analysis and audience perceptions, the authors highlight the presence …

  • Watching disability: UK audience perceptions of the Paralympics, equality and social change

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 25

    Despite the social change ambitions of Paralympic governing bodies and National broadcasters, there is still a shortage of evidence of where public social attitudes stand with respect to disabled bodies, and how these respond to the changing nature of Paralympic broadcasting. Based on a large-scale qualitative audience study across England and Wales, we aim to address this empirical gap. Our findings demonstrate how audiences internalise socially…

  • The experiences of cancer patients within the material hospital environment: Three ways that materiality is affective

    Open Access•Gareth Wiltshire, Emma Pullen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 45

  • Everything I enjoy doing I just couldn't do: Biographical disruption for sport-related injury

    Open Access•D Malcolm, Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 36

    This article draws on interview data with a population of non-elite sport/exercise participants (n = 20) to illustrate the interrelationship between biographical disruption and sport-related injury. It argues that contrary to the significance implied by their lack of prominence on current public health agendas, sport-related injuries can have a devastating personal impact, comparable to the more extreme variants of biographical disruption depicte…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting and Social Change: An Integrated Mixed Method Approach to Understanding the Paralympic Audience in the UK

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 4

    Despite the successful transition of the Paralympics from relative obscurity to global mega-event, we still know little about how it is consumed by audiences. Using a methodological approach that draws on survey ( n = 2008) and focus group ( n = 216) data from Paralympic audiences across the UK, this study provides the first mixed method and integrated empirical analysis of Paralympic audiences to date. We attempt to identify who the UK Paralympi…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sport, Media and Communication for Social Change

    Open Access•Jessica Noske-Turner, Emma Pullen et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    The purpose of this commentary is to discuss how Paralympic coverage in sub-Saharan Africa can be effectively mobilised to stimulate discursive and structural change around disability. Paralympic coverage has demonstrated its pedagogical power to engage public(s) and challenge stigma toward disability. Yet, the Global picture of Paralympic broadcasting is deeply uneven, with audiences in parts of the Global South afforded limited opportunities to…

  • Materiality, mediation and affective encounters: Rising Phoenix' and the cultural representation of disability

    Open Access•Emma Pullen•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2022•References: 71

    Paralympic and Para sport representation has provided an important cultural site from which to explore the role of popular disability media in shaping everyday disability knowledge(s) through relations of power, ideology and meaning. Yet limited attention has been afforded to the affective dimensions of Para sport media that may help extend our understanding of its performative power on audiences. In critique of the recent Netflix Paralympic docu…

  • A feminist materialist inspired analysis of the meaning and management of pregnancy and reproductive health in Olympic and Paralympic female athletes

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, B Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2023

    The number of elite female athletes returning to professional sport following childbirth has gradually increased in recent years. There now exists a burgeoning of scholarship across sport and health-related disciplines that have paid attention to the experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in elite female athlete populations. This paper contributes to this expanding topic of inquiry by taking inspiration from feminist materialist approaches to ex…

  • Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Laura Mora et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 8

    Paralympic athletes are increasingly using social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to self-represent and engage audiences in disability counter narratives that resist dominant disability stereotypes. This is particularly the case at the intersection of gender and sexuality where social media is being harnessed to visibly reclaim gendered and sexualised disabled identities in new and diverse ways. In this article, we advance scholarshi…

  • Valuing Disability

    Emma Pullen, Michael Silk•CHAPTER•Sport, Advertising and Global…•2024

    The Paralympic spectacle is now one of the most visible and celebrated sites of disability representation in popular culture and has been an important vehicle for stimulating wider forms of disability representation across the media industries. This chapter discusses the ways contemporary Paralympic media cultures have developed to shape new disability mediated landscapes, inclusionary politics, and emergent openings for disability re-presentatio…

  • Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Production Politics and the Reimagined Postcolonial

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Mufunanji Magalasi et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2024•References: 34

    The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was broadcast for the first time on free to air (FTA) television across 49 territories in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article charts the story of this historic development and marks the first study to explore Paralympic broadcast production beyond the cultural specificities of Global North/Western-centric media practices, infrastructure availability and disability discourses. Drawing on an integrated qualitative datas…

  • The health-physical activity entanglement in a neoliberal landscape: Alternative possibilities for inquiry

    Open Access•F Santos, D Malcolm et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2025

    Health-physical activity (PA) seem to be inseparable undisputed partners in the incessant quest for increased well-being, prosocial behaviors, motor competence and positive mental health. However, it should be noted this is not an innocent partnership that simply aims to create a healthier and therefore more just world. Neoliberal and capitalistic health-PA seeks not only to achieve economic and political gains but also to instill standards, prog…

  • The twin transition puzzle: Can city governments align digital and sustainability paradigms

    Open Access•Veiko Lember, Peeter Vihma et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Innovation and…•2026

    Cities are increasingly expected to harness the potential of the “twin transition” — the coupling of sustainability and digital transitions — to shape the speed and direction of socio-technical change. Yet, little is known about how the twin transition imperative is approached and acted upon by city governments and what internal capabilities and support structures they develop to align the twin transition. Drawing on 82 interviews and extensive d…

  • Government Capabilities for the Twin Transition: A Multilevel Framework Based on a Narrative Literature Review

    Open Access•Albert Meijer, Albert J Meijer et al.•ARTICLE•Information Polity•2026

    Two different external socio-technical developments – the (ecological) sustainability transition and the digital transition – require governments to build the capability to respond and lead the way. While there is extensive literature on the sustainable transition and on the digital transition, so far limited attention has been paid to the interconnectedness of these transitions. Furthermore, a thorough understanding of the government capabilitie…

  • Professional work in turbulent times: A conceptualization of public professionals’ navigation tactics in shifting service settings

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Marlot Kuiper et al.•ARTICLE•Public Policy and Administration•2026

    Public professionals such as medical doctors, teachers, and police officers are key actors in delivering public health, education, and security. However, the service settings in which professionals operate and the cases they face are affected by societal turbulence. The sudden spread of pandemics, geopolitical upheaval, or new digital technologies affect the societal context, organizational resources, and clients’ demands. In this paper, we contr…

  • Governing Ethics for the Digital Transformation: Developing, Testing, and Validating a Framework

    Open Access•Emma Pullen, Erna Ruijer et al.•ARTICLE•Government Information Quarterly•2026•References: 16

    The digital transformation in the public sector and administrative organizations promises to enhance efficiency and personalized service delivery. At the same time, the usage of digital technologies such as algorithms, chatbots, and camera surveillance can jeopardize citizens' fundamental rights and public values, like autonomy and privacy. To mitigate risks of digital technologies, embedding digital ethics as an organizational practice is necess…

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