Andrea Bundon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Bundon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Bundon |
| SIGNATURE | BUNDON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6287-4788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bringing it back to show and tell: Combining visual and textual data to explore a psychological construct
In this paper, we use two studies to reflect on how we explored the topic of athlete well-being and the challenges presented when attempting to identify the shared meanings and theoretical underpinnings of this context-specific psychological concept. We discuss how semi-structured interviews left us feeling stifled during data analysis. This spurred us to explore visual methods, specifically photo-elicitation, in our second study to help us addre…
Retired para athletes hold limited leadership roles in Canadian national sport federations
Despite increasing support for Paralympic athletes in Canada, concerns have been raised about their limited involvement in leadership positions within the National Sport Federations (NSFs) that govern Paralympic sports in Canada. We sought to determine the representation of retired para athletes in leadership roles across Canadian NSFs, and identify strategies, facilitators and barriers to retaining para athlete expertise in these roles. An elect…
Breaking the Ice: Exploring Healthcare Seeking Behaviors in Junior Hockey
This study explores how elite junior male hockey players in Western Canada engage with health care in the context of sport. Using a constructionist approach, interviews with elite junior hockey players (ages 17–20) explored how masculinity shapes health-seeking behaviors. Despite growing awareness of athlete health, playing through injury was often normalized, reflecting ideals of toughness and stoicism. Two themes, old and new, and authority and…
What is an athlete's psychological well-being? Constructing concepts with Olympic and Paralympic athletes
Although psychological well-being (PWB) in athletes is receiving increased scrutiny, there is some confusion about what constitutes PWB in elite sport. Psychological well-being (eudaimonia) is associated with purpose, growth, and fulfilling one’s potentials (Aristotle, 4c BCE, 1985); however, there are limitations in the conceptual clarity of PWB, and in the context of elite sport global frameworks of PWB have been used to study context-specific …
Motherhood journeys on and off the ice: A narrative analysis of media stories of queer and heterosexual hockey mothers
From mobility aid to leisure pursuit: Exploring the meaning of disabled people’s participation in skateboarding and wheelchair motocross
From birth to rebirth: Comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys
Sport media is a public pedagogy that impacts sportswomen’s embodied subjectivities by circulating gender ideologies and discourses as forms of truth. In this study we used relativist narrative inquiry to build on sport media research exploring socially constructed motherhood and sport. We interrogated ‘comeback meanings’ in sport media stories of four veteran (i.e. multiple Olympic Games appearances, 32–41 years of age) Canadian athletes’ journe…
Feeling 'not enough' or 'too much: Exploring how LGBTQ+ adults experiencing disability navigate Canadian health contexts
Disability and LGBTQ+ communities experience healthcare disparities, however, most research has looked at these communities separately which erases the unique health experiences of people who belong to both. This project sought to explore intersections between gender, sexuality and disability within Canadian health contexts through three life-story interviews with seven adults (aged 25-35; 21 interviews total) who identified as LGBTQ+ and experie…
Building bridges: A Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport
Individuals who are visually impaired compete in Paralympic sports with the help of their sighted guides. The guide participates alongside the athlete, and the pair seek to achieve optimal performance together. The partnership transforms many sports -typically understood to be individual- into team sports, yet little is known about this unique sport relationship. The purpose of this study was to explore how the athlete – guide partnership challen…
New Heights” in Storytelling: Considerations for Cross-National Analyses of Broadcasters’ Social Media Coverage of the Paralympics
Prior to the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Games, rights-holding broadcasters in multiple countries promised record-amount of coverage, including on digital platforms. This paper analyzes how NBC and CBC, the broadcasters in the U.S. and Canada, respectively, utilized social media platforms during the Paralympic Games. We employed two methodological approaches. The first draws on agenda diversity literature to provide a quantitative, descriptive analys…
Tangled and Bumpy Roads to Gender Equity: Socio-Cultural Insights from Media Stories About Olympic Athletes and Motherhood
With the 2024 Olympic Games touted as reaching gender parity (i.e., same number of female and male athletes participating), media conversations are continuing about elite athlete mothers. Researchers interrogating media stories of Olympic athlete mothers have shown that their sporting journeys are not straightforward due to tensions linked to gender (in)equity. In this paper we use narrative inquiry as a theoretical lens to explore "comeback them…
Inescapable tensions: Performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption
Recently there has been a shift from exploring psychological distress to exploring psychological well-being (PWB) in the sport context (see Foskett & Longstaff, 2018; Gorczynski et al., 2017; McLou
Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games
Coinciding with athlete mothers' stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes' (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball play…
Clarifying concepts: "Well-being" in sport
The purpose of this commentary is to critique the application of well-being in the field of sport and exercise psychology and to provide recommendations for future research. Over the last decade well-being has been an increasingly popular concept under investigation. In the field of sport and exercise psychology, numerous scholars have examined and conducted research on well-being of athletes. While this research has resulted in an abundance of f…
Media Coverage of the Paralympics: Recommendations for Sport Journalism Practice and Education
Researchers have extensively documented the issues in quantity and quality of media coverage of the Paralympic Games. The lack of coverage and stereotypical representations can be attributed to a variety of structural and cultural factors, notably including journalistic norms and values. This scholarly commentary proposes a reconsideration of journalistic values in order to argue that sports journalists have a professional responsibility to cover…
Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations
This article critically analyzed the enactment of disability-inclusive sport policies by provincial sporting organizations in British Columbia. Thirty semistructured interviews with managers representing 13 organizations informed the analysis. Findings highlighted how organizational circumstances prompted managers to enact integration policies in novel ways at the regional level. For instance, nondisabled sporting organizations mediated the adopt…
From minding the gap to widening the gap: Paralympic athletes' experiences of wellbeing during the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 games
In March 2020, it was announced that the Tokyo Games would be postponed for one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While athletes commonly face challenges in sport such as injuries, the pandemic and rescheduling of the Games was an unexpected event that had serious potential to challenge the psychological wellbeing of athletes. Furthermore, it was an event that was simultaneously experienced by all athletes preparing for the Games. It provided a …
Developing the craft: Reflexive accounts of doing reflexive thematic analysis
Thematic analysis (TA) is unique in that it does not come with a predetermined theoretical framework, leaving the researcher accountable to articulate methodological decisions made. As a community of qualitative scholars, we need to clearly articulate and define the theoretical foundations, assumptions, and parameters that guide our work and analysis. We also need to be transparent about our reflections during data analysis, sharing our tensions,…
Contemporary digital qualitative research in sport, exercise and health: Introduction
Considerations for making informed choices about engaging in open qualitative research
There is currently little guidance that exists for researchers in the sport and exercise sciences on open qualitative research practices. The purpose of paper is to provide researchers with guidance regarding the considerations necessary for making informed decisions about engaging in open research practices within qualitative inquiry. The guidance was developed through a series of four working group meetings with experts in qualitative research …
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement
Although women have been a part of the Paralympic Movement since its inauguration, they remain underrepresented in almost all aspects of parasport. Noting these gender-based discrepancies, the International Paralympic Committee and several National Paralympic Committees have made commitments to address the issue of gender balance across the movement. Guided theoretically by feminist and disability sport scholarship, this article explores the vari…
Helmets aren't cool: Surfers' perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear
Studies indicate that head injuries account for a significant proportion of all surf-related injuries. Yet, despite these rates, the vast majority of surfers do not wear protective headgear. Noting both the high rate of head-related injuries and surfers' reluctance to wear protective headgear, this sociological study sought to critically explore surfers' perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear, and specifically to explore why so few…
‘You’re only falling into water!’: Exploring surfers’ understandings of concussion in Canadian surf culture
Over the last decade, a growing body of research has explored the linkages between sport and sport-related concussion (SRC). However, collectively, these studies have primarily focused on three commonalities: team sport, contact sport and mainstream sport, all the while ignoring the participants of individualised, non-contact, alternative sports such as surfing. Noting this gap within the existing literature, this qualitative, interview-driven st…
Honey or Vinegar? Athletes With Disabilities Discuss Strategies for Advocacy Within the Paralympic Movement
Drawing on interviews with 25 athletes with disabilities and para-sport participants (coaches, volunteers, and supporters), and on posts and comments made on a multi-authored blog discussing Paralympic sport, this article addresses how individuals advocate on behalf of disability sport. Our findings indicate that athletes and their allies adopt different styles of advocacy ranging in tone from more congenial (honey) to more confrontational (vineg…
‘Keeping us from breaking’: Elite athletes' access to and use of complementary and alternative medicine
This paper draws on in-depth interviews with 12 female members of Canadian national sport teams to investigate the factors that encourage and delimit their use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We investigate how CAM treatments are promoted and subsidised within the structures of the Canadian sport system, including via the Athlete Assistance programme (monthly stipend paid to national team members). Our findings suggest that an at…
Honey or Vinegar? Athletes With Disabilities Discuss Strategies for Advocacy Within the Paralympic Movement
Drawing on interviews with 25 athletes with disabilities and para-sport participants (coaches, volunteers, and supporters), and on posts and comments made on a multi-authored blog discussing Paralympic sport, this article addresses how individuals advocate on behalf of disability sport. Our findings indicate that athletes and their allies adopt different styles of advocacy ranging in tone from more congenial (honey) to more confrontational (vineg…
Unless you go online you are on your own: Blogging as a bridge in para-sport
Since its inception, the Web has been described as a liberating technology permitting individuals with disabilities to surmount barriers that otherwise prevent full societal engagement. Subsequent studies of Web-based communication have instead reported that disabling conditions are reproduced rather than challenged online. This paper uses interviews with 25 para-sport participants to provide an empirical account of how the affordances of the Web…
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement
Although women have been a part of the Paralympic Movement since its inauguration, they remain underrepresented in almost all aspects of parasport. Noting these gender-based discrepancies, the International Paralympic Committee and several National Paralympic Committees have made commitments to address the issue of gender balance across the movement. Guided theoretically by feminist and disability sport scholarship, this article explores the vari…
Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games
Coinciding with athlete mothers' stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes' (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball play…
New Heights” in Storytelling: Considerations for Cross-National Analyses of Broadcasters’ Social Media Coverage of the Paralympics
Prior to the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Games, rights-holding broadcasters in multiple countries promised record-amount of coverage, including on digital platforms. This paper analyzes how NBC and CBC, the broadcasters in the U.S. and Canada, respectively, utilized social media platforms during the Paralympic Games. We employed two methodological approaches. The first draws on agenda diversity literature to provide a quantitative, descriptive analys…
Helmets aren't cool: Surfers' perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear
Studies indicate that head injuries account for a significant proportion of all surf-related injuries. Yet, despite these rates, the vast majority of surfers do not wear protective headgear. Noting both the high rate of head-related injuries and surfers' reluctance to wear protective headgear, this sociological study sought to critically explore surfers' perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear, and specifically to explore why so few…
The calendar is just about up’: Older adults with multiple chronic conditions reflect on death and dying
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with 35 men and women aged 73–91, this article examines the ways in which older adults with multiple chronic conditions talk about and prepare for death and dying. While the focus of the original study did not include questions concerning the end-of-life, the majority of our participants made unprompted remarks regarding their own and others' mortality. The participants discussed the prevalence of death in…
Tangled and Bumpy Roads to Gender Equity: Socio-Cultural Insights from Media Stories About Olympic Athletes and Motherhood
With the 2024 Olympic Games touted as reaching gender parity (i.e., same number of female and male athletes participating), media conversations are continuing about elite athlete mothers. Researchers interrogating media stories of Olympic athlete mothers have shown that their sporting journeys are not straightforward due to tensions linked to gender (in)equity. In this paper we use narrative inquiry as a theoretical lens to explore "comeback them…
Clarifying concepts: "Well-being" in sport
The purpose of this commentary is to critique the application of well-being in the field of sport and exercise psychology and to provide recommendations for future research. Over the last decade well-being has been an increasingly popular concept under investigation. In the field of sport and exercise psychology, numerous scholars have examined and conducted research on well-being of athletes. While this research has resulted in an abundance of f…
From minding the gap to widening the gap: Paralympic athletes' experiences of wellbeing during the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 games
In March 2020, it was announced that the Tokyo Games would be postponed for one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While athletes commonly face challenges in sport such as injuries, the pandemic and rescheduling of the Games was an unexpected event that had serious potential to challenge the psychological wellbeing of athletes. Furthermore, it was an event that was simultaneously experienced by all athletes preparing for the Games. It provided a …
From ‘The Thing to Do’ to ‘Defying the Ravages of Age’: Older Women Reflect on the Use of Lipstick
Using data from in-depth interviews with 36 women, aged 71 to 93, this manuscript examines older women's use of lipstick. The most ubiquitously used cosmetic by the women we interviewed, lipstick was a taken-for-granted practice in the women's performance of gender. In the women's youth, the performance of gender through lipstick usage was related to rebellion and peer acceptance. In contrast, the use of lipstick in later life was related to the …
Frail older adults and patterns of exercise engagement: Understanding exercise behaviours as a means of maintaining continuity of self
In this article, we draw on data from in‐depth interviews with five men and five women, aged 71–87, who had between four and 17 chronic conditions, to explore patterns of engagement in exercise amongst frail older adults. Having experienced marked declines in their health statuses over the previous two‐year period, our participants scored low on tests of functional abilities and reported profound physical changes and concomitant social losses. De…
The calendar is just about up’: Older adults with multiple chronic conditions reflect on death and dying
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with 35 men and women aged 73–91, this article examines the ways in which older adults with multiple chronic conditions talk about and prepare for death and dying. While the focus of the original study did not include questions concerning the end-of-life, the majority of our participants made unprompted remarks regarding their own and others' mortality. The participants discussed the prevalence of death in…
‘Keeping us from breaking’: Elite athletes' access to and use of complementary and alternative medicine
This paper draws on in-depth interviews with 12 female members of Canadian national sport teams to investigate the factors that encourage and delimit their use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We investigate how CAM treatments are promoted and subsidised within the structures of the Canadian sport system, including via the Athlete Assistance programme (monthly stipend paid to national team members). Our findings suggest that an at…
Unless you go online you are on your own: Blogging as a bridge in para-sport
Since its inception, the Web has been described as a liberating technology permitting individuals with disabilities to surmount barriers that otherwise prevent full societal engagement. Subsequent studies of Web-based communication have instead reported that disabling conditions are reproduced rather than challenged online. This paper uses interviews with 25 para-sport participants to provide an empirical account of how the affordances of the Web…
Honey or Vinegar? Athletes With Disabilities Discuss Strategies for Advocacy Within the Paralympic Movement
Drawing on interviews with 25 athletes with disabilities and para-sport participants (coaches, volunteers, and supporters), and on posts and comments made on a multi-authored blog discussing Paralympic sport, this article addresses how individuals advocate on behalf of disability sport. Our findings indicate that athletes and their allies adopt different styles of advocacy ranging in tone from more congenial (honey) to more confrontational (vineg…
‘You’re only falling into water!’: Exploring surfers’ understandings of concussion in Canadian surf culture
Over the last decade, a growing body of research has explored the linkages between sport and sport-related concussion (SRC). However, collectively, these studies have primarily focused on three commonalities: team sport, contact sport and mainstream sport, all the while ignoring the participants of individualised, non-contact, alternative sports such as surfing. Noting this gap within the existing literature, this qualitative, interview-driven st…
Developing the craft: Reflexive accounts of doing reflexive thematic analysis
Thematic analysis (TA) is unique in that it does not come with a predetermined theoretical framework, leaving the researcher accountable to articulate methodological decisions made. As a community of qualitative scholars, we need to clearly articulate and define the theoretical foundations, assumptions, and parameters that guide our work and analysis. We also need to be transparent about our reflections during data analysis, sharing our tensions,…
Contemporary digital qualitative research in sport, exercise and health: Introduction
Considerations for making informed choices about engaging in open qualitative research
There is currently little guidance that exists for researchers in the sport and exercise sciences on open qualitative research practices. The purpose of paper is to provide researchers with guidance regarding the considerations necessary for making informed decisions about engaging in open research practices within qualitative inquiry. The guidance was developed through a series of four working group meetings with experts in qualitative research …
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement
Although women have been a part of the Paralympic Movement since its inauguration, they remain underrepresented in almost all aspects of parasport. Noting these gender-based discrepancies, the International Paralympic Committee and several National Paralympic Committees have made commitments to address the issue of gender balance across the movement. Guided theoretically by feminist and disability sport scholarship, this article explores the vari…
Helmets aren't cool: Surfers' perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear
Studies indicate that head injuries account for a significant proportion of all surf-related injuries. Yet, despite these rates, the vast majority of surfers do not wear protective headgear. Noting both the high rate of head-related injuries and surfers' reluctance to wear protective headgear, this sociological study sought to critically explore surfers' perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear, and specifically to explore why so few…
Media Coverage of the Paralympics: Recommendations for Sport Journalism Practice and Education
Researchers have extensively documented the issues in quantity and quality of media coverage of the Paralympic Games. The lack of coverage and stereotypical representations can be attributed to a variety of structural and cultural factors, notably including journalistic norms and values. This scholarly commentary proposes a reconsideration of journalistic values in order to argue that sports journalists have a professional responsibility to cover…
Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations
This article critically analyzed the enactment of disability-inclusive sport policies by provincial sporting organizations in British Columbia. Thirty semistructured interviews with managers representing 13 organizations informed the analysis. Findings highlighted how organizational circumstances prompted managers to enact integration policies in novel ways at the regional level. For instance, nondisabled sporting organizations mediated the adopt…
From minding the gap to widening the gap: Paralympic athletes' experiences of wellbeing during the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 games
In March 2020, it was announced that the Tokyo Games would be postponed for one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While athletes commonly face challenges in sport such as injuries, the pandemic and rescheduling of the Games was an unexpected event that had serious potential to challenge the psychological wellbeing of athletes. Furthermore, it was an event that was simultaneously experienced by all athletes preparing for the Games. It provided a …
Inescapable tensions: Performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption
Recently there has been a shift from exploring psychological distress to exploring psychological well-being (PWB) in the sport context (see Foskett & Longstaff, 2018; Gorczynski et al., 2017; McLou
Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games
Coinciding with athlete mothers' stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes' (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball play…
Clarifying concepts: "Well-being" in sport
The purpose of this commentary is to critique the application of well-being in the field of sport and exercise psychology and to provide recommendations for future research. Over the last decade well-being has been an increasingly popular concept under investigation. In the field of sport and exercise psychology, numerous scholars have examined and conducted research on well-being of athletes. While this research has resulted in an abundance of f…
Building bridges: A Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport
Individuals who are visually impaired compete in Paralympic sports with the help of their sighted guides. The guide participates alongside the athlete, and the pair seek to achieve optimal performance together. The partnership transforms many sports -typically understood to be individual- into team sports, yet little is known about this unique sport relationship. The purpose of this study was to explore how the athlete – guide partnership challen…
New Heights” in Storytelling: Considerations for Cross-National Analyses of Broadcasters’ Social Media Coverage of the Paralympics
Prior to the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Games, rights-holding broadcasters in multiple countries promised record-amount of coverage, including on digital platforms. This paper analyzes how NBC and CBC, the broadcasters in the U.S. and Canada, respectively, utilized social media platforms during the Paralympic Games. We employed two methodological approaches. The first draws on agenda diversity literature to provide a quantitative, descriptive analys…
Tangled and Bumpy Roads to Gender Equity: Socio-Cultural Insights from Media Stories About Olympic Athletes and Motherhood
With the 2024 Olympic Games touted as reaching gender parity (i.e., same number of female and male athletes participating), media conversations are continuing about elite athlete mothers. Researchers interrogating media stories of Olympic athlete mothers have shown that their sporting journeys are not straightforward due to tensions linked to gender (in)equity. In this paper we use narrative inquiry as a theoretical lens to explore "comeback them…
What is an athlete's psychological well-being? Constructing concepts with Olympic and Paralympic athletes
Although psychological well-being (PWB) in athletes is receiving increased scrutiny, there is some confusion about what constitutes PWB in elite sport. Psychological well-being (eudaimonia) is associated with purpose, growth, and fulfilling one’s potentials (Aristotle, 4c BCE, 1985); however, there are limitations in the conceptual clarity of PWB, and in the context of elite sport global frameworks of PWB have been used to study context-specific …
Motherhood journeys on and off the ice: A narrative analysis of media stories of queer and heterosexual hockey mothers
From mobility aid to leisure pursuit: Exploring the meaning of disabled people’s participation in skateboarding and wheelchair motocross
From birth to rebirth: Comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys
Sport media is a public pedagogy that impacts sportswomen’s embodied subjectivities by circulating gender ideologies and discourses as forms of truth. In this study we used relativist narrative inquiry to build on sport media research exploring socially constructed motherhood and sport. We interrogated ‘comeback meanings’ in sport media stories of four veteran (i.e. multiple Olympic Games appearances, 32–41 years of age) Canadian athletes’ journe…
Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Athletes (11 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Physical therapy (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Applied Psychology (7 works)