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Staff Profiles
Dr Lindsey Kilgour
Senior Lecturer in Exercise Psychology
Email: lkilgour@glos.ac.uk
Academic Qualifications:
Doctor of Philosophy — University of the West of England (part time),
thesis title: Gender, outdoor physical activity and fear:
The social and cultural positioning of risk in visual discourses (2001-2006)
Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Teaching and Learning (part time)
— University of Wolverhampton (1998-2000)
MSc Sport and Exercise Sciences - Leeds Metropolitan University (1994-1995)
BA (Hons) Human Movement Studies — Leeds Metropolitan University (1991-1994)
Academic Responsibilities and Leadership:
Teaching, Module tutor for:
- EH204 (Psychology of Exercise and Health)
- EH205 (The Role of Exercise in Healthcare)
- EH301 (Contemporary Issues in Exercise and Health)
- EH306 (Special Populations in Exercise and Health)
- PAP404 (Psychology of Physical Activity)
- SV111 (Context of Exercise and Health: An Historical Perspective)
FRDC Member
Teaching Areas:
Physical activity, health and well-being, mostly from a psycho-social perspective; gender issues in sport, exercise and physical education; physical activity and health policy; research methods (qualitative methods)
Research Interests:
Gender, spatiality, fear and physicao activity; gender and health; socio-cultural issues pertaining to gender and PE participation; psycho-social issues pertaining to overweight, obesity, dieting and body image; active transport and healthy travel in women and children; healthy workplace initiatives.
Research:
MPhil/PhD supervision (current) - Nichola Downs (University of Gloucestershire)
Supervision of various MSc Physical Activity and Health
BSc Exercise and Health Science dissertations.
Practice:
Member of a University-wide group working on the development of Healthy Workplace Initiatives at the University.
Sporting Honours:
Great Britain and England International in Swimming (1987-1990) Youth and Intermediate,
100m and 200m Butterfly National Champion (1987, 1989)
Membership of professional bodies:
- British Psychological Society,
- BASES,
- Higher Education Academy,
- Leisure Studies Association,
- Women’s Transport Network,
- Women’s Studies Association.
Research Degree Completions:
Owens, Chris (2007) MSc (Research), thesis titled; A qualitative investigation into the place and promotion of wellbeing for mental health Service Users in Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust. University of Gloucestershire.
Publications
- Women, outdoor physical activity and fear: theoretical explorations, presented at Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference, July 2003, Roehampton, University of Surrey.
- (with Cara Aitchison) Geographies of gender and physically active leisure: overcoming the gendered, spatialised and embodied nature of fear in the promotion of public health, presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference March 2004, Philadelphia, USA.
- Discourses of safe and unsafe environments: Young women’s experiences of fear of victimisation and outdoor physical activity, presented at Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference, July 2004, Leeds Metropolitan University.
- Gender and outdoor physical activity relations: considerations for active travel initiatives and environmental sustainability, presented at European College of Sports Sciences (ECSS) Annual Conference, 6th-8th July 2006, Lausanne.
- Matthews, N, Kilgour, L and Callaghan, C (2008) Lifestyle physical activity choices of children and young people: An exploration of the Gloucestershire Pupil On-line survey, European College of Sports Sciences (ECSS) Annual Conference, 9th-12th July 2008, Estoril.
Papers:
Kilgour, L. (2007) Gender, spatiality and fear: Young women’s experiences of outdoor physical activity, Annals of Leisure Research,10 (2), 215-234.
Jordan, F., Kilgour, L., and Morgan, N.(eds) (2007) Academic Renewal: Innovation in Leisure and Tourism Theories and Methods. LSA Publication No.97:Eastbourne, UK.
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