I am professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the Open University. My main interests lie in the area of material feminist theories and methodologies and in the exploration of gender identities and diversity, most recently in the field of sport, in CRESC and in the Open University Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG).I work regulatory practices in sport and, particularly on the capacities of boxing to generate affects which extend beyond the field of sport. I am currently working on a handbook in the CRESC Routledge series, Understanding Sport with Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and John Horne. Recent CRESC research as focused on materiality of sport, published in a special edition of Soccer and Society, Sounds and Things (January 2011). I am on the editorial boards of the Journal of Leisure Studies, Sport and  I work on the connections between art and sport including making a film, The Bloody Canvas for RTE, in 2010 and currently the Art of Sport for the 2012 Olympics. I am also part of a research group working on archiving at the British Library and am creating an archive on sex, gender and the games and have a forthcoming single authored book Sex, Power and Games (Palgrave 2011).  I have just completed a project on Sport Across Diasporas for the AHRC large grant, Tuning In: Diasporic Contact Zones at BBC World Service, some of which is to be published in a special edition of the journal m c in April, 2011.