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Dr Helen Owton

Senior Lecturer (Part-Time) in Sport and Exercise Psychology

School of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sport

Biography

Publications

Book

Doing Poetic inquiry (2017)

Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study (2016)

Studying as a Parent: A Handbook for Success (2014)

Book Chapter

Athlete Domestic Violence: contaminating acts and the violation of self-boundaries (2017)

Reinventing the body-self: intense, gendered and heightened sensorial experiences of women's boxing embodiment. (2015)

Journal Article

Intense embodiment and women’s weather work in motorcycling (2025)

An Autoethnography beyond Academia: The Embodiment of Motorcycle Maintenance (2025)

“Oh Shit!” Moments: Motorcycling, “Thrownness,” and the Startle Effect (2022)

Quest for Freedom: Intense Embodied Experiences of Motorcycling (2022)

Experiences of asthma in the UK-resident adult South Asian population: a qualitative study (2021)

Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon (2019)

Attracting and Retaining Boys in Ballet: A Qualitative Study of Female Dance Teachers (2019)

Exploring Lived Heat, “Temperature Work,” and Embodiment: Novel Auto/Ethnographic Insights from Physical Cultures (2018)

Challenging conceptions of gender: UK dance teachers’ perceptions of boys and girls in the ballet studio (2018)

A/r/tographic inquiry in sport and exercise research: A pilot study examining methodology versatility, feasibility and participatory opportunities (2017)

‘It stays with you’: multiple evocative representations of dance and future possibilities for studies in sport and physical cultures (2017)

Sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport: Bella’s story. (2017)

“I wanted to be Darcey Bussell”: Motivations and expectations of female dance teachers (2016)

The cool stuff!: Gender, dance and masculinity (2016)

A Father’s Son (2016)

Conformers, contesters, creators: vignettes of asthma identities and sporting embodiment (2016)

Tough Old Boots (2016)

Response [refers to Lucy Gibson, Jessica Kearney, Lucy Everson, Jonny Coppel, Rahul Chodhari, Childhood Asthma: A Narrative Approach (2016)

Opening up dialogues and airways: using vignettes in research to enrich asthma understandings in sport and exercise (2016)

Using a narrative approach to enhance clinical care for patients with asthma (2015)

Performative embodiment and unravelling grandparent-grandchild relationships (2015)

Intense embodiment: senses of heat in women’s running and boxing (2015)

Take a deep breath: Asthma, sporting embodiment and ‘auditory work’ (2014)

Close but not too close: friendship as method(ology) in ethnographic research encounters. (2014)

“It’s my dream to work with Olympic athletes”: neophyte sport psychologists' expectations and initial experiences regarding service delivery (2014)

Team mums: team sport experiences of athletic mothers (2014)

Book review: Playing with purpose: Adventures in performative social science (2014)

A review of the Brunel International Research Network for Athlete Welfare (BIRNAW) International Symposium (2014)

Book review: Advances in Visual Methodology (2014)

Book review: Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (2014)

Integrating multiple representations: fighting asthma (2013)

Ecotherapy: Healing with nature in mind (2013)

Narrative affinities of the lived experiences of asthma and sporting embodiment (2013)

Streams of bereavement (2012)

Granny's Memoirs: He thought it was paradise (2011)

Other

Close but not too close: friendship as method(ology) in ethnographic research encounters [Podcast] (2014)

Presentation / Conference

Discovering autoethnography (2024)

P43 Experiences of asthma in the UK-resident adult South Asian population: a qualitative study (2021)

Breathing battles and sensory embodiment in sports and physical cultures (2021)

The video space in sensitive research: Using arts based methods (2017)

Representing taboos in sport: Video representation (2016)

Visual Methods Workshop (2016)

Slow moving arts-based methods in sport (2016)

"I want to be a ballet teacher just like you": Gendered Tensions in Dance (2016)

Performative female boxing embodiment (2015)

Using social media to raise your profile (2015)

Reinventing the female body-self: transcending gender roles and bodily investment in women’s boxing embodiment (2015)

Bella’s Story: Sexual abuse in sport. A video representation of child sexual abuse in sport (2015)

“You are very special you know”: sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport (2015)

It’s scary, scary, scary …”: the lived experience of asthma. (2015)

Video representation as literature review: child sexual abuse in sport (2015)

The lived experiences of asthma in sportspeople: phenomenological perspectives (2013)

Close but not too close (2013)

Narrative art of sporting women with asthma (2012)

Interviewing 'Granny': balancing the researcher self and the family self (2011)

Problematising the mode of inquiry (2011)

Investigating the biographical and lived experiences of (sports) people with asthma: 'Contesters, Conformers, and Creators' (2011)

The 'Coolness' of Sport Psychology (2010)

Granny’s story: Trauma, dance, (smoking & drinking) and chronic illness (2010)