Dr Helen Owton
Lecturer (Part-Time) in Sport and Fitness
School of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sport
Biography
Publications
Book
Book Chapter
Athlete Domestic Violence: contaminating acts and the violation of self-boundaries (2017)
Digital Artefact
The quiet contender of Switzerland hosts Euro 2025 (2025)
The Hidden Costs of Progress in Women’s Football (2025)
London Marathon runners warned of the importance of a post-race plan (2025)
London marathon: why you need a plan to prevent the post-race blues (2025)
Tackling abuse: the triumphs of women rugby players (2025)
Women’s sport: insights from a researcher’s journey (2025)
Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks (2025)
Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success! (2025)
Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way? (2025)
Trailblazers in 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting new era (2025)
Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport (2025)
The Thrill of Motorcycling: Quest for Flow (2021)
Interview with Austrian Radio [radio FM4] (2019)
Austria Radio interview on Women's EURO 2017 (2017)
Women’s Euro 2017 football preview - all you need to know (2017)
Pro athletes are helping victims report sexual abuse in youth soccer (2016)
We must challenge the culture of silence about child sexual abuse in football (2016)
How universities can help to support student-parents (2016)
Why are Olympic athletes copping so much abuse? It all comes down to gender (2016)
Adam Johnson guilty: Why is there so much depravity in football? (2016)
Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be ‘stars' (2016)
Paralympians makes waves on the world stage but disability reform is badly needed (2015)
Polluted host cities are putting our champion athletes at risk (2015)
The astonishing comebacks at the Athletics World Championships (2015)
The young dancer of the year misses the pointe about gender (2015)
The psychology behind women footballers' remarkable resilience (2015)
Sport can help with your asthma if you learn how to listen to your body (2015)
Is the not-so beautiful men’s game putting people off women’s football? (2015)
Gains for women at European Games eclipsed by Azerbaijan’s appalling human rights record (2015)
Women’s World Cup preview: what you need to know (2015)
Women’s World Cup primes for kick-off amid corruption allegations at FIFA (2015)
Take a deep breath: Asthma and auditory work [Video abstract] (2015)
Journal Article
Intense embodiment and women’s weather work in motorcycling (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)
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)
Conformers, contesters, creators: vignettes of asthma identities and sporting embodiment (2016)
A student-parent international experience. (2015)
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)
Team mums: team sport experiences of athletic mothers (2014)
Book review: Playing with purpose: Adventures in performative social science (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)
Beyond the book: new forms of academic communication (2013)
Transformational (the sporting self and the onset of asthma) (2013)
A Review of Innovative QMiP performances at the BPS Annual Conference (2012)
Other
Presentation / Conference
Discovering autoethnography (2024)
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)
The coolness of dance and masculinity (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)
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)
The 'Coolness' of Sport Psychology (2010)
Granny’s story: Trauma, dance, (smoking & drinking) and chronic illness (2010)
