Items where Author is "Sparkes, AC"

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Middleton, TRF and Wadey, R and Cavallerio, F and Wagstaff, CRD and Sparkes, AC (2024) Telling tales in sport, exercise, and performance psychology: The how, what, and why of creative analytical practices. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology. pp. 1-15. ISSN 2157-3905 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000363

Åkesdotter, C and Kenttä, G and Sparkes, AC (2024) All the little pointers: a poetic representation of a female elite athlete’s experience of living with and seeking treatment for an eating disorder. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1612-197X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197x.2024.2370448

Sparkes, AC (2024) Autoethnography as an ethically contested terrain: some thinking points for consideration. Qualitative Research in Psychology. pp. 1-33. ISSN 1478-0887 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2293073

Åkesdotter, C and Kenttä, G and Sparkes, AC (2023) Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1041-3200 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2023.2185697

Sparkes, AC (2022) ‘The second I got the phone call, everything changed.’ Exploring the temporal experiences of the spouses and partners of spinal cord injured sportsmen. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. pp. 1-19. ISSN 2159-676X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2022.2127863

Martos-Garcia, D and Devís-Devís, J and Sparkes, AC (2022) Volunteering for Research in Prison: Issues of Access, Rapport and Ethics and Emotions During Ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21. ISSN 1609-4069 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221086096

Pereira-García, S and Devís-Devís, J and López-Cañada, E and Fuentes-Miguel, J and Sparkes, AC and Pérez-Samaniego, V (2021) Exploring Trans People's Narratives of Transition: Negotiation of Gendered Bodies in Physical Activity and Sport. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (18). ISSN 1660-4601 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189854

Sparkes, AC (2021) Making a Spectacle of Oneself in the Academy Using the H-Index: From Becoming an Artificial Person to Laughing at Absurdities. Qualitative Inquiry. ISSN 1077-8004 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211003519

Maher, AJ and Haegele, JA and Sparkes, AC (2021) ‘It’s better than going into it blind’: reflections by people with visual impairments regarding the use of simulation for pedagogical purposes. Sport, Education and Society. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1357-3322 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.1897562

Sparkes, AC and Brighton, J and Inckle, K (2020) ‘I am proud of my back’: an ethnographic study of the motivations and meanings of body modification as identity work among athletes with spinal cord injury. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. ISSN 2159-676X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2020.1756393

Maher, AJ and Williams, D and Sparkes, AC (2020) Teaching non-normative bodies : simulating visual impairments as embodied pedagogy in action. Sport, Education and Society, 25 (5). pp. 530-542. ISSN 1357-3322 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1617127

Sparkes, AC and Stewart, C (2019) Stories as actors causing trouble in lives: A dialogical narrative analysis of a competitive cyclist and the fall from grace of Lance Armstrong. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11 (4). pp. 460-477. ISSN 2159-676X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2019.1578253

Sparkes, AC and Martos, D and Maher, A (2019) Me, osteogenesis imperfecta and my classmates in physical education lessons: A case study of embodied pedagogy in action. Sport, Education and Society, 24 (4). pp. 338-348. ISSN 1357-3322 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2017.1392939

Sparkes, AC and Brighton, J and Inckle, K (2018) Imperfect perfection and wheelchair bodybuilding: Challenging ableism or reproducing normalcy? Sociology, 52 (6). pp. 1307-1323. ISSN 1469-8684 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517737476

Rapport, F and Clement, C and Wells, B and Hutchings, H and Doel, M and Mallalieu, S and Shubin, S and Brown, DHK and Wright, S and Seah, R and Sparkes, AC (2018) How are university gyms used by staff and students? A mixed-method study exploring gym use, motivation and communication in three UK gyms. Societies, 8 (15). ISSN 2075-4698 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8010015

Sparkes, AC and Brighton, J and Inckle, K (2017) ‘It's a part of me’: An ethnographic exploration of becoming a disabled sporting cyborg following spinal cord injury. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10 (2). pp. 151-166. ISSN 2159-676X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2017.1389768

Sparkes, AC and Day, J (2016) Aging bodies and desistance from crime: Insights from the life stories of offenders. Journal of aging studies, 36. 47 - 58. ISSN 0890-4065 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2015.12.005

Sparkes, AC and Stewart, C (2015) Taking sporting autobiographies seriously as an analytical and pedagogical resource in sport, exercise and health. Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 8 (2). 113 - 130. ISSN 2159-676X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2015.1121915

Owton, H and Sparkes, AC (2015) Sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport: Learning from Bella's story. Sport, Education and Society. 1 - 12. ISSN 1357-3322 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2015.1063484

Sparkes, AC (2015) Developing mixed methods research in sport and exercise psychology: Critical reflections on five points of controversy. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 16 (P3). 49 - 59. ISSN 1469-0292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.08.014

Brown, DHK and Jennings, G and Sparkes, AC (2014) Taijiquan the 'Taiji World' way: Towards a cosmopolitan vision of ecology. Societies, 4. 380 - 398 (18). ISSN 2075-4698 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc4030380

Aldous, DCR and Sparkes, AC and Brown, DHK (2014) Trajectories towards failure: considerations regarding post-16 transitions within the UK Sport-Education sector. Sport, Education and Society, 21 (2). 166 - 182. ISSN 1357-3322 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2014.890929

Aldous, DCR and Sparkes, AC and Brown, DHK (2014) Transitional experiences of post-16 sports education: Jack's story. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35 (2). 185 - 203. ISSN 0142-5692 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2012.741805

Carless, D and Sparkes, AC and Douglas, K and Cooke, CB (2013) Disability, inclusive adventurous training and adapted sport: Two soldiers' stories of involvement. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15 (1). 124 - 131. ISSN 1469-0292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/.psychsport.2013.10.001

Smith, B and Sparkes, AC (2011) Exploring multiple responses to a chaos narrative. Health (London, England : 1997), 15 (1). 38 - 53. ISSN 1363-4593 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459309360782

Phoenix, C and Smith, B and Sparkes, AC (2010) Narrative analysis in aging studies: A typology for consideration. Journal of Aging Studies, 24 (1). 1 - 11. ISSN 0890-4065 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2008.06.003

Phoenix, C and Sparkes, AC (2009) Being Fred: Big stories, small stories and the accomplishment of a positive ageing identity. Qualitative Research, 9 (2). 219 - 236. ISSN 1468-7941 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794108099322

Carless, D and Sparkes, AC (2008) The physical activity experiences of men with serious mental illness: Three short stories. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 9 (2). 191 - 210. ISSN 1469-0292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2007.03.008

Phoenix, C and Sparkes, AC (2006) Young athletic bodies and narrative maps of aging. Journal of Aging Studies, 20 (2). 107 - 121. ISSN 0890-4065 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2005.06.002

Book Section

Smith, B and Sparkes, AC (2019) "Disability, sport, and physical activity." In: Watson, N and Roulstone, A and Thomas, C, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (2nd edition). Routledge, London, pp. 391-403. ISBN 9781138365308

Sparkes, AC (2018) "Creating criteria for evaluating autoethnography and the pedagogical potential of working with lists." In: Turner, L and Short, N and Grant, A and Adams, T, (eds.) International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice. Routledge, London, pp. 256-267. ISBN 9781138227729