The
Advisory Board represents the
international membership and is composed of individuals known for
their expertise and interest in and their support of women in sports
and physical activity.
Mary Jane DeSouza
Bio to come
Stilani Chroni – Greece
Stilani “Ani” teaches various applied sport psychology
and female athlete classes at the Department of Physical Education
and Sport Science of the University of Thessaly in Central
Greece. Her area of expertise is teaching mental skills to
sport students, athletes, and coaches, but mainly helping
them recognize and appreciate their full potential. She is
also involved with competitive sports as a technical delegate
for the International Ski Federation and the Hellenic Ski
Federation. During her graduate studies at Springfield College
(MA) and the University of Virginia (VA) she became interested
in girls’ and women’s sport issues. Upon returning
to her native country, she herself faced some issues being
a woman teaching as adjunct faculty at male dominated Sport
& PE departments. Currently she is working with Kari Fasting
in an international project that explores gender relations
in the world of sports based on the experiences of female
athletes and sport students. Further, she is the lead-coordinator
of an EC funded undergraduate program on gender and equity
issues in which participate five departments from the University
of Thessaly.
Laura Gajardo
Bio to come
Takako Iida – Japan
Takako Iida is Professor in the Graduate School of Human
Sciences and the Faculty of Human and Cultural Studies at
Tezukayama Gakuin University, Japan. She received her B.Ed.
at Kyoto University of Education in 1970 and her Ph.D. at
Kyoto Tachibana University in 2006. She serves as the President
of the Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies since 2002.
Further, she is an Executive Board member of the Osaka Society
of Physical Education. From 2001-2004 she was on the Executive
Board of the Meeting of Gymnastics Leader for All. Her research
focuses on gender issues in sport. She has published a range
of articles in the Journal of Sport and Gender Studies.
Janet Kabeberi-Macharia
Bio to come
Sock Miang Teo-Koh
Bio
to come
Gertrud Pfister
Gertrud Pfister has gained a PhD in history and sociology.
From 1980 to 2000, she worked as a professor at the Freie
Universität Berlin. Currently she is professor at the
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
From 1983 to 2001 Gertrud Pfister was President of the International
Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, from
2004 to 2008 President of the International Sport Sociology
Association. Gertrud Pfister served as a guest professor at
several foreign universities, and was invited as a keynote
speaker to more than 30 international congresses. She is member
of the editorial boards of 15 scientific journals and she
served in several committees which evaluated sport faculties
and departments.
Pfister won several awards for her scholarly work, among others,
the Award of the International Society for Sport History and
the Howell, the Howell Distinguished Lecturer Award of the
North American Society for Sport History and the inaugural
European Women and Sport Award (for research and leadership
in the area of women’s sport). In 2007, she was awarded
an Honorary Doctorate at the Semmelweis University, Budapest.
The main topics of her research are sport history and sport
sociology with a special focus on social class, gender and
ethnicity, socialization, and international comparisons.
Pfister conducted several large national and international
research projects, and is currently carrying out major research
on doping and gender as well as on health and physical activities.
The results of her projects are published in more than 200
articles in peer reviewed journals and several books.
Chris Shelton – USA
Christine M. Shelton is a professor in the Exercise and Sport
Studies Department and co-chair of the Project on Women and
Social Change at Smith College. She is a past president and
past executive director of the National Association for Girls
and Women in Sport (NAGWS) and recipient of the NAGWS Honor
Award in 1993. In 1997, she was elected Vice President of
the International Association for Girls and Women in Physical
Education and Sport (IAPESGW) and served in that position
until 2005. Chris is the representative for the Americas to
the International Working group on women and Sport and to
the Congreso Panamericano de Educación Física,two
international sport organizations that help to network and
develop leadership opportunities for women and sport. Christine’s
recent research was done as part of a team with Loughborough,
University, UK and the International Olympic Committee, evaluating
contributions of newly appointed women to National Olympic
Committees. Her research and theoretical work is on leadership
issues that cross race, gender, and class and her scholarship
is directed toward bridge-building contact between the women’s
sport community and the academic community.
Anita White
Anita White
is an independent consultant working in the field of national
and international sport policy and sports development, and
a Visiting Professor at Loughborough University. She has wide
ranging experience of sport: as an international player and
coach, of working in the public sector in higher education
and sports administration, and as an advocate for equality
in sport in national and international circles.
Anita qualified as a PE teacher in the late 60s and taught
in schools and teacher education institutions for 12 years.
She then went on to gain Masters and Doctoral degrees before
setting up the Sports Studies degree course at West Sussex
Institute of Higher Education (now the University of Chichester)
in 1982. In 1990, she joined the Sports Council as Head of
Development and went on to become one of three Senior Directors
of Sport England in 1995. During her time at Sport England
she was responsible for the development and delivery of national
policies and programmes for the development of sport at all
levels.
A former international sportswoman, Anita captained the England
Hockey team to victory in the World Cup in 1975 and has also
coached at all levels. From 2002 - 2004 she was the President
of the Great Britain Olympic Hockey Board. Anita is also an
acknowledged leader in the international Women and Sport movement.
A founder member and former Chair of the Women’s Sports
Foundation (UK) she was responsible in her Sports Council
role for the staging of the first international conference
on Women and Sport in 1994. This resulted in the Brighton
Declaration on Women and Sport that now has world-wide currency.
She co-chaired the International Working Group on Women and
Sport from 1994 to 1998 and continues to advise many countries
and organisations on women’s sports development. She
was awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to women and sport.
Consultancy work in the last seven years has included evaluation
of the gender equality policy for the IOC, evaluation of the
Dreams and Teams programme for the British Council, evaluation
of pilot international development programmes for UK Sport,
and compilation of a world wide progress report on Women and
Sport for Sport Canada. Voluntary work has included serving
on the Boards of the University of Chichester, the Golf Foundation,
International Development through Sport (UK) and the International
Working Group on Women and Sport.