Johanna is Senior Lecturer in Human Movement and Sport Managementat the University of Technology, Sydney. As an educator in sport and physical activity for more than 25 years Johanna draws on experience gained at a range of institutions in the Netherlands, Italy and Australia. She is a researcher in and public advocate on gender issues in sport and physical activity. She has published in scholarly and professional journals and appeared on television and radio. In all continents of the world she has presented at national and international conferences including at the United Nations in New York. Her most recent research projects include ‘women in sport governance’ and ‘role models for adolescent girls in sport’.

She is Co-chair of the International Working Group (IWG) on Women and Sport and convened the 5th IWG World Conference on Women and Sport in Sydney in 2010. She also serves on the Executive Board of WomenSport International since 2005.

She holds two undergraduate degrees in Physical Education and Psychology respectively from universities in Amsterdam and obtained her Master’s Degree in Education at the University of Sydney. In 2004 she received the Margaret Pewtress Memorial Award from the Australian Government for her outstanding contribution to women’s sport. Representing the Netherlands in the Europe Cup for Hockey, she was a member of the team that won gold for four consecutive years (1975-1978).

The potential of a role with WomenSport International attracts me because of the organisation’s international and research-focused approach that aims to include the experiences of a wide range of women, including those outside the traditional centres of Western power. My own commitment to this approach is evident in my latest co-edited book, which emerged from a collaborative 18-country research project involving research on newspapers in 14 different languages and including research from countries whose work seldom appears in English.

My background involves many years and multiple roles in sport, including player, referee, coach, tournament organiser, gym supervisor, aerobics instructor, personal trainer, camp counselor, journalist, columnist, media liaison, board member and academic. I have experience with women’s sport organisations including the Women’s Sports Foundation (one-year internship), the Association for Women in Sports Media (Northeast regional co-ordinator for 3 years), and Womensport and Recreation ACT (Board member for two years), an award-winning state peak body in Australia. During my time on the WSRACT Board, I was responsible for more than 60 weekly columns in the state newspaper that explored multiple dimensions of women’s sport experiences. Most recently, I worked with FIFA as venue media coordinator for the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in New Zealand.

Gender has been central to my research over the past 20 years, along with its intersections with race/ethnicity, dis/ability and nationalism, and I am committed to the importance of quality research in teaching and policy-making. I gained my undergraduate degree in New Zealand (a Bachelor of Physical Education) and postgraduate degrees in Sociology of Sport from the University of Illinois in the USA; I have taught in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. I have just been elected as President-Elect of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (2012), and will be President in 2013.

I would bring to WomenSport International an extensive experiential and research background in women’s sport, along with expertise in media-related areas such as public relations, column-writing, liaison with journalists, and media analysis. My background in journalism and public relations, and my research focus on media means that one element I could bring to the role is a focus on promotion and publicity of the organisation’s work.

Key Gender-Related Publications/Presentations since 2000, click here

Dong Jinxia received her bachelor and Master degree from Beijing Sports University in 1982 and 1985, and Ph.D. from University of Strathclyde (UK) in 2001.

She worked in Beijing Sports University between 1985 and 1996. While she was studying her Ph.D. program in Scotland between 1996 and 2000, she also coached Scottish Girls’ Gymnastic Team. Since 2001 she has been working at the Peking University, lecturing and researching in the fields of Olympic Culture, Gender and Sport, Sports Sociology and Physical Education. She became a full professor in 2005. In the year of 2009 she was a visiting scholar in Yale University,USA.

She is the founding director of The Peking University Research Centre for Gender, Sports and Society,deputy director of The Peking University Research Centre for Sport, Society and Culture and member of Beijing University Academic Evaluation Committee for Social Science, committee member of the sub-committee of sports sociology of the Chinese Sports Science Association, and member of Global Agenda Council on Sports in Society of World Economic Forum.

She has authored hundreds of articles both in Chinese and English on sport, Olympics, culture and gender. In the past decade she has been invited to universities and international conferences in Germany, Britain, Greece, Denmark, Canada, USA, Japan, Korea, India, Hong Kong and Taiwan to lecture or present papers. She won “International Max & Reet Howell Award” of North American Society of Sports History in 2007.

Dr. Nadezda Knorre has a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Physical Education, Charles University in Prague, where she worked as a teacher at the Department of Gymnastics from 1986 to 2004.

She is a well known coach of gymnastics and served from 1993 to 2001 as a member of The Technical Committee General Gymnastics, in the European Gymnastic Federation (UEG).

During the same period she was also a board member of the Czech Gymnastic Federation, and an international judge in team gymnastics.

In 1997 she was appointed as the first chairperson of the Women and Sport Committee of the Czech Olympic Committee. She works at the same position till today.
From 2001-2004 she was the first elected woman as member of the Board of the Czech Olympic Committee, and from 2001-2004 she represented Czech Sport in the European Women and Sport steering group (EWS).

DATE OF BIRTH: 17 August 1963
NATIONALITY: Japanese

HOME ADDRESS:
13-7 Takamine,
Syowa-ku, Nagoya,
Aichi 466-0811, Japan.
Phone & Fax: +81-53-893-6930

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Chukyo University
School of Health and Sports Sciences
101 Tokodachi, Kaizu, Toyota
Aichi 470-0393, Japan.
Phone & Fax: +81-565-46-6568
Email: kraita@sass.chukyo-u.ac.jp

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Sports Sciences, Chukyo University, March 2000
M.S. in Pedagogy, Kobe University, March 1988
B.S. in Pedagogy, Kobe University, March 1986
MAJOR:
Sport and P.E. History

EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor, April 2005 to March 2008
Professor, April 2008 to present
School of Health and Sports Sciences
Chukyo University
Associate Professor, April 2002 to March 2005
School of Community Policy
Aichi Gakusen University
Research Assistant, April 1998 to March 2001
Graduate School of Health and Sports Sciences
Chukyo University

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE and PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Director of Department of Sport and Physical Education
School of Health and Sport Sciences
Chukyo University
Administrative Director of Japan Society for Spot and Gender Studies
Executive board member of Japan Olympic Academy
Executive board member of Committee of the History of Physical Education and Sport,
Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences
Member of the Japan Society of Sport History
Member of Japanese Society of Sport Education
Member of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan
Member of the Japan Association for Queer Studies
Member of the Northeast Asia Society of the History of Physical Education and Sport

I am currently Associate Professor in the School of Physical Education and Sport at the University of São Paulo. Graduated in Journalism at Cásper Líbero College (1983), graduated in Psychology at Catholic Pontific University of São Paulo (1995), master in Physical Education at University of São Paulo (1998), Ph.D. in Education at University of São Paulo (2001) and Pos doctored in Social Psychology at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. I was president of the Brazilian Association of Sport Psychology in 2005-2007 and 2007-2009 administrations. I have written and organized 15 books and I am a member of the Brazilian Olympic Academy.

Awards

2002 – Promotion and production of academic works in Olympism, Olympic Studies Center of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

2010 – Medal of Sportive Merit awarded by the Ministry of Sports of Brazil and given by Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil

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.

Lydia la Rivière-Zijdel - Netherlands

Bio to come

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.