The Women in Sport podcast brings together insight, advice and expertise from across the sector to discuss the issues and topics you think are important and affecting women and girls in the UK. Join the conversation on social media and follow us @womeninsport_uk Donate to Women in Sport online. (https://www.womeninsport.org/get-involved/make-a-donation/)
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The WISE Women in Sport Podcast delves into the lives of female athletes to discuss how they train and compete around their physiology as women. Covering everything from periods, PMS and menopause to HRT and pregnancy. How do leading sportswomen deal with their changing bodies while maintaining peak performance across all life stages? Let's meet Women In Sport Empowered. Follow www.instagram.com/wisewomeninsport for updates.
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42: Paris 2024 Paralympic Preview: Monica Vaughan
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It’s August 2024 and this week, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games begins. The Paralympics, as we commonly know them, have their roots in the Stoke Mandeville Games, first held in 1948, when only wheelchair athletes competed. In 1960, they were renamed as the Paralympic Games, and in 1976, para-athletes besides wheelchair users were allowed to compete…
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41: Paris 2024 Olympic Preview: Joanna Rowsell
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This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary and we've relaunched our podcast! This week the world’s top athletes will gather in Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games. Few of us will ever know what its like to represent our country in elite sport. Fewer still will know the feeling of standing on the podium whilst the national anthem plays. Joanna R…
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40: Paris 2024 Olympic Preview: Tessa Sanderson
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This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary and we've relaunched our podcast! It’s July 2024. In just a few weeks, the world’s top athletes will gather in Paris for the 2024 Games. We’ll be watching on - in wonder - at the human endeavour, the glory and the heartbreak. What all that feels like is the stuff of dreams for most of us. Today's gu…
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39: General Election Special: Tackling Heath Inequalities
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This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary. We've relaunched our podcast to coincide with the 2024 UK General Election. Women and girls belong in sport. But we are less active than men and boys at every stage of our lives. 27% of women do less than 30 minutes of sporting activity a week. Just 3% of women play in a sports team. 22% fewer girl…
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38: General Election Special: Stamping out misogyny
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This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary. We've relaunched our podcast to coincide with the 2024 UK General Election. Women and girls belong in sport. But misogyny is a significant barrier. We believe that when sport includes women and girls it helps tackle health inequalities. In this podcast we’re tackling what needs to be done to eradic…
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37: General Election Special: Why 50/50 leadership in sport is bl**dy obvious!
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This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary. Women and girls belong in sport. But they are less active than men at every stage of their lives. It’s worse if you’re a woman of colour. Elite male athletes are celebrated for their strength and skill, whilst women are still often discussed in terms of their appearance and their relationships. And…
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Sam Amend is a GB Ultra Marathon runner and member of Team Hour 7. She holds numerous course and national records in ultra distance running. Last year she won the 145 mile Grand Union Canal Race, finishing 1st overall, and breaking the women's course record in the process. Even more astonishing was that GUCR was only a few weeks after she broke the…
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Renee McGregor is a leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietician with 20 years of experience. She has worked with athletes in Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth teams. Renee is also the founder of Team Renee McGregor, managing a team of practitioners, specialising in supporting individuals and athletes of all levels and ages, coaches, …
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Siân Longthorpe is based in the South West of England and has been a keen runner since a young teenager. Siân was assigned male at birth, and while living as Simon, developed a passion for running, everything from 5k up to ultra marathon distances, winning and podiuming many races. Siân transitioned from male to female and while her life was turned…
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Amy Langley-Smith is captain of Kent Roller Derby Team (at time of recording). Roller Derby originates from the USA and if you’ve seen it you will know it is a fast paced, contact sport. Historically, Derbys were put on for entertainment, with skaters being violent for added dramatic effect. Nowadays Derby skaters are passionate about their sport a…
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Mimi is a renowned endurance athlete and multiple Guinness world record holder who began running as a mother of three aged 36. Mimi found ultra running and took on some of the biggest and most extreme running challenges in the world, winning and setting many course records. She set two world records for running the length of Britain and Ireland and…
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The WISE Women in Sport Podcast delves into the lives of female athletes to discuss how they train and compete around their physiology as women. Covering everything from periods, PMS and menopause to HRT and pregnancy. How do leading sportswomen deal with their changing bodies while maintaining peak performance across all life stages?…
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36: What sport taught me about championing change
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Minette Batters is President of the National Farmer's Union, the first women to hold the post in the organisation's 115 year history. Alongside leading the NFU, which represents more than 46,000 farming and growing businesses, Minette runs a family farm in Wiltshire. She chats to us about the impact that sport has had on her life. The skills she ac…
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35: Rugby League World Cup 2021: A Lasting Legacy
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The Rugby League World Cup 2021 made history with Women's, Wheelchair and Men’s teams competing concurrently at the tournament. For the first time in a major tournament all participants were paid the same participation fee and given equal standard of accommodation, transport, and training facilities. Also, in a watershed moment for the women's game…
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34: #TimeTogether: Inspiring mums and daughters to be active together
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When researching the lives of teenage girls Women in Sport uncovered the powerful relationship that exists between mums and daughters. Teenage girls view their mum or mum figure as someone that they want to be active with, without the fear of judgement. This led to the creation of Women in Sport's #TimeTogether campaign. We know that: 6 out of 10 t…
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33: The Dream Deficit: Why fewer girls than boys dream of being a top athlete
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Two years ago we discovered half as many girls as boys dream of reaching the top of sport - a gap we coined the 'Dream Deficit.' 2022 has put women's sport centre stage. The success of the Lionesses at the Euros was momentous, the passion, talent and positive team dynamic on display was incredible to watch. It was closely followed by a raft of bril…
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32: The Commonwealth Games legacy: Supporting the growth of parasport
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The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham featured the largest integrated para sport programme in the competition’s history with 42 parasport events across eight sports, with over 350 athletes taking part. While the growth of parasport at elite level is fantastic, many disabled women and girls face a double discrimination when it comes to sport and…
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31: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels
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If you have a dusty bike in your shed this episode will inspire you to pump up the tyres jump in the saddle and feel the wind in your hair... For women, the humble bicycle is much more than a mode of transport. Over the last century the so called ‘freedom machines’ have helped women gain independence, increased social and political freedom and brou…
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30: Harnessing the power of self-belief: How Victoria Evans became the fastest female to solo row the Atlantic
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In March 2022 Victoria Evans became the fastest woman to solo row the Atlantic Ocean. An incredible achievement in itself, but one made even more remarkable by the fact that three years prior to setting sail, Victoria had never even been in a rowing boat. Setting off from the island of Tenerife, Spain on 11 February she battled through a number of …
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29: Daughters and Dads: Empowering Change
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Gender stereotypes start at birth. For girls, this can lead to a decline in self-belief from as young as 7 years old. Dads/father figures can play a key role in helping their daughters develop confidence and resilience, but many dads, often unconsciously, place more emphasis on their son's sporting activities. Our research shows that 31% of girls f…
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28: The Lost 43% - The Teenage Girls Falling out of Love with Sport
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For International Women's Day 2022, Women in Sport has released new research which found that more than one million teenage girls (43%), who once considered themselves ‘sporty’, disengage from sport following primary school. A fear of feeling judged by others, lack of confidence, pressures of schoolwork and not feeling safe outside were some of the…
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27: How Snowsports is Challenging Girls to Take More Risk – Starting at the Skatepark
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The countdown is on to the Winter Olympics, which begins on 4th February, with two weeks of action-packed and exciting competition to look forward to. Many of us will be glued to our TV screens watching the death-defying stunts and tricks on snow and ice. But with such a high level of risk associated with snowsports, how do you encourage girls and …
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26: Exercising in midlife - the challenges and how companies can support their female workforce
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In this podcast we're looking at the challenges of exercising in midlife and how companies and businesses can support their female workforce to be active. We're joined by Carol Bates who set up Crawley Old Girls Football Club, Pippa Andrews, Director at Vitality UK and Victoria Sathasivam from Argent LLP as we talk about the barriers women face and…
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25: Exercising outdoors in winter
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Exercising outside is good for our physical and our mental wellbeing. In partnership with women's outdoor brand Acai, we want to encourage more women to enjoy being active outside. In this episode you will hear from Kasia Bromley, founder of Acai, Becky Adlington, Olympic gold medallist and patron of Women in Sport and Nadia Weigh, from the women's…
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24: The Hundred - A new tournament to close the gender gap and inspire women and girls to take part in cricket
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In this episode you will hear from Clare Connor, Head of England Women’s Cricket at ECB, Beth Barrett-Wild, Head of The Hundred Women’s Competition and Female Engagement at ECB and Mark Chapman, Manchester Originals, Trustee for Women In Sport, Broadcaster. Listen to how The Hundred aims to normalise cricket as a sport for everyone from the elite t…
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23: More than a month - ensuring visibility for women's sport after an Olympics and Paralympic games
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In one of our special live editions of the podcast with our sponsors CSM Live, we discussed how an inevitable boost in visibility for women’s sport after the Olympic and Paralympic games can be harnessed to ensure growth and momentum beyond the games. Every four years female athletes become household names and are thrust into the spotlight during t…
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22: Inspiring women to be active during midlife and menopause - launch event
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Tune in to the launch of our new insight on menopause and midlife, unveiling of groundbreaking image curation with Getty Images and a panel discussion with: Lorraine Candy, author and journalist Stephanie Hilborne OBE, Chief Executive, Women in Sport Dame Louise Makin, Chair, Halma Annamarie Phelps CBE, Chair of British Horseracing Authority, Vice …
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21: Live podcast - Beyond 30%
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This live podcast looked at the impact the increased numbers of women on sports boards is having, its impact on athletes and those at the grassroots. With an expert panel including: Tammy Beaumont, England cricketer; Halima Khan, Independent Non-Executive Director, Diversity & Inclusion at Triathlon England; Rob Young MBE, CEO of Switch The Play Fo…
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20: The impact of Covid-19 on teenage girls
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We chat to Becca and Britney from Goals4Girls and university student Ellen about what their lives were like during lockdown, the challenges they faced, how they got active and what they're looking forward to when life gets back to "normal".The Women in Sport Podcast tarafından oluşturuldu
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We chat to Georgie Bruinvels, co-creator of the Fitr Woman app, Mia Slevin, freestyle swimmer and Fitr Woman Ambassador, and Maddy Cope from Lattice Training, about menstruation and exercise. We discuss the benefits of tracking your cycle and how to break down the barriers around periods and exercise.…
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18: Pregnancy and exercise
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We chat to Olympian and retired GB hockey player Alex Danson, Trustee and ultramarathon runner Sophie Power, and Emma Brockwell, a specialist women's health physiotherapist, about getting active during pregnancy and how to get back to exercise after giving birth. Useful links: Active Pregnancy Foundation Government guidelines for physical activity …
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17: Seasonal affective disorder
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We sit down with Naomi Marston from Life Care Counselling, Tina Chantrey, Fitness Editor at Women's Running, Bethan Taylor- Swaine, blogger and PhD student, and Stuart Haw, PhD student and athlete advisor, to talk about seasonal affective disorder, how it impacts us and how we can manage in the winter.…
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We chat to Kate Grey, Patron of Disability Sports Coach and former Paralympian, Emma O'Connor from Down's Syndrome Association and GB wheelchair basketball athlete Siobhan Fitzpatrick about inclusive activity. How can we create more inclusive spaces for disabled people and what needs to change? You can follow our guests on Twitter: @kategrey25 @DSC…
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We chat to daughters and mums about the ways they've found activity together and how it's changed their lives as part of our #TimeTogether campaign. #TimeTogether is about allowing mum and daughter to set aside time to develop their relationship with each other, and with exercise. Get involved with #TimeTogether on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. …
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14: Back to school - supporting teenage girls
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We chat to Nikki Giant, Interim Head of Girls' Rights Youth Team at Plan UK, Vanessa Greene, Impact and Evaluation Manager at Chance to Shine and programme participant Mia, and Amie Cripps from Goals4Girls about the new school year, the challenges girls will be facing and how they can be supported to get active. Find out more about Plan UK, Chance …
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13: Life after lockdown - live podcast
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In a special live podcast, we discuss the impact of lockdown on women across the UK and how organisations in and outside of sport can ensure that women lead active lifestyles in the 'new normal'. Our live podcast panel includes Jodie Cunningham, England and St Helens rugby league player and ambassador for the Rugby League World Cup 2021, Ama Agbeze…
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12: The visibility of women's sport after Covid-19
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One year on from last year's amazing summer of football, netball, athletics and more, women's sport is faced with an invisible few months. We sat down with sport climber and Tokyo hopeful Molly Thompson-Smith, Anita Jones, from BBC London's Women's Sport Show, and Alexandra Kryke-Smith, from sports agency Goodform, to chat about the potential long-…
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11: The power of running communities
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In a bumper episode, we chat to Amy Lane, author and Digital Editor of Women's Health, Leeanne Adu from Backpackers, Mel Bound, Founder of This Mum Runs, and Kim Scott, founder of These Girls Can Run, about how they found a passion for running and why their communities are so important. You can support Women in Sport's work by donating online.…
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10: Exploring the impact of body image
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We chatted to Becky Adlington OBE, four-time Olympic medallist and Patron of Women in Sport, and Emily Matheson from the Centre for Appearance Research about body image, how it effects us and its impact on sport and exercise. If you would like to support Women in Sport please donate via our website.The Women in Sport Podcast tarafından oluşturuldu
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9: Women in Sport's sporting role models
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In a special episode, we hear from the Women in Sport team about their sporting role models. Get in touch on social media and tell us about your sporting role model. If you're looking for at-home resources and activities then check out our special catalogue page. There's also plenty of free insight and reports on our Research and Advice Service.…
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8: Each for Equal: International Women's Day Special with CSM Live
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In a special live International Women's Day episode Florence Lloyd-Hughes and Stacey Knight, Commercial and Marketing Director at CSM Live, chat to Anita Asante, Chelsea Women player, England International and Ambassador for Amnesty International, Atlanta St John, Head of Women's Rugby at Harlequins, and Carmen To, Women's Programme at The Running …
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We put your questions to Kate Nicholson, Head of Insight and Innovation, and Heather Smith, Associate Head of Innovation. If you would like to support Women in Sport's work and the podcast, please donate to us via our website.The Women in Sport Podcast tarafından oluşturuldu
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6: Generation Z- sport through the eyes of the next generation
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We chat to Suzanne Robinson, Managing Director UK of Happen, and Ceylon Andi Hickman, Head of Impact and Girls at Football Beyond Borders, about Generation Z. We also hear from our Project 51 Young Influencers who were in conversation with Anna Kessel at the Empower Conference in October 2018. Check out the video on the impact of Project 51. If you…
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5: Removing the barriers to sport for Muslim girls
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We chat to Amna Akhtar co-founder of Girl Dreamer, the empowerment platform for women of colour, and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan from Maslaha, creators of the Muslim Girls Fence project with British Fencing, about the barriers that Muslim girls face, how the sports sector can change and support them to get active. Follow their work: www.girldreamer.co.u…
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4: Challenge events-where to begin and how to get going
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We chat to Ruth Martin from House of Sport and Jess from Girls Who Dare about the challenge events they're taking on and how they developed a passion for pushing themselves to the limit. If you would like to support Women in Sport's work and the podcast, please donate to us via our website.The Women in Sport Podcast tarafından oluşturuldu
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3: Menopause and exercise
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We chat about menopause and exercise with Dr Heather Currie, gynaecologist and founder of Menopause Matters magazine, Jane Dowling from Meno and Me, and Clare Taylor, Insight Officer at Women in Sport. If you would like to support Women in Sport's work and the podcast, please donate to us via our website.…
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2: Equal pay- influencing the sector and striving for change
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Women in Sport chat to Ben Ryan and Heather Fisher from Rugby X, the new indoor rugby competition which is paying its men's and women's players the same salaries. Maggie Murphy from Lewes FC talks about the Sussex club's approach to equal pay. If you would like to support Women in Sport's work and the podcast, please donate to us via our website.…
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1: Girls football- making the most of the Women's World Cup
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Women in Sport chat to Louise Gear, Head of Women's Football Participation at the FA, about the FA and Barclay's pledge to make football accessible to every girl in England. Project 51 Young Influencer Sophie also chats about the proactive way she's trying to get football on the agenda at her school. If you would like to support Women in Sport's wo…
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