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Dr

Bridgette Desjardins

Sessional Academic

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Sessional Academic
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

My work explores social inequality and in/exclusion of sexual and gender minorities, examined primarily through the lens of sport participation.

 

My current Australian-based project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explores the impact of women’s participation in powerlifting, a traditionally male-dominated sport, on health and wellbeing by considering shifting embodied relationalities during a period of rapid transformation in sport cultures. The project draws on data collected from 41 interviews with Australian women who powerlift. 

 

Previously, I've examined: social in/exclusion of LGBTQ+ sport fans in men's sport fandom; anti-trans activism, specifically regarding attempts to exclude trans women from women's sport; the impact of embodied participation in amateur sport regarding the formation of national community. 

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Sessional Academic
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Deakin University, Burwood, AustraliaJan 2023 - Dec 2024

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaSep 2017 - Dec 2022

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences