Dr Jessica Francombe-Webb
Lecturer in Education and Sport
1 West 4.22
Email: j.m.francombe@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 5111
PhD Supervision
- Health, wellbeing, physical activity
- Critical qualitative inquiries into identity & the body
- Public pedagogies, (re)presentation & physical culture
- Emergent (body/health/[in]active) technologies & new social media
Profile
My research interests focus on the theorisation of contemporary physical culture and the varied articulations related to politics, pedagogy, health, (in)activity and the body.
Through theoretical interdisciplinarity and empirical work my research looks to understand the contested politics of the body (for example gender, class, race, sexuality [dis]ability, age) that are contextually specific. That is I interrogate the ways in which the body becomes representative of wider social struggles and the ways in which we learn continuously and variously about the body and its appropriate management, maintenance and performance.
My research interests and expertise drive my teaching and I am committed to both the academic and public dissemination of my work.
Research interests
- Physical Culture
- Subjectivities/Body Politics
- Public Pedagogy
- Cultural Resources e.g magazines, films, music videos, computer games and books.
Current projects
Teaching
Undergraduate
- ED20410: Culture, Media & Sport
- ED20416: Sociology of Sport, Health & the Body
- ED20415 Reading & Writing Sport Critically
Postgraduate
- Ed.D. Educational Philosophy: Feminist Ethics and Ethics of the Body
Publications
Book Sections
Francombe, J. and Silk, M., 2012. Pedagogies of fat : the social currency of slenderness. In: Andrews, D. L. and Silk, M. L., eds. Sport and Neoliberalism. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Temple University Press.
Silk, M. and Francombe, J., 2011. All these years of hurt: Culture, pedagogy and '1966' as a site of national myths. In: Wagg, S., ed. Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 262-286.
Articles
Andrews, D. L., Silk, M. L., Bush, A. J. and Francombe, J., 2013. McKinesiology. Submitted to: Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Francombe, J., 2013. Forthcoming. Methods that move: a physical performative pedagogy of subjectivity. Sociology of Sport Journal
Chawansky, M. and Francombe, J., 2013. Wanting to be Anna: examining Lesbian sporting celebrity on the L word. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 17 (2), pp. 134-149.
Francombe, J., 2012. Forthcoming. Learning to leisure: The body and technologies of femininity. Leisure Studies
Silk, M. and Francombe, J., 2012. Forthcoming. The corporate constitution of national culture: The mythopoeia of 1966. Continuum:Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
Chawansky, M. and Francombe, J., 2011. Cruising for Olivia : lesbian self-invention and the cultural politics of coming out in sport. Sociology of Sport Journal, 28 (4), pp. 461-477.
Silk, M., Francombe, J. and Bachelor, F., 2011. The biggest loser: the discursive constitution of fatness. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 1 (3), pp. 369-389.
Francombe, J., 2010. 'I cheer, you cheer, we cheer': physical technologies and the normalized body. Television & New Media, 11 (5), pp. 350-366.
Thesis
Francombe, J., 2011. Sculpting girls' subjectivities: physical culture and the normalised body. Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Bath.
