Episode 4: Girls and Physical Education - Zoe Jeffery

In this episode Professor Emma Rich talks with SPHERE doctoral researcher Zoe Jeffery about how we make Physical Education and Sport more inclusive for girls. Just recently in the UK, the Women and Equalities Committee published a report suggesting ‘Existing programmes and interventions from the Government and other bodies, while welcome, do not yet go far enough in addressing these barriers and are yet to reverse alarming downward trends in girls’ enjoyment of PE’. In this episode, Zoe shares some of the insights from her doctoral research study which has explored the experiences of adolescent girls in PE. Adopting a novel perspective, she focuses on how the material elements of PE such as PE kit and equipment, holding the capacity to affect and shape girls bodies. Working with these girls in a series of design workshops, she provided them with virtual reality technology through which they could ‘reimagine’ and ‘redesign’ PE. In the episode, she also talks about a new app she is launching to to help make PE more engaging, ‘Vibestride’. - Find out more about Zoe's work: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/zoe-jeffery - Connect with Zoe on LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-jeffery-962063b7/?originalSubdomain=uk