Convenor
Dr. Oliver Hooper is a Research Associate within the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, having graduated with a PhD from the same institution in 2018. Oliver’s research explores young people’s experiences within physical education, health and youth sport contexts with a specific focus on the experiences of marginalised youth. He is particularly interested in ‘youth voice’ and the use of participatory methods to facilitate young people’s meaningful involvement within research. Oliver has published various articles, papers and book chapters in these areas and routinely attends international conferences to present on this work. He is a convenor for the Sport Pedagogy Network of the European Educational Research Association and sits on the Editorial Board of the Sport, Education and Society journal.
Within BERA, Oliver fulfils several roles including acting as one of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network’s convenors, being a member of Engagement Committee and a member of Council, having been elected in 2018 as an ECR representative. Oliver’s multiple roles within BERA mean that he is involved in a range of activities from organising events and judging awards through to advocating for early career researchers at a strategic level.
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Dr Yang Hu speaks to ECR Network Convenors Dr Oliver Hooper and Dr Yuwei Xu to share his experiences of publishing both during and after his PhD.
This BERA-CERA event helped Early Career Researchers navigate the process of academic writing and publishing.
What is it like to publish during your PhD? How can you continue to publish after your PhD? How is it different to publish a book as opposed to journal articles? How do you navigate the process of...
From issue 144 of Research Intelligence, BERA's members' magazine.
In a BERA Blog this week,Julie Stirrup, Oliver Hooper, Rachel Sandford, Jo Harris,Ash Casey and Lorraine Cale from Loughborough University argue that the marginalisation of PE within the...
Long before Covid-19 altered the way learning and teaching takes place, the subject of physical education (PE) was somewhat marginalised in the school curriculum. Within the UK, as elsewhere,...
Continue readingFrom issue 143 of Research Intelligence, BERA's members' magazine.
BERA members, through informal conversation, recognised that there was a danger that qualitative studies may become under threat from not being approved by ethical committees in an increasingly...
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