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Holly Thorpe
AwardsJames Cook Research Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, Leverhulme Fellowship, Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Waikato
Thesis
Doctoral advisorDoug Booth, Toni Bruce, Richard Pringle
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Waikato

Holly Alysha Thorpe is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in sports sociology.

Academic career

Thorpe was a competitive snowboarder.

PhD titled Boarders, Babes and Bad-Asses: Theories of a Female Physical Youth Culture at the University of Waikato in 2007. Thorpe then joined the faculty of the university, rising to full professor in 2019.[2] Her inaugural professorial lecture described how new sports like snowboarding came to be included in the Olympic Games.[3] Her research covers gender, youth, extreme and action sports and how sport can contribute to development.[1][3]

Thorpe is a principal investigator in the

High Performance Sport NZ working group on healthy women in sport.[7]

Awards

In 2009 Thorpe was awarded a scholarship by the Leverhulme Trust to visit the University of Brighton, where she wrote a book about snowboarding culture.[1]

Thorpe was awarded a

Leverhulme Fellowship.[4] In 2018 she was awarded a Royal Society Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences, and in the same year was awarded Fellowship of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.[4]

Thorpe was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship in 2021, for research titled 'Reconceptualizing Wellbeing: Women, Sport and Communities of Belonging'.[9] Her project explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women, and their strategies for maintaining connection, wellbeing and physical health during the pandemic.[9][10]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Holly Thorpe (Q91543973).
  • Holly Thorpe (December 2009). "Bourdieu, Feminism and Female Physical Culture: Gender Reflexivity and the Habitus-Field Complex".
    Wikidata Q123411046
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  • Holly Thorpe (May 2008). "Foucault, Technologies of Self, and the Media: Discourses of Femininity in Snowboarding Culture".
    Wikidata Q123411051
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  • Holly Thorpe;
    Wikidata Q123411054
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  • Kim Toffoletti; Holly Thorpe (February 2018). "Female athletes' self-representation on social media: A feminist analysis of neoliberal marketing strategies in "economies of visibility"".
    Wikidata Q123411005
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  • Holly Thorpe; Nida Ahmad (18 June 2013). "Youth, action sports and political agency in the Middle East: Lessons from a grassroots parkour group in Gaza".
    Wikidata Q123411058
    .
  • Thorpe, Holly (27 October 2022). "New Zealand's slippery slopes: the uncertain future of snow sports in a climate emergency". Alaska Beacon. Retrieved 12 November 2023.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Fulbright award turns Waikato academic into sporting ambassador". www.waikato.ac.nz. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Professorial appointments announced". www.waikato.ac.nz. 29 January 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Prof's first public lecture promises close-to-home appeal – Raglan Chronicle". 29 August 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Academic profile: Holly Thorpe". profiles.waikato.ac.nz. University of Waikato. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Holly Thorpe". www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Holly Thorpe". The Conversation. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  7. ^ Thorpe, Holly (9 July 2022). "How women in fitness became lifesavers". Newsroom. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  8. ^ "Holly Thorpe | Fulbright Scholar Program". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Holly Thorpe". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  10. ^ McFadden, Suzanne (19 November 2021). "Finding a balance: Are Kiwi women coping with Covid?". Newsroom. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
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