Jessica Francombe-webb
Department for Health
University of Bath
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Jessica Francombe-Webb is a lecturer in sport and physical culture in the Department for health. Jessica completed her PhD at the University of Bath and was employed as a lecturer in 2011. She teaches on the BA Sport and Social Sciences programme and is the co-convenor of the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing research group within the Department for Health. Her research draws from the discipline of feminist physical cultural studies in order to explore the contested politics of the (in)active body in relation to health, physical activity, body size, and appearance. Her interests in these areas pertain to issues of power, gender, social class, race, (dis)ability across the lifespan, as well as the impact of the media and technology in everyday life. In order to understand the complex experiences of individuals' everyday lives Jessica uses a variety of innovative and creative qualitative research methodologies and her work has been published in a variety of interdisciplinary journals from Sociology (Young Girls’ Embodied Experiences of Femininity & Social Class), to Leisure Studies (Learning to Leisure: Femininity & Practices of the Body) and Television & New Media (Critically Encountering Exer-games & Young Femininity) Jessica is the Associate Editor of Leisure Sciences and on the editorial board for the Sociology of Sport Journal.
Research Interest
Research interests Sport & Physical Activity Physical Cultural Studies Feminist Poststructuralism Health & Wellbeing Subjectivities
Publications
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Fullagar, S., Rich, E. and Francombe-Webb, J., 2017. New kinds of (ab)normal? Public pedagogies, affect and youth mental health in the digital age. Social Sciences, 6 (3), 99.
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Francombe-Webb, J., 2017. Methods that move:exer-gaming and embodied experiences of femininity. In: Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body. London, U. K.: Routledge.
