SURE

Amanda West taught at the University of Northumbria and the University of Cumbria before commencing employment at the University of Sunderland in 2010. Amanda’s main teaching areas are the sociology of sport and research methods. She has taught modules about sport and social theory, sport equity, sport and the media and sport and social issues. academic discipline is sociology and she has a broad interest in qualitative and quantitative research methods and methodology. Amanda is currently researching the meanings attached to risk by adventure sport participants utilising Mary Douglas’s theoretical treatise about risk and identity. She is also examining climbing habitus (after Pierre Bourdieu), physicality and the intersections of age and gender. Further work about risk is planned in relation to mothers and primary school age children’s constructions of risk in connection with outdoor play. This study is a collaborative study with Dr Linda Allin (University of Northumbria).