Journal Articles

Gray, S, Stirrup, J, Hooper, O, Bryant, A, Sandford, R, Carse, N, Hardley, S (2024) A critical endeavour? Supporting teachers’ journeys towards critical engagement with curriculum in physical education through cross-border dialogue, Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, ISSN: 2574-2981.

Stirrup, J, Aldous, D, Gray, S, Sandford, R, Hooper, O, Hardley, S, Bryant, AS, Carse, NR (2023) Exploring the re-legitimisation of messages for health and physical education within contemporary English and Welsh curricula reform, Sport, Education and Society, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2023.2240822.

Gray, S, Hardley, S, Bryant, A, Hooper, O, Stirrup, J, Sandford, R, Aldous, D, Carse, N (2023) Exploring physical education teachers’ conceptualisations of health and wellbeing discourse across the four nations of the UK, Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 15(1), pp.1-23, ISSN: 2574-2981. DOI: 10.1080/25742981.2023.2176242.

Hobson, MR, Sandford, R, Stirrup, J, Wiltshire, G (2022) Social class and the cultivation of capital: undergraduate PE students’ socialisation in sport and physical activity, Sport, Education and Society, 29(3), pp.267-281, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2022.2146084.

Gray, S, Hooper, O, Hardley, S, Sandford, R, Stirrup, J, Aldous, D, Carse, N, Bryant, A (2022) A health(y) subject? Examining discourses of health in physical education curricula across the UK, British Educational Research Journal, 48(6), pp.1161-1182, ISSN: 0141-1926. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3820.

Gray, S, Sandford, R, Stirrup, J, Aldous, D, Hardley, S, Carse, N, Hooper, O, Bryant, A (2021) A comparative analysis of discourses shaping physical education provision within and across the UK, European Physical Education Review, 28(3), pp.575-593, ISSN: 1356-336X. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X211059440.

Stirrup, J (2018) Performance pedagogy at play: pupils perspectives on primary PE, Sport, Education and Society, 25(1), pp.14-26, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2018.1554562.

Stirrup, J, Evans, J, Davies, B (2017) Learning one's place and position through play: social class and educational opportunity in Early Years Education, International Journal of Early Years Education, ISSN: 0142-5692. DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2017.1329712.

Stirrup, J (2017) ‘They are too young to understand health' a researchers reflexive account of researching with under fives, Sport, Education and Society, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2017.1376639.

Stirrup, J, Evans, J, Davies, B (2016) Early Years Learning, play pedagogy and social class, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(6), pp.872-886, ISSN: 0142-5692. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2016.1182010.

Stirrup, J (2016) 'How do you feel? What is your heart doing?'.. 'It’s jumping': the body and health in Early Years Education (EYE), Sport Education and Society, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1259613.

Stirrup, J, Duncombe, R, Sandford, R (2014) ‘Intensive mothering’ in the early years: the cultivation and consolidation of (physical) capital, Sport, Education and Society, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2014.941797.

Conferences

Stirrup, J and Evans, J (2014) Embodying Bernstein: early years learning (EYL), social class and the corporeal device. In 8th International Basil Bernstein Symposium, Nazan University Japan.

Chapters

Stirrup, J and Damant, E (2021) Health, physical education and the curriculum. In Critical Pedagogies in Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health, pp.14-26.

Stirrup, J and Evans, J (2016) Early years learning (EYL), class and ability. In Families, Young People, Physical Activity and Health: Critical Perspectives, pp.139-152, DOI: 10.4324/9781315734576-11.

Reports

Stirrup, J, Hooper, O, Norrito, A, Mason, C, Bradbury, S (2023) Marginalised youth and organised grassroots sport: Promoting retention and reducing dropout, The IOC Olympic Studies Centre Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme.

Coates, J, Pharoah, L, Costa, S, Stirrup, J (2023) Youth Sport Trust: early years physical activity review, Youth Sport Trust.