Journal Articles
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.
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, ISBN: 9780367423667.
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, ISBN: 9781138838185. 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.
