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Overview

Eric Anderson is affiliated with the University of Winchester in the United Kingdom and conducts research predominantly within the social sciences and medicine. Their scholarly contributions encompass a range of topics that intersect sports, gender, and society, with a notable emphasis on injury epidemiology and prevention as well as LGBTQ health and identity.

Their recent publications include:

  • Imposing Compulsory Rugby Union on Schoolchildren: An Analysis of English State-Funded Secondary Schools (2022, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living)
  • Conceptualising organisational cultural lag: Marriage equality and Australian sport (2021, Journal of Sociology)
  • An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League's support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign (2022, Sport in Society)
  • Inclusive masculinity and Czechia youth (2021, International Sociology)
  • Sport Structured Brain Trauma is Child Abuse (2023, Sport Ethics and Philosophy)

Their work extensively covers the following main topics:

  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Sports injuries and prevention
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention

Anderson's research spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Gender Studies
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Epidemiology
  • Social Psychology
  • Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their work are:

  • John Batten
  • Jack Hardwicke
  • Keith Parry
  • Adam White
  • Rory Magrath

The publication venues most commonly featuring their research include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Sport in Society
  • Journal Of Science & Cycling
  • Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education
  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Best Publications

  • Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities

    Eric Anderson

  • Openly Gay Athletes Contesting Hegemonic Masculinity in a Homophobic Environment

    Eric Anderson

  • Orthodox and Inclusive Masculinity: Competing Masculinities among Heterosexual Men in a Feminized Terrain:

    Eric Anderson

  • Inclusive Masculinity Theory: overview, reflection and refinement

    Eric Anderson;Mark McCormack

  • In the Game : Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity

    Eric Anderson

  • Establishing and Challenging Masculinity: The Influence of Gendered Discourses in Organized Sport:

    Adrian Adams;Eric Anderson;Mark Mccormack

  • Inclusive Masculinity in a Fraternal Setting

    Eric Anderson

  • Inclusive masculinity theory and the gendered politics of men's rugby

    Eric Anderson;Rhidian McGuire

  • 'I used to think women were weak:' Orthodox masculinity, gender-segregation and sport

    Eric Anderson

  • “Being Masculine is not About who you Sleep with...:” Heterosexual Athletes Contesting Masculinity and the One-time Rule of Homosexuality

    Eric Anderson

  • ‘It’s Just Not Acceptable Any More’: The Erosion of Homophobia and the Softening of Masculinity at an English Sixth Form:

    Mark McCormack;Eric Anderson

  • Updating the Outcome Gay Athletes, Straight Teams, and Coming Out in Educationally Based Sport Teams

    Eric Anderson

  • The Maintenance of Masculinity Among the Stakeholders of Sport

    Eric D. Anderson

  • Examining Media Contestation of Masculinity and Head Trauma in the National Football League

    Eric Anderson;Edward M. Kian

  • The Influence of Declining Homophobia on Men’s Gender in the United States: An Argument for the Study of Homohysteria

    Mark McCormack;Eric Anderson

  • Sport, Theory and Social Problems: A Critical Introduction

    Eric Anderson

  • Cuddling and Spooning: Heteromasculinity and Homosocial Tactility among Student-athletes

    Eric Anderson;Mark McCormack

  • 21st Century Jocks: Sporting Men and Contemporary Heterosexuality

    Eric Anderson

  • ‘Charlie Is So Cool Like’: Authenticity, Popularity and Inclusive Masculinity on YouTube:

    Max Morris;Eric Anderson

  • Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and American Sporting Oppression: Examining Black and Gay Male Athletes

    Eric Anderson;Mark McCormack

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality

    Jennifer Hargreaves;Eric Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Allyson M Pollock
Allyson M Pollock Newcastle University

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