Dr. Holly Thorpe

Professor Holly Thorpe (PhD, University of Otago) is an award-winning sociologist working in Te Huataki Waiora School of Health at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Key themes in her research include gender inequities and female athlete health, and she strives to work across disciplines to better understand the complexities of moving bodies and sporting cultures. She has published over 100 articles and chapters on these topics, and has authored four books and nine edited books. Her most recent books include the co-edited anthology Sport, Physical Culture and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (with Joshua Newman and David Andrews, Rutgers, 2020) and the co-authored Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness: A Lively Entanglement (with Julie Brice and Marianne Clark, Palgrave, 2020). She is co-editor of the Palgrave series New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures (with Kim Toffoletti and Jessica Francombe-Webb). Driven to do research that has real work impact, Professor Thorpe works closely with an array of international and national sports organizations (e.g., International Olympic Committee, High Performance New Zealand, Sport New Zealand, Skateistan) to inform new practices, processes and policy development.