Journal Articles
Carse, N, Gray, S,
Stirrup, J, Bryant, A, Hardley, S, Hooper, O, Sandford, R (2026)
Crossing borders in UK PE: teachers’ purposes, practices, and becoming through a complexity lens,
Sport, Education and Society, pp.1-15, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI:
10.1080/13573322.2026.2711112.
Carl, J, Barnett, LM, Jerebine, A, Mazzoli, E, Mouton, A, Barratt, J, Elsborg, P, Green, N, Niederberger, M, Sum, RKW, Zulkifli, AF, Zito, V, Yıldızer, G, Wongpipit, W, Wei, FM, Walter, C, Wainwright, N, Venetsanou, F, Vašíčková, J, van Hilvoorde, I, Valadi, S, Trabelsi, O, Töpfer, C, Ava, AT, Suzuki, K,
Stirrup, J, Smith, T, Smith, S, Singh, A, Siegel, S, Semyonova, M, Schnitzler, C, Salin, K, Sabaté, I, Riley, K, Riga, V, du Randt, R, Pushkarenko, K, Popeska, B, Pesce, C, Pavlova, I, Palmeira, A, Dev, RDO, Okech, S, Nqweniso, S, Noble, S, Naik, S, Müller, I, Mitchell, D, Martins, J, Malik, A, Mahendra, A, Lyngstad, I, Luptáková, G, Lundvall, S, López-Gil, JF, López-Alonzo, SJ, Longmuir, P, Liu, Y, Leiss, D, Kriellaars, D, Kirkeby, M, Keegan, R, Jeon, J, Jean, K, James, M, Houser, N, Holler, P, Heck, S, Hamdani, SG, Goss, H, Gilic, B, Foweather, L, Farrag, M, Estevan, I, Englén, T, Emeljanovas, A, Durden-Myers, L, Duncan, M, Dudley, D, Dolley, D, Dlugonski, D, Davies, K, Christodoulides, E, Carcamo-Oyarzun, J, Campbell, F, Camara, PM, Cairney, J, Bryan, C, Brian, A, Brazo-Sayavera, J, Bopp, T, Battista, R, Filho, VB, Aguilar-Farias, N (2026)
The Global Physical Literacy Action Framework: Process and Outcomes,
Sports Medicine, ISSN: 0112-1642. DOI:
10.1007/s40279-026-02485-6.
Gray, S,
Stirrup, J, McFlynn, P, Sandford, R, Hooper, O, Hardley, S (2026)
Physical education (PE) in Northern Ireland: conceptualising and structuring PE in a complex landscape,
European Physical Education Review, ISSN: 1356-336X. DOI:
10.1177/1356336X261422966.
Stirrup, J, Gray, S, McFlynn, P, Hardley, S, Bryant, A, Sandford, R, Hooper, O (2025)
Mapping physical education in Northern Ireland: exploring the structure and discourses of the PE curriculum in a segregated school system,
Sport, Education and Society, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI:
10.1080/13573322.2025.2594730.
Hobson, MR, Sandford, R,
Stirrup, J, Wiltshire, G (2025)
Social class and the mobilisation of capital in physical education-related undergraduate programmes,
Sport, Education and Society, pp.1-15, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI:
10.1080/13573322.2025.2559900.
Percival, D, Sandford, R,
Stirrup, J (2025)
More than advocates: Exploring the role of school adults in amplifying the physical education voices of pupils with a severe learning difficulty in a special school in England,
European Physical Education Review, 32(3), pp.443-459, ISSN: 1356-336X. DOI:
10.1177/1356336X251364075.
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, 16(2), pp.205-221, ISSN: 2574-2981. DOI:
10.1080/25742981.2024.2369113.
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, 29(8), pp.939-951, 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 and Damant, E (2014)
Critical Pedagogy, Physical Education and Urban Schooling,
Sport, Education and Society, 19(5), pp.687-689, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI:
10.1080/13573322.2014.927161.
Stirrup, J and Wiltshire, G (2014)
Ethnomethodology at Play,
Sport, Education and Society, 19(4), pp.507-510, ISSN: 1357-3322. DOI:
10.1080/13573322.2013.850768.
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.
