Monday 31st January 2022 at 18:00 GMT | 19:00 CET Our Special Guest for our January FCN | European Sports Leadership & Coaching Network is Stephanie Hilborne OBE Stephanie Hilborne is the CEO of Women in Sport; a charity based… Read More »FCN | Euro Network Webinar: Stephanie Hilborne OBE
Following the publication of the research paper “Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching”, Professor Leanne Norman (and Richard Simpson) have published the open paper: Gendered microaggressions towards the “only” women coaches in high-performance sport. Professor Leanne Norman posted… Read More »Gendered microaggressions towards the “only” women coaches in high-performance sport
Our November 2021 guest for our FCN | European Sports Leadership & Coaching Network – Jane Figueiredo. Jane is a Diving Coach, best known for coaching the British sporting superstar Tom Daley, who won Gold alongside partner Matty Lee at… Read More »FCN | Euro Network Webinar: Jane Figueirdo
As founders of organisations with backgrounds in athletics, we have lived experience of the suffering and trauma within the athletics community caused and perpetuated by antiquated systems that did not have our athletes’ safety and protection at their heart. Through… Read More »A Joint message from Kyniska and the Female Coaching Network in support of UKA and CEO Joanna Coates.
Since the launch of our research project published in February 2021, we have been working alongside UK Athletics and a number of track & field coaches to support an understanding of it’s findings. We are pleased to announce that as… Read More »FCN and UK Athletics Work Together to Achieve Gender Equity in Athletics Coaching
UK Athletics and the Female Coaching Network are inviting all coaches to attend a ‘Let’s Talk About Gender in Coaching” webinar series in August 2021. UKA and FCN are hosting a number of webinar discussions for all coaches who have… Read More »Let’s Talk About Gender in Coaching
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. Representatives from each of the four home countries and UK Athletics were interviewed to explore their perspective and approaches towards the issue of gender equity within their high-performance coaching… Read More »Research Findings: NGB Approach is Fixing the Woman, not the System
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. The impact of the cultural and systemic issues have also impacted on the value ascribed to women by their governing bodies. There were a few examples of the coaches… Read More »Research Findings: Undervalued and Exploited within the System
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. This was a significant and recurrent theme across of all the 17 interviews. Professions have certain characteristics that differentiate them from crafts, occupations, or trades. It is not possible… Read More »Research Findings: A Lack of Professionalisation within High Performance Coaching
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. In addition to a feeling of being in the minority, many of the women described how gendered assumptions still shape the coaching culture across the NGBs and clubs. Such… Read More »Research Findings: Gendered Assumptions