Role
Dr Taylor is a Lecturer in Sociology of Sport. She is the course leader for the first-year Sport, Culture, and Society module. She also supervises dissertation students on topics relating to media representation of female athletes and also physical education in schools.
Research areas
Media representation of female athletes in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Women's involvement in American football as players and coaches.
External activity
Trustee British Society of Sports History (Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Representative)
Publications
- Katie Taylor, ‘“The first woman football coach…”: A Media Study of Female American Football Coaches, 1888-1946,’ Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2027492.
- Dunja Antunovic, Katie Taylor, Macauley Watt, and Andrew Linden, ‘“Getting Noticed, Respected, and Supported”: Mediated (In)visibilities of Women’s American Football in the United States,’ in The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport: Issues and Debates, ed. Ali Bowes and Alex Culvin (Emerald Publishing: Bingley). September 2021.
- Katie Taylor, Andrew Linden, and Dunja Antunovic, ‘“From Beach Nymph to Gridiron Amazon”: Media Coverage of Women in American Football, 1934-1979,’ Communication & Sport 9, no. 3 (2021): 458-475.
- Katie Taylor, ‘“Here’s the Football Heroine”: Female American Football Players, 1890-1912,’ Sport in History 40, no. 4 (2020): 576-596.
Press expertise
Media representation of female athletes
Female American football players
Female American football coaches
Course(s) I teach on
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Undergraduate | Full-time / Sandwich | 2023
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/science-and-technology/ug/bsc-hons-sport-science-and-management
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Undergraduate | Full-time / Sandwich | 2023
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/science-and-technology/ug/bsc-hons-sport-and-exercise-science
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Undergraduate | Full-time | 2023
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/science-and-technology/ug/bsc-hons-exercise-nutrition-and-health