Hannah Newman

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Research Fellow at University of Hertfordshire

The general and sport psychology research converge to point to a complex relationship between depressive experiences and human performance. The purpose of this study was to explore the depressive experiences of top level athletes and the relationship of such experiences with sport performance. Twelve autobiographies of elite athletes representing e...

Introduction This exploratory literature review seeks to examine the literature around commissioning processes in the co‐production of health and care services, focusing on two questions: How do health and care commissioning processes facilitate and/or pose barriers to co‐production in service design and delivery? What are the contextual factors th...

This article examines three divergent constructions about the salience of legal gender in lay people’s everyday lives and readiness to decertify gender. In our interviews (and survey data), generally participants minimised the importance of legal gender. The central argument in this article is that feminist socio-legal scholars applying legal consc...

The gender diverse community face numerous barriers that make physical activity difficult to access meaning they are less physically active than their cisgender counterparts, compounding existing health and wellbeing inequalities experience by this group. The current study conducted a systematic review of sporadic literature relating to trans, non-...

The meaning and significance of gender is currently a focus of heated and, often, polarised debate in the UK and elsewhere. This article provides a new perspective in the gender debate through focused exploration of UK-based non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform. Binary gender/sex systems, such as the legal gender system...

The Future of Legal Gender (FLaG) project is interested in examining the implications, for a wide range of stakeholders, of changing how legal sex/gender is regulated in England and Wales. In this article, we explore the views of 'the wider public' as manifest in responses to our 'Attitudes to Gender' survey (n=3,101), which ran October to December...

Previous research on depression in sport focuses on three main risk factors: concussion, injury, and overtraining. In recent years, a number of international cricketers have publicly reported their experiences of depression that were largely not due to these three risk factors. Media coverage has led to debate on whether it is the nature of cricket...