Dr Helen Owton

“Oh Shit!” Moments: Motorcycling, “Thrownness,” and the Startle Effect (2022-10-01)
Owton, Helen
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 22(5) (pp. 513-519)

Quest for Freedom: Intense Embodied Experiences of Motorcycling (2022)
Owton, Helen
Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 22(2) (pp. 154-162)

Experiences of asthma in the UK-resident adult South Asian population: a qualitative study (2021)
Yusuf, ZK; Wensley, D; Singh, SJ; Owton, H and Allen-Collinson, JAC
Thorax, 76, Article A88-A89

Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon (2019-11-01)
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Jennings, George; Vaittinen, Anu and Owton, Helen
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 54(7) (pp. 777-792)

Attracting and Retaining Boys in Ballet: A Qualitative Study of Female Dance Teachers (2019)
Clegg, Helen; Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Journal of Dance Education, 19(4) (pp. 158-167)

Exploring Lived Heat, “Temperature Work,” and Embodiment: Novel Auto/Ethnographic Insights from Physical Cultures (2018-06-01)
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Vaittinen, Anu; Jennings, George and Owton, Helen
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 47(3) (pp. 283-305)

Sorry (2018)
Owton, Helen
Journal of Poetry Therapy, 31(1) (pp. 68-69)

Challenging conceptions of gender: UK dance teachers’ perceptions of boys and girls in the ballet studio (2018)
Clegg, Helen; Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Research in Dance Education, 19(2) (pp. 128-139)

Sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport: Bella’s story. (2017)
Owton, Helen and Sparkes, Andrew C.
Sport, Education and Society, 22(6) (pp. 732-743)

‘It stays with you’: multiple evocative representations of dance and future possibilities for studies in sport and physical cultures (2017)
Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 9(1) (pp. 49-55)

A/r/tographic inquiry in sport and exercise research: A pilot study examining methodology versatility, feasibility and participatory opportunities (2017)
McMahon, Jennifer; MacDonald, Abbey and Owton, Helen
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 7(4) (pp. 403-417)

The cool stuff!: Gender, dance and masculinity (2016-10)
Clegg, Helen; Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Psychology of Women Section Review, 18(2) (pp. 6-16)

“I wanted to be Darcey Bussell”: Motivations and expectations of female dance teachers (2016-10)
Owton, Helen; Clegg, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 22 (pp. 55-64)

Conformers, contesters, creators: vignettes of asthma identities and sporting embodiment (2016-09-01)
Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 51(6) (pp. 699-714)

A Father’s Son (2016-09)
Owton, Helen
Qualitative Inquiry, 22(7) (pp. 559-560)

Response [refers to Lucy Gibson, Jessica Kearney, Lucy Everson, Jonny Coppel, Rahul Chodhari, Childhood Asthma: A Narrative Approach (2016)
Owton, Helen; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn and Siriwardena, Niro
Chest, 149(1) (p 283)

Opening up dialogues and airways: using vignettes in research to enrich asthma understandings in sport and exercise (2016)
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Owton, Helen and Crust, Lee
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 8(4) (pp. 352-364)

Tough Old Boots (2016)
Owton, Helen
Psychology of Women Section Review, 18(1)

In conversation with… Lara A. King (2016)
Owton, Helen
Psychology of Women Section Review, 18(1)

A student-parent international experience. (2015-09)
Owton, Helen
Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 20 (pp. 15-17)

Using a narrative approach to enhance clinical care for patients with asthma (2015-07)
Owton, Helen; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn and Siriwardena, Niroshan
Chest, 148(1) (pp. 288-293)

Performative embodiment and unravelling grandparent-grandchild relationships (2015-06)
Owton, Helen
Qualitative Inquiry, 21(5) (pp. 426-435)

Intense embodiment: senses of heat in women’s running and boxing (2015-06)
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn and Owton, Helen
Body & Society, 21(2) (pp. 245-268)

Take a deep breath: Asthma, sporting embodiment and ‘auditory work’ (2014-10)
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn and Owton, Helen
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 49(5) (pp. 592-608)

Close but not too close: friendship as method(ology) in ethnographic research encounters. (2014-06)
Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 43(3) (pp. 283-305)

“It’s my dream to work with Olympic athletes”: neophyte sport psychologists' expectations and initial experiences regarding service delivery (2014-05-08)
Owton, Helen; Bond, Katherine and Tod, David
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 26(3) (pp. 241-255)

Emerging feminisms (2014-05)
Owton, Helen
Psychology of Women Section Review, 16(1)

Team mums: team sport experiences of athletic mothers (2014-04)
Batey, Jo and Owton, Helen
Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 22(1) (pp. 30-36)

Book review: Playing with purpose: Adventures in performative social science (2014-02)
Owton, Helen
Feminism and Psychology, 24(1) (pp. 136-141)

A review of the Brunel International Research Network for Athlete Welfare (BIRNAW) International Symposium (2014)
Owton, Helen
Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology Review, 10(3) (pp. 107-109)

Book review: Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (2014)
Owton, Helen
Journal of Poetry Therapy, 27(3) (pp. 157-160)

Book review: Advances in Visual Methodology (2014)
Owton, Helen
Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11(1) (pp. 115-117)

Integrating multiple representations: fighting asthma (2013-10)
Owton, Helen
Qualitative Inquiry, 19(8) (pp. 600-603)

Interfacing with older LGBT citizens (2013-09)
Owton, Helen
Psychology of Women Section Review, 15(2) (pp. 73-74)

Ecotherapy: Healing with nature in mind (2013-07-04)
Owton, Helen
European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 15(3) (pp. 300-302)

Narrative affinities of the lived experiences of asthma and sporting embodiment (2013-07)
Owton, Helen
Leisure Studies Association Newsletter(95) (pp. 30-36)

Beyond the book: new forms of academic communication (2013-05-01)
Owton, Helen
QmiP Bulletin(15) (pp. 42-45)

Transformational (the sporting self and the onset of asthma) (2013-04-19)
Owton, Helen
Sociological Imagination

Conference review: The State of Play in Women's Sport: The Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference 2012 (2013-02)
Owton, Helen
Sport & Exercise Psychology Review, 9(1)

Events review: Beyond the Book: New Forms of Academic Communicating, London School of Economics and Political Science, 28 February 2013 (2013)
Owton, Helen
QMiP Bulletin(15)

Streams of bereavement (2012-06)
Owton, Helen
Qualitative Inquiry, 18(5) (pp. 438-441)

A Review of Innovative QMiP performances at the BPS Annual Conference (2012)
Owton, Helen
QMiP Bulletin(14)

Granny's Memoirs: He thought it was paradise (2011-06)
Owton, Helen
Qualitative Inquiry, 17(5) (pp. 459-460)

Doing Poetic inquiry (2017)
Owton, Helen
Palgrave Pivot
ISBN : ISBN 978-3-319-64576-6 | Publisher : Palgrave

Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study (2016-11-26)
Owton, Helen
ISBN : 978-3319467948 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : London

Studying as a Parent: A Handbook for Success (2014-09)
Owton, Helen
Palgrave Student to Student
ISBN : 9781137330574 | Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan | Published : Basingstoke

Athlete Domestic Violence: contaminating acts and the violation of self-boundaries (2017)
Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
In: Milner, Adrienne and Braddock, II, J.H. eds. Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles (pp. 185-202)
Publisher : ABC-CLIO

Reinventing the body-self: intense, gendered and heightened sensorial experiences of women's boxing embodiment. (2015-08)
Owton, Helen
In: Channon, Alexander and Matthews, Christopher R. eds. Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sport: Women Warriors around the world. Global Culture and Sport Series (pp. 221-236)
ISBN : 9781137439352 | Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan | Published : Basingstoke

P43 Experiences of asthma in the UK-resident adult South Asian population: a qualitative study (2021-11-08)
Yusuf, Z. K.; Wensley, D.; Owton, Helen; Singh, S. J. and Allen Collinson, J. A. C.
In : British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2021 Online (Wednesday 24 to Friday 26 Nov 2021, Online) (A88-A89)

The video space in sensitive research: Using arts based methods (2017-05-02)
Owton, Helen
In : The Annual British Psychological Society Conference (3-5 May 2017, Hilton Metropole, Brighton, UK)

Representing taboos in sport: Video representation (2016-08-30)
Owton, Helen
In : 5th International Conference in Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (30 Aug - 01 Sep 2016)

The coolness of dance and masculinity (2016-08)
Owton, Helen; Clegg, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
In : 5th International Conference in Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (30 Aug - 01 Sep 2016, University of Chichester, UK)

Visual Methods Workshop (2016-08)
Owton, Helen
In : 5th International Conference in Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (30 Aug - 01 Sep 2016)

Slow moving arts-based methods in sport (2016-07)
Owton, Helen
In : Psychology of Women's Section Annual Conference (6-8 Jul 2016, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor)

"I want to be a ballet teacher just like you": Gendered Tensions in Dance (2016)
Owton, Helen and Clegg, Helen
In : Gender and Inequalities in Sport Conference (17 Mar 2016, Milton Keynes, UK)

Performative female boxing embodiment (2015-06)
Owton, Helen
In : Martial Arts Studies Conference (11-12 Jun 2015, Cardiff University)

“You are very special you know”: sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport (2015)
Owton, Helen and Sparkes, Andrew
In : BPS Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference (8-10 Jul 2015, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor)

Bella’s Story: Sexual abuse in sport. A video representation of child sexual abuse in sport (2015)
Owton, Helen
In : Psychology of Women’s Section Conference (8-10 Jul 2015, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor)

Reinventing the female body-self: transcending gender roles and bodily investment in women’s boxing embodiment (2015)
Owton, Helen
In : QMiP Conference 2015 (2-4 Sep 2015, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)

Video representation as literature review: child sexual abuse in sport (2015)
Owton, Helen
In : Qualitative Methods in Psychology (Sep 2015, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)

Using social media to raise your profile (2015)
Heaney, Caroline and Owton, Helen
In : Faculty of Education and Language Studies Learning and Teaching Conference, Open University, Milton Keynes (7 Oct 2015, Milton Keynes)

It’s scary, scary, scary …”: the lived experience of asthma. (2015)
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Owton, Helen and Siriwardena, Aloysius Niroshan
In : Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust and University of Lincoln Research Forum (25 Jun 2015, University of Lincoln)

The lived experiences of asthma in sportspeople: phenomenological perspectives (2013-12-01)
Owton, H. and Allen-Collinson, J.
In : Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust Research Forum (01 Dec 2013, Sleaford)

Close but not too close (2013)
Owton, H. and Allen-Collinson, J.
In : Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section Conference 2013: Making a difference, making ourselves known (04-06 Sep 2013, Huddersfield University)

Narrative art of sporting women with asthma (2012)
Owton, Helen
In : BPS Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference (11-13 Jul 2012, Windsor. UK)

Interviewing 'Granny': balancing the researcher self and the family self (2011)
Owton, H.
In : BPS Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference (13-15 Jul 2011, Windsor. UK)

Investigating the biographical and lived experiences of (sports) people with asthma: 'Contesters, Conformers, and Creators' (2011)
Owton, H.
In : 26th PsyPAG Annual Conference (6-8 Jul 2011, University of Bangor)

Problematising the mode of inquiry (2011)
Owton, H.
In : 26th PsyPAG Annual Conference (6-8 Jul 2011, University of Bangor)

The 'Coolness' of Sport Psychology (2010)
Owton, H.; Bond, K. and Day, M.
In : British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Student Conference (2010, Aberystwyth University)

Granny’s story: Trauma, dance, (smoking & drinking) and chronic illness (2010)
Owton, Helen
In : 6th Meeting of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport (26-27 Nov 2010, University of Bath)

Breathing battles and sensory embodiment in sports and physical cultures
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn and Owton, Helen
In : Research Group at Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (Dec 2021, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale)

The Thrill of Motorcycling: Quest for Flow (2021-09)
Owton, Helen
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-Sport/?p=2721

Interview with Austrian Radio [radio FM4] (2019-06-06)
Owton, Helen
ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk)

Austria Radio interview on Women's EURO 2017 (2017-07-26)
Owton, Helen
Radio FM 4

Women’s Euro 2017 football preview - all you need to know (2017-07-13)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Pro athletes are helping victims report sexual abuse in youth soccer (2016-12-02)
Owton, Helen
Good Magazine

We must challenge the culture of silence about child sexual abuse in football (2016-11-25)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

How universities can help to support student-parents (2016-09-28)
Owton, Helen
Times Higher Education

Why are Olympic athletes copping so much abuse? It all comes down to gender (2016-08-15)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Adam Johnson guilty: Why is there so much depravity in football? (2016-03-03)
Owton, Helen
International Business Times

Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be ‘stars' (2016-03-01)
Owton, Helen and Lazard, Lisa
The Conversation

Why Tyson Fury’s sexist and homophobic comments make him unfit for BBC Sports Personality of the Year (2015-12-07)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Paralympians makes waves on the world stage but disability reform is badly needed (2015-10-26)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Polluted host cities are putting our champion athletes at risk (2015-09-08)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

The astonishing comebacks at the Athletics World Championships (2015-08-24)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

The young dancer of the year misses the pointe about gender (2015-07-21)
Owton, Helen and Clegg, Helen
The Psychology of Women Section Blog

The psychology behind women footballers' remarkable resilience (2015-07-06)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Sport can help with your asthma if you learn how to listen to your body (2015-06-29)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Is the not-so beautiful men’s game putting people off women’s football? (2015-06-26)
Owton, Helen and Doidge, Mark
The Conversation

Learning from Bella’s Story [Video Abstract] (2015-06-25)
Owton, Helen
YouTube

Gains for women at European Games eclipsed by Azerbaijan’s appalling human rights record (2015-06-19)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Women’s World Cup preview: what you need to know (2015-06-05)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Women’s World Cup primes for kick-off amid corruption allegations at FIFA (2015-05-28)
Owton, Helen
The Conversation

Take a deep breath: Asthma and auditory work [Video abstract] (2015-05-01)
Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
YouTube

Intense embodiment: Senses of Heat [Video Abstract] (2015-04-20)
Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
YouTube

Studying at university as a single mother (2014-09-26)
Owton, Helen
BigChoice Group Limited

Unlocking single parents’ potential for studying (2014-09-26)
Owton, Helen
Gingerbread

Close but not too close: friendship as method(ology) in ethnographic research encounters (2014)
Owton, Helen and Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Sage [Podcast]

Sexual abuse in sport: a video literature review (2013-09-22)
Owton, Helen
YouTube

Love (2013-04-12)
Owton, Helen
Sociological Imagination