Dr Katie Liston

Overview

Dr Katie Liston has worked in the Irish and UK higher education sectors since 1998. She completed her PhD in sociology at University College Dublin and was the first academic to examine the experiences of elite sportswomen on the island of Ireland. She joined Ulster University in 2008 as part of the teaching and research team in the social sciences of sport and she is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Liston is a senior researcher in the Sport and Exercise Sciences Research Institute and a core member of the Centre for Sport in Society. She specialises in the analysis of the links between sport and identity from single and interdisciplinary perspectives. This work includes, but is not limited, to the study of pain and injury, national identity and Irish-British relations, gender and online harms. She supervises full- and part-time doctoral researchers at Ulster University, Nottingham Trent University and Technological University of the Shannon.

Katie is co-chair of míde: an All-Island Research Collective for Women in Sport, Health and Exercise (míderesearch.com) and she has acted as external examiner at a number of UK HEIs.
Dr Liston is a former elite athlete. Her sporting background includes national and international sporting honours (in Gaelic football, rugby union, athletics and football/soccer) and wide-ranging administrative, management and coaching experience as well as voluntary advisory roles on various strategic committees.

She is also Director of Inspire Education and a regular contributor to print, online and radio outlets on the island of Ireland.