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 also 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 and is one of the co-founders of BRÍD: All-Island Research Centre for Women in Sport.

Dr Liston is a former elite athlete whose sporting background includes national and international honours in team sports (Gaelic football, rugby union and football/soccer) and wide-ranging administrative, management and coaching experience. She is also Director of Inspire Education and a regular media contributor to various print and radio outlets on the island of Ireland.