6th October 2023
GUSA Vice President Sarah Headley and Health and Performance Convenor Chloe Drew discuss the need to celebrate female-identifying athletes and encourage female participation in sport during Women in Sport week. Women in Sports week is a crucial and important event in the University calendar. It’s a time when the focus is really on female athletes ...
22nd February 2023
With the rapid growth of women’s sport in the UK from grassroots to professional level, more women should consider coaching. I have been involved in playing different sports since I was a young child. And apart from when I played club and county netball, where there were more women involved in the coaching than men—although ...
22nd February 2023
The Glasgow Guardian unpacks the problematic values embedded in the sporting industry, which favours cishet masculinity. Strength is a word often associated with sports. A vital component, one may argue. This correlation has often resulted in sporting events becoming environments dominated by heterosexual masculinity. The aftermath of this is a depreciation of marginalised groups, who ...
20th September 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing interviews his mother, Bend It Like Beckham’s co-writer Guljit Bindra, about its effect on women’s sport. Bend It Like Beckham is now 20 years old. It has since become the only film to be officially distributed in every country in the world, inspiring sports players and sports journalists alike. Through the ...
3rd December 2021
Deputy Science and Tech Editor, Izzy Sinanian, gives us tips about how to stay safe when running at night. Up until last year I despised running and to this day, there is still nothing more off-putting to me than running on a treadmill at 2 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon. Oddly specific, I know. Before ...
27th October 2021
Sports Editor Claire Thomson discusses the educating and empowering occasion. 25-31 October 2021 marks the fifth annual Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week. For many of us, women in sport is an issue close to our hearts, with every single female athlete facing adversity on a daily basis. Created by Scottish Women in Sport ...
