Loughborough University
Leicestershire, UK
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Loughborough University

School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Di Bass

Di Bass BSc(Hons) MPhil PhD

University Teacher

Contact details

Room: ZZ.1.02
Phone: +44 (0)1509 223276
Fax: +44 (0)1509 226301
Email: D.Bass@lboro.ac.uk

Background

Di came to Loughborough University in 1979 as a mature student after a career in personnel management. She graduated in 1982 with a degree in PE, Sports Science and Recreation Management. then worked part-time as a demonstrator in the department teaching on the undergraduate course. In 1993 she started a part-time MPhil investigating swimming in primary schools and completed this in 1996. Di is now employed full-time as a University Teacher in the PE section at Loughborough and is also assistant coach to the university swimming team. In 2008 she was awarded a PhD for her thesis entitled "The coach-parent-athlete triangle: an investigation in age-group swimming. "

Research Interests

Identity; children in sport; age group swimming.

Selected Publications

Edited Works: Contributions
Kay, T. and Bass, D. (2011 in press). The Family Factor; in Bailey, R. and Stafford, I. Coaching Children in Sport; London:Routledge

Fitzgerald, H. and Bass, D. (2007). Disability, sport and exercise in J. Merchant, B.L.Griffin, A. Charnock (Eds). Sport and Physical Activity. The Role of Health Promotion . Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

Evans, J., Davies, B. and Bass, D., ''More than a Game: Physical Culture Identity and Citizenship in Wales'' , in Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures , Grant Jarvie, Leicester University Press , 1999, pp 131-148, ISBN 0 785 0129 2 .

Journal Papers - Academic Journals
Bass, D. and Cale, L.A., ''Promoting physical activity through the extra-curricular programme'' , European Journal of Physical Education , 4(1) , 1999, 45-64, ISSN 1362 7120
Evans, J., Davies, B., Bass, D. and Penney, D., ''Playing for position: education policy, Physical Education and nationalism in Wales'' , Journal of Education Policy , 12(4) , 1997, 285-302 .

Evans, J., Davies, B., Bass, D. and Penney, D., ''Playing for position: education policy, Physical Education and nationalism in Wales'' , Journal of Education Policy , 124 , 1997, pp. 285-302, ISSN 0268-0939 .

Bass, D. and Hardy, C.A., ''That Sinking Feeling: Swimming in Primary Schools Post the 1988 Education Reform Act'' , European Journal of Physical Education , 2(2) , 1997, pp 178-197, ISSN 1362 7120 .

Davies, B., Evans, J., Penney, D. and Bass, D., ''Physical education and nationalism in Wales'' , The Curriculum Journal , 82, 1997, pp. 249-270, ISSN 0958-5176 .

Journal Papers - Professional Journals
Bass,D. and Hardy, C.A., ''Concerns for swimming in primary schools'' , Swimming Times , LXXIII11 , 1996, pp 27-30 .

You can view a fuller publications list on the University Publications Database.