In this month's WBE Alice discusses the benefits that group running can have for our social well-being. A topic that inspired her Masters Project.
Alice FoxApril 9, 2025
With Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month coming up, we invited Jennifer LaRocco from Cerebral Palsy Guidance to share a little bit about her own experience growing up with CP, and how sports is becoming more accessible to people with CP.
Hannah ScottFebruary 5, 2025
We're back with the Wellbeing Edit and a new expert, Alice Fox has taken over from Dr Sarah Morton. This month's edition is about the steps to making your wellbeing resolutions stick.
Alice FoxJanuary 22, 2025
Dr Sarah Morton rounds out her Wellbeing edit series, with the best ways of staying fit over the winter.
Hannah ScottDecember 6, 2024
In my last Edit I explored women in sport and physical activity across the life course, discussing how engagement with, and approaches to, can change over the years. With these changes often being linked to different life events. For every woman, the experiences will be different, some of these events will happen at different age-points, some perhaps won’t happen at all. Some of the more complex life events, such as the death of a spouse, can have profound effects on a woman’s life. In the context of sport and physical activity, an event such as this could encourage one to…
scottishwomeninsportOctober 21, 2024
Encouraging Women in Sport and Physical Activity Across the Life course. October in Scotland is spectacular – the landscape glows with colour from the changing leaves on the trees, the heather blooming on the hills, the stormy pink sunsets, and if you’re lucky – you may even catch a glimpse of the northern lights – also locally known as the Mirrie Dancers. It’s a wonderful time of the year to take time to get outside and move! October is also an important month for promoting and raising awareness for women in sport. It’s Breast Cancer Awareness month; Menopause Awareness month;…
scottishwomeninsportOctober 21, 2024
In the second edition of The Wellbeing Edit, Dr Sarah Morton discusses how overall wellness can be positively impacted by regular exercise and how this is easier than you'd think.
scottishwomeninsportJune 5, 2024
We wanted to get in on the action in the wake of Rossvale's Women's team being promoted to SPL2, so we spoke to some of the key players in the women's first team, their coaches and Billy Stevenson, head of development and operations on the achievements of the season and their plans going forward.
Hannah ScottMay 27, 2024
Dr Sarah Morton is a researcher with the University of Edinburgh at their institute of Sport. She is now part of the digital committee with us at Scottish Women in Sport, this is part of her regular column called the Wellbeing Edit where she'll share her own research findings and that of others on a whole host of topics... So, stay tuned for more
Hannah ScottMay 6, 2024
