Holly Thorpe (PhD) is Associate Dean Research in the Division of Health and Professor in the School of Sport and Human Movement at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is an award-winning sociologist of sport, physical culture, and gender. She has received Fulbright and Leverhulme Fellowships and, in 2018, was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences and became a Fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
She works closely with national and international sport organisations, including the International Olympic Committee, High Performance Sport New Zealand, and Sport New Zealand. Her research interests include gender, action sports and youth cultures, women athletes’ health and wellbeing, social media and new media technologies, and sport in development and recovery contexts. Most recently her research is focused on the health and wellbeing impacts of extreme weather events, and community sport in a changing climate.
