Jodie Neville Email: jodie.neville2@stu.mmu.ac.uk  Thesis: Female Football Coaches: Revealing, Recording, and Representing an Intangible Cultural Heritage. Manchester Metropolitan University

The collection of oral histories is a critical methodological approach for my project that looks at historic female participation in sports coaching. The activity funded by the NWCDTP was an Introduction to Oral History course, a nationally recognised high-quality training programme delivered by the British Library, National Life Stories and the Oral History Society. The course provided a practical overview of oral history interviewing with sessions on working with memory, recording techniques, documentation, and ethical considerations. By attending this training, I met and connected with fellow researchers using the same methodology. We intend to create a support network to stay in touch and share challenges and solutions. I was also made aware of initiatives that take oral history interviews conducted as part of academic research and turn them into podcast episodes suitable for public consumption. This is an opportunity I hope to explore further as I believe interviews with female coaches have a broad appeal, given the increasing popularity of women’s football since the Lionesses won the Euros. It would be appreciated if made available in the public domain. Having completed this training, I can now spend the remainder of my PhD conducting the necessary oral history interviews. I want to conduct up to ten interviews with twentieth-century female coaches from various sports, emphasising football. If you or anyone you know was a female coach at any point during this period (1900-2000) and you are interested in learning more or participating in this project, then don’t hesitate to get in touch: jodie.neville2@stu.mmu.ac.uk.

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