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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Simon Rea and Dr Jessica Pinchbeck from The Open University and Dr Emma Ross from The Well HQ.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Course image: © Cecilie_Arcurs/iStock

Session 1

Figure 1: Cara-Foto; Shutterstock.com

Figure 2: Alex Pantling / Staff; Getty Images

Section 2 figure: PeopleImages; Getty Images

Section 3 figure: wavebreakmedia; Shutterstock.com

Section 4 figure: wavebreakmedia; Shutterstock.com

Section 6 figure: Sport England; https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Section 7 figure: ESB Professional; Shutterstock.com

Session 2

Introduction figure: Pixel-Shot; Shutterstock.com

Section 1 figure: BBC Sport

Section 3 figure: OneSideProFoto; Shutterstock.com

Section 7 figure: Kaspars Grinvalds; Shutterstock.com

Session 3

Figure 1: Visual Generation; Shutterstock.com

Section 1 figure: Liliia Lysenko; Shutterstock.com

Section 2 figure: Flamingo Images; Shutterstock.com

Section 3 figure: Jerome Scholler; Shutterstock.com

Section 4 figure: H_Ko; Shutterstock.com

Section 5 figure: ESB Professional; Shutterstock.com

Session 4

Introduction figure: Lightspring; Shutterstock.com

Section 2 figure: Chu KyungMin; Shutterstock.com

Figure 1: Jinnicha; Shutterstock.com

Section 6 figure: Fab_1; Shutterstock.com

Section 7 figure: Jacob Lund; Shutterstock.com

Session 5

Introduction figures: NurPhoto / Contributor; Getty Images; Patrick Smith / Staff; Getty Images

Figure 1: Elen Bushe; Shutterstock.com

Section 3 figure: MattLphotography; Shutterstock.com

Section 4 figure: Ekaterina Vidyasova; Shutterstock.com

Section 5 figure: Julian Finney - The FA / Contributor; Getty Images

Figure 2: taken from: https://www.active.com/ Assets/ Women/ 620/ Sports+Bra+Infographic.jpg

Figure 3: The Well HQ, 2021, thewell-hq.com

Section 8 figures: Motortion Films; Shutterstock.com; taken from: https://www.treasureyourchest.org/

Session 6

Figure 1: Singapore Medical Clinic

Figure 2: taken from: An anatomic overview to manspreading campaign; Fig. 5; Mustafa Canbolat; Deniz Senol; Furkan Çevirgen; Davut Ozbag

Section 4 figure: BSR Agency / Contributor; Getty Images

Section 5 figure: Oleksandr Osipov; Shutterstock.com

Section 6 figure: Tefi; Shutterstock.com

Session 7

Introduction figure: KeyStock; Shutterstock.com

Section 1 figure: Ian MacNicol / Stringer; Getty Images

Section 3 figures: mi-viri; Getty Images; diluck/Shutterstock.com; Tefi/ Shutterstock.com; Yurchanka Siarhei/ Shutterstock.com; marrishuanna/Shutterstock.com

Section 5 figure: Jarva Jar/ Shutterstock.com

Figure 3: The Well HQ, 2021, thewell-hq.com

Section 7 figure: nehophoto/Shutterstock.com

Figure 4: Trainbrave

Section 8 figure: David Pereiras/Shutterstock.com

Session 8

Introduction figure: FatCamera; Getty Images

Figure 1: lev radin; AP Images

Section 2 figure: themacx; Getty Images

Section 3 figure: Microgen; Shutterstock.com

Section 4 figure: innovatedcaptures; Getty Images

Audio/Video

Session 1

Activity 5: Dr Stacy Sims; TEDxTauranga; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/

Activity 6: Dr Alyson McGregor; TEDxProvidence; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/

Session 5

Activity 2: The Truth About: Getting Fit at Home: © BBC

Activity 3: Bounce: The Story of the Sports Bra: © BBC Radio 5 Live

Activity 4: The Truth About: Getting Fit at Home © BBC

Activity 5: Bounce: The Story of the Sports Bra, © BBC Radio 5 Live

Activity 6: Bounce: The Story of the Sports Bra; © BBC Radio 5 Live

Session 6

Activity 3: Claudia Hammond investigates concussion in sport and asks, will science stop play? Radio 4, BBC, 2015

Session 7

Activity 1: Eating Disorders in Sport; © Radio 5 Live, 2018

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