Professor Holly Thorpe (PhD) is an award-winning sociologist working in Te Huataki Waiora School of Health at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research interests include women’s health and wellbeing in sport, informal and action sports, and sport for development and recovery. She has published over 100 articles and chapters on these topics, with her most recent books including: Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages (co-edited with David Andrews and Joshua Newman, 2022); Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future (with Belinda Wheaton, 2022); Gender, Sport and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories (with Lyndsay Hayhurst and Megan Chawansky, 2021), and Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialism, Technologies and Ecologies (with Joshua Newman and David Andrews). Professor Thorpe continues to seek new innovations in feminist theory and methodologies, and strives to work across the disciplines to better understand the complexities of moving bodies and sporting cultures. She has been a Leverhulme and Fulbright Scholar, and is currently the recipient of a Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Fellowship. Driven to do research that has real work impact, Professor Thorpe works closely with an array of international and national sports organizations (e.g., International Olympic Committee, High Performance New Zealand, Sport New Zealand, Skateistan) to challenge the status quo and inform new practices, processes and policy development.