I was thrilled to chair a Q&A session on The Future of Women’s Cricket with these 2 amazing women as part of #CRN2025 (the The Cricket Research Network annual conference). Watch out for the podcast of the panel coming soon!

Thanks everyone for coming along today to #CRN2025 - fantastic to have so many people in the room who are committed to bringing about change in cricket & whose research shows us how we can bring about that change. An appropriate sign on campus as we move towards Cricket in 2035!

Enjoyable day at the The Cricket Research Network conference ‘Cricket in 2035: What Could It Look Like?’ at the @ECB_Cricket National Cricket Performance Centre. I presented: ‘The Ethnic Profile of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Girls’ Talent Pathways and Women’s Super League’ 🏏

Great to attend and present some findings from my PhD on ‘Exploring the benefits of a culturally diverse coaching workforce’ The Cricket Research Network annual conference yesterday! Well done to all of the other speakers, and to the organisers for a fantastic conference! 🏏#CRN2025

Thank you so much tanya aldred for your piece in The Guardian today about our conference last week. A great summary 😊🏏 theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb…

It feels surreal that my PhD research on ‘The Ethnic Profile of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Girls’ Talent Pathways and Women’s Super League’ has been featured in The @Guardian 📰 Read below to discover key insights from my research👇🏽 theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb…

Our latest webinar is LIVE! Thanks to Hannah Thompson-Radford and Matt Kingdom for their paper “(un)forgotten voices- exploring the history of women’s cricket in Somerset”: youtube.com/watch?v=RNabbm…

Thanks to BSSH for hosting our #CRN2025 Q&A on their podcast 🙏 Great to be able to listen back to Beth Barrett-Wild and Claire Taylor discussing their thoughts on The Future of Women’s Cricket. Give it a listen!

Really fun to co-present to The Cricket Research Network last week on research into the history of women's cricket in Somerset ⤵️ youtu.be/RNabbmdIJ5w?si…

Our next webinar is coming up, details below: Rob Morris, "Cricket in UK Schools – A current snapshot" Wednesday 12 March 5.15pm GMT Via Teams The link has gone out to all members today - if you're not on the list & would like to attend, message us!

An independent review of England and Wales Cricket Board's Cricket Regulator conducted by Sport Resolutions concludes that the Regulator has acted transparently, openly & professionally. Also contains insights on challenges & opportunities! The Cricket Research Network Asser International Sports Law Centre sportresolutions.com/news/view/spor…

Don’t forget that all our cricket research webinars are available to watch back on our YouTube channel 🏏 The latest is from Ben Powis discussing his research into the ECB’s Disability Premier League. youtu.be/eCty8pVJKnY?si…

We enjoyed hearing Richard present about this research at our conference in February. Great to see it published!

Thanks so much to Jeremy Lonsdale for a lovely article in County Cricket Matters about the Cricket Research Network 😊 You can read the whole article by buying a copy of County Cricket Matters: countycricketmatters.com

Great to see the BBC covering Network member Dr Andrew Scattergood’s recent report into state school cricket in the north of England. A very important area of research 👏 🏏 bbc.com/news/articles/…

We've got ourselves a Linktree! We love this because it allows you to see all the info about the Network in one place 😊🏏 linktr.ee/cricketresearc…

A new paper from Richard Jones has just been published about coverage of county cricket, based on interviews with current journalists & content producers. Richard first presented this at our conference in Feb so it's great to see it out in the world! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21…

Important new research from Steve Menary on the increase in relationships between betting companies and leading cricket teams, tournaments & players post-Covid. Have a read below ⬇️⬇️ playthegame.org/news/new-resea…