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Rohin Balram

@RohiniBalram

Sports sociologist; Creative Writer; Arts-based Researcher; Happy Feet...

 Sydney, Australia
Joined June 2022
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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS The Power of Play: Diversity & Inclusion in Sport How can sport turn inclusion commitments into meaningful change? Research welcome on equity, diversity, inclusion & organisational change. 👉 frontiersin.org/research-top…
Frontiers | The Power of Play: Diversity and Inclusion in Sport

Frontiers | The Power of Play: Diversity and Inclusion in Sport

The study of sport as a social and cultural phenomenon has grown substantially, revealing complex systems where organizational design, policy, and cultural c...

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Bodies out of place? A reflexive autoethnographic account of women's cricket spectatorship in India - Rohini Balram, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Bodies out of place? A reflexive autoethnographic account of women's cricket spectatorship in India...

Bodies out of place? A reflexive autoethnographic account of women's cricket spectatorship in India...

Women's cricket in India is increasingly celebrated as a symbol of national progress and gender inclusion, yet women's experiences as spectators remai...

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Why I Changed My Religion: The Story Began with My Period abc.net.au/pacific/programs/…
Dr Rohini Balram changed her faith because of how it viewed her period - ABC Pacific

Dr Rohini Balram changed her faith because of how it viewed her period - ABC Pacific

When Indo-Fijian sociologist Rohini Balram's period came, so did a rule that made no sense: she could no longer enter her own prayer space as a devout Hindu.

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Why are Indo-Fijian women underrepresented in contact sports?abc.net.au/pacific/programs/…
Why are Indo-Fijian women underrepresented in contact sports? - ABC Pacific

Why are Indo-Fijian women underrepresented in contact sports? - ABC Pacific

Race, patriarchy, poverty, and the arrival of a period has kept generations of women invisible in Fiji's sports scene. 

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📘✨ Proud to be part of this edited collection by Billy Graeff, contributing alongside Jorge Knijnik. Arts-based research, sport, peace & the Global South 🌍 Excited to read the full volume! #ArtsBasedResearch #Sport4Development
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📄 Just published 📷Centring young Indo-Fijian women’s voices 📷 scholarworks.umb.edu/jgsss/v… #WomenInSport #DecolonialResearch

Balls, Boots, and Bats: Indo-Fijian Women Reimagining Sport, Masculinity, and Identity in the...

In Fiji, physicality and hegemonic masculinity are largely defined by rugby and the military, institutions dominated by Indigenous Fijian men, who are predominantly Christian, often marginalising...

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#JustPublished on our #SocSciMatters blog: @RohiniBalram, author of Young Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces: An Arts-Based Approach (link.springer.com/book/10.10…), on South Asian Women Transforming #Sport in #Oceania': palgrave.com/gp/blogs/social…
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An incredible experience presenting on my book at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai! 🌟Wonderful audience— engaged, curious & passionate. There’s a real appetite for conversations around women in sport in the Global South. #WomenInSport #GlobalSouth #TISS#BookTalk
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#Just published Read, download or purchase the book here: lnkd.in/gjJHQBye
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📣 Excited to announce my upcoming book: Young Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces: An Arts-Based Approach 🏃🏽‍♀️✨ Out Sept 2025 – now available for pre-order! 📘 Sneak peek + order here 👉 link.springer.com/book/97898…
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📢 WSU Fair Play Research Hub: Women in Sport & Leisure is calling All Women in Blacktown! Have Your Say on Sports & Leisure Facilities 🏀🏊‍♀️🎾 in Blacktown Contact us: 📧Dr. Hazel Maxwell – m.maxwell@westernsydney.edu.au 📧 Dr. Rohini Balram – r.balram@westernsydney.edu.au
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Great Day to have our book chapter published today Balram&Kinjnik Challenging hegemony: Indo-Fijians, Roy Krishna, and the new Global South masculinities. ( elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b…
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Excited to collaborate on a special issue @FrontiersIn led by Kate Russell and to join forces with BONNIE Pang Topic: Policy Development and Decision-Making for Transgender and Non-Binary Athletes in Sports. Submit your abstract by 25th April 2025. frontiersin.org/research-top…
Frontiers | Navigating the Arena: Policy Development and Decision-Making for Transgender and...

Frontiers | Navigating the Arena: Policy Development and Decision-Making for Transgender and...

While the presence of transgender and non-binary athletes in sports is becoming more common, we also see a backlash from other competitors, coaches, commenta...

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Great panel and report launch - Sexual harassment of LGBTQ young people in the workplace and workplace training. A non-tokenistic intersectional lens- looks at the nuanced experiences of most vulnerable populations - being proactive in creating safe and positive spaces.
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PhD graduates back study indicating racist bias among academics at Australian universities. Full article- abc.net.au/news/2024-11-15/r…
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For all (migrant) @women of colour claiming their spaces in sport and beyond ... Our recently published book chapter - "Balram, R. and Knijnik, J. - "Indo-Fijian Women and Girls' Sporting Experiences: Disrupting Cultural Hegemony emerald.com/insight/content/…
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Huge thanks to Jessica @socscipub for her support and gifting @hollythorpe_nz amazing books! Thanks also to @JorgeKni @indigowilling for so generously sharing your work to the amazing @iwss2024 community 🫶
International Women in Sport Symposium (@iwss2026) profile pictureInternational Women in Sport Symposium@iwss202611 Aug 2024
👏 for our winners who scored copies of @hollythorpe_nz @indigowilling @JorgeKni books @socscipub and @PalgraveSoc donated! @bess_sch (best paper) @CreatingChances (people’s choice), Shuya Li (a visitor from 🇨🇳) & @alyssastweeting. HDR best paper @coaches_digest it’s in the mail!
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An amazing group to meet up with at #IWSS2024 thanks Kasey for your continued support & love of #womenshoops... you're a leading light in this space!🤩 Some full circle moments with STB pod guests & watch this space - @iwss2024 an exciting think tank on womens sports!
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Starting off Day 2 of @iwss2024 is the industry panel and so cool to see my @TheBreezePod mates Paul and Mary representing the independent sports media perspective 🏀🎙️
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What a legend 🛹 @indigowilling - your work is just so flipping awesome, as are you! Thank you for all you do for women in skating and flipping the script for everyone to feel like they belong 💕
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Congratulations to @bess_sch for winning the @iwss2024 people’s choice best paper award! Awesome recognition for her groundbreaking work on netball and for being just a super cool person 💜 #IWSS2024
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