Tansin Benn
Associate Professor
Tel: +44 (0) 121 415 8391
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 5619
Email: t.c.benn@bham.ac.uk
B.Ed. (Hons); M.Ed; M.Sc (Dist.); Ph.D; D.P.S.E. (Dance in Education) (CNAA)
Profile
Currently a member of the school’s Physical Activity and Sport Education research team, between 2003 – 2007 Tansin served as Deputy Head of the School of Education, assuming a range of responsibilities including Director of Learning and Teaching for three years. As winner of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2008, she has recently spent in the Middle East developing a key research interest in the experiences of Muslim girls and women in physical activity. Trained as a teacher of Physical Education, with long-term voluntary commitment to the sport of women’s artistic gymnastics as coach and international judge, Tansin teaches across undergraduate, teacher training and postgraduate studies, with an increasing international subject interest evidenced in her recent election to the Executive Boards of both the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) in 2005, and the International Council of Sports Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE).
Indices of esteem
Research and Projects Interests
Membership of professional bodies
Publications (selected)
Benn, T., & Webb, I. (2008) Rhoda Anstey, Founder / Principal of Anstey College of Physical Education, Birmingham. In Partnership project - Birmingham Archive & Heritage / University of Birmingham – ‘Connecting Histories’ see ‘Faces and Places’ section
Benn, T., Koushkie-Jahromi, M. (2008 in Press) Improving Inclusion: International Declaration for Muslim women ‘Accept and Respect 2008’, ICSSPE Special Edition Bulletin.
Benn, T., Benn, B., & Maude, P. (2007) A Practical Guide to the Teaching of Gymnastics, commissioned on behalf of national subject association (afPE), Leeds, Coachwise.
Benn TC, Benn B, Doyle B. (2006) An inside story: tracking experiences, challenges and successes in a joint specialist performing arts college, Research in Dance Education, 7(1): 13-32. ISSN: 1464-7893.
Benn TC, Dagkas S. 2006. Incompatible? Compulsory mixed-sex Physical Education Initial Teacher Training (PEITT) and the inclusion of Muslim women: a case-study on seeking solutions, European Physical Education Review, 12 (2): 181-200. ISSN: 1356-336X.
Benn TC, Ahmed A. 2006. Alternative Visions: International sporting opportunities for Muslim Women and implications for British youth sport, Youth and Policy, 92, Special Edition, 119-132.
Publications 2001 - 2008 [pdf]